First results of a study on a completely implanted retinal prosthesis in blind humans

Proceedings of IEEE Sensors

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1237-1240

  Koch, Christian ^a   Mokwa, Wilfried ^a   Goertz, Michael ^b   Walter, Peter ^c  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MICROELECTRONIC CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE; INDUCTIVE COUPLINGS; INTEGRATED RECEIVERS; LEGALLY BLIND; RETINA IMPLANTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STIMULATION ELECTRODES;

OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYIMIDES; PROSTHETICS;

SENSORS;

EID: 67649964988     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSENS.2008.4716667     Document Type: Conference Paper

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