A new approach towards a minimal invasive retina implant

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Gerding, H ^a,b,c  

^a Klinik Pallas   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c Gerding Eye Research Institute   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ELECTRODES; IMPLANTS (SURGICAL); NEURONS; PATIENT TREATMENT; VISION;

CHOROIDS; DISTAL RETINAL DISEASES; PARADIGMATIC CHANGE; RETINA IMPLANT;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; CHOROID; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; EYE; HUMAN; IMPLANT; NONHUMAN; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; RETINA IMPLANT; RETINAL STIMULATION; SCLERA; STIMULATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS FITTING; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; RETINAL DISEASES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

PRIMATES;

EID: 33847632184     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/4/1/S05     Document Type: Article

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