Charge recovery during concurrent stimulation for a vision prosthesis

Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS'08 - "Personalized Healthcare through Technology"

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1797-1800

  Addi, M Mohd ^a   Dokos, S ^a   Preston, P J ^a   Dommel, N ^a   Wong, Y T ^a   Lovell, N H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRODES; NEUROSURGERY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

CHARGE RECOVERY; CURRENT DISTRIBUTION; CURRENT LEAKAGE; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; NEURO-PROSTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGICAL SALINE; PLATINUM ELECTRODES; VISION PROSTHESIS;

RECOVERY;

PLATINUM;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; EVALUATION STUDY; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; HUMANS; PHOSPHENES; PLATINUM; RETINA;

EID: 61849114018     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/iembs.2008.4649527     Document Type: Conference Paper

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