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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2005
Filed:
Jul. 12, 2002
Louis Michael Crowe, Galway, IE;
Conor Michael Minogue, Galway, IE;
Louis Michael Crowe, Galway, IE;
Conor Michael Minogue, Galway, IE;
BMR Research and Development Limited, Galway, IE;
Abstract
Pulsed electrical stimulation is applied to selected tissues via electrodes positioned on and/or in the body. Each electrode is connected to an output () of the apparatus. Each output () is connected between a high side switch () and a low side switch () of a switching array. Each stimulation pulse is subdivided into a number of time periods. By operation of the switches () each electrode can be selected to operate as an anode or a cathode or neither during any given time period. The spatial and/or time summation of the anode-cathode currents is controlled to selectively to stimulate selected regions and/or types of tissues, typically nerve tissues.