Magnetically controllable gastrointestinal steering of video capsules

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 231-234

  Carpi, Federico ^a   Kastelein, Nathan ^b   Talcott, Michael ^c   Pappone, Carlo ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b Stereotaxis Inc   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MARIA CECILIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capsule; control; endoscopy; gastrointestinal (GI); in vivo; magnetic; motion; navigation; robotic; video; wireless

Indexed keywords

CAPSULE; GASTROINTESTINAL (GI); IN-VIVO; MAGNETIC; MOTION; VIDEO; WIRELESS;

ENDOSCOPY; MAGNETISM; NAVIGATION; NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VISUALIZATION;

ROBOTICS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; COLON; ESOPHAGUS; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; IN VIVO STUDY; MAGNET; NONHUMAN; ROBOTICS; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH; SWINE; VIDEORECORDING;

ANIMALS; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPES; CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; ROBOTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SWINE;

EID: 79551570334     PISSN: 00189294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2010.2087332     Document Type: Article

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