Gerald E. Loeb

TL;DR: An implantable microstimulator is a structure which is manufactured to be substantially encapsulated within a hermetically-sealed housing inert to body fluids, and of a size and shape capable of implantation in a living body, by expulsion through a hypodermic needle as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Electrical activity can be recorded extracellularly from contracting heart cells in vitro with the electrodes of 30-element microelectrode arrays built into the culture chambers with techniques developed by the microelectronics industry.

TL;DR: In this paper, a programming system and method for use with an implantable tissue stimulator allows a clinician or patient to quickly determine a desired electrode stimulation pattern, including which electrodes of a multiplicity of electrodes in an electrode array should receive a stimulation current, including the amplitude, width and pulse repetition rate of such current.

TL;DR: In this paper, a method and system for treatment of incontinence, urgency, frequency, and/or pelvic pain includes implantation of electrodes on a lead or the discharge portion of a catheter adjacent the perineal nerve(s), or tissue(s) to be stimulated.

TL;DR: Improved implantable microstimulators covered with a biocompatible polymeric coating in order to provide increased strength to the capsule thereof and to capture fragments of the microstimulator should it become mechanically disrupted and to make the micro-stimulator safer and easier to handle are provided in this paper.