Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP140104533

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP140104533

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Neural Activity Shaping for Retinal and Cochlear Implants. This project aims to develop methods to control and optimise the spatial patterns of neural activity evoked by neural prostheses in order to improve the resolution of neuroprostheses. A major problem for neural prostheses is that the electrical current used to stimulate neurons causes a diffuse spread of activity in the neural tissue, which limits the resolution of the device. For patients this translates into limitations in sound quality, in the case of cochlea implants, or visual acuity, for retinal implants. The outcome of the project will be algorithms that optimally choose the currents on each electrode so as to shape neural activity at the finer resolution of electrode spacing rather than the coarser resolution of current spread.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2014

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $506,661.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Biological Mathematics | Signal Processing | Applied Mathematics | Medical Devices |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Nervous System and Disorders | Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders

Other Keywords

Applied Mathematics | Biological Mathematics | Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders | Medical Devices | Nervous System and Disorders | Signal Processing

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