BIONIC eye may be the key to restore the eyesight of people suffering from blindness due to hereditary disease.The term bionics aimed at the application of biological systems and methods that are found in nature, designed by engineering systems and modern technology.
A research team at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, doing an effort to Britain's first treatment for patients as part of clinical research into the therapeutic process. The findings were developed by the U.S. firm, Second Sight.
Artificial eye is connected with the camera placed on a pair of glasses. It is estimated, the techniques developed may be able to improve the basic level of vision. But experts cautioned the technique is still in its early stages.
Experiments designed to help people who are blinded by retinitis pigmentosa. The name was aimed at a group of eye diseases that attack the retinal derivatives. Under normal conditions, this disease occurs in people who have been diagnosed since they were children.
Bionic eye, known as Argus II is working with the camera. The camera transmits the signal wirelessly to the ultra-small electronic receiver and electrode panel that implanted in the eye and 'tied' on the retina. Electrodes will stimulate retinal nerve.
Then a signal can continue to run the optic nerve to the brain. David Head, as the executive leader of the British Retinitis pigmentosa Society says it is extremely interesting. He asserted that this treatment is still in its early stages.
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