The Boston retinal prosthesis a 15-channel hermetic wireless neural stimulator

2nd International Symposium on Applied Sciences in Biomedical and Communication Technologies, ISABEL 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Kelly, Shawn K ^a   Shire, Douglas B ^a   Doyle, Patrick ^a   Gingerich, Marcus D ^a   Drohan, William A ^a   Rizzo III, Joseph F ^a   Theogarajan, Luke S ^b   Cogan, Stuart F ^c   Chen, Jinghua ^d   Wyatt, John L ^e  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c EIC LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioelectric potentials; Biomedical electrodes; Biomedical engineering; Integrated circuit design; Iridium; Neuromuscular stimulation; Telemetry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODES; CIRCUIT COMPONENTS; FINAL ASSEMBLY; IMPLANTED DEVICE; IN-VITRO; IN-VIVO; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGNS; MICROFABRICATED; MINI-PIG; NEURAL STIMULATOR; NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION; PRE-CLINICAL; PULSE TESTING; RECEIVING COIL; RETINAL IMPLANTS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RF TRANSMITTER; SPUTTERED IRIDIUM OXIDE; STIMULATING ELECTRODES; STIMULATION PULSE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUES; WIRELESS OPERATION; YUCATAN;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRODES; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; HUMAN REHABILITATION EQUIPMENT; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; IRIDIUM; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; POLYIMIDES; PROSTHETICS; TELEMETERING; TELEMETERING EQUIPMENT; TITANIUM;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 77949458702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISABEL.2009.5373638     Document Type: Conference Paper

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