Diamond Devices for High Acuity Prosthetic Vision

Arman Ahnood; Hamish Meffin; David J Garrett; Kate Fox; Kumaravelu Ganesan; Alastair Stacey; Nicholas V Apollo; Yan T Wong; Samantha G Lichter; William Kentler; Omid Kavehei; Ursula Greferath; Kirstan A Vessey; Michael R Ibbotson; Erica L Fletcher; Anthony N Burkitt; Steven Prawer

Journal article

Diamond Devices for High Acuity Prosthetic Vision

Arman Ahnood, Hamish Meffin, David J Garrett, Kate Fox, Kumaravelu Ganesan, Alastair Stacey, Nicholas V Apollo, Yan T Wong, Samantha G Lichter, William Kentler, Omid Kavehei, Ursula Greferath, Kirstan A Vessey, Michael R Ibbotson, Erica L Fletcher, Anthony N Burkitt, Steven Prawer

Advanced Biosystems | WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH | Published : 2017

DOI: 10.1002/adbi.201600003

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Arman Ahnood Author Physics

Steven Prawer Author Physics

Hamish Meffin Author Biomedical Engineering

Erica Fletcher Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

Una Greferath Author Anatomy and Neuroscience

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Funding Acknowledgements

A.A. and H.M. contributed equally to this work. The authors wish to thank Tamara Brawn for her outstanding management of the BVA high acuity program, and Owen Burns for silicone mold and lead wire development. D.J.G. was supported by an Australian Research Council (ARC) DECRA grant DE130100922. N.V.A. was supported by an MMI-CSIRO materials science PhD scholarship. This research was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC, Project Grant 585440) and the ARC through its Special Research Initiative (SRI) in Bionic Vision Science and Technology grant to the Bionic Vision Australia (BVA).