CMOS-based multichip networked flexible retinal stimulator designed for image-based retinal prosthesis

IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices

Volumn 56, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2577-2585

  Tokuda, Takashi ^a   Hiyama, Kohei ^a,b   Sawamura, Shigeki ^a,c   Sasagawa, Kiyotaka ^a   Terasawa, Yasuo ^d   Nishida, Kentaro ^e   Kitaguchi, Yoshiyuki ^e   Fujikado, Takashi ^e   Tano, Yasuo ^e   Ohta, Jun ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TOSHIBA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c CANON INC   (Japan)

^d NIDEK CO LTD   (Japan)

^e OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biomedical; CMOS biomedical device; Image sensor; Neural stimulator; Retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; BIOMEDICAL; CMOS BIOMEDICAL DEVICE; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; IMAGE-BASED; IN-VIVO; MULTI-CHIP; MULTI-SITE; NEURAL STIMULATOR; ON CHIPS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL STIMULATION;

DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; IMAGE SENSORS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

PROSTHETICS;

EID: 70350732808     PISSN: 00189383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TED.2009.2030552     Document Type: Article

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