The capsule endoscopy’s travel in the body

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Do you want to know what a pill will experience after entering the human body？ Now you can watch the process through the video shot by a pioneering camera. The futuristic capsule endoscopy is a minature camera with LED flash. The purpose for researchers to develop it is to reveal the abnormal situation in the human body. The using method of this kind of capsule is simple， patients can swallow it as taking traditional pills. The capsule endoscopy will travel through the human body for a few hours， its travel route is the same as food in the human body. In addition， it will take 18 pictures per second as in the human body.

Although people can succeed in scanning body parts such as esophagus， stomach and large intestine with traditional medical equipments， other organs such as internal organs and small intestine cannot be observed by endoscope. Endoscope is a soft thin tube equipped with a camera at the end. In addition， the 2～8 metres long small intestine is located in the middle part of the digestive system endoscopy， so its hard for medical personnel to check. she research and development of capsule endoscopy means that doctors and nurses can see more of the internal organs， and find what cannot be found through vitro scanning.

Mr. Sarille. Singh， an English gastrointestinal physicians consultant shows that you can see only part of situations in the human body through conventional endoscopy， while the capsule endoscopy will help doctors to learn more， the capsule endoscopy is specially helpful for medical personnels to identify the celiac disease and crohns diseases oin the small intestine. At present， only a minority of British hospitals are equipped with this technology， such as the Royal Bolton hospital， the Manchester hospital and the Port Talbot hospital. It will cost ? 500 （RMB 5142） once using capsule endoscopy. The patient needs to take only a “capsule” every time， and then wears a belt to receive and store these photos， it will be ok to wait for a few hours.