Imagine a vitamin pill-sized camera that could travel through your body taking pictures, helping diagnose a problem which doctor previously would have found only through surgery.

1. bhadra
4th year CSE-C
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COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

2. contents
• Abstract
• Specifications & Features
• Procedure
• Inside Capsule Camera
• Working
• Uses
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• Future Scope
• Conclusion

3. ABSTRACT
Imagine a vitamin pill-sized camera that could
travel through your body taking pictures,
helping diagnose a problem which doctor
previously would have found only through
surgery.
Pill Camera was invented by Gavriel Iddan in the
year 2000 and it was approved by U.S.Food And
Drug Administration in 2001.

4. SPECIFICATION&FEATURES
• DIAMETER 10MM
• LENGTH 25MM
• 5,000 IMAGES ARE DURING AN 8 HOUR
EXAM.
• DISPOSABLE
• CHARGE 8-HOUR
Height-25mm
Width-10mm

5. Capsule is swallowed by the patient like
a conventional pill.
It takes images as it is propelled
forward by peristalsis.
A wireless recorder, worn on a belt,
receives the images transmitted by the
pill.
A computer workstation processes the
data and produces a short video clip or
still images.
PROCEDURE

6. Images
obtained by
capsule camera

7. OPTICAL DOME
LENS HOLDER
LENS ILLUMINATING LED’S CMOS IMAGE SENSOR BATTERY
ASIC
TRANSMITTER
ANTENNA
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Inside a Capsule Camera

8.  Pill camera is also called as Capsule
Endoscopy.
 The capsule contains a
camera, an LED light, a battery
and a built-in antenna.The
antenna transmits the images to
a
small recording unit that the
patient wears on their waist
during the study.

9.  Crohn's Disease.
 Malabsorption Disorders.
 Tumors of the small intestine & Vascular
Disorders.
Ulcerative Colitis
 Medication Related To Small Bowel Injury.
USES

10. Advantages
 Painless, no side affects or complications.
 Accurate and effective.
 Images taken are of very high quality.
 Made of bio-compatible material, doesn’t cause any
harm to the body.
small size.
Simple procedure.

11. DISADVANTAGES
.
Patients with narrowing are not good candidates for
this procedure due to the risk of obstruction.
Impossible to control Camera behavior.
 Very expensive.
 Not reusable

12. FUTURE SCOPE
Zooming and auto focus.
Reduction in size.
Cost effective
Longer battery life

13. Conclusion
Pill Camera has a Bright future which will help the
doctor to diagnose the stomach related diseases more
easily.
But some steps need to be taken to overcome the
drawbacks.

14. REFERENCES
[1] Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference, 2009. BioCAS 2009. IEEE.
[2] Medical Imaging, IEEE Transactions on Dec. 2008.
[3] Sidhu, Reena, etal. " Gastrointestinal capsule endoscopy: from tertiary
centers to primary care". BMJ, March 4 2006. 332:528-531.
doi:10.1136/bmj.332.7540.528.
[4] "Capsule Endoscopy in Gastroenterology". Mayo Clinic. Accessed October
5 2007