An in vitro model of a retinal prosthesis

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1744-1753

  Ahuja, Ashish K ^a,b   Behrend, Matthew R ^a   Kuroda, Masako ^c   Humayun, Mark S ^d   Weiland, James D ^d  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b Second Sight Medical Products Inc   (United States)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Microelectrodes arrays; Retinal electrophysiology; Retinal prostheses

Indexed keywords

CELLS; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY;

MICROELECTRODES ARRAYS; RETINAL ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; RETINAL PROSTHESES;

PROSTHETICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROELECTRODE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PROSTHESIS; RETINA; RETINA CELL; SALAMANDER;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; MICROELECTRODES; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; URODELA;

EID: 44349182084     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2008.919126     Document Type: Article

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