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Wireless capsule endoscopy
Abstract
Gastroscopy, small bowel endoscopy, and colonoscopy are uncomfortable because they require comparatively large diameter flexible cables to be pushed into the bowel, which carry light by fibreoptic bundles, power, and video signals. Small bowel endoscopy is currently especially limited by problems of discomfort and failure to advance enteroscopes far into the small bowel. There is a clinical need for better methods to examine the small bowel especially in patients with recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding from this site.
- wireless capsule endoscope
- gastrointestinal bleeding
- abdominal pain
- CMOS, complementary metal oxide silicon
- ASIC, application specific intergrated circuit
- LED, light emitting diode
- CCD, charge coupled device
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Conflicts of interest: the author is a consultant on the medical advisory body of Coran Imaging.