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Camera Capsule Imagine a camera the size of a vitamin pill that could travel through your body and take pictures, which would help diagnose a problem that the doctor previously would have found only through surgery. The endoscopic capsule is a way to record images of the digestive tract for use in medicine. The capsule is the size and shape of a pill and contains a small chamber. After a patient swallows the capsule, it takes pictures of the inside of the gastrointestinal tract.
The endoscopic capsule is used to examine parts of the gastrointestinal tract that can not be seen with other types of endoscopy. Upper endoscopy, also called EGD, uses a camera attached to a long flexible tube to see the esophagus, stomach, and the beginning of the first part of the small intestine called the duodenum. A colonoscope, inserted through the rectum, can see the colon and the distal portion of the small intestine, the terminal ileum. These two types of endoscopy can not visualize most of the middle portion of the gastrointestinal tract, the small intestine. The endoscopic capsule is useful when small bowel disease is suspected, and can sometimes diagnose sources of hidden bleeding [blood visible only microscopically] or causes of abdominal pain such as Crohn's disease or peptic ulcers. The endoscopic capsule can be used to diagnose problems in the small intestine, but unlike EGD or colonoscopy, it can not treat pathology that can be discovered. The endoscopic capsule transfers the captured images wirelessly to an external receiver used by the patient using one of the appropriate frequency bands. The collected images are transferred to a computer for diagnosis, review and visualization. A transmitted radiofrequency signal can be used to accurately estimate the location of the capsule and trace it in real time into the body and gastrointestinal tract.