Tom van Nunen and test setup. Photo: Huib Visser
Tom van Nunen and test setup. Photo: Huib Visser Tom van Nunen defended his thesis at the department of Electrical Engineering on February 8th, 2023. More than 43 million people worldwide are blind. In the past 30 years, that number has increased by roughly 50 percent. Most blind people are born with normal vision and lose their sight over time, due to medical causes or an accident. Often, the visual cortex in the brain is still capable of interpreting electrical signals, but the eyes or the connection between the eyes and brain are damaged or lost. It is possible to restore some form of sight by providing the right electrical signals to the visual cortex with an implant.
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