Patent Document ID: 20040158170
Application ID: 10771819
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of obtaining neural responses with a stimulation system having an array of electrodes, E1... EN, to generate growth curves, NR &num;1 to NR &num;Last, the method comprising: (a) delivering, without causing a predetermined level of NR attenuation, a stimulus train having X stimuli through one electrode of the array E1... EN and recording, X number of times, a first NR datapoint, which datapoint is part of growth curve NR &num;1; (b) repeating the above process of stimulating through each selected ones of electrodes of the array E1... EN and recording a datapoint corresponding to each selected electrode and each growth curve, NR &num;2 to NR &num;Last, wherein each datapoint is recorded at least once, without causing a predetermined level of NR attenuation; and (c) repeating the above steps (a) and (b) as many times as necessary to generate additional, different datapoints on each selected growth curve NR&num;1 to NR &num;Last; and wherein X is a variable, whole number 1 or greater, and X represents the number of stimuli in any stimulus train.