Hello, am i right in saying that the debell instrute was doing something like this? Where they was inplanting the brain, so the implant would bypass the optical nerve? i have search all over the internet for answers and questions on this procedure ,but nothing solid as of yet/
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To: "BlindZA" <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:21 AMSubject: [blindza] Fw: Engineering advances paving way for artificial vision progress
Received this from the SeeingWithSound mailing list (see below). Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'----- Original Message ----- Hi All,For your information. Appended is yesterday's news article on electronic retinal implants from the OSN SuperSite. Note that Optobionics went bankrupt last year. Best wishes, Peter Meijer Seeing with Sound - The vOICe http://www.seeingwithsound.com/winvoice.htm Engineering advances paving way for artificial vision progress. FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Advances in engineering may help usher in a new way to treat neural forms of blindness, according to a speaker here at the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology meeting. Joseph F. Rizzo, MD, co-director of the Boston Retinal Implant Project and director of the Center for Innovative Visual Rehabilitation at the Boston VA Medical Center, highlighted four companies that had performed microelectronic retinal implants on human subjects. He said he was optimistic about the results. "The fact that you can plant these foreign materials in the eye and the eye seems to withstand it is something that all four groups demonstrated without question," Dr. Rizzo said in an interview with Ocular Surgery News after his presentation. "Overall there are very positive aspects of the results that need to be encouraged, but at the same time, I think there are hard engineering and biological problems." Optobionics was the first company to test one of these implants, Dr. Rizzo said. The three other companies currently conducting studies are Second Sight Medical Products, Intelligent Medical Implants AG and Retina Implants AG. The placing of the circuitry on the retina has been performed well, but the interface between the electrodes and the nerve cells still must be studied extensively, he said. Researchers also must figure out a way to hermetically encapsulate the implants to protect them from salt in the body. "We're going to have to learn how to stimulate the nerve tissue to create the kind of vision we want," Dr. Rizzo said. "There is still more work to be done with regard to biocompatibility to try and demonstrate more definitively that stimulation would be safe at these levels if delivered for a long time." Source URL: http://www.osnsupersite.com/view.asp?rID=27977 ---------- To send a message to the list, send any message to blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to blindza-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the subject line--- The 'homepage' for this list is at http://www.blindza.co.za
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