For non-functional prostheses or glass eyes, see Ocular prosthesis and Craniofacial prosthesis.
A visual prosthesis, often referred to as a bionic eye, is an experimental visual device intended to restore functional vision in those with partial or total blindness. Many devices have been developed, usually modeled on the cochlear implant or bionic ear devices, a type of neural prosthesis in use since the mid-1980s. The idea of using electrical current (e.g., electrically stimulating the retina or the visual cortex) to provide sight dates back to the 18th century, discussed by Benjamin Franklin,[1] Tiberius Cavallo,[2] and Charles LeRoy.[3]
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A visualprosthesis, often referred to as a bionic eye, is an experimental visual device intended to restore functional vision in those with partial or...
ocularists. An ocular prosthesis does not provide vision; this would be a visualprosthesis. Someone with an ocular prosthesis is altogether blind on...
the American company Second Sight Medical Products. It is used as a visualprosthesis to improve the vision of people with severe cases of retinitis pigmentosa...
retinal implant is an intraocular retinal prosthesis utilizing video processing technologies. Regarding to the visual cortex stimulation, Brindley, and Dobelle...
Vitamin A palmitate supplements may be useful to slow worsening. A visualprosthesis may be an option in certain people with severe disease. Currently...
brain stimulation (DBS). A visualprosthesis can create a sense of image by electrically stimulating neurons in the visual system. A camera would wirelessly...
In medicine, a prosthesis (pl.: prostheses; from Ancient Greek: πρόσθεσις, romanized: prósthesis, lit. 'addition, application, attachment'), or a prosthetic...
A retinal implant is a visualprosthesis for restoration of sight to patients blinded by retinal degeneration. The system is meant to partially restore...
light. Brindley and Rushton (1974) used the phosphenes to create a visualprosthesis, in this case by using the phosphenes to depict Braille spots. In...
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volunteers for a risky experimental visualprosthesis that may restore his sight—having a microchip installed in the visual cortex of his brain that connects...
rats by installing an implant behind the retina. Several types of visualprosthesis are in development or trials in humans, and one device has been approved...
McCreery, Douglas; Schmidt, Edward (2003). "A Model for Intracortical VisualProsthesis Research". Artificial Organs. 27 (11): 1005–15. doi:10.1046/j.1525-1594...
Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, skekTek outfitted himself with a visualprosthesis after his right eye was ripped out by a Peeper Beetle as punishment...
implant which has restored hearing abilities to the deaf. Visualprosthesis for restoring visual capabilities of blind persons is still in more elementary...
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Artificial vision may refer to: Computer vision Visualprosthesis This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Artificial vision...
Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis is a technology for restoration of sight to patients blinded by degenerative retinal diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa...
surgeons in the world to have made a successful retinal implant for visualprosthesis, sometimes described as creating: a 'bionic eye'. He is also a pioneer...
damaged, therefore a prosthesis using cortical stimulation is a remaining hope to offer some vision function. A cortical visualprosthesis is a promising subject...
Cosmic ray visual phenomena, or light flashes (LF), also known as Astronaut's Eye, are spontaneous flashes of light visually perceived by some astronauts...
research. The bone conduction prosthesis stimulates the cochlea by triggering skull vibrations. The middle ear prosthesis, either partially or completely...
the world's first implantation of a functional neuronal subretinal visualprosthesis in humans in a long-term trial in 2006 as a member of an interdisciplinary...
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