Early design considerations for a thalamic visual prosthesis to treat blindness resulting from glaucoma

Siva M. Tangutooru; W. Jong Yoon; John B. Troy

doi:10.1109/MECBME.2014.6783251

Early design considerations for a thalamic visual prosthesis to treat blindness resulting from glaucoma

Siva M. Tangutooru, W. Jong Yoon, John B. Troy

Biomedical Engineering

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Abstract

Development of visual prostheses for human cortex or retina has gained interest in recent years. However, a visual prosthesis for the thalamic region targeting the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) would have many advantages. This paper proposes such a deep brain visual prosthesis that can harness the capacity of the residual central visual neurons following loss of retinal ganglion cells in glaucoma. We believe that such a prosthesis can restore visual percepts, substituting an engineered prosthetic for the image capture and early visual processing properties of the LGN neurons that we propose to drive artificially.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2014 Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	249-252
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9781479947997
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MECBME.2014.6783251
State	Published - 2014
Event	2014 2nd Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014 - Doha, Qatar Duration: Feb 17 2014 → Feb 20 2014

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Name	Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME
ISSN (Print)	2165-4247
ISSN (Electronic)	2165-4255

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Other	2014 2nd Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014
Country/Territory	Qatar
City	Doha
Period	2/17/14 → 2/20/14

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Tangutooru, S. M., Yoon, W. J., & Troy, J. B. (2014). Early design considerations for a thalamic visual prosthesis to treat blindness resulting from glaucoma. In 2014 Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014 (pp. 249-252). [6783251] (Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/MECBME.2014.6783251

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Tangutooru, SM, Yoon, WJ & Troy, JB 2014, Early design considerations for a thalamic visual prosthesis to treat blindness resulting from glaucoma. in 2014 Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014., 6783251, Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 249-252, 2014 2nd Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014, Doha, Qatar, 2/17/14. https://doi.org/10.1109/MECBME.2014.6783251

Early design considerations for a thalamic visual prosthesis to treat blindness resulting from glaucoma. / Tangutooru, Siva M.; Yoon, W. Jong; Troy, John B.

2014 Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME 2014. IEEE Computer Society, 2014. p. 249-252 6783251 (Middle East Conference on Biomedical Engineering, MECBME).

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