Prosthetic vision: Devices, patient outcomes and retinal research

AE Hadjinicolaou; H Meffin; MI Maturana; SL Cloherty; MR Ibbotson

Journal article

Prosthetic vision: Devices, patient outcomes and retinal research

AE Hadjinicolaou, H Meffin, MI Maturana, SL Cloherty, MR Ibbotson

Clinical and Experimental Optometry | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1111/cxo.12342

Abstract

Retinal disease and its associated retinal degeneration can lead to the loss of photoreceptors and therefore, profound blindness. While retinal degeneration destroys the photoreceptors, the neural circuits that convey information from the eye to the brain are sufficiently preserved to make it possible to restore sight using prosthetic devices. Typically, these devices consist of a digital camera and an implantable neurostimulator. The image sensor in a digital camera has the same spatiotopic arrangement as the photoreceptors of the retina. Therefore, it is possible to extract meaningful spatial information from an image and deliver it via an array of stimulating electrodes directly to the su..

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Michael Ibbotson Author

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Funding Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC) through its Special Research Initiative (SRI) in Bionic Vision Science and Technology grant to Bionic Vision Australia and through the Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function (CE140100007).