Artificial vision: needs, functioning, and testing of a retinal electronic prosthesis

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 175, Issue , 2009, Pages 317-332

  Chader, Gerald J ^a   Weiland, James ^a   Humayun, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; artificial vision; brain; electronic prosthetic devices; low vision; neural retina; photoreceptor replacement; retinal degeneration; retinitis pigmentosa; visual performance

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL ORGAN; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRODE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINA PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL PROCESSING; VISION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINAL DEGENERATION;

EID: 67849095783     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(09)17522-2     Document Type: Review

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