Michael A. Moffitt,Michael S. Colvin,Michael Onuscheck
申请号：
US11694769
公开号：
US09339643B1
申请日:
2007.03.30
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
An implantable device for stimulating body tissue that includes an electrode lead body and at least one stimulating electrode contact disposed on the electrode lead body. The electrode lead body may be a percutaneous electrode lead or an electrode paddle that is configured and arranged to be substantially stiff outside the patients body and during insertion into the patients body and then becomes non-stiff within the patients body. The stiffness may be modified using, for example, resorbable materials, temperature sensitive materials, or a lumen within the lead body for introducing a pressurized gas or liquid to modify a stiffness of the lead body. In one embodiment, the lead body may have different acute and/or chronic shapes.
