Ingestible capsule for impedance and pH monitoring in the esophagus

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2231-2236

  Gonzalez Guillaumin, Jose L ^a   Sadowski, Daniel C ^b   Kaler, Karan V I S ^a   Mintchev, Martin P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Esophageal sensor; Gastro esophageal reflux; Impedance sensors; pH sensor

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; FRICTION; MICROCONTROLLERS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

ESOPHAGEAL SENSOR; GASTRO-ESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; IMPEDANCE SENSORS; PH SENSOR;

PH;

NEODYMIUM;

AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRONICS; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS MOTILITY; FRICTION; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INGESTION; MECHANICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MICROCAPSULE; PACKAGING; PERFORMANCE; PERISTALSIS; PH MEASUREMENT; POWER SUPPLY; SENSOR; WIRELESS COMMUNICATION;

DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGUS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; ION-SELECTIVE ELECTRODES; MINIATURIZATION; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELEMETRY;

EID: 36348935715     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2007.908332     Document Type: Article

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