Heating of the eye by a retinal prosthesis: Modeling, cadaver and in vivo study

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 339-345

  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 Bionics Institute   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite element model (FEM); retinal damage; temperature; thermal safety; visual prosthesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ELECTRICAL CIRCUIT; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; IMPLANTATION SITES; IN-VIVO; IN-VIVO TESTS; NEURAL TISSUE; POWER BUDGETS; RETINAL DAMAGE; RETINAL IMPLANTS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL TISSUE; THERMAL DAMAGE; THERMAL INFLUENCE; THERMAL MODEL; THERMAL SAFETY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ALDEHYDES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; TISSUE;

PROSTHETICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; NONHUMAN; RETINA INJURY; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CADAVER; CATS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HOT TEMPERATURE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RETINA; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84856155555     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: 15582531     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2011.2171961     Document Type: Article

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