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Intraocular Retinal Prostheses and Related Signal Processing

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For millennia, restoring sight to the blind has been viewed as being nothing less than miraculous. It has only been in the last few years that the fields of electronic microfabrication, neurophysiology, and retinal surgery have advanced to the point where an implantable visual prosthesis system, based on electrical stimulation, is considered feasible.

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