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www.retina-implant.de > For Patients > Articles for patients
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- Partially Restored Vision (Digital Planet, BBC World Service, 23.07.2007) [4.8 MB]
Interview with Dr. Walter-G. Wrobel, CEO of Retina Implant GmbH
- I saw the light, says blind man with bionic eye (Sunday Telegraph, 24.04.2007)
For Daniel Brueck, it truly looked like the light at the end of the tunnel. First his eyes could distinguish brightness from darkness, and then, slowly the shapes of objects in a room.
- Electronic light-sensitive chip may restore vision in some blind patients (Yahoo India, 22.03.2007)
German researchers have found that an electronically boosted light-sensitive chip has the potential to restore sight to some blind patients. Eberhart Zrenner, executive director of the Eye Hospital at the University of Tübingen, announced at a recent press conference the findings of the test, the first of its kind.
- A chip in the eye boosts sight (nature.com, 21.03.2007)
The first test of an electrically boosted light-sensitive electronic chip implanted into the eye shows that it can restore sight to some blind patients. This is another step in what is now a highly competitive – and commercial – global race to help the blind see again.
- Restoring sight to the blind (Ophthalmology Times Europe 10/2006) [81 KB]
The high incidence of neurodegenerative retinal diseases that lead to visual impairment and blindness has given rise to new technological and biological advances in the field of ophthalmology. Electronic retinal prostheses are among the most eagerly anticipated, yet complex devices to be developed.
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