Photovoltaic restoration of sight with high visual acuity

Nature Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 476-482

  Lorach, Henri ^a,b   Goetz, Georges ^a,c   Smith, Richard ^d   Lei, Xin ^c   Mandel, Yossi ^e   Kamins, Theodore ^c   Mathieson, Keith ^f   Huie, Philip ^a   Harris, James ^c   Sher, Alexander ^d   Palanker, Daniel ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUT DE LA VISION   (France)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ   (United States)

^e BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

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FLUORESCEIN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; INFRARED SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; LASER; MALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RAT; RETINA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA NERVE CELL; RETINAL DEGENERATION; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMALS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; LASERS; MALE; NEURONS; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RATS; RETINA; RETINAL DEGENERATION; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; RETINAL NEURONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, INFRARED; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84937761797     PISSN: 10788956     EISSN: 1546170X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nm.3851     Document Type: Article

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