Visual Prosthesis

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 96, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1076-1084

  Wetland, James D ^a   Humayun, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrical stimulation; implantable medical packaging; medical implants; neural prosthesis; retinal prosthesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008035331     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JPROC.2008.922589     Document Type: Article

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