An implantable electrical stimulator for phrenic nerve stimulation
An implantable electrical stimulator for phrenic nerve stimulation作者机构:Islamic Azad University Qazvin Branch Qazvin Iran Shahed University Tehran Iran
出 版 物:《Journal of Biomedical Science and Engineering》 (生物医学工程(英文))
年 卷 期:2012年第5卷第3期
页 面:141-145页
学科分类:1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学]
主 题:Phrenic Nerve Pacing Current Generator Blocking Capacitor Output Stage
摘 要:Phrenic nerve stimulation is a technique whereby a nerve stimulator provides electrical stimulation of the phrenic nerve to cause diaphragmatic contraction in patients with respiratory failure due to cervical spinal cord injury. This paper presents an eigth-channel stimulator circuit with an output stage (electrode driving circuit) that doesn’t need off-chip blocking-capacitors and is used for phrenic nerve stimulation. This stimulator circuit utilizes only 1 output stage for 8 channels. The proposed current generator circuit in this stimulator reducing to a single step the translation of the digital input bits into the stimulus current, thus minimizing silicon area and power consumption. An 8 bit implementation is utilized for this current generator circuit. The average pulse width for this eight- channel stimulator with 1 mA current, 20 Hz frequency and 8 bits resolution, is 150 - 300 μs. The average power consumption for a single-channel stimulation is 38 mW from a 1.2 V power supply. This implantable stimulator system was simulated in HSPICE using 90 nm CMOS technology.