What is camera pill?Camera pill is a minature capsule that is put into a human body in order to take records of images or videos of the internal body. The patient can swallow the camera pill that consists of light, transmitter, and batteries. In this way, the doctor and the patient can see inside the body at moment the camera pill is put inside the body. The camera will take approximately over 50,000 pictures throughout the body. The images will be transmitted to a recording device so that the doctors can analyze it. The patients virtually feel nothing and the camera pill is naturally disposed through the digestive system out of the waste.
The great advantage is that camera pills will enable to avoid painful and time consuming methods that were done. However, there are some economical concerns about the costs of this device.
Here is a video that introduces further in depth about this camera pill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlQN3c04mu0
IT system used
- Monitor
- Batteries
- Light
- Wireless: The image is sent through wireless network
- User friendly
http://www.medicinenet.com/capsule_endoscopy/page2.htm
This article above talks about the limitations of the camera pills. Although the improvement in technology has enabled us to use these convenient devices, the images are still unclear with low quality. There are some concerns that these images are so difficult to identify the patient's illness. Therefore, this limitation must be refined.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2319249.stm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsule_endoscopy
ITGS textbook pg. 35
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