Matheus Nordi, T.; Augusto Ginja, G.; Gounella, R.; Talanoni Fonoff, E.; Colombari, E.; Moreira, M.M.A.; Afonso, J.A.; Monteiro, V.; Afonso, J.L.; Carmo, J.P. Wireless Device with Energy Management for Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation (CLDBS). Electronics2023, 12, 3082.
Matheus Nordi, T.; Augusto Ginja, G.; Gounella, R.; Talanoni Fonoff, E.; Colombari, E.; Moreira, M.M.A.; Afonso, J.A.; Monteiro, V.; Afonso, J.L.; Carmo, J.P. Wireless Device with Energy Management for Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation (CLDBS). Electronics 2023, 12, 3082.
Matheus Nordi, T.; Augusto Ginja, G.; Gounella, R.; Talanoni Fonoff, E.; Colombari, E.; Moreira, M.M.A.; Afonso, J.A.; Monteiro, V.; Afonso, J.L.; Carmo, J.P. Wireless Device with Energy Management for Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation (CLDBS). Electronics2023, 12, 3082.
Matheus Nordi, T.; Augusto Ginja, G.; Gounella, R.; Talanoni Fonoff, E.; Colombari, E.; Moreira, M.M.A.; Afonso, J.A.; Monteiro, V.; Afonso, J.L.; Carmo, J.P. Wireless Device with Energy Management for Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation (CLDBS). Electronics 2023, 12, 3082.
Abstract
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an effective and safe medical treatment that improves the lives of patients with a wide range of neurological and psychiatric diseases, and has been consolidated as a first-line tool in the last two decades. Closed loop deep brain stimulation (CLDBS) pushes this tool further by automatically adjusting the stimulation parameters to the brain response in real-time. This paper presents a CLDBS with 2 stimulation channels and 2 acquisition channels. Each channel has a low-noise amplifier (LNA) buffer in differential configuration to eliminate the DC signal component of the input. Energy management is efficiently done by the control and communication unit. The battery supports almost 9 hours with both the acquisition and stimulation circuits active. If only the stimulation circuit is used as an Open Loop DBS (OLDBS), the battery can hold sufficient voltage for 24 hours of operation. The whole system is low-cost and portable and therefore it could be used as a wearable.
Keywords
closed-loop deep brain stimulation (CLDBS); neurostimulatio; implantable devices; internet of things (IoT); energy management
Subject
Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
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