Patent Document ID: 9358390
Application ID: 13226956
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method of configuring electrical stimulation to treat a patient with a stimulation system, the stimulation system including an electrical stimulation generator, an implanted medical lead implanted in the patient and coupled to the electrical stimulation generator, and a programmer with a display screen, the method comprising: receiving a specification of personal anatomical information of the patient, the specification of personal anatomical information comprising at least one of: a height of the patient and a weight of the patient; generating an anatomically-correct image of a spinal column of the patient by scaling a standard image of the spinal column based on the received specification of the personal anatomical information of the patient; displaying the anatomically-correct image of the spinal column of the patient on the display screen of the programmer; determining a position of: the implanted medical lead with respect to the anatomically-correct image of the spinal column of the patient, an initial stimulation field, and an initial target stimulation area within the initial stimulation field; displaying the medical lead, the initial stimulation field, and the initial target stimulation area on the anatomically-correct image of the spinal column of the patient, wherein the initial stimulation field has an initial boundary depicted on the display screen and the initial target stimulation area has an initial target boundary depicted on the display screen, wherein the initial target boundary is within the initial boundary; receiving, by the programmer, graphical manipulations of the initial boundary and the initial target boundary, wherein the graphical manipulations comprises dragging the initial boundary and the initial target boundary independently on the display screen to define an altered stimulation field and an altered target stimulation area, wherein the initial target boundary remains within the initial boundary and wherein the initial target boundary represents a region of the spinal column of the patient to be stimulated; determining stimulation parameters to drive the implanted medical lead to generate the altered stimulation field and the altered target stimulation area; and driving, with the electrical stimulation generator, the implanted medical lead according to the determined stimulation parameters.