Artificial Sight

The Editors are active researchers in the fields of artificial sight, biomedical engineering and biological physics. They have received numerous professional awards and recognition for their work. The artificial sight team at the Doheny Eye Institute, led by Dr. Mark Humayun, is a world leader in this area of biomedical engineering and clinical research.

Biological Considerations for an Intraocular Retinal Prosthesis.- Artificial Vision: Vision of a Newcomer.- The Effects of Visual Deprivation: Implications for Sensory Prostheses.- Prosthetic Vision Simulation in Fully and Partially Sighted Individuals.- Testing Visual Functions in Patients with Visual Prostheses.- The IMI Retinal Implant System.- Challenges in Realizing a Chronic High-Resolution Retinal Prosthesis.- Large-scale Integration–Based Stimulus Electrodes for Retinal Prosthesis.- Development of a Wireless High-Frequency Microarray Implant for Retinal Stimulation.- Visual Prosthesis Based on Optic Nerve Stimulation with Penetrating Electrode Array.- Dynamic Interactions of Retinal Prosthesis Electrodes with Neural Tissue and Materials Science in Electrode Design.- In Vitro Determination of Stimulus-Induced pH Changes in Visual Prostheses.- Electrochemical Characterization of Implantable High Aspect Ratio Nanoparticle Platinum Electrodes for Neural Stimulations.- High-Resolution Opto-Electronic Retinal Prosthesis: Physical Limitations and Design.- Computational Modeling of Electromagnetic and Thermal Effects for a Dual-Unit Retinal Prosthesis: Inductive Telemetry, Temperature Increase, and Current Densities in the Retina.- Microstimulation with Chronically Implanted Intracortical Electrodes.- A Tissue Change After Suprachoroidal-Transretinal Stimulation with High Electrical Current in Rabbits.- Electrical Stimulation of Mammalian Retinal Ganglion Cells Using Dense Arrays of Small-Diameter Electrodes.- A Mechanism for Generating Precise Temporal Patterns of Activity Using Prosthetic Stimulation.- Electrophysiology of Natural and Artificial Vision.