A visual prosthesis with 100 electrodes featuring wireless signals and wireless power transmission

IEICE Electronics Express

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 574-580

  Terasawa, Yasuo ^a,b   Uehara, Akihiro ^a,b   Yonezawa, Eiji ^a   Saitoh, Tohru ^a   Shodo, Kenzo ^a,b   Ozawa, Motoki ^a   Tano, Yasuo ^c   Ohta, Jun ^b  

^a NIDEK CO LTD   (Japan)

^b NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrode; Multiplexer; Visual prostheses

Indexed keywords

CABLES; ELECTRODES; METALS; MULTIPLEXING; MULTIPLEXING EQUIPMENT; NEUROLOGY; PROSTHETICS; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

BLIND PERSON; ELECTRODE; HIGH-RELIABILITY; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; METAL CASES; MULTIPLEXER; NERVOUS SYSTEMS; STIMULATING ELECTRODES; SYSTEM FUNCTIONS; VISUAL INFORMATIONS; VISUAL PROSTHESES; WIRELESS POWER TRANSMISSION; WIRELESS SIGNALS;

METALLIZING;

EID: 50249105247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13492543     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1587/elex.5.574     Document Type: Article

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