Video capsule endoscopy: A voyage beyond the end of the scope.

Video capsule endoscopy is generally safe and well tolerated.

The capsule endoscopy can use bluetooth to transfer the captured images.

Video capsule endoscopy is a procedure that allows a doctor to examine your small intestine for sources of bleeding.

Capsule Endoscopy is able to visualise the whole small intestine and is occasionally useful.

Video capsule endoscopy is becoming popular because it has several advantages over traditional endoscopy:

Video capsule endoscopy.

Wireless capsule endoscopy has proven to be the endoscopic investigation of choice for visualization of the entire small bowel.

Gavriel Iddan is an Israeli electro-optical engineer and the inventor of wireless capsule endoscopy.

Another modality through which intestinal polyps can be assessed in FAP patients is capsule endoscopy.

Akyuz F, Mungan Z. Diagnostic capability of capsule endoscopy in small bowel diseases.

Double-balloon enteroscopy offers a number of advantages to other small bowel image techniques, including barium imaging, wireless capsule endoscopy and push enteroscopy:

He co-chairs the International Conference of Capsule Endoscopy and coordinated the Consensus Conference statements to guide capsule usage.

His current area of research is wireless access and localization for body area networks with focus on localization for wireless video capsule endoscopy inside the human gastrointestinal tract.

CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY (From SynMed)

Video capsule endoscopy (VCE), in which you swallow a tiny camera that records its trip through your digestive tract by sending images to a recording device that you wear on a belt.

Disease in the small bowel is particularly difficult to diagnose, as a traditional colonoscopy allows access to only the colon and lower portions of the small intestines; introduction of the capsule endoscopy aids in endoscopic diagnosis.

Postgate A, Hyer W, Phillips R, et al.: Feasibility of video capsule endoscopy in the management of children with Peutz-Jeghers syndrome: a blinded comparison with barium enterography for the detection of small bowel polyps.

American College of Gastroenterology: SMALL BOWEL BLEEDING AND CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY (An overview)

If the number of lesions seen on endoscopy is unexpectedly low, the remainder of the small intestine may be examined with capsule endoscopy, in which the patient swallows a capsule-shaped device containing a miniature camera which transmits images of the digestive tract to a portable digital recorder.

In July 2012, Given Imaging's capsule endoscopy featured in a live broadcast on the BBC, when the reporter Michael Mosley spent the day as an exhibit at the Science Museum in London, after swallowing a PillCam which transmitted live pictures to a public screen.

Despite initial skepticism by entrenched CCD manufacturers, the CMOS image sensor technology is now used in almost all cell-phone cameras, many medical applications such as capsule endoscopy and dental x-ray systems, scientific imaging, automotive safety systems, DSLR digital cameras and many other applications.