Visual Prostheses: Technological and Socioeconomic Challenges

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外文摘要：Visual prostheses are now entering the clinical marketplace.Such prostheses were originally targeted for patients suffering from blindness through retinitis pigmentosa (RP).However, in late July of this year, for the first time a patient was given a retinal implant in order to treat dry agerelated macular degeneration.Retinal implants are suitable solutions for diseases that attack photoreceptors but spare most of the remaining retinal neurons.For eye diseases that result in loss of retinal output, implants that interface with more central structures in the visual system are needed.The standard site for central visual prostheses under development is the visual cortex.This perspective discusses the technical and socioeconomic challenges faced by visual prostheses.

外文关键词：

neuroprosthesesvisioneye diseaserestoration of functionrehabilitation

作者：

John B.Troy

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作者单位：

Biomedical Engineering Department,Northwestern University,Evanston,IL 60208-3107,USA

基金：

This article was made possible by the National Priorities Research Program (NPRP)

项目编号：

NPRP 5-457-2-181

出版年：

2015

DOI：

10.15302/J-ENG-2015080

工程科学(英文版)

中国工程院出版委员会

工程科学(英文版)

影响因子：0.226

ISSN：1672-4178

年,卷(期)：2015.1(3)