2015 A New Bionic Eye: Infrared Light-Powered Retina Implant Coming
<p>Jun 02, 2015 08:23 PM</p>
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Pixium Vision. from Montpellier 2015 metting of IEEE Neural Engr.</p>
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French Company Pixium </p>
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clinical trials in 2016.</p>
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chips sits behind the retina;
photoreceps die off; but remaining cells are undamaged;</p>
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Henri Lorach (part of Dan Palanker's team)</p>
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sme light will power the chip and doing the imaging</p>
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70 micron pixels... photodiodes and stimul trode.</p>
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ambient light is not powerful enuf;
we use high-power IR.</p>
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rat vision = 20/250 in humans... read the top letter on the eye chart.</p>
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next gen... want to get to 20/120.</p>
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