TY - GEN
T1 - Restoration of vision using wireless cortical implants
T2 - 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
AU - Lowery, Arthur J.
AU - Rosenfeld, Jeffrey V.
AU - Lewis, Philip M.
AU - Browne, Damien
AU - Mohan, Anand
AU - Brunton, Emma
AU - Yan, Edwin
AU - Maller, Jerome
AU - Mann, Collette
AU - Rajan, Ramesh
AU - Rosa, Marcello
AU - Pritchard, Jeanette
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/11/4
Y1 - 2015/11/4
N2 - Monash Vision Group is developing a bionic vision system based on implanting several small tiles in the V1 region of the visual cortex. This cortical approach could benefit a greater proportion of people with total blindness than other approaches, as it bypasses the eyes and optic nerve. Each tile has 43 active electrodes on its base, and a wirelessly powered electronic system to decode control signals and drive the electrodes with biphasic pulses. The tiles are fed with power and data using a common transmitting coil at the back of the patient's head. Sophisticated image processing, described in a companion paper, ensures that the user experiences maximum benefit from the small number of electrodes. This paper describes key features of this system.
AB - Monash Vision Group is developing a bionic vision system based on implanting several small tiles in the V1 region of the visual cortex. This cortical approach could benefit a greater proportion of people with total blindness than other approaches, as it bypasses the eyes and optic nerve. Each tile has 43 active electrodes on its base, and a wirelessly powered electronic system to decode control signals and drive the electrodes with biphasic pulses. The tiles are fed with power and data using a common transmitting coil at the back of the patient's head. Sophisticated image processing, described in a companion paper, ensures that the user experiences maximum benefit from the small number of electrodes. This paper describes key features of this system.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84953209001&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318543
DO - 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7318543
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBS
SP - 1041
EP - 1044
BT - 2015 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 25 August 2015 through 29 August 2015
ER -