Progress in the development of vision prostheses

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 225, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 187-192

  Matthaei, Mario ^a   Zeitz, Oliver ^a   Keserü, Matthias ^a   Wagenfeld, Lars ^a   Hornig, Ralf ^b   Post, Nils ^b   Richard, Gisbert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b IMI Intelligent Medical Implants GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Retina; Visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

BLINDNESS; DEVICE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HUMAN; RETINA DEGENERATION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; REVIEW; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

BLINDNESS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETINAL DISEASES; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 79551527675     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000318042     Document Type: Review

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