Bionic electronic retinal allows the blind to see again-bionic, electronic retinal, makes, blind to see, bright
Israel retinal company developed an embedded Nano-Bionic electronic retina, retinal damage the blind to see again. This micro-Bionic retinal fundus through 30 minutes of minimally invasive implantation to replace damaged photoreceptors.
Retinal and ocular nerve after fusion, natural sunlight can be converted to electrical signals, Visual neural artificial retina accept incoming brain image, so as to achieve recovery of Visual function. Patients after Bionic retinal implants, also when used to wear a pair of special glasses fitted with micro-lasers, it can wirelessly power into retinal.
At present, pixels are 24×24 to the company developed the first generation, second generation pixels 72×72, image clarity, 10 times higher than existing technology, to better meet the daily need for reading, watching TV and participate in various activities. By age-related macular degeneration, cataract, glaucoma and retinal damage caused by diabetes, is the main reason for the lesions of blinding.
United States Association for the blind, the current United States for a variety of blinding diseases each year about 50,000 people, 3.6 million over 40 years of blind patients. In order to enable them to see again in recent years, some developed countries are carrying out research in this area. But similar technology on the market today, and some comparison of implantation of complex, long; some to wear glasses equipped with a camera and transmitter, relatively low image resolution.
By contrast, the new technology using simple, implanted retinal and ocular tissues junction was also good, does not have an impact on pupil dilation and field of vision. It is learnt that the company planned to begin in 2013 clinical trials, if successful, is expected to bring light to millions of patients with retinal. (Text/science and technology daily)
