Spatiotemporal aspects of pulsed electrical stimuli on the responses of rabbit retinal ganglion cells

Experimental Eye Research

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 972-979

  Jensen, Ralph J ^a   Ziv, Ofer R ^a   Rizzo III, Joseph F ^a,b   Scribner, Dean ^c   Johnson, Lee ^c  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

electrical stimulation; electrophysiology; multielectrode array; retinal ganglion cell; retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDOPROSTHESIS; ILLUSION; MICROELECTRODE; MOTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NONHUMAN; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED ELECTRIC FIELD; RABBIT; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA PROSTHESIS; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MICROELECTRODES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RABBITS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 70449525565     PISSN: 00144835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exer.2009.08.015     Document Type: Article

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