Visual Prosthetics

Visual prosthetics as a multidisciplinary challenge.- The human visual system - an engineering perspective.- Vision's first steps: anatomy, physiology, and perception in the retina, lateral geniculate nucleus, and early visual cortical areas.- Retinal remodeling and visual prosthetics.- Cortical plasticity and reorganization in severe vision loss.- Visual perceptual effects of long-standing vision loss.- Structures, materials, and processes at the electrode-to-tissue interface.- Delivery of information and power to the implant, integration of the electrode array with the retina, and safety of chronic stimulation.- Retinal cell excitation modeling.- Neurotransmitter stimulation for retinal prosthesis -The Artificial Synapse Chip.- Synthetic Chromophores and Neural Stimulation of the Visual System.- Biophysics/Engineering of Cortical Electrodes.- The response of retinal neurons to electrical stimulation: a summary of in-vitro and in-vivo animal studies.- Findings from acute retinal stimulation in blind patients.- The perceptual effects of chronic retinal stimulation.- Findings from chronic optic nerve and cortical stimulation.- Simulations of prosthetic vision.- Image Analysis, Information Theory and Prosthetic Vision.- Simulations of cortical prosthetic vision.- Phosphene mapping techniques for visual prostheses.- Prosthetic vision assessment.- Activities of Daily Living and Rehabilitation with Prosthetic Vision.

From the book reviews:

"This is an excellent up to date reference on vision physiology and medicine. ... I highly recommend this book to students, vision scientists, bioengineers, research fellows, neurosurgeons, and neurophysiologists." (Joseph J. Grenier, Amazon.com, December, 2014)