Wireless Vision Implant: Implantable Prosthesis Lets Patients Perceive Visual Images
Monday, June 2, 2008 - 09:28
in Mathematics & Economics
About 30 million people around the world have grown legally blind due to retinal diseases. The EPI-RET project has sought for a technical solution for the past twelve years to help these patients. This work has resulted in a unique system -- a fully implantable visual prosthesis.
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