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GI Camera Pill with its Own Light Source

February 9, 2016 | | Posted in Newsletter

Fluorescent Video Pill
Camera pills have been around for a few years, but they require an external light source to produce [MORE]

Colon Capsule Endoscopy: Automated Image Scanning

July 30, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Polyp Detection
Colonoscopies with an endoscope certainly are invasive and expensive.  But camera pills offer an alternative which as least [MORE]

Pill Endoscopy

March 19, 2013 | | Posted in Newsletter

Acid reflux, particularly in men, erodes the esophagus, leading to precancerous Barrett’s esophagus, and, if unresolved, to malignancy. Endoscopy [MORE]

Steering Mechanism for Camera Pill

June 22, 2010 | | Posted in Newsletter

Siemens Healthcare and Olympus Medical Systems have developed a prototype for a capsule endoscope with magnetic guidance.  A patient [MORE]

Vector: Smart Capsule

March 31, 2009 | | Posted in Newsletter

Thomas Lango, an engineer with SINTEF-a large independent research organization in Norway-have been working with physicians to develop a “smart [MORE]