Visual cortex responses to suprachoroidal electrical stimulation of the retina: Effects of electrode return configuration

Journal of Neural Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Cicione, Rosemary ^a,b   Shivdasani, Mohit N ^a   Fallon, James B ^a   Luu, Chi D ^c   Allen, Penny J ^c   Rathbone, Graeme D ^a,b   Shepherd, Robert K ^a   Williams, Chris E ^a  

^a Bionics Institute   (Australia)

^b LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMON GROUND; CORTICAL ACTIVITY; ELECTRICAL STIMULATIONS; ELECTRODE ARRAYS; MONOPOLAR; MULTI-UNIT ACTIVITY; PRIMARY VISUAL CORTEX; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; RETINAL STIMULATION; VISUAL CORTEXES; WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE;

OPHTHALMOLOGY;

PROSTHETICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELECTROSTIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; STRIATE CORTEX; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL STIMULATION; VITREOUS BODY; ANIMAL; CHOROID; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

MOROCCAN PEPPER VIRUS;

ANIMALS; CATS; CHOROID; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; RETINA; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 84861780083     PISSN: 17412560     EISSN: 17412552     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1741-2560/9/3/036009     Document Type: Article

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