A retinal neuroprosthesis design based on simultaneous current injection

2005 3rd IEEE/EMBS Special Topic Conference on Microtechnology in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 98-101

  Lovell, N H ^a,b   Dokos, S ^a   Preston, P ^a   Lehmann, T ^a   Dommel, N ^a   Lin, A ^a   Wong, Y T ^a   Opie, N ^a   Hallum, I E ^a   Chen, S ^a   Suaning, G J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

ASIC; Current source; Electrode array; Modeling; Neurostimulation; Retina; Vision prosthesis

Indexed keywords

CURRENT INJECTION; CURRENT SOURCE; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NEUROSTIMULATION; RETINA; VISION PROSTHESIS;

APPLICATION SPECIFIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SILICONES;

PROSTHETICS;

EID: 33845322681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MMB.2005.1548394     Document Type: Conference Paper

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