Microfluidic neurotransmiter-based neural interfaces for retinal prosthesis

Proceedings of the 31st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society: Engineering the Future of Biomedicine, EMBC 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 4563-4565

  Iezzi, Raymond ^a   Finlayson, Paul ^b   Xu, Yong ^b   Katragadda, Rakesh ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSTHETICS;

CONTROLLED DELIVERY; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ION CHANNEL; NEURAL EXCITATIONS; NEURAL INTERFACES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS;

NEUROPHYSIOLOGY;

EID: 77950988801     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2009.5332694     Document Type: Conference Paper

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