The present invention relates to a system for planning and/or providing a therapy for neural applications, especially for neurostimulation and/or neurorecording applications, comprising at least one lead (300), the lead having a plurality of electrodes (132), further comprising a processing means (400) being capable to calculate and/or to determine and/or to process characterizing data of a stimulation field (F) being provided by the electrodes (132), the characterizing data of the stimulation field (F) comprising at least two different field components (FC1 FC2), wherein the at least two different field components are a first field component (FC1) having a first field vector and a second field component (FC2) having a second field vector having a second field vector different from the first field vector, wherein the processing means (400) is further configured such that the directional component of the stimulation field (F) may be determined based on the characterizing data of the stimulation field (F). Furthermore, the present invention relates to a system for neural applications (100) and to a method for determining the directional component of a stimulation field (F) provided by the electrodes (132) of a lead (300) based on characterizing data of the stimulation field (F).
