Anita Mahadevan-Jansen,Jonathan Cayce,Robert Friedman,Anna Roe,E. Duco Jansen,Mykyta Chernov,Peter E. Konrad
申请号：
US13480012
公开号：
US09044596B2
申请日:
2012.05.24
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
代理人:
摘要：
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a method of applying infrared neural stimulation (INS) to the central nervous system (CNS) of a target. The methods includes applying a pulsed infrared laser at a stimulation site in the CNS and evoking responses from a region of interest of the CNS that is at or adjacent to the stimulation site by the pulsed infrared laser. In the method, the pulsed infrared laser penetrates a predetermined penetration depth of the stimulation site. Certain aspects of the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus for applying INS to the CNS of a target. The apparatus includes a generator generating a pulsed infrared laser, which penetrates a predetermined penetration depth of a stimulation site to evoke a response from the CNS, and an optical medium adapted for delivering the pulsed infrared laser at the stimulation site of the CNS.
