Restoration of useful vision up to letter recognition capabilities using subretinal microphotodiodes

2010 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 5919-5922

  Benav, Heval ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl U ^a   Besch, Dorothea ^a   Bruckmann, Anna ^a   Gekeler, Florian ^a   Greppmaier, Udo ^b   Harscher, Alex ^b   Kibbel, Steffen ^b   Kusnyerik, Akos ^c   Peters, Tobias ^d   Sachs, Helmut ^e   Stett, Alfred ^d   Štingl, Katarina ^a   Wilhelm, Barbara ^d   Wilke, Robert ^a   Wrobel, Walter ^b   Zrenner, Eberhart ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Retina Implant AG   (Germany)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^e ACADEMIC TEACHING HOSPITAL DRESDEN FRIEDRICHSTADT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PILOT STUDY; LETTER RECOGNITION; RETINAL TISSUE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STRIPE PATTERN; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESTORATION;

VISION;

ARTICLE; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MICROELECTRODE; OPHTHALMOSCOPE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISION;

ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; OPHTHALMOSCOPES; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETINA; VISION, OCULAR;

EID: 78650817272     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5627549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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