OpenXstim

Title

Transcutaneous Electrical Stimulator for Spinal Cord Stimulation.

Leaders

Monzurul Alam

Collaborators

No response

Brainhack Global 2022 Event

Brainhack Australasia

Project Description

Transcutaneous electrical spinal cord stimulation, a non-invasive, reversible spinal cord neuromodulation method holds tremendous promise and hope for the people with paralysis resultant of spinal cord injury (SCI) and other neurological conditions. Yet, there are not many options of such stimulation device compared to other successful electrical stimulators such as neuromuscular electrical stimulator (NMES) and functional electrical stimulator (FES), especially for most people around the world.

The objective of this project is to design a simple, easy-to-build transcutaneous electrical stimulator (OpenXstim) to facilitate anyone with the modest technological knowledge to develop their own stimulator for the spinal cord stimulation treatment.

Link to project repository/sources

https://github.com/OpenXstim/OpenVstim

Goals for Brainhack Global

The goal is the collect different ideas and inputs during the Brainhack event to further furnish the design of OpenXstim

Good first issues

1. issue one: Designing an optimum constant current tropology for 10kHz biphasic stimulation.

2. issue two: Improving the safety features to avoid unsupervised stimulation.

Communication channels

https://join.slack.com/share/enQtNDI0MjIyNzc1Mzk3MC1mMGU1NGY0MzIyMDE1YTg2ZWU2MjkzN2I0N2RlNmY4M2JlNzgyNTFmZTRjMWVlZDA2OTkzOWVkODlmYzY2OTVi

Skills

• Power Electronics: Advanced
• Analogue and Digital Electronics: Advanced
• C/C++: Intermediate

Onboarding documentation

No response

What will participants learn?

• Electrophysiology (Neuromodulation)
• Rehabilitation Engineering
• Bioelectronic Medicine

Data to use

No response

Number of collaborators

1

Credit to collaborators

Acknowledgements to the published work.

Image

Type

method_development

Development status

2_releases_existing

Topic

physiology, systems_neuroscience, other

Tools

other

Programming language

C++

Modalities

other

Git skills

4_not_applicable

Anything else?

No response

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