Method for planning stimulation of hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas
First Claim
Patent Images
1. A method for planning stimulation of hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas, the method comprising:
- simulating a field distribution for a stimulator relative to a position of the stimulator;
determining a stimulation area for the stimulator relative to a position of the stimulator;
determining functional anatomical patient data;
determining structural anatomical patient data;
navigationally registering the functional anatomical data with the structural anatomical data such that the functional anatomical data are available for navigation;
based on the functional anatomical data, detecting positions of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas in a patient'"'"'s anatomy;
determining a position of a stimulator;
navigationally registering the stimulation area of the stimulator;
at least one of (i) registering or (ii) referencing the position of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas with respect to the position of the stimulator;
determining an optimal positioning for the stimulator on the basis of relative positional information of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas and the stimulation area of the stimulator; and
displaying the optimal positioning for the stimulator.
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method for planning the stimulation of hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas includes determining anatomical patient data using an imaging method and detecting positions of (i) the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas in a patient'"'"'s anatomy and (ii) a position of a stimulator. The positions of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas are registered and/or referenced with respect to the position of the stimulation means. An optimal positioning for the stimulator is determined on the basis of the relative positional information.
-
Citations
11 Claims
-
1. A method for planning stimulation of hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas, the method comprising:
-
simulating a field distribution for a stimulator relative to a position of the stimulator; determining a stimulation area for the stimulator relative to a position of the stimulator; determining functional anatomical patient data; determining structural anatomical patient data; navigationally registering the functional anatomical data with the structural anatomical data such that the functional anatomical data are available for navigation; based on the functional anatomical data, detecting positions of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas in a patient'"'"'s anatomy; determining a position of a stimulator; navigationally registering the stimulation area of the stimulator; at least one of (i) registering or (ii) referencing the position of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas with respect to the position of the stimulator; determining an optimal positioning for the stimulator on the basis of relative positional information of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas and the stimulation area of the stimulator; and displaying the optimal positioning for the stimulator. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
-
-
11. A method of stimulating hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas of a patient, the method comprising:
-
simulating a field distribution for a stimulation coil relative to a position of the stimulation coil; determining a stimulation area for the stimulation coil relative to a position of the coil; determining functional anatomical patient data; determining structural anatomical patient data; navigationally registering the functional anatomical data with the structural anatomical data such that the functional anatomical data are available for navigation; based on the functional anatomical data, detecting positions of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas in a patient'"'"'s anatomy; detecting the position of the stimulation coil; navigationally registering the stimulation area of the stimulation coil; registering the position of the functional anatomical data with respect to the position of the stimulation coil; positioning the stimulation coil on the basis of the relative positional information of the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas and the stimulation area of the stimulation coil; and
;stimulating the hyper/hypometabolic cortical areas of the patient.
-
Specification