Fully Closed Loop Test Environment for Adaptive Implantable Neural Stimulators Using Computational Models (original) (raw)

Journal of Medical Devices, 2022

Abstract

Implantable brain stimulation devices continue to be developed to treat and monitor brain conditions. As the complexity of these devices grows to include adaptive neuromodulation therapy, validating the operation and verifying the correctness of these systems becomes more complicated. The new complexities lie in the functioning of the device being dependent on the interaction with the patient and environmental factors such as noise and artifacts. Here, we present a hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) testing framework that employs computational models of pathological neural dynamics to test adaptive deep brain stimulation (DBS) devices prior to animal or human testing. A brain stimulation and recording electrode array is placed in the saline tank and connected to an adaptive neuromodulation system that measures and processes the synthetic signals and delivers stimulation back into the saline tank. A data acquisition system is used to detect the stimulation and provide feedback to the computa...

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