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Vision Restoration with Implants

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Mobility of Visually Impaired People

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Up until now there has been no available treatment for diseases causing the permanent impairment of retinal photoreceptors.

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    Akos Kusnyerik, Miklos Resch, Huba J. Kiss & Janos Nemeth

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Kusnyerik, A., Resch, M., Kiss, H.J., Nemeth, J. (2018). Vision Restoration with Implants. In: Pissaloux, E., Velazquez, R. (eds) Mobility of Visually Impaired People. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54446-5_20

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