Electronic pills- collecting data inside the body.
Electronic pills are used to detect minor problems, which cant be detect by doctors in normal circumstance, electronic pills are swallowed by the patient which moves through gastro tract and measure the changes inside the body, elctronic pills are connected through computer by wireless technology, it is instantaneous and accurate, but due to its expensive costing it is not available in every country and due to its size its diffucult to swallow by small babies, hence still miniature size is necessary and made available in every country.
3. Introduction
• Electronic pills is a capsule shaped electronic device
that can be easily swallowed by any normal patient
• As our body is a sensitive system.
• Many times doctors can not easily find some minor
diseases inside the body.
• To overcome this problem Dr.Eric Johnessen and
Prof. Jon Cooper led to development of electronic
pills in 1972.
• It is developed on the basis of nanotachnology
4. Working
● It is medical monitering system.
● It works under Wideband technology.
● Electronic pills consist of 4 parts.
● The pills are swallowed and after
completion of mission if comes out
through bowel movement.
● Size:- 16mm*55mm
● Weight:- 5grams
● Records parameter like body
temperature, pH level,conductivity &
dissolved O2 in real time.
9. Advantages
• It is being beneficially used for disease detection &
abnormalities in human.
• Small size,so can move easily through digestive system.
• Accurate ,precise and effective.
• High sensitivity, Good reliability & Life times.
• Very long life of the cells(40 hours), Less Power, Current
& Voltage requirement(12.1 mW, 3.9 mA, 3.1 V)
• Made of bio-compatible material, doesn't cause any harm to
the body.
11. Limitation
● Cannot perform radiation treatment associated with cancer &
chronic inflammation.
● Micro electronic pills are expensive & are not available in
many countries.
● Still its size is not digestible to small babies.
● Cannot detect radiation abnormalities.
12. Conclusion
● Visually examine the digestive tract wirelessly
● Data rate capacity of 100 Mbps
● A high-capacity radio system is currently necessary
● Current designs show the technology is still in its infancy,
mainly due to the small size requirement.
● Recently, it is manufactures by BODYCAP company in France.
● And had a partnership with European countries.
13. Reference
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vol.2.no.2
R. S. Mackya, ''Radio telemetering from within the human body,''
science vol.134
G. Meron, ''the development of swallowable video capsule(M2A)
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