TINY PILL CAMERA DEVELOPED BY AMERICAN RESEARCHERS

BY MONICA DOBIE RESEARCHERS from Seattle's University of Washington have developed a tiny camera small enough to fit in a pill that can be comfortably swallowed or inserted and capture high resolutions pictures of a patient's digestive tract and throat. This fibre endoscope device can, for instance, detect warning signs of oesophageal cancer, the fastest growing cancer in the United States. The camera's casing measures 6 by 18 millimetres and can record 15 colour images per second with a resolution of more than 500 lines per inch. It is tethered so the doctor ...


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