Visual Acuity of Simulated Thalamic Visual Prostheses in Normally Sighted Humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Bourkiza, Béchir ^a   Vurro, Milena ^a   Jeffries, Ailsa ^a   Pezaris, John S ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LETTER RECOGNITION PARADIGM; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; SNELLEN ACUITY TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION CAMERA; THALAMIC VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL ACUITY CHART; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

ADULT; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THALAMUS; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84884678573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073592     Document Type: Article

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