Current distribution during parallel stimulation: Implications for an epiretinal neuroprosthesis

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn 7 VOLS, Issue , 2005, Pages 5242-5245

  Lovell, N H ^a,b   Dokos, S ^a   Cloherty, S L ^a,c   Preston, P J ^a   Suaning, G J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Current source; Modeling; Neurostimulation; Retina; Vision prosthesis

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELECTRODES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUROLOGY; PLATINUM; PROSTHETICS;

CURRENT SOURCE; NEUROSTIMULATION; RETINA; VISION PROSTHESIS;

ELECTRIC CURRENT DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 33846898515     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2005.1615661     Document Type: Conference Paper

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