Thursday, December 13, 2012

Bionic eye

The implants are said to be capable of completely restoring sight to blind patients, but only if their blindness was caused by a faulty retina, as in macular degeneration (suffered by millions of elderly people), diabetic retinopathy or any other degenerative eye disease.

Argus II Bio-Retina
roughly four-hour procedure operation only takes about 30 minutes can be done under local anesthesia.
Costing around $115,000  cost of about $60,000
  • involves the installation of an antenna behind the affected eye that works in with a pair of camera-equipped glasses, which send signals to the antenna.
  • The antenna is wired into the retina which creates display for the brain to interpret.
  • does not incorporate an external camera but instead utilizes a vision-restoration sensor that is actually placed inside the eye, on top of the retina.

Reference:
http://mrunal.org/2012/09/snt-bionic-eye.html

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