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Image multiplexing on subretinal photovoltaic implants (PRIMA) increases bipolar-cell selectivity by over 5× in rats, enabling smaller 20 m pixels while avoiding direct retinal ganglion cell activation.
- Why it matters: Smaller prosthetic pixels require relaxing electric-field confinement, but direct activation of retinal ganglion cells must be avoided to preserve natural-like encoding and contrast.
- What they did: The method sequentially presents image components across multiple subframes, with subframe island sizes optimized by computational modeling to target bipolar cells via network-mediated stimulation.
- The result: In rats, the approach boosts network-mediated selectivity over 5× and supports efficient bipolar stimulation with pixels as small as 20 m while avoiding direct RGC stimulation and preserving high pattern contrast.
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