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Artificial Vision 2019

The International Symposium on Visual Prosthetics

13.12. - 14.12.2019, Aachen

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Implantation of microchips in the relay neurons of the lateral geniculate nucleus

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  • Walter Gallo Gomez - Lima/PE
  • Y. Pecho Trigueros - Lima/PE

Artificial Vision 2019. Aachen, 13.-14.12.2019. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2019. Doc19artvis36

doi: 10.3205/19artvis36, urn:nbn:de:0183-19artvis361

Published: December 10, 2019

© 2019 Gallo Gomez et al.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. See license information at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

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The project involves the implantation of microchips in the relay neurons of the lateral geniculate nucleus.

The chips are radio frequency receivers and demodulators and deliver a potential capable of depolarizing neurons. The chips are of the passive type (their energy originates the same wave they capture) their size is approximately 3-4 cubic microns, and each one is tuned to a different frequency originated from an external emitter, this sends the stimulation pulses which are modulated by a camera, its implant is through an antibody against the glutamate receptor specific to the AMPA ionotropic relay neurons. The project is in the experimental stage.