Retinal prosthesis

JD Weiland, MS Humayun - IEEE Transactions on Biomedical …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Retinal prosthesis has been translated from the laboratory to the clinic over the past two
decades. Currently, two devices have regulatory approval for the treatment of retinitis …

Stimulation strategies for improving the resolution of retinal prostheses

W Tong, H Meffin, DJ Garrett, MR Ibbotson - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Electrical stimulation using implantable devices with arrays of stimulating electrodes is an
emerging therapy for neurological diseases. The performance of these devices depends …

Subretinal electronic chips allow blind patients to read letters and combine them to words

E Zrenner, KU Bartz-Schmidt… - … of the Royal …, 2011 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A light-sensitive, externally powered microchip was surgically implanted subretinally near
the macular region of volunteers blind from hereditary retinal dystrophy. The implant …

Electric crosstalk impairs spatial resolution of multi-electrode arrays in retinal implants

RGH Wilke, GK Moghadam, NH Lovell… - Journal of neural …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Active multi-electrode arrays are used in vision prostheses, including optic nerve cuffs and
cortical and retinal implants for stimulation of neural tissue. For retinal implants, arrays with …

A review of control strategies in closed-loop neuroprosthetic systems

J Wright, VG Macefield, A Van Schaik… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
It has been widely recognized that closed-loop neuroprosthetic systems achieve more
favorable outcomes for users then equivalent open-loop devices. Improved performance of …

A complete 256-electrode retinal prosthesis chip

N Tran, S Bai, J Yang, H Chun… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a complete 256-electrode retinal prosthesis chip, which is small and
ready for packaging and implantation. It contains 256 separate programmable drivers …

[HTML][HTML] Microstimulation-evoked neural responses in visual cortex are depth dependent

T Allison-Walker, MA Hagan, NSC Price, YT Wong - Brain Stimulation, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Cortical visual prostheses often use penetrating electrode arrays to deliver
microstimulation to the visual cortex. To optimize electrode placement within the cortex, the …

Tissue response to a chronically implantable wireless intracortical visual prosthesis (Gennaris array)

JV Rosenfeld, YT Wong, E Yan… - Journal of neural …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Objective. Cortical vision prostheses aim to restore visual percepts to those who have lost
sight by delivering electrical stimulation to the visual cortex. These devices need to be …

Safety ensuring retinal prosthesis with precise charge balance and low power consumption

H Chun, Y Yang, T Lehmann - IEEE transactions on biomedical …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ensuring safe operation of stimulators is the most important issue in neural stimulation.
Safety, in terms of stimulators' electrical performances, can be related mainly to two factors; …

Visual cortex responses to suprachoroidal electrical stimulation of the retina: effects of electrode return configuration

R Cicione, MN Shivdasani, JB Fallon… - Journal of neural …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A clinically effective retinal prosthesis must evoke localized phosphenes in a retinotopic
manner in response to stimulation of each of the retinal electrodes, evoke brightness cues …