Title :
Efficient stimulation inducing neural activity in retinal implant
Author :
Kanda, Hiroyuki ; Yagi, Tohru ; Ito, Yuichiro ; Tanaka, Saijiro ; Watanabe, Masami ; Uchikawa, Yoshiki
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nagoya Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Electrical stimulation to the nervous system is important in visual prostheses. In this study, we stimulated the central nervous system of an experimental animal in various ways, and the neural response has been evaluated from both biological and computational points of view. Experimental results have revealed that the anode/cathode distance seems to play an important role to reduce the energy consumption
Keywords :
neurophysiology; prosthetics; vision defects; visual evoked potentials; anode distance; cathode distance; electrical stimulation; energy consumption; nervous system; neural activity; neural response; retinal implant; visual prosthesis; Animals; Anodes; Biology computing; Cathodes; Central nervous system; Electrical stimulation; Implants; Nervous system; Retina; Visual prosthesis;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1999. IEEE SMC '99 Conference Proceedings. 1999 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5731-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1999.812438
