Retinal prostheses are designed to restore a basic sense of sight to people with profound
vision loss. They require a relatively intact posterior visual pathway (optic nerve, lateral …

Retinal prosthesis systems have undergone significant advances in the past quarter century,
resulting in the development of several different novel surgical and engineering approaches …

Retinal prostheses hold the promise of restoring vision in totally blind people. However, a
decade of clinical trials highlighted quantitative limitations hampering the possibility of …

Late-stage retinal degenerative disease involving photoreceptor loss can be treated by
optogenetic therapy, cell transplantation and retinal prostheses. These approaches aim to …

Electrical stimulation using implantable devices with arrays of stimulating electrodes is an
emerging therapy for neurological diseases. The performance of these devices depends …

Despite the progress of modern medicine in the last decades, millions of people diagnosed
with retinal dystrophies (RDs), such as retinitis pigmentosa, or age-related diseases, such as …

Retinal prostheses are implantable devices that aim to restore the vision of blind patients
suffering from retinal degeneration, mainly by artificially stimulating the remaining retinal …

Objective. The restoration of vision in blind patients suffering from degenerative retinal
diseases like retinitis pigmentosa may be obtained by local electrical stimulation with retinal …

Visual prostheses, used to assist in restoring functional vision to the visually impaired,
convert captured external images into corresponding electrical stimulation patterns that are …

Objective. To systematically compare the in vitro electrochemical and mechanical properties
of several electrode coatings that have been reported to increase the efficacy of medical …