20107Jul.,2010274ChineseJournalofMedicalPhysicsVol.27.No.41,2,1,2(1.,200240;2.,100000):(AMD)(RP)。,。,、。,。,,、。:;;;;DOI:doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-202X.2010.04.026:R338.8:A:1005-202X(2010)04-2051-05TheDevelopmentandChallengesofNeuralStimulatorforVisualProshesisHUANGWei-chang1,WANGGuo-he2,WUKai-jie1,RENQiu-shi2(1.InstituteofLaserMedicineandBio-photonics,ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity,Shanghai200240,China;2.CollegeofEngineering,PekingUniversity,Beijing100000,China)Abstract:Age-relatedmaculardegeneration(AMD)andretinitispigmentosa(RP)arethemainreasonsresultinginuncurableretinaldiseasesofblind.Focusingonthesetwoblindingdiseases,developmentofvisualprosthesistoenableblindpeopletoseehasbecomeahottopicofscientificresearch.Thevisualprosthesisstimulator,asthekeymoduleofavisualprosthesis,translatesartificialvisualcodedinformationandaccesstoeffectivevisualevoked.Thisarticlefirstintroducesanumberofinternationallyrenownedvisualneuralstimulatordesign,analysestheiradvantagesanddisadvantages.Onthisbasis,wealsofocusesonthevi-sualnervestimulatorchallengesandfuturedevelopmenttrends,includingtheflexibilityofthevisualnervestimulatordesign,low-powersupplydesign,wirelessenergyanddatatransmissiondesign.Keywords:visualprosthesis;neuralstimulator;wirelesstransmission;brain-computerinterface;visualfunctionalrecovery。,25%。(AMD)(RP)。RP、AMD。、、,、。,,,,,,。,,:2010-04-19:(973,:2005CB724302)、863(:2009AA04Z326)、(:60901026):(1985-),(),,,。:,Email:renqsh@coe.pku.edu.cn2051--27420107[1,2]。,、,“”。,,,D/A,,,,,,[3,4]。:,,,。1,,,,、、,。1.1Second-SightArgusSecondSightArgus,,2004。Argus16,Argus60,[5]。,。:,,,;:,,。1.2BostonRetinalImplantProject80,、TheBostonRetinalImplantProject。。,,。[6],(100kbps),1.5mW;(2.5mW),2.5mV。15800uA[7]。125kHz,2.5V,ASK13.56MHz。、,。,,1Argus[5]Fig.1Argusseriesstimulator[5]2BostonRetinalImplantProject[6]Fig.2ThestimulatordesignschemeofBostonRetinalImplantProject[6]3OptobionicsASR[8]Fig.3ASRseriesstimulatorofOptobionics[8]2052--27420107,,;,;,。。1.3OptobionicsASRChow[8](Optobionics)ASR(ArtificialSiliconRetina),2mm,25μm,,5000(),,,,,,。:;,,,。,,;,。1.4AustralianVisionProsthesisGroup[9](Epi-retinalProsthesis)。0.35μm,2.8mm×4.6mm,,20V,。14,,。:,,。:。2,,[10]:(1)。,。,,,。,,,。(2)。。,,,,。(3)。。,,,。,、、。,、,。,,,,,,,。,,、、,,,。,3,,。2.1,,。,,[9]。,,。,。,()。,,。,,,,、。。,。,2,4:(1);(2),。(DAC),。,。:600~10002053--27420107,、。,,,。,DAC,,,,。,,。2.2,。,,。,。。。、。。,。,。IL,,(、)(、)。,(),。,,。(,,)。,,,,,。,,:t0,t1,t2,t3,Ia,Ic。,Ia×t2=Ic×t1W=I2Rt,I,R,t。,,,。,,,。,,。。,。,。Mahadevappa[11],。,,,。2.3,。,[12-15]。,[13]。,。,,、。,,,。、。,42Fig.4Twodifferentkindsofelectrodestostimulatecontrolmode5Fig.5Stimulationofthetypicalpulse2054--27420107,。,,、。1000,20Bit,10Bit,50Hz,1.5Mbps。,10MHz,,。(1Mbps~2Mbps)。,L.H.Jung[14]WentaiLiu。,(1MHz);(10MHz)。,,。,,。,,,。,,。3,,,,。,、3。,,;,(VLSI)(SoC),,;,。、、,、、,,。:[1]BrindleyGS,LewinWS.Thesensationsproducedbyelectricalstim-ulationofthevisualcortex[J].TheJournalofPhysiology.196(2):479,1968.[2]DonaldsonP.Experimentalvisualprosthesis[J].Proc.IEE.120:281-298,1973.[3]GrumetAE,WyattJJ,RizzoJR.Multi-electrodestimulationandrecordingintheisolatedretina.[J].JNeurosciMethods.101(1):31-42,2000[4]JensenRJ,RizzoJR,ZivO.R.,etal.Thresholdsforactivationofrabbitretinalganglioncellswithanultrafine,extracellularmicroelec-trode.[J].InvestOphthalmolVisSci.44(8):3533-3543,2003.[5]HumayunMS,deJuanEJ,DagnelieG.,etal.Visualperceptionelicitedbyelectricalstimulationofretinainblindhumans.[J].ArchOphthalmol.114(1):40-46,1996.[6]RizzoJR,WyattJ,LoewensteinJ,etal.Perceptualefficacyofelectri-calstimulationofhumanretinawithamicroelectrodearrayduringshort-termsurgicaltrials.[J].InvestOphthalmolVisSci.44(12):5362-5369,2003.[7]SrivastavaNR,TroykPR,DagnelieG.Detection,eye--handcoordi-nationandvirtualmobilityperformanceinsimulatedvision[J].JournalofNeuralEngineering.6:35008,2009.[8]ChowAY,ChowVY,PackoKH,etal.Theartificialsiliconretinamicrochipforthetreatmentofvisionlossfromretinitispigmentosa.[J].ArchOphthalmol,2004,122(4):460-469.[9]DommelNB,WongYT,LehmannT,etal.ACMOSretinalneu-rostimulatorcapableoffocussed,simultaneousstimulation[J].JournalofNeuralEngineering,2009,6:35006.[10]LiuW,SivaprakasamM,WangG.,etal.Challengesinrealizingachronichigh-resolutionretinalprosthesis[J].ArtificialSight:BasicResearch,BiomedicalEngineering,andClinicalAdvances.Springer-Verlag:NewYork.:129-149,2007.[11]MahadevappaM,WeilandJD,YanaiD,etal.Perceptualthresholdsandelectrodeimpedancein3retinalprosthesissubjects.IEEETransactionsonNeuralSystemsandRehabilitationEngineering13:201-206[12]DommelNB,WongYT,LehmannT,etal.ACMOSretinalneu-rostimulatorcapableoffocussed,simultaneousstimulation[J].JournalofNeuralEngineering.6:35006,2009.[13]XuWR,LuoZY,SonkusaleS.FullyDigitalBPSKDemodulatorandMultilevelLSKBackTelemetryforBiomedicalImplantTransceivers[J].IEEETransactionsonCircuitsandSystemII-Ex-pressBriefs,2009,56:714-718.[14]JungLH,Byrnes-PrestonP,HesslerR,etal.ADualBandWirelessPowerandFSKDataTelemetryforBiomedicalImplants[J].2007AnnualInternationalConferenceoftheIEEEEngineeringinMedicineandBiologySociety,Vols1-16,2007:6597-6600.[15]ZhouMC,YuceMR,LiuWT.ANon-CoherentDPSKDataRe-ceiverWi