Retinal implants to restore vision in blind people

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 2825-2830

  Mokwa, Wilfried ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; BLIND PEOPLE; CURRENT PULSE; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; INTEGRATED CIRCUITRY; NEURAL NET; RESEARCH GROUPS; RETINA IMPLANTS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL IMPLANTS; RETINAL NERVES; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SPACE BETWEEN; STIMULATION ELECTRODES; TECHNICAL ASPECTS; VISUAL IMAGE;

ACTUATORS; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HANDICAPPED PERSONS; MAGNETIC COUPLINGS; MICROSYSTEMS; NEURONS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SOLID-STATE SENSORS;

ALDEHYDES;

EID: 80052136929     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2011.5969883     Document Type: Conference Paper

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