Visual neuroprostheses / one experimental retina

Retina Laboratory

Place an implant. Follow the signal. Explore the resulting vision.

Experiment
Preparing the shared laboratory
Microscopic section · physical depth, density-reduced cells
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Anatomical model

Stratified, procedural cells informed by retinal histology. Density is reduced for inspection. The shared retinal chart registers every device and response; the conductive solvers retain their documented planar domains.

Implant parts share one surface: a flat PRIMA plate or a curved electrical array. Close-up views crop the implant at the tissue window. Gap is referenced at placement; tissue displacement around an implant is not simulated. Hide Device to inspect obscured cells.

Scene→Electrode drive→Retinal circuitry→Output & percept
03 / Vision reconstruction

One scene. Four stages.

01

Original scene

Common visual field for every technology.

02

Device input

Scene sampled at the active device geometry.

03

Retinal response

Calculated activity on the common retinal population.

04

Predicted percept

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Coupled output is an illustrative fixed-scale activity decoder. Published electrical and PRIMA appearance models use different brightness definitions and are not interchangeable measures of human vision.

Input, percept & legacy reference options
Retained electrical reference experimentsRetained PRIMA reference experiments

Legacy files and presets run their original engines inside this workspace. Switch a scene control to resume the common visual input. Current input: shared.

04 / Recordings

Follow the response in time.

Ganglion-cell spike raster

Tier 2 voltage and spike traces are from an assumed leaky integrate-and-fire retinal network.

Sampled image/video trials restart the circuit and network for each frame. Pulse dynamics within each trial remain calculated.
05 / Matched experiment

Compare mechanisms, not scores.

Same scene, retinal chart, tissue parameters, response model and observation window. Device pulse schedules and model assumptions remain explicit. No overall device ranking is calculated.

06 / Reproducible record

Keep the experiment.

Settings, units, seed, equations and calculated arrays travel together. Imported results are recomputed.

Complete experiment settings

All retained engine parameters are editable here, including legacy eye, sampling and image settings. Applying settings clears calculated results.

Numerical verification is one kind of evidence.

The retained finite-contact solver, pulse2percept models, PRIMA circuit and ProViSim baseline keep their independent benchmarks. New retinal coupling, procedural anatomy, optical attenuation and thermal estimates are research prototypes. They have not been fitted or validated against patient outcomes.

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Current assumptions & limitations

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