Development of a micromachined epiretinal vision prosthesis

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Stieglitz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS; APPLICATION FIELDS; CHANNEL IMPLANTS; CORTICAL ACTIVATION; CYTOTOXIC; EPIRETINAL STIMULATION; FLEXIBLE SUBSTRATE; HYBRID INTEGRATION; IN-VIVO; MEDICAL DEVICES; MICROMACHINED; MICROSYSTEMS ENGINEERING; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; NON-HERMETIC; PARYLENE C; RESEARCH RESULTS; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SUBSTRATE MATERIAL; VISION PROSTHESIS;

POLYIMIDES;

PROSTHETICS;

POLYIMIDE; BIOMATERIAL;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONICS; ENCAPSULATION; EPIRETINAL VISION PROSTHESIS; EUROPE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCOMPUTER; MICROELECTRODE; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PHOTORECEPTOR CELL; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; PROSTHESIS; RABBIT; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TELEMETRY; TIME; VISION;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; ELECTRONICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MICROCOMPUTERS; MICROELECTRODES; MICROTECHNOLOGY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RABBITS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 72849140860     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/6/6/065005     Document Type: Article

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