New pill camera developed by American scientists
July 1st, 2008
By Monica Dobie
Endoscopy the old fashioned way - often uncomfortable, expensive and time consuming - is still widely used in hospitals for oesophageal cancer scans. Now, however American university scientists have developed a pill-on-a-tether scanning devices enables physicians to control its movement, maybe helping the replacement of that camera-on-a-tube that makes patients gag.
Pill cameras swallowed by patients and snapping images as they drift through digestive tracts are available around the world, but they often shoot down the gullet too fast to take ...
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