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

Claim 0:
1. A method for identifying clinical effects of electrical stimulation, the method comprising:
providing a leadwire implanted 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 of the at least one set are disposed at a same longitudinal level of the leadwire but at different circumferential positions;
for each of a plurality of different combinations of values of a) a particular stimulation parameter and b) a directionality of the electrical stimulation, stimulating the patient tissue using the values of the particular stimulation parameter and the directionality of the electrical stimulation and obtaining at least one clinical effect produced thereby; and
displaying 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 electrical stimulation associated with the data point.