Patent ID: 11938328
Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC NEUROMODULATION CORPORATION
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for selecting electrical stimulation parameters, the system comprising:
a leadwire configured for implantation in patient tissue and comprising a plurality of electrodes, wherein the plurality of electrodes comprises at least one set of two or more directional electrodes, wherein the directional electrodes of each set are disposed at a same longitudinal level of the leadwire but at different circumferential positions;
an implantable pulse generator coupled to the leadwire and configured to stimulate the patient tissue using the leadwire;
a screen;
a processor coupled to the screen and configured to:
for each of a plurality of different combinations of values a) a particular stimulation parameter and b) a directionality of stimulation, direct the implantable pulse generator to stimulate the patient tissue using the values of the particular stimulation parameter and the directionality of the stimulation and obtain at least one clinical effect produced thereby; and
display, on the screen, a graph plotting the obtained clinical effects as respective data points, wherein each of the data points is characterized by an angle of rotation and a radius from a center of the graph, wherein the radius corresponds to the value of the particular stimulation parameter associated with the data point and the angle of rotation corresponds to the value of the directionality of the stimulation associated with the data point.