Steering Mechanism for Camera Pill
June 22, 2010 | Terry Sharrer
Siemens Healthcare and Olympus Medical Systems have developed a prototype for a capsule endoscope with magnetic guidance. A patient swallows the capsule (which has cameras on both ends) and a physician uses a joystick to maneuver the device by magnetic fields emitted from the examining bed. The capsule then transmits high resolution images to a receiver where the physician can see it. MORE