Medtronic Bakken Research Center B.V.;NeuroNexus Technologies, Inc.
发明人:
Emil Toader,Hubert Cécile François Martens,Michel Marcel Jose Decré,Franciscus Paulus Maria Budzelaar,Pieter Gerrit Blanken,David James Anderson
申请号：
US15629852
公开号：
US20170281947A1
申请日:
2017.06.22
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
A method and system are provided for determining a relation between stimulation settings for a brain stimulation probe and a corresponding V-field. The brain stimulation probe comprises multiple stimulation electrodes. The V-field is an electrical field in brain tissue surrounding the stimulation electrodes. The method comprises sequentially applying a test current to n stimulation electrodes, n being a number between 2 and the number of stimulation electrodes of the brain stimulation probe, for each test current at one of the n stimulation electrodes, measuring a resulting excitation voltage at m stimulation electrodes, m being a number between 2 and the number of stimulation electrodes of the brain stimulation probe, from the stimulation settings and the measured excitation voltages, deriving a coupling matrix, an element in the coupling matrix reflecting an amount of electrical impedance between two of the stimulation electrodes, and using the coupling matrix for determining the relation between the stimulation settings and the corresponding V-field.
