Thermal heating of a retinal prosthesis: Thermal model and in-vitro study

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 1597-1600

  Opie, Nicholas L ^a,b   Burkitt, Anthony N ^a,b,c   Meffin, Hamish ^a,b   Grayden, David B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c BIONIC EAR INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL COSTS; ANIMAL SACRIFICE; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; FINITE ELEMENT; IMPLANTATION SITES; IN-VITRO; IN-VITRO TESTS; NEURAL TISSUE; POWER BUDGETS; RETINAL IMPLANTS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL TISSUE; THERMAL DAMAGE; THERMAL HEATING; THERMAL INFLUENCE; THERMAL MODEL;

HEATING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PROSTHETICS; THERMOGRAPHY (TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HEATING; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

BODY TEMPERATURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; HEATING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RETINA; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 78650830280     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2010.5626670     Document Type: Conference Paper

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