Towards multifocal ultrasonic neural stimulation II: Design considerations for an acoustic retinal prosthesis

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Naor, Omer ^a,b   Hertzberg, Yoni ^c,d   Zemel, Esther ^a   Kimmel, Eitan ^a   Shoham, Shy ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d INSIGHTEC LTD   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGES; ARTIFICIAL STIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DYNAMIC GENERATION; HOLOGRAPHIC METHOD; IN-VIVO; MULTIFOCAL; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; NEURONAL ACTIVITIES; NEUROSTIMULATION; NON-INVASIVE DIAGNOSTICS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL STIMULATION; STIMULATION PATTERN; ULTRASONIC FIELD; ULTRASOUND WAVES;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; OPHTHALMOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; ULTRASONIC APPLICATIONS;

PROSTHETICS;

ACOUSTIC RETINAL PROSTHESIS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA; DEVICE SAFETY; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FRONTAL BONE; GERCHBERG SAXTON ALGORITHM; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOUND INTENSITY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ULTRASONIC NEURAL STIMULATION; ULTRASOUND; VISUAL AID; ZYGOMA; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTHESIS; RETINA; RETINA DEGENERATION; SAFETY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; TETRODOTOXIN;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ALGORITHMS; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HOLOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; SAFETY; TETRODOTOXIN; ULTRASONICS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84857822884     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/2/026006     Document Type: Article

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