Stimulation of the retinal network in bionic vision devices: From multi-electrode arrays to pixelated vision

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6443 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 140-147

  Wilke, Robert G H ^a   Moghaddam, Gita Khalili ^a   Dokos, Socrates ^a   Suaning, Gregg ^a   Lovell, Nigel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

artificial vision; bionic vision; multi electrode array; neural prosthesis; retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE ELECTRODES; ARTIFICIAL VISION; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; FIELD CALCULATION; HEXAGONAL ARRAYS; HIGH DENSITY; HIGH-DENSITY ARRAYS; MICROELECTRODE ARRAY; MULTIELECTRODE ARRAYS; MULTIPLE ELECTRODES; NEURAL PROSTHESIS; NOVEL STRATEGIES; RETINAL NETWORK; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; STIMULATION SITES; TARGET CELLS; TARGET STRUCTURE; VISION IMPAIRED; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATTERN; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

DATA PROCESSING; MICROELECTRODES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSTHETICS; VISION; BIONICS; CELLULAR RADIO SYSTEMS; COMPUTER VISION; NEURAL PROSTHESES;

BIONICS; ELECTRODES;

EID: 78650219922     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17537-4_18     Document Type: Conference Paper

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