Electrical stimulation of retinal ganglion cells with diamond and the development of an all diamond retinal prosthesis

Biomaterials

Volumn 33, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 5812-5820

  Hadjinicolaou, Alex E ^a,b   Leung, Ronald T ^c,d   Garrett, David J ^d   Ganesan, Kumaravelu ^d   Fox, Kate ^d   Nayagam, David A X ^c,d   Shivdasani, Mohit N ^c   Meffin, Hamish ^d,e   Ibbotson, Michael R ^b,d   Prawer, Steven ^d   O'Brien, Brendan J ^b,d  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b NATIONAL VISION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c Bionics Institute   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bionic; Diamond; Neural stimulation; Retina

Indexed keywords

ACTION POTENTIALS; CHARGE-INJECTION LIMITS; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTROCHEMICAL STABILITIES; GANGLION CELLS; MICRO-SCALES; NEURAL STIMULATIONS; NITROGEN-DOPED; PATCH CLAMP RECORDING; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINES; RETINA; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL IMPLANTS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; STIMULATING ELECTRODES; ULTRA-NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND;

BIOCOMPATIBILITY; BIONICS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MICROELECTRODES; OPHTHALMOLOGY; RATS;

DIAMONDS;

NANODIAMOND; NITROGEN; PHOSPHATE BUFFERED SALINE; ULTRA NANOCRYSTALLINE DIAMOND; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; EXPLANT; INJECTION; INSULATOR ELEMENT; LONGEVITY; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NANOENCAPSULATION; NANOFABRICATION; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA PROSTHESIS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIAMOND; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; HUMANS; MICROELECTRODES; RATS; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

RATTUS;

EID: 84861742976     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: 18785905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.04.063     Document Type: Article

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