An Implantable Integrated System to Restore Vision in the Blind

用于恢复盲人视力的植入式集成系统

• 批准号: 0300181
• 负责人: Wentai Liu
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of California-Santa Cruz
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-05-15 至 2008-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0300181&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implantable; Integrated; System; Restore; Vision

This proposal by a group of researchers with a proven record of steady and continuous progress toward the realization of a retinal prosthesis for the totally blind will bring about fundamental advances in electronics, telemetry, bioelectromagnetics, and material processing that will enable the realization of a device with over 1,000 electrodes.Intellectual merit: The proposed project will bring about fundamental advances toward the development of an integrated system compatible with the stringent design specification required for implantation in the human eye. Research will consider novel solutions for wireless bi-directional and high frequency transcutaneous telemetry systems, low power VLSI electronics, stimulating electrode arrays, heterogeneous computational system modeling for performance prediction, and system-on-a-chip fabrication.Broader impacts: The proposed research effort combines several disciplines toward an effective engineering solution to the problem of blindness. Over 10,000,000 visually impaired worldwide will benefit from this research activity. Further, the team envisions that the proposed research will significantly contribute to a wide range of future wireless implantable biomedical devices. This project will offer a unique research environment with strong interdisciplinary collaborations that will provide graduate and undergraduate students a diversified exposure to innovative biomedical technologies for the 21st century.

一组研究人员提出的这项提案，在实现完全失明者的视网膜假体方面取得了稳定和持续的进展，这将带来电子学、遥测、生物电磁学和材料加工方面的根本性进步，从而实现具有 1,000 多个电极的设备。 智力价值：该项目将为开发与盲人视网膜假体兼容的集成系统带来根本性进展。 植入人眼需要严格的设计规范。研究将考虑无线双向和高频经皮遥测系统、低功率超大规模集成电路电子设备、刺激电极阵列、用于性能预测的异构计算系统建模以及片上系统制造的新颖解决方案。更广泛的影响：拟议的研究工作结合了多个学科，以期为失明问题提供有效的工程解决方案。全球超过 10,000,000 名视障人士将受益于这项研究活动。此外，该团队预计，拟议的研究将对未来各种无线可植入生物医学设备做出重大贡献。该项目将提供一个独特的研究环境和强大的跨学科合作，为研究生和本科生提供多样化的机会接触 21 世纪的创新生物医学技术。