Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0559745

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0559745

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Large-scale Parallelization of Neural Stimulation in a Visual Prosthesis. Over time, engineers have been able to treat a large number of disorders through new technologies. For example, the deaf can now hear again through cochlear implants. Similar efforts to provide vision to the blind, however, have met with difficulties owing to the high quantities of sites that must be stimulated to provide 'useful' vision. This study addresses the important issues relating to the delivery of large quantities of electrical stimulations to surviving nerves in the eyes of blind patients in an effort to devise a beneficial visual prosthesis or 'bionic eye'. The outcomes of this study could substantially enhance Australia's already prominent reputation in neurostimulation and provide much needed treatments to vision disorders.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 02-01-2005

End Date: 01-07-2008

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $233,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Rehabilitation Engineering | Simulation And Modelling | Integrated Circuits | Biomedical Engineering

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Nervous system and disorders |

Other Keywords

Biomedical Engineering | Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Integrated Circuits | Nervous system and disorders | Rehabilitation Engineering | Simulation And Modelling

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