A hermetic wireless subretinal neurostimulator for vision prostheses

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 3197-3205

  Kelly, Shawn K ^a,b   Shire, Douglas B ^a,c   Chen, Jinghua ^d   Doyle, Patrick ^a,b   Cogan, Stuart F ^e   Gingerich, Marcus D ^a,c   Drohan, William A ^a,b   Behan, Sonny ^f   Theogarajan, Luke ^g   Wyatt, John L ^a   Rizzo III, Joseph F ^a,d  

^a VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY   (United States)

^e EIC LABORATORIES INC   (United States)

^f Sonny Behan Consulting   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical electrodes; integrated circuit design; iridium oxide; neuromuscular stimulation; retinal implant; retinal prosthesis; telemetry

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DESIGN; IRIDIUM OXIDE; NEUROMUSCULAR STIMULATION; RETINAL IMPLANTS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRODES; INTEGRATED CIRCUIT MANUFACTURE; IRIDIUM; IRIDIUM COMPOUNDS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; OXIDE FILMS; POLYIMIDES; TELEMETERING; TITANIUM;

PROSTHETICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ELECTRODE; IMPLANTATION; MICROTECHNOLOGY; MINIPIG; NONHUMAN; PROSTHESIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VISION;

ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; CONJUNCTIVA; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IRIDIUM; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETINA; SWINE; SWINE, MINIATURE; TELEMETRY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 80054855770     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2165713     Document Type: Article

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