A special-purpose embedded controller for an implantable spinal cord stimulation system

Author

Nikbakht, Hajar ; Sodagar, Amir M. ; Seifouri, Mahmood ; Barati, Saeid

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training Univ., Tehran, Iran

fYear

2011

fDate

14-16 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

309

Lastpage

312

Abstract

This paper reports on a special-purpose controller dedicated to an implantable spinal cord electrical stimulation (SCS) microsystem. The controller supports parallel biphasic stimulation pulses on 16 channels concurrently, and recording neural response on any one of the sites with 8 bits of resolution. Anodic and cathodic pulse amplitudes are programmable with 8 bits of resolution, while the timing of the pulses is controllable in the real time through the data packets receiving serially via a wireless link.

Keywords

biomedical communication; medical control systems; neuromuscular stimulation; prosthetics; wireless channels; SCS microsystem; data packets; implantable spinal cord electrical stimulation microsystem; parallel biphasic stimulation pulses; programmable anodic pulse amplitude; programmable cathodic pulse amplitude; special purpose embedded controller; wireless link; Educational institutions; Electrical stimulation; Pain; Spinal cord; Synchronization; Wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering (ICBME), 2011 18th Iranian Conference of

Conference_Location

Tehran

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1004-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBME.2011.6168579

Filename

6168579