Impedance-based retinal contact imaging as an aid for the placement of high resolution epiretinal prostheses

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Johnson, Lee ^a   Scribner, Dean ^a   Skeath, Perry ^a   Klein, Richard ^a   Ilg, Doug ^a   Perkins, Keith ^a   Helfgott, Maxwell ^b   Sanders, Reginald ^b   Panigrahi, Dipak ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Georgetown Washington National Eye Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; PROSTHETICS; VOLTAGE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT;

ELECTRODE ARRAYS; IMPEDANCE SENSITIVE FEEDBACK; RETINAL CONTACT IMAGING;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; EPIRETINAL PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; IMPEDANCE; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA IMAGE; STIMULATION;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DIFFERENTIAL THRESHOLD; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; MICROELECTRODES; NERVE NET; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE;

EID: 33847679112     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/4/1/S03     Document Type: Article

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