Characterization of retinal ganglion cell activities evoked by temporally patterned electrical stimulation for the development of stimulus encoding strategies for retinal implants

Brain Research

Volumn 1275, Issue , 2009, Pages 33-42

  Ryu, Sang Baek ^a   Ye, Jang Hee ^b   Lee, Jong Seung ^a   Goo, Yong Sook ^b   Kim, Kyung Hwan ^a  

^a Yonsei University Wonju   (South Korea)

^b Chungbuk National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; Multielectrode array (MEA); Neural encoding; Retinal ganglion cell (RGC); Retinal implant; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; IMPLANT; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BIOPROSTHESIS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS;

EID: 67349230161     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.03.064     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Ahuja A.K., Behrend M.R., Kuroda M., Humayun M.S., and Weiland J.D. An in vitro model of a retinal prosthesis. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 55 (2008) 1744-1753
2. Eckmiller R., Neumann D., and Baruth O. Tunable retina encoders for retina implants: why and how. J. Neural Eng. 2 (2005) S91-S104
3. Fried S.I., Hsueh H.A., and Werblin F.S. A method for generating precise temporal patterns of retinal spiking using prosthetic stimulation. J. Neurophysiol. 95 (2006) 970-978
4. Hesse L., Schanze T., Wilms M., and Eger M. Implantation of retina stimulation electrodes and recording of electrical stimulation responses in the visual cortex of the cat. Graef. Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthal. 238 (2000) 840-845
5. Humayun M.S., de Juan Jr. E., Dangnelie G., Greenberg R.J., Prospst R.H., and Phillips D.H. Visual perception elicited by electrical stimulation of retina in blind humans. Arch. Ophthalmol. 114 (1996) 40-46
6. Humayun M.S., de Juan Jr. E., Weiland J.D., Dangnelie G., Katona S., Greenberg R., and Suzuki S. Pattern electrical stimulation of the human retina. Vision Res. 39 (1999) 2569-2576
7. Humayun M.S., Weiland J.D., Fujii G.Y., Greenberg R., Williamson R., Little J., Mech B., Cimmarusti V., Boemel G.V., Dagnelie G., and de Juan Jr. E. Visual perception in a blind subject with a chronic microelectronic retinal prosthesis. Vision Res. 43 (2003) 2573-2581
8. Jensen R.J., and Rizzo III J.F. Responses of ganglion cells to repetitive electrical stimulation of the retina. J. Neural Eng. 4 (2007) S1-S6
9. Jensen R.J., and Rizzo III J.F. Activation of retinal ganglion cells in wild-type and rd1 mice through electrical stimulation of the retinal neural network. Vision Res. 48 (2008) 1562-1568
10. Jensen R.J., Rizzo J.F.III., Ziv O.R., Grumet A., and Wyatt J. Thresholds for activation of rabbit retinal ganglion cells with an ultrafine extracellular microelectrode. Invest. Ophth. Vis. Sci. 44 (2003) 3533-3543
11. Jensen R.J., Ziv O.R., and Rizzo J.F. Responses of rabbit retinal ganglion cells to electrical stimulation with an epiretinal electrode. J. Neural Eng. 2 (2005) S16-S21
12. Kazemi M., Basham E., Sivaprakasam M., Wang G., Rodger D., Weiland J., Tai Y.C., Liu W., and Humayun M. A test microchip for evaluation of hermetic packaging technology for biomedical prosthetic implants. Conf. Proc. IEEE Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 6 (2004) 4093-4095
13. Mahadevappa M., Weiland J.D., Yanai D., Fine I., Greenberg R.J., and Humayun M.S. Perceptual thresholds and electrode impedance in three retinal prosthesis subjects. IEEE Trans. Neural Syst. Rehabil. Eng. 13 (2005) 201-206
14. Majji A.B., Humayun M.S., Weiland J.D., Suzuki S., D'Anna S.A., and de Juan E.D. Long-term histological and electrophysiological results of an inactive epiretinal electrode array implantation in dogs. Invest. Ophth. Vis. Sci. 40 (1999) 2073-2081
15. Merabet L.B., Rizzo J.F., Amedi A., Somers D.C., and Pascual-Leone A. What blindness can tell us about seeing again: merging neuroplasticity and neuroprosthesis. Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 6 (2005) 71-77
16. O'Hearn T.M., Sadda S.R., Weiland J.D., Maia M., Margalit E., and Humayun M.S. Electrical stimulation in normal and retinal degeneration (rd1) isolated mouse retina. Vision Res. 46 (2006) 3198-3204
17. Rizzo J.F., Wyatt J., Loewenstein J., Kelly S., and Shire D. Methods and perceptual thresholds for short-term electrical stimulation of human retina with microelectrode arrays. Invest. Ophth. Vis. Sci. 44 (2003) 5355-5361
18. Rizzo J.F., Wyatt J., Loewenstein J., Kelly S., and Shire D. Perceptual efficacy of electrical stimulation of human retina with a microelectrode array during short-term surgical trials. Invest. Ophth. Vis. Sci. 44 (2003) 5362-5369
19. Santos A., Humayu, n M.S., de Juan E., Greenburg R.J., Marsh M.J., Klock I.B., and Milam A.H. Preservation of the inner retinal in retinitis pigmentosa: a morphological analysis. Arch. Ophthalmol. 115 (1997) 511-515
20. Sekirnjak C., Hottowy P., Sher A., Dabrowski W., Litke A.M., and Chichilnisky E.J. Electrical stimulation of mammalian retinal ganglion cells with multielectrode arrays. J. Neurophysiol. 95 (2006) 3311-3327
21. Seo J.M., Kim S.J., Chung H., Kim E.T., Yu H.G., and Yu Y.S. Biocompatibility of polyimide microelectrode array for retinal stimulation. Mater. Sci. Eng., C 24 (2004) 185-189
22. Sivaprakasam M., Wentai L., Guoxing W., Weiland J.D., and Humayun M.S. Architecture tradeoffs in high-density microstimulators for retinal prosthesis. IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. I-Regul. Pap. 52 (2005) 2629-2641
23. Stett A., Barth W., Weiss S., Haemmerle H., and Zrenner E. Electrical multisite stimulation of the isolated chicken retina. Vision Res. 40 (2000) 1785-1795
24. Walter P., and Heimann K. Evoked cortical potentials after electrical stimulation of the inner retina in rabbits. Graef. Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthal. 238 (2000) 315-318
25. Ye J.H., and Goo Y.S. Comparison of voltage parameters for the stimulation of normal and degenerate retina. Conf. Proc. IEEE. Eng. Med. Biol. Soc. 1 (2007) 5782-5785
26. Zrenner E. Will retinal implants restore vision?. Science 295 (2002) 1022-1025