Investigation of thermal effects of infrared lasers on the rabbit retina: A study in the course of development of an active subretinal prosthesis

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 245, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1169-1178

  Sailer, Heiko ^a,b   Shinoda, Kei ^c   Blatsios, Georgios ^c   Kohler, Konrad ^c   Bondzio, Lars ^b   Zrenner, Eberhart ^c   Gekeler, Florian ^c  

^a Retina Implant AG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c University Eye Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infrared; Photodiodes; Prosthesis; Retina; Subretinal; Temperature

Indexed keywords

POLYIMIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BIOSENSOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENERGY RESOURCE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOIL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMPLANTATION; INFRARED RADIATION; NONHUMAN; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA TEAR; SURGICAL APPROACH; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CALIBRATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; INFRARED RAYS; LASERS, SEMICONDUCTOR; MICROELECTRODES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RABBITS; RETINA;

EID: 34447114983     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-006-0513-1     Document Type: Article

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