Artificial Vision

This book presents and analyses the most recent research dedicated to restoring vision in individuals who are severely impaired or blind from retinal disease or injury. It is written by the leading groups worldwide who are at the forefront of developing artificial vision. The book begins by discussing the difficulties in comparing and interpreting functional results in the area of very low vision and the principal prospects and limitations of spatial resolution with artificial tools. Further on, chapters are included by researchers who stimulate the surface or the pigment epithelial side of the retina and by experts who work on stimulating the optic nerve, the lateral geniculate body and the superficial layers of the visual cortex.

Artificial Vision: A Clinical Guide collates the most recent work of key artificial vision research groups to explain in a comparable and stringent order their varying approaches, the clinical or preclinical outcomes and their achievements during the last years. Senior ophthalmic fellows and academic practitioners will find this guide to be an indispensable resource for understanding the current status of artificial vision.   

Assessing Patient Suitability and Outcome Measures in Vision Restoration Trials.- Functional assessment of artificial vision.- Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) for Prosthetic Vision.- Prospects and limitations of spatial resolution.- Argus® II Retinal Prosthesis System.- The Subretinal Implant ALPHA: Implantation and Functional Results.- The Boston Retinal Implant.- Pixium Vision: First Clinical Results and Innovative Developments.- High Resolution Photovoltaic Subretinal Prosthesis for Restoration of Sight.- Suprachoroidal Retinal Prostheses.- Retinal Prosthesis by Suprachoroidal-TransretinalStimulation (STS), Japanese Approach.- A Fully Intraocular Approach for a Bi-Directional Retinal Prosthesis.- Penetrative Optic Nerve-based Visual Prosthesis Research.- Thalamic Visual Prosthesis Project.- CORTIVIS approach for an intracortical visual prostheses.- The Intracortical Visual Prosthesis Project.- Monash Vision Group’s Gennaris Cortical Implant for Vision Restoration.