1896results about "Internal electrodes" patented technology

A system for analyzing measurements performed on a biological subject, the system including one or more processing devices configured to acquire subject data at least in part captured by a measurement system including at least one substrate including a plurality of microstructures configured to breach a functional barrier of the subject and a sensor operatively connected to at least one microstructure, the at least one sensor being configured to measure response signals from the at least one microstructure, and analyze the subject data using at least one model to determine an indicator at least partially indicative of a physiological state of the subject.

The present invention provides methods, devices, and systems for in vivo treatment of cell proliferative disorders. Included is a method of treating tissue with electrical energy, the method comprising: delivering electrical energy to tissue using one or more electroporation devices comprising one or more electrodes; and cooling the tissue, surrounding tissue, one or more of the electrodes, or one or more of the electroporation devices to minimize heating. In embodiments, the invention can be used to treat solid tumors, such as brain tumors, and in some embodiments, exemplary methods rely on non-thermal irreversible electroporation (IRE) to cause cell death in treated tumors.

Method and systems are described for identifying electrodes for stimulation of a patient using a stimulation system. The stimulation system includes at least one stimulation lead implanted in a patient and having electrodes disposed thereon. The method includes obtaining a plurality of bioelectrical signals, wherein each of the bioelectrical signals is obtained using a different one, or a different combination, of the electrodes; analyzing a dataset including the bioelectrical signals to identify at least one fundamental component of the dataset, each of the at least one fundamental component identifying a contribution of one or more of the electrodes to the fundamental component; and using at least one of the at least one fundamental component to identify one or more of the electrodes for stimulation according to the contribution of each of the one or more of the electrodes to the at least one of the at least one fundamental component.

Devices and methods to mitigate the erroneous signal imparted by physical and / or chemical process incident upon analyte-selective electrochemical sensors that are non-analyte-related in origin are disclosed herein. A sensing system featuring at least one of an analyte-selective sensor and at least one of an analyte-invariant sensor.

The present invention provides systems and methods for treatment planning and / or administering electrical pulses that elicit desired cell death mechanisms. Embodiments of the invention include selection of pulse parameters to tailor cell death type.

In one aspect, methods of treating skin are described herein. Such a method can comprise attaching a tip to a handpiece, wherein the tip comprises a perforated bottom surface and a needle array positioned above the perforated bottom surface when the array is in a retracted configuration and operable to pass through the perforated bottom surface when the array is in an extended configuration. The handpiece comprises an actuator operable to move the needle array between the retracted and extended configurations. The method can further comprises placing the perforated bottom surface of the tip in contact with or adjacent to a region of interest (ROI) on the skin and initiating the actuator to move the needle array from the retracted configuration to the extended configuration, thereby penetrating the skin with the needle array. Triggering can be carried out automatically and / or manually. Cooling may also be used in some embodiments.

The invention discloses a flexible neural electrode and a preparation method thereof. The flexible neural electrode comprises a near-end contact part, a middle-section contact part, a lead connecting part and a far-end electrode part which are sequentially arranged in the implanting direction of target tissue. The near-end contact part is configured to be located outside the target tissue; the middle section contact part, the lead connecting part and the far-end electrode part are all configured to be located in the target tissue; the far-end electrode part is electrically connected with the middle section contact part and the near-end contact part through the lead connecting part. The near-end contact part is provided with a structure which is electrically connected with external equipment, and the external equipment is configured to be positioned outside the target tissue; the middle contact portion has a structure that forms an electrical connection with an internal device, and the internal device is configured to be located inside the target tissue. By adopting the flexible neural electrode provided by the embodiment of the invention, the treatment process can be simplified, and the operation times of a patient are reduced, so that the operation risk and the medical cost are reduced.

The present invention provides systems, methods, and devices for electroporation-based therapies (EBTs). Embodiments provide patient-specific treatment protocols derived by the numerical modeling of 3D reconstructions of target tissue from images taken of the tissue, and optionally accounting for one or more of physical constraints or dynamic tissue properties. The present invention further relates to systems, methods, and devices for delivering bipolar electric pulses for irreversible electroporation exhibiting reduced or no damage to tissue typically associated with an EBT-induced excessive charge delivered to the tissue.

The invention belongs to the technical field of medical instruments, and particularly relates to a spinal epidural ventral side double-wing-shaped stimulation electrode and motion function reconstruction system, the spinal epidural ventral side double-wing-shaped stimulation electrode and motion function reconstruction system comprises two wing panels, each wing panel comprises a flexible substrate, the flexible substrate is provided with two bifurcated preset-curvature double-wing structures; the electrode contact array is integrated on the flexible polar plate through a bonding pad; according to the double-wing-shaped flexible substrate, through a double-wing structure with a preset curvature, after being unfolded under the driving of a nickel-titanium alloy framework, the double-wing-shaped flexible substrate accurately covers a spinal cord ventral side and double-side anterior angle motor neuron pool, and the problem that a traditional single-piece / rod-shaped electrode can only cover a back side sensing area and cannot cover a back side sensing area is solved. The ventral motor neuron group cannot be directly activated; a stimulation target spot is transferred to a ventral functional core area from a dorsal non-target area for the first time, and the anatomical suitability bottleneck of motor function reconstruction is solved.

To provide a system for transmitting blood pressure reduction electrical stimulation to the heart of a patient capable of determining a desirable AV delay.SOLUTION: The atrium is paced and the ventricle is paced with a given (arbitrary) delay to obtain a desired blood pressure change. Then, the atrium is sensed, the ventricle is paced, the blood pressure change is observed, and the resulting blood pressure change is compared with the paced-atrium-paced-ventricle desired blood pressure change. In the case where the blood pressure changes are not substantially equal, the timing of the sensed-atrium-paced-ventricle stimulation is adjusted on the basis of the comparison. The new modified resulting blood pressure change is observed, and the modified blood pressure change is compared with the paced-atrium-paced-ventricle desired blood pressure change. Adjustment and observation may be repeated until the timing of the sensed-atrium-paced-ventricle stimulation achieves the same blood pressure change as the desired blood pressure change of the paced-atrium-paced-ventricle stimulation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9

Methods, systems and devices are provided which transmit energy to a body lumen or passageway in the form of pulsed electric fields (PEFs) and in a manner which provides focal therapy. In some embodiments, PEFs are delivered through independent electrically active electrodes of an energy delivery body, typically in a monopolar fashion. Such delivery concentrates the electrical energy over a smaller surface area, resulting in stronger effects than delivery through an electrode extending circumferentially around the lumen or passageway. It also forces the electrical energy to be delivered in a staged regional approach, mitigating the effect of preferential current pathways through the surrounding tissue. Focal delivery of PEFs can provide increased tissue lethality by employing precise timing and sequencing of energy delivery to the electrodes.

To provide a system for transmitting blood pressure reduction electrical stimulation to the heart of a patient capable of determining a desirable AV delay.SOLUTION: The atrium is paced and the ventricle is paced with a given (arbitrary) delay to obtain a desired blood pressure change. Then, the atrium is sensed, the ventricle is paced, the blood pressure change is observed, and the resulting blood pressure change is compared with the paced-atrium-paced-ventricle desired blood pressure change. In the case where the blood pressure changes are not substantially equal, the timing of the sensed-atrium-paced-ventricle stimulation is adjusted on the basis of the comparison. The new modified resulting blood pressure change is observed, and the modified blood pressure change is compared with the paced-atrium-paced-ventricle desired blood pressure change. Adjustment and observation may be repeated until the timing of the sensed-atrium-paced-ventricle stimulation achieves the same blood pressure change as the desired blood pressure change of the paced-atrium-paced-ventricle stimulation.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 9

The present invention provides systems, methods, and devices for electroporation-based therapies (EBTs). Embodiments provide patient-specific treatment protocols derived by the numerical modeling of 3D reconstructions of target tissue from images taken of the tissue, and optionally accounting for one or more of physical constraints or dynamic tissue properties. The present invention further relates to systems, methods, and devices for delivering bipolar electric pulses for irreversible electroporation exhibiting reduced or no damage to tissue typically associated with an EBT-induced excessive charge delivered to the tissue.

An example of a system for delivering neurostimulation may include a programming control circuit and a user interface. The programming control circuit may be configured to generate stimulation parameters controlling delivery of the neurostimulation according to a pulse sequence. The pulse sequence may include a series of neurostimulation pulses and be defined by sequence parameters and one or more modulation functions each modulating an adjustable parameter selected from the sequence parameters. The user interface may be configured to set the pulse sequence to a tonic pulse sequence by determining an initial value for each adjustable parameter and set the pulse sequence to a modulated pulse sequence by selecting one or more adjustable parameters, determining a modulation function for each selected adjustable parameter, and applying the determined modulation function to that selected adjustable parameter to modulate the tonic pulse sequence.

Devices, systems and methods deliver implantable medical devices for atrioventricular (VfA) cardiac treatment. The VfA device can be implanted in the right atrium (RA), where electrodes extend from the right atrium into the left ventricular myocardium. A flexible lead or other probe can be advanced to a potential implantation site and used to identify the precise location of an implanted medical device, such as an electrode, a small lead, a lead, or an intracardiac device. Some methods may include locating a potential implantation site in the Koch triangle in the right atrium of the patient's heart; attaching a retaining sheath to the right atrial endocardium of the potential implantation site; and implanting the medical device via a guidewire at the potential implantation site. An implantable medical device may include an intracardiac housing and a small lead that can be delivered by these methods.

The invention discloses a patient improvement effect analysis method for controlling spinal cord electrical stimulation through an implantable brain-computer interface, and relates to the technical field of medical rehabilitation, and the method comprises the steps: multi-dimensional collaborative data collection: implanting electrodes in a target brain region and below a spinal cord injury segment, installing a detection element at an exoskeleton key part, and carrying out multi-dimensional collaborative data collection; a sensor is attached to a lower limb preset muscle group, electroencephalogram signals, SCS stimulation parameters, EXS motion data and neuromuscular response data are synchronously collected, and time correlation marks are embedded; according to the method, the reliability of motion intention decoding is remarkably improved by adopting a mode of combining multi-source signal preprocessing and a multi-mode intention recognition model, and in the signal preprocessing stage, the self-adaptive filtering algorithm combining Kalman filtering and wavelet threshold denoising is applied, so that the motion intention decoding efficiency is improved. SCS electrical stimulation interference, EXS motor noise and physiological noise in the electroencephalogram signals are effectively removed.

The invention relates to a three-dimensional spiral high-density neural electrode and a preparation method and application thereof. The three-dimensional spiral high-density neural electrode comprises a probe structure and a plurality of electrode sites. The probe structure is formed by curling a planar flexible electrode precursor, and at least one end of the probe structure is provided with a spiral outer surface of a three-dimensional spiral line structure. Electrode sites are distributed along a spiral path, have a size of 5-1000 [mu] m, and are used for contacting biological tissues. On the planar flexible electrode precursor, electrode sites are arranged on one or more straight lines forming an inclined angle alpha with the axial direction of the probe, and the spatial distribution is matched with the edge. Compared with the prior art, the method has the advantages that the constraint of a traditional wiring mode is broken through, the integration of high-density three-dimensional channels is realized under a micro size, and a new generation of solution is provided for a high-precision brain-computer interface, deep brain stimulation and a three-dimensional electroencephalogram.

Provided is a medical apparatus for a patient comprising an external system and an implantable system. The external system can be configured to transmit one or more transmission signals, each transmission signal comprising at least power or data. The implantable system can be configured to receive the one or more transmission signals from the external system. The external system comprises a first external device comprising at least one external antenna configured to transmit a first transmission signal to the implantable system. The implantable system comprises a first implantable device comprising at least one implantable antenna configured to receive the first transmission signal from the first external device. At least one of the external antenna or implantable antenna comprises an antenna assembly comprising: at least one transmitting / receiving antenna; and at least one shielding element positioned between the at least one transmitting / receiving antenna and an interfering component.

The invention discloses a mouse spinal cord flexible electrode and a stimulation parameter optimization method, and relates to the technical field of parameter optimization. The mouse spinal cord flexible electrode comprises a soluble insertion layer, a gradient substrate layer, spinal cord anastomosis ribs, a conductive snakelike net, a hemispherical touch dot matrix, a microfluidic layer, an optical waveguide layer and a top packaging layer; the soluble insertion layer is photo-crosslinked PEG-DMA with the thickness of 5-25 m, the Young modulus is kept within the range of 0.8-1.5 GPa before implantation, and the soluble insertion layer is hydrolyzed in cerebrospinal fluid within 0.5-3 hours after implantation and completely falls off; the spinal cord anastomosis rib comprises an expandable S-shaped folding structure arranged on the upper surface of the gradient substrate layer, the distance between every two adjacent ribs ranges from 80 m to 200 m, the height of the folded state is not larger than 15 m, the height of the unfolded state ranges from 15 m to 40 m, and the spinal cord anastomosis rib is used for forming a cerebro-spinalfluid bypass groove extending in the longitudinal direction of the spinal cord on the surface of the dura mater. According to the invention, the positioning precision, safety and long-term efficiency of mouse spinal cord electrical stimulation can be effectively improved.

Elongate medical devices with an expandable structure including elongated splines and a distal hub. An elongate medical device includes a handle including a control mechanism, a catheter shaft, an expandable structure including elongated splines and a distal hub, wherein each of the elongated splines includes a shape memory material and an interactive element, wherein each of the elongated splines includes a respective spline proximal end and a spline distal end, wherein each of the spline proximal ends is connected to the catheter shaft distal end, and wherein each of the spline distal ends is connected to the distal hub, and a deflection control member connected to the distal hub, wherein the control mechanism is drivingly coupled to the distal hub via the deflection control member and operable to selectively vary a position of the distal hub relative to the catheter shaft distal end to selectively vary an amount of expansion of the expandable structure, wherein a shape of the expandable structure is produced via a combination of the shape memory material and the position of the distal hub relative to the catheter distal end.

The invention provides a brain deep electrical stimulation electrode parameter determination method and related equipment, and the method comprises the steps: building a head simulation model which comprises conductivity distribution; determining one or more target stimulation target spots and one or more non-target inhibition areas on the head simulation model; based on one or more target stimulation target spots and one or more non-target inhibition areas, multiple groups of electrode configuration schemes are determined through an electrode positioning method, each group of electrode configuration scheme is configured on the head simulation model, and multiple groups of stimulation simulation models are obtained; performing finite element solution based on the anatomical structure and the conductivity distribution of each group of stimulation simulation models, and optimizing the electric field intensity of one or more target stimulation target spots and the electric field intensity of one or more non-target suppression regions to obtain a plurality of electrode parameters; and determining a target electrode parameter in the plurality of electrode parameters, and taking an electrode configuration scheme corresponding to the target electrode parameter as a target electrode configuration scheme.

The invention is applicable to the technical field of medical instruments, and provides a subskull epidural micro-invasive flexible brain-computer interface electrode, which comprises a plurality of electrode branches, each electrode branch comprises a linear flexible main body, and the flexible main body comprises a micro power supply circuit and a signal circuit which are solidified. A plurality of electrode units are arranged on the micro power supply circuit and the signal circuit at intervals, and the electrode units are electrically connected with the micro power supply circuit and the signal circuit. The brain-computer interface electrode is in a flexible line type, can be implanted into the middle artery of the meninx, does not need craniotomy, is a micro-invasive brain-computer interface, has data monitoring accuracy close to that of an invasive brain-computer interface, does not need to worry about inflammatory response, immunostimulation, biocompatibility, brain tissue damage and other adverse factors after long-term implantation, and is suitable for popularization and application. And the thrombogenic risk of a vein stent brain-computer interface does not exist.

The invention discloses a pelvic floor muscle repairing instrument, a pelvic floor muscle training indication method, pelvic floor muscle training indication equipment and a medium, and the pelvic floor muscle repairing instrument comprises a main body part which is used for being inserted into or placed in a part corresponding to pelvic floor muscle; the first electrode and the second electrode are arranged on the main body part and are used for electrically stimulating pelvic floor muscles and detecting pelvic floor muscle surface electromyogram signals after the pelvic floor muscles are electrically stimulated; the third electrode is attached to the peripheral muscle of the pelvic floor muscle during use and is used for detecting an electromyographic signal of the peripheral muscle of the pelvic floor muscle; the posture detection unit is arranged on the trunk part and is used for detecting a posture time sequence signal after the action of the trunk part is changed; the controller is electrically connected with the first electrode and the second electrode and is used for performing feature extraction on the three signals in the same time sequence, generating a fusion feature vector, determining a pelvic floor muscle training evaluation result and generating a training feedback instruction according to the pelvic floor muscle training evaluation result; the training feedback instruction is used for instructing the user to train.

Devices, systems, software, and methods are provided for treating chronic pain in an individual using deep brain stimulation (DBS). An implantable brain stimulation and neural recording device is used to identify personalized pain biomarkers to automate brain stimulation using adaptive DBS algorithms in response to pain-associated brain states. Methods are also provided for identifying effective personalized brain stimulation sites for an individual through a systematic, multi-site brain mapping trial and tailoring real-time adaptive DBS programs to an individual to provide significant pain relief.

An implant and method for regulating the intraocular pressure of an eye is described. The implant is disposed in Schlemm's canal of an eye through ab-externo or ab-interno canaloplasty. Once inserted, the implant monitors the intraocular pressure of an eye with a pressure sensor and provides regulated current to electrodes within the implant to perform electrolysis. Electrolysis causes a release of gas from the eye and a reduction in the volume of aqueous humor to decrease intraocular pressure. The degree of electrolysis and reduction of intraocular pressure is regulated by a platform that includes monitoring by a pressure sensor, safety controls, and remote access.

The invention discloses a time interference electrical stimulation stability regulation and control method and system based on wireless power transmission, belongs to the technical field of nerve electrical stimulation, and aims to solve the problems that the posture of a patient changes and the quality of envelope current induced on an electrode wrapping nerves is reduced in the using process of an existing time interference electrical stimulation technology. The method comprises the following steps of: detecting and adjusting a current ratio on transmitting coils on two sides in real time by utilizing an incidence relation among an effective value of current on an inversion side of a coil circuit on two sides, mutual inductance between the two transmitting coils and a receiving electrode and relative positions of the transmitting coils and the receiving electrode; the purpose that the electrode wrapping the nerve is located in a high-quality superimposed field for a long time and can induce stable envelope current is achieved. The beneficial effects are that before electrical stimulation starts, the electrode wrapping the nerve is arranged between the two parallel transmitting coils so that the relative position between the coils can be automatically identified and the corresponding current ratio of the coils can be adjusted, and the operation is simple; when the posture of the patient changes, high-quality envelope can be stably generated on the receiving electrode all the time.

Computer implemented methods and systems are provided that comprise, under control of one or more processors of a medical device, where the one or more processors are configured with specific executable instructions. The methods and systems include sensing circuitry configured to define a sensing channel to collect biological signals, memory configured to store program instructions, a processor configured to implement the program instructions to at least one of analyze the biological signals, manage storage of the biological signals or deliver a therapy, and communication circuitry configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other implantable or external device, the communication circuitry configured to transition between a sleep state, a partial awake state and a fully awake state. When in the fully awake state, the communication circuitry is configured to execute tasks and actions associated with a communications protocol startup (CPS) instruction set that includes an advertisement scanning related (ASR) instruction subset and a non-ASR instruction subset. When in the partially awake state, the communication circuitry is configured to execute, as the ASR instruction subset, transmit advertising notices over one or more channels according to a wireless communications protocol, scan the one or more channels for a connection request from an external device. When a connection request is not received, return to the sleep state, without performing actions or tasks associated with the non-ASR instruction subset of the CPA instruction set.

The invention discloses an electrode track generation method and a related device. The electrode is implanted into a target part of a user; the electrode track generation method comprises the steps that an image file of a target part of a user is obtained, the image file comprises image data of different positions of the target part, electrode data of an electrode in each piece of image data is extracted, and the electrode data at least comprises electrode coordinates; performing fitting processing on the electrode data of the electrode to obtain an initial electrode track of the electrode; and according to the electrode configuration parameters of the electrode, performing fusion processing on the initial electrode trajectory to obtain a target electrode trajectory of the electrode. According to the method, the accuracy and applicability of the electrode track can be improved, and the layout and form of the electrode can be visually known.

Devices, systems, software, and methods are provided for treating bradykinesia with deep brain stimulation (DBS). In particular, DBS is performed with a neural recording device that records brain electrical signals from neural activity associated with intended movement of the subject and automatically adjusts deep brain stimulator settings and / or delivers electrical stimulation to the brain when pre-specified patterns of neural activity associated with the intended movement are detected. Machine learning computational models are used to detect and classify patterns of neural activity associated with intended movement. The neural signatures of "intended movement" are used to assist with DBS programming to determine therapeutic stimulation parameters that boost movement when a patient starts to prepare for movement and during movements but stop when the patient is resting.

Embodiments herein relate to a method for treating a cancerous tumor located within a subject. The method can include applying one or more electric fields at or near a site of the cancerous tumor, where the cancerous tumor can include a cancerous cell population. The one or more applied electric fields are effective to delay mitosis and cause mitotic synchronization within a proportion of the cancerous cell population. The method can include removing the one or more electric fields to allow mitosis to proceed within the cancerous cell population. The method can include administering a chemotherapeutic agent to the subject after the one or more electric fields have been removed. Other embodiments are also included herein.