4. INTRODUCTION:
Edible Means- Implantable and Ingestible.
Edible electronic devices that stay inside our body
pose is unique engineering challenges.
These should not only use the best processor but
also be minimal in size, biocompatible, safe and
extremely reliable.
Reliability is all the more important as it often
turns out to be a case of life or death.
6. HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT:
Despite so many risks and challenges, it is
awesome to see how implants have developed
since the days of the first pacemaker in 1958.
8. Technical Overview:
Edible Electronics make possible many medical applications that are
only dreamed of today by the wildest minds.
In The future, many surgical procedures may be eliminated in favor of
edible solutions, and the possibilities will grow as time and technology
advances.
Proteus Digital Health was one of the pioneers in ingestible tech. Their
solutions comprises a pill, a patch that is attached outside to the
stomach and a mobile app.
9. Current Products in this area are summarized in table below with their
descriptions in terms of functionality and its origin.
10. Introduction to Capsule Camera
Imagine a vitamin pill-sized camera that could travel
through our body taking pictures, helping diagnose a
problem which doctor previously would have found
only through surgery.
11. Conventional Method:
The conventional method that Doctors would have preferred earlier
was Endoscopy Procedure-
14. How It Works
Pop this pill, and eight hours later, doctors can examine a high-resolution video
of your intestines for tumours and other problems.
15. How the Pill Films Your Innards Down the Hatch
The patient gulps down the capsule, and the digestive process begins.
Over the next eight hours, the pill travels passively down the esophagus
and through roughly 20 to 25 feet of intestines, where it will capture up
to 870,000 images.
The patient feels nothing
Power Up:
The Sayaka doesn't need a motor to move through your gut, but it does
require 50 milliwatts to run its camera, lights and computer.
Batteries would be too bulky, so the cam draws its power through
induction charging.
A vest worn by the patient contains a coil that continuously transmits
power.
16. How It Work
Start Snapping :
When it reaches the intestines, the Sayaka cam begins capturing 32
megapixel images per second (twice the resolution of other pill cams).
Fluorescent and white LEDs in the pill illuminate the tissue walls.
Spin For Close-Ups :
Previous pill cameras place the camera at one end, facing forward, so
the tissue walls are visible only in the periphery of their photos.
Sayaka is the first that gets a clearer picture by mounting the camera
facing the side and spinning 360 degrees so that it shoots directly at the
tissue walls.
As the outer capsule travels through the gut, an electromagnet inside
the pill reverses its polarity. This causes a permanent magnet to turn
the inner capsule and the image sensor 60 degrees every two seconds.
It completes a full swing every 12 seconds—plenty of time for repeated
close-ups, since the capsule takes about two minutes to travel one inch.
17. How It Work:
Offload Data:
Instead of storing each two-megapixel image internally, Sayaka continually
transmits shots wirelessly to an antenna in the vest, where they are saved to
a standard SD memory card.
Deliver Video :
Doctors pop the SD card into a PC, and software compiles thousands of
overlapping images into a flat map of the intestines that can be as large as
1,175 megapixels.
Doctors can replay the ride as video and magnify a problem area up to 75-
fold to study details.
Leave the Body:
At around Rs500, the cam is disposable, so patients can simply flush it
away.
18. APPLICATIONS
For cancer diagnosis.
Mal-absorption Disorders.
Tumors of the small intestine.
Vascular Disorders(Intestinal ischemia).
Ulcerative Colitis
Medication Related To Small Bowel Injury.
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19. ADVANTAGES:
Painless, no side affects or complications.
Small size, so can move easily through digestive
system.
Accurate, precise and effective.
Images taken are of very high quality which are
sent almost instantaneously to the data recorder
for storage.
Made of bio-compatible material, doesn’t cause
any harm to the body.
Compared to x-ray,ct scan and normal endoscopy
it is more efficient.
20. Drawbacks & Overcomes…
Patients with gastrointestinal structures or
narrowing are not good candidates for this
procedure due to the risk of obstruction.
The Pill will get stucked if there is a partial
obstruction in the small intestine.
Impossible to control Camera behaviour.
The first drawback is overcome using another
product manufactured with the help of
nanotechnology which is the rice- grain sized
motor.
Other two drawbacks can be overcome using a bi-
directional telemetry Camera..
21. CHALLENGES:
Challenges Solutions
Miniaturization It is overcome by advancement in IC
technology.
Thermal Management While designing an implantable
device, engineers have to consider
thermal properties of biomaterials.
Biocompatible Currently we have biocompatible
polymers for use in drug delivery,
semiconductor materials for
biosensors, implantable
microelectrodes and ceramics for
bone replacement.
Environmental Impact of
Cuttlefish Demand
22. FUTURE SCOPE
Many surgical procedure may remove
in future.
We can eat our robot for drug delivery,
diagnosis or to remove some particles.