Semipermeable parylene membrane as an artificial Bruch's membrane

2011 16th International Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Conference, TRANSDUCERS'11

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 950-953

  Lu, Bo ^a   Liu, Zhao ^a   Liu, Laura ^b,c   Zhu, Danhong ^b,c   Hinton, David ^b,c   Thomas, Biju ^b   Humayun, Mark S ^b,c   Tai, Yu Chong ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DOHENY EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bruch's Membrane; Implantation; Parylene; Semipermeable Membrance

Indexed keywords

AGE-RELATED MACULAR DEGENERATION; BRUCH'S MEMBRANE; CULTURED CELL; DIFFERENT THICKNESS; IN-VITRO; MICROSURGICAL TOOLS; PARYLENE C; PARYLENE MEMBRANES; PARYLENES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIAL; RPE CELL; SEMIPERMEABLE MEMBRANCE; SUBMICRON;

ACTUATORS; ALDEHYDES; CELL CULTURE; MICROSYSTEMS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

MEMBRANES;

EID: 80052129981     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969376     Document Type: Conference Paper

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