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The Minimally Invasive Retina Implant Project

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Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices

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Abstract

The idea of using electrical stimulation to treat defects of the visual system is by far not a new one (1). As early as 1755 LeRoy (2) elicited electrically evoked phosphenes in blind people, 36 yr before the first description of the principles of bioelectric stimulation by Galvani (3). Krause and Schum (4) and Foerster (5) proved the possibility to stimulate the human visual system reproducibly and potentially useful with reliable topographical coordinates. Button and Puttnam (6) were the first to test chronically implanted epicortical electrodes in blind patients followed by the famous and impressing trial of the Brindley group applying an epicortical multielectrode system (7) to the visual cortex of two patients.

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Gerding, H. (2007). The Minimally Invasive Retina Implant Project. In: Tombran-Tink, J., Barnstable, C.J., Rizzo, J.F. (eds) Visual Prosthesis and Ophthalmic Devices. Ophthalmology Research. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-449-0_7

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