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A Controllable Camera Pill

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SANKT INGBERT, Germany, June 16, 2008 -- Pills containing tiny cameras pass through the esophagus in as little three seconds, not long enough to provide useful data. But now researchers have devised a camera pill that can be stopped and steered where desired. Camera pills swallowed by patients have been providing doctors with valuable images of the insides of intestines via an external receiver the patient wears on his or her belt. The device stores the data, later retrieved by physicians who analyze them for evidence of hemorrhages or cysts. Because the camera produces two to four images per second, and it takes three or...Read full article

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    Published: June 2008
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    An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
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