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Breanne Christie¹, Roksana Sadeghi², Arathy Kartha³

¹Research and Exploratory Development Department, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States of America.

Journal of Neural Engineering

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Sequential stimulation of retinal implants can create clearer simple shapes for blind individuals. This method improves basic visual feedback but struggles with complex shapes, limiting its use in advanced visual tasks.

Area of Science:

Biomedical Engineering
Neuroscience
Ophthalmology

Background:

Electrical stimulation of the retina generates phosphenes, offering potential vision restoration for blindness.
Current methods face challenges with phosphene merging, hindering interpretable patterned vision.
Sequential stimulation in the visual cortex shows promise for improved shape perception.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if sequential electrode stimulation enhances shape clarity in retinal targets.
To determine optimal temporal parameters for sequential stimulation in epiretinal prostheses.
To compare the efficacy of sequential versus simultaneous stimulation for visual discrimination tasks.

Main Methods:

Two participants with retinitis pigmentosa using Argus®II epiretinal prostheses were enrolled.

Keywords:

electrical stimulation electrodes human low vision phosphene retina visual neuroprosthesis

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Phosphene shape mapping and forced-choice discrimination tasks were conducted.

Performance was compared between simultaneous and sequential stimulation protocols.

Main Results:

Phosphenes varied significantly in shape depending on the electrode stimulated.
Optimal sequential stimulation parameters included a 200 ms pulse train duration at 20 Hz with 0-50 ms gap intervals.
Sequential stimulation surpassed simultaneous stimulation in simple shape discrimination (3-4 electrodes) but not complex tasks (≥5 electrodes).
Efficacy was dependent on selecting electrodes with similar phosphene shapes and sizes.

Conclusions:

Sequential stimulation can produce coherent simple shapes for rudimentary visual feedback via epiretinal prostheses.
Creating complex shapes like letters remains a challenge.
Sequential stimulation may be more suitable for basic navigation tasks than complex visual identification.