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Microfabrication of Implantable Optics Integrated in a Microstructured Imaging Window for Advanced In Vivo Imaging
Published on: April 11, 2025
An implantable microsystem as a vision prosthesis
1Institute of Materials in Electrical Engineering I, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany. mokwa@iwe1.rwth-aachen.de
Abstract:
Blindness is often the result of degeneration of the light sensitive rods and cones of the retina in conditions such as retinitis pigmentosa and macula degeneration. An implantable vision prosthesis has been developed that electrically stimulates the retinal ganglion cells in such a way that action potentials in retinal ganglion cells are evoked, causing a visual sensation in the visual cortex. Clinical trials are about to be conducted.

