Active Distributed Electrode Array Network for Electrical Stimulation Therapy

用于电刺激治疗的有源分布式电极阵列网络

• 批准号: 8326075
• 负责人: Eric C Hartman
• 金额: $ 46.96万
• 依托单位: CUSTOMKYNETICS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8326075
• 关键词: Address; Area; Characteristics; Clinic; Clinical; Clinical Research; Computer Architectures; Computer software; Data; Delaware; Development; Devices; Doctor of Philosophy; Electric Stimulation; Electrodes; Electromagnetics; Environment; Evaluation; Generic Drugs; Goals; Government; Human; Industry; Knowledge; Lead; Maintenance; Marketing; Muscle; Orthotic Devices; Performance; Phase; Physiologic pulse; Price; Progress Reports; Public Health; Regimen; Rehabilitation Research; Rehabilitation therapy; Research; Research Personnel; Risk Management; Small Business Innovation Research Grant; Spinal cord injury; System; Technology; Testing; Therapeutic Intervention; Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation; Universities; Work; clinical application; clinical efficacy; commercial application; commercialization; cost; design; empowered; experience; improved; interest; meetings; novel; programs; prototype; research and development; research study; technology/technique; tool

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Transcutaneous electrical stimulation applications involving high numbers of stimulated muscles have been an area of growing interest in recent years. customKYnetics has been approached by research groups and stimulation application developers requesting high channel count stimulation devices for use in their spinal cord injury rehabilitation research studies and products. Existing devices do not offer the features and/or number of stimulation channels required for these applications. Such high channel count devices are often cost prohibitive due to the size and complexity of the stimulator and the limited market for any particular configuration. Devices that are available lack the technological capability to coordinate the activity of the electrode pairs in an application-specific manner. Such applications have also lacked clinical acceptance because managing the large number of wires has been burdensome and impractical. We propose Active Distributed Electrode Array (ADEA) technology, which offers two novel features that address these problems: network architecture and end-user programmability. With these features, the ADEA system will be fully configurable (both in hardware and software) by the application developer (i.e., researcher, specialized clinician, or OEM company) to create application-specific stimulation/sensing networks and stimulation regimens. No end-user programming experience will be required. We successfully completed Phase I work, including feasibility demonstration of the node concept. The goals of this Phase II SBIR project will be to develop clinically viable stimulation and sensing nodes, an ADEA stimulator/controller module, and an end-user programming suite, and to demonstrate efficacy of the technology. The target markets for this device will be specialized clinics, research groups, and OEM companies. The target price for the system will be $3000 in volume for an 8-channel configuration (OEM market).

描述（由申请人提供）：涉及大量刺激肌肉的经皮电刺激应用一直是近年来人们越来越感兴趣的领域。研究小组已经接触了Customkynetics，并刺激应用程序开发人员要求高通道计数刺激设备用于其脊髓损伤康复研究和产品。现有设备不提供这些应用所需的功能和/或刺激渠道的功能和/或数量。由于刺激器的大小和复杂性以及任何特定配置的市场有限的市场，这种高通道计数设备通常会高昂。可用的设备缺乏以应用特定方式协调电极对活性的技术能力。此类应用也缺乏临床接受，因为管理大量电线一直是繁重且不切实际的。我们提出了主动分布式电极阵列（ADEA）技术，该技术提供了两个解决这些问题的新型功能：网络体系结构和最终用户可编程性。借助这些功能，ADEA系统将由应用程序开发人员（即研究人员，专业临床医生或OEM公司）完全配置（在硬件和软件中），以创建特定于应用程序的刺激/传感网络和刺激方案。不需要最终用户编程经验。我们成功完成了I阶段的工作，包括节点概念的可行性证明。该II阶段SBIR项目的目标将是开发临床上可行的刺激和传感节点，ADEA刺激器/控制器模块以及最终用户编程套件，并证明该技术的功效。该设备的目标市场将是专业诊所，研究小组和OEM公司。该系统的目标价格为8通道配置（OEM市场）的数量为3000美元。