ONE-TRIAL CORRECT WIRE INSTALLATION FOR DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61N1/05 A61N1/36 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medical equipment, namely to devices for electrical stimulation of brains. A stimulation wire has a distal end for tissue stimulation in a target region and contains an array of one or more stimulating elements with one or more sensors each of which provides electric tissue stimulation in the target region and detection of electric signals. After the first wire installation along a path pre-set by non-surgical procedures, the array of the stimulating elements localises the target region and determines the essential stimulation parameters for each stimulating element. The stimulating elements are directly connected with the stimulating elements in accordance with the connection between positions of the sensors and the stimulating elements. The wire is integrated in a stimulation system also having a pulse generator. A method for therapeutic electric tissue stimulation in the target region involving the stages of non-surgical procedures to visualise an approximate target region for stimulation and a path for wire installation; wire installation along the path; detection of electric signals generated by nerve cerebral cells by one or more sensors; localisation of a three-dimensional space and borders of the target stimulation region and tissue stimulation with the use of the individual stimulation parameters.

EFFECT: use of the invention enables higher accuracy of positioning the stimulating electrodes.

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