Temporal properties of visual perception on electrical stimulation of the retina

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2720-2731

  Fornos, Angélica Pérez ^a   Sommerhalder, Jörg ^a   da Cruz, Lyndon ^b   Sahel, Jose Alain ^c   Mohand Said, Saddek ^c   Hafezi, Farhad ^a   Pelizzone, Marco ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER NATIONAL D OPHTALMOLOGIE DES QUINZE VINGTS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLINDNESS; BRIGHTNESS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; VISION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ADULT; AGED; BLINDNESS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGHT; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHENES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RETINA; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84860642509     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.11-9344     Document Type: Article

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