Electrode selection based on impedance for sensing or stimulation
AssigneeMedtronic, Inc.
InventorsDavid A. Dinsmoor, Juan G. Hincapie
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Abstract
An example medical device includes processing circuitry configured to determine an electrode impedance value for each of one or more electrodes of a lead coupled to the medical device, identify one or more of the electrodes having electrode impedance values that are greater than electrode impedance values of other electrodes of the lead, from the identified one or more electrodes, determine a recommendation of electrodes to use for sensing a signal, and output information indicative of the recommendation.
Claims21
A medical device comprising:
- processing circuitry configured to:
- determine an electrode impedance value for each of a plurality of electrodes of a lead coupled to the medical device;
- identify a subset of one or more electrodes from the plurality of electrodes, the subset of one or more electrodes of the lead having electrode impedance values that are greater than electrode impedance values of other electrodes of the lead that are not in the subset;
- determine a recommendation of one or more electrodes from the subset of one or more electrodes to use for sensing a signal subsequent to placement of the lead;
- and
- output information indicative of the recommendation.
A method comprising:
- determining an electrode impedance value for each of a plurality of electrodes of a lead coupled to a medical device;
- identifying a subset of one or more electrodes from the plurality of electrodes, the subset of one or more electrodes of the lead having electrode impedance values that are greater than electrode impedance values of other electrodes of the lead that are not in the subset;
- determining a recommendation of one or more electrodes from the subset of one or more electrodes to use for sensing a signal subsequent to placement of the lead;
- and
- outputting information indicative of the recommendation.
A method for selecting sensing electrodes, the method comprising:
- receiving information indicative of an electrode impedance value for a plurality of electrodes of a lead;
- identifying a subset of one or more electrodes from the plurality of electrodes for sensing a signal based on the electrode impedance value for the plurality of electrodes, wherein the identified subset of one or more electrodes include electrodes having electrode impedance values that are greater than electrode impedance values of other electrodes on the lead that are not in the subset;
- and
- selecting one or more electrodes from the subset of one or more electrodes to sense the signal subsequent to placement of the lead.
A computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon that when executed cause one or more processors to:
- determine an electrode impedance value for each of a plurality of electrodes of a lead coupled to a medical device;
- identify a subset of one or more electrodes from the plurality of electrodes, the subset of one or more electrodes of the lead having electrode impedance values that are greater than electrode impedance values of other electrodes of the lead that are not in the subset;
- determine a recommendation of one or more electrodes from the subset of one or more electrodes to use for sensing a signal subsequent to placement of the lead;
- and
- output information indicative of the recommendation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.