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US 2010/0161001 A1Published application
Optimizing the stimulus current in a surface based stimulation device
AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsAnthony DiUbaldi, Stephen Wahlgren
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AssigneeEthicon, Inc.
InventorsAnthony DiUbaldi, Stephen Wahlgren
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A method and associated stimulation device for ensuring firing of an action potential in an intended physiological target activated by a stimulus pulse generated by an electrode of a non-invasive surface based stimulation device irrespective of skin-to-electrode impedance by: (i) increasing internal impedance of the stimulation device so as to widen a Chronaxie time period thereby ensuring firing of the action potential of the intended physiological target irrespective of the skin-to-electrode impedance; and/or (ii) generating a stimulation waveform that optimizes a non-zero average current (e.g., non-zero slope of the envelope of the stimulation waveform) during preferably substantially the entire current decay of the stimulus pulse.
A method for ensuring firing of an action potential in an intended physiological target activated by a stimulus pulse generated by an electrode of a non-invasive surface based stimulation device irrespective of skin-to-electrode impedance, comprising the step of:
A non-invasive surface based stimulation device that ensures firing of an action potential in an intended physiological target irrespective of skin-to-electrode impedance, comprising:
A method for ensuring firing of an action potential in an intended physiological target activated by a stimulus pulse generated by an electrode of a non-invasive surface based stimulation device irrespective of skin-to-electrode impedance, comprising the steps of:
A non-invasive surface based stimulation device ensuring firing of an action potential in an intended physiological target activated by a stimulus pulse generated by an electrode irrespective of skin-to-electrode impedance, comprising:
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