Bionic Vision Australia

Grant number: SR1000005 | Funding period: 2010 - 2015

Completed

Abstract

Bionic Vision Australia's retinal implant will provide vision to blind patients suffering from degenerative retinal conditions, including age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa. The first advanced prototype to be clinically trialed will provide wide-view ambulatory vision for patients who have issues with light perception and mobility. A second prototype device that delivers high-acuity functioning central vision, image perception and enables increased patient independence will be developed through pre-clinical trials to be ready for implantation. The retinal implant and many other applications in medical bionics created by this project will have immense commercial value.

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Feasibility of Nitrogen Doped Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Microelectrodes for Electrophysiological Recording From Neural Tissue

YT Wong, A Ahnood, MI Maturana, W Kentler, K Ganesan, DB Grayden, H Meffin, S Prawer, MR Ibbotson, AN Burkitt

2018-06-22

Neural prostheses that can monitor the physiological state of a subject are becoming clinically viable through improvements in the..

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Frequency responses of rat retinal ganglion cells

AE Hadjinicolaou, SL Cloherty, YS Hung, T Kameneva, MR Ibbotson

2016-06-01

There are 15-20 different types of retinal ganglion cells (RGC) in the mammalian retina, each encoding different aspects of the vi..

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Spectral distribution of local field potential responses to electrical stimulation of the retina

YT Wong, K Halupka, T Kameneva, SL Cloherty, DB Grayden, AN Burkitt, H Meffin, MN Shivdasani

2016-03-30

Objective. Different frequency bands of the local field potential (LFP) have been shown to reflect neuronal activity occurring at ..

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Suprachoroidal Retinal Prostheses

LN Ayton, GJ Suaning, NH Lovell, MA Petoe, DAX Nayagam, TLE Brawn, AN Burkitt

2016-01-01

Visual prostheses are currently being developed by a number of international teams for the restoration of basic visual function to..

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Optimizing the Electrical Stimulation of Retinal Ganglion Cells

AE Hadjinicolaou, CO Savage, NV Apollo, DJ Garrett, SL Cloherty, MR Ibbotson, BJ O'Brien

2015-01-01

Epiretinal prostheses aim to restore visual perception in the blind through electrical stimulation of surviving retinal ganglion c..

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Modelling extracellular electrical stimulation: part 3. Derivation and interpretation of neural tissue equations

H Meffin, B Tahayori, EN Sergeev, IMY Mareels, DB Grayden, AN Burkitt

2014-01-01

Objective. A common approach in modelling extracellular electrical stimulation is to represent neural tissue by a volume conductor..

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Modelling extracellular electrical stimulation: part 4. Effect of the cellular composition of neural tissue on its spatio-temporal filtering properties

B Tahayori, H Meffin, EN Sergeev, IMY Mareels, AN Burkitt, DB Grayden

2014-01-01

Objective. The objective of this paper is to present a concrete application of the cellular composite model for calculating the me..

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