Artificial vision with wirelessly powered subretinal electronic implant alpha-IMS

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1757, 2013, Pages

  Stingl, Katarina ^a   Bartz Schmidt, Karl Ulrich ^a   Besch, Dorothea ^a   Braun, Angelika ^f   Bruckmann, Anna ^a   Gekeler, Florian ^a   Greppmaier, Udo ^f   Hipp, Stephanie ^a   Hortdorfer, Gernot ^b   Kernstock, Christoph ^a   Koitschev, Assen ^g   Kusnyerik, Akos ^a,c   Sachs, Helmut ^d   Schatz, Andreas ^a   Stingl, Krunoslav T ^e   Peters, Tobias ^a   Wilhelm, Barbara ^a   Zrenner, Eberhart ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b Mobility Trainer   (Germany)

^c SEMMELWEIS UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d Krankenhaus Friedrichstadt   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^f Retina Implant AG   (Germany)

^g KLINIKUM STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Artificial vision; Electronic implants; Neuroprosthetics; Retinitis pigmentosa

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; BLINDNESS; EYE; NEUROLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHOTORECEPTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; VISION;

EID: 84874263457     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.0077     Document Type: Article

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