CLINICIAN PROGRAMMER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CALCULATING VOLUMES OF ACTIVATION

• US 20120265267A1
• Filed: 06/27/2012
• Published: 10/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation Corporation (Boston Scientific Corporation)
• Inventors: BLUM, David Arthur, CARLTON, Keith, GRESZLER, Alan, KOKONES, Scott, SPARKS, Troy
• Application Number:
  US13/534,650
• Publication Number:
  US 20120265267A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 607/45
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Abstract

A system and method for providing a volume of activation (VOA) of a stimulation electrode leadwire may include a processor that calculates a VOA for each of a plurality of sets of parameter settings of the leadwire, stores in a database each of the calculated VOAs in association with the respective set of parameter settings for which it was calculated, obtains a set of parameter settings of the leadwire for a stimulation, and determines a VOA for the obtained set of parameter settings based on the stored VOAs.

Claims

1-12. -12. (canceled)

13. A method of a volume of activation (VOA) providing machine to provide a VOA of a stimulation electrode leadwire, comprising:

receiving, by a processor of the machine, user selection of a plurality of points within one of a displayed two-dimensional plane and a displayed three-dimensional volume, the plurality of points defining a target activation region, wherein the user selection of at least one or more of the plurality of points is by clicking and dragging of a point of a previously displayed target activation region;

responsive to the receipt of the plurality of points, determining, by the processor, an estimated VOA for the target activation region and leadwire parameter settings corresponding to the estimated VOA; and

at least one of (a) displaying the estimated VOA, (b) programming the leadwire with the parameter settings, and (c) outputting the parameter settings.

14-20. -20. (canceled)