A precise charge balancing and compliance voltage monitoring stimulator front-end for 1024-electrodes retinal prosthesis

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 3001-3004

  Chun, Hosung ^a   Tran, Nhan ^a   Yang, Yuanyuan ^a   Kavehei, Omid ^a   Bai, Shun ^a   Skafidas, Stan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNALS; CHARGE BALANCING; CMOS PROCESSS; CURRENT PULSE; DYNAMIC CURRENT; ELECTRODE-TISSUE INTERFACE; LOW-VOLTAGE; ON CURRENTS; RETINAL PROSTHESIS; TISSUE IMPEDANCES; VOLTAGE COMPLIANCE; VOLTAGE MONITORING;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; TISSUE;

PROSTHETICS;

ARTICLE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; VISUAL PROSTHESIS;

EID: 84882944289     PISSN: 1557170X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346595     Document Type: Conference Paper

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