Adapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicine
The Finetech-Brindley Sacral Anterior Root Stimulator (SARS) is a low cost and reliable system. The architecture has been used for various bioelectric treatments, including several thousand implanted systems for restoring bladder function following spinal cord injury (SCI). Extending the operational...
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| author | Peterken, F Benjaber, M Doherty, S Perkins, T Creasey, G Donaldson, N Andrews, B Denison, T |
| author_facet | Peterken, F Benjaber, M Doherty, S Perkins, T Creasey, G Donaldson, N Andrews, B Denison, T |
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| description | The Finetech-Brindley Sacral Anterior Root Stimulator (SARS) is a low cost and reliable system. The architecture has been used for various bioelectric treatments, including several thousand implanted systems for restoring bladder function following spinal cord injury (SCI). Extending the operational frequency range would expand the capability of the system; enabling, for example, the exploration of eliminating the rhizotomy through an electrical nerve block. The distributed architecture of the SARS system enables stimulation parameters to be adjusted without modifying the implant design or manufacturing. To explore the design degrees-of-freedom, a circuit simulation was created and validated using a modified SARS system that supported stimulation frequencies up to 600 Hz. The simulation was also used to explore high frequency (up to 30kHz) behaviour, and to determine the constraints on charge delivered at the higher rates. A key constraint found was the DC blocking capacitors, designed originally for low frequency operation, not fully discharging within a shortened stimulation period. Within these current implant constraints, we demonstrate the potential capability for higher frequency operation that is consistent with presynaptic stimulation block, and also define targeted circuit improvements for future extension of stimulation capability. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5bf09955-eac7-4994-b1ca-33f8fa0b77722023-05-17T10:48:37ZAdapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicineConference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:5bf09955-eac7-4994-b1ca-33f8fa0b7772EnglishSymplectic ElementsIEEE2021Peterken, FBenjaber, MDoherty, SPerkins, TCreasey, GDonaldson, NAndrews, BDenison, TThe Finetech-Brindley Sacral Anterior Root Stimulator (SARS) is a low cost and reliable system. The architecture has been used for various bioelectric treatments, including several thousand implanted systems for restoring bladder function following spinal cord injury (SCI). Extending the operational frequency range would expand the capability of the system; enabling, for example, the exploration of eliminating the rhizotomy through an electrical nerve block. The distributed architecture of the SARS system enables stimulation parameters to be adjusted without modifying the implant design or manufacturing. To explore the design degrees-of-freedom, a circuit simulation was created and validated using a modified SARS system that supported stimulation frequencies up to 600 Hz. The simulation was also used to explore high frequency (up to 30kHz) behaviour, and to determine the constraints on charge delivered at the higher rates. A key constraint found was the DC blocking capacitors, designed originally for low frequency operation, not fully discharging within a shortened stimulation period. Within these current implant constraints, we demonstrate the potential capability for higher frequency operation that is consistent with presynaptic stimulation block, and also define targeted circuit improvements for future extension of stimulation capability. |
| spellingShingle | Peterken, F Benjaber, M Doherty, S Perkins, T Creasey, G Donaldson, N Andrews, B Denison, T Adapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicine |
| title | Adapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicine |
| title_full | Adapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicine |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Adapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicine |
| title_short | Adapting the Finetech-Brindley sacral anterior root stimulator for bioelectronic medicine |
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