A micro-sized photo detectable stimulator array for retinal prosthesis by distributed sensor network approach

IEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue CIRCUITS SYMP., 2004, Pages 302-305

  Uehara, Akihiro ^a   Pan, Yi Li ^a   Kagawa, Keiichiro ^a   Tokuda, Takashi ^a   Ohta, Jun ^a   Nunoshita, Masahiro ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Distributed sensor network; Implatable electrode; Pixel level ADC; Retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRODES; IMAGE PROCESSING; MICROPROCESSOR CHIPS; PHOTODETECTORS; POLYIMIDES; PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARDS; PROSTHETICS; TISSUE; VISION;

DISTRIBUTED SENSOR NETWORKS; IMPLATABLE ELECTRODE; PIXEL-LEVEL ADC; RETINAL PROSTHESIS;

SENSORS;

EID: 4544282642     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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