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Pixium Vision: First Clinical Results and Innovative Developments

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Visual prostheses or Vision Restoration Systems (VRSs) aim to provide blind patients with useful visual information for face, shape, and object recognition, as well as reading and independent locomotion. VRS are specifically designed for patients having lost their photoreceptors. The loss of photoreceptors can either result from hereditary genetic retinal diseases such as retinitis pigmentosa or more complex diseases such as age-related macular degeneration. Visual restoration is achieved by electrically stimulating the residual retinal circuit. After successful clinical trials by others, Pixium Vision and its partners are developing two VRS solutions for blind patients: an epi-retinal and a sub-retinal approach. This chapter describes the specificities of the epi-retinal IRISTM VRS that has obtained the European CE cerfication mark, and also discuss the associated innovations developed at the Vision Institute for future VRS models.

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Acknowledgements

The Vision Institute was supported by INSERM, UPMC (Paris VI), Foundation Fighting Blindness, the Fédération des Aveugles de France, Fondation de la Recherche Médicale (grant number DBC20101021013), the European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013) under grant agreement no. 280433 (Neurocare project) and under the Graphene Flagship (Contract N° 604391), the LabEx LIFESENSES (ANR-10-LABX-65), which was supported by French state funds managed by the ANR within the Investissements d’Avenir programme (ANR-11-IDEX-0004-02).

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  1. Pixium Vision SA, Paris, France

    Ralf Hornig

  2. Pixium Vision, Paris, France

    Marcus Dapper, Eric Le Joliff, Robert Hill & Khalid Ishaque

  3. INSERM, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR_S968, CNRS UMR7210, Institut de la Vision, Paris, France

    Christoph Posch, Ryad Benosman, José-Alain Sahel & Serge Picaud

  4. Fondation Ophtalmologique Adolphe de Rothschild, Paris, France

    Yannick LeMer & José-Alain Sahel

  5. CHNO des Quinze-Vingts, Paris, France

    José-Alain Sahel

  6. Academie des Sciences, Paris, France

    José-Alain Sahel

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Hornig, R. et al. (2017). Pixium Vision: First Clinical Results and Innovative Developments. In: Gabel, V. (eds) Artificial Vision. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41876-6_8

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