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Department of ECE Pill camera
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Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The pill (developed at university of Washington) consists of 7optical fibers,one for
illumination and the rest six for collecting light. once swallowed, electric current flows
through the pill that causes the encased fibers to bounce back and forth such that its
electronic eye would be able to scan the GI tract. The tip will iluminate red, green and blue
laser light helping in visuality, all this processing together combined will give us two-
dimensional picture helping in diagnosis.The images can be retrieved from the recording
device worn around patient's waist as a belt.
All this is about the technical side, but how about the patient compliance??? at the end
of the day,'WE' are all here to make patient more comfortable..Yup, the patient is
comfortable and convenient to swallow this large vitamin sized pill that can be taken with a
mouthful of water.
"Its non-invasive diagnostic alternative that is relatively quick, easy, office based test
that will encourage people to see their doctors to get checked for diseases" said by Dr.
Michael Brown, the gastroenterologist.
The advancement of our technology today has lead to its effective use and Application
to the medical field. One effective and purposeful application of the Advancement of
technology is the process of endoscopy, which is used to diagnose and examine the
conditions of the gastrointestinal tract of the patents. It has been reported that this process is
done by inserting an 8mm tube through the mouth, with a camera at one end, and images
are shown on nearby monitor, allowing the medics to carefully guide it down to the gullet or
stomach
Fig 1.1 old method

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Chapter 2
History
2.1 History:
Endoscopy means looking inside and typically refers to looking inside the body for
the medical reasons using an endoscope Unlike most other medical imaging devices,
endoscopes are inserted directly into the organ. Endoscopy can also refer to using a
borescope An endoscope is a flexible camera that travels into the body's cavities to directly
investigate the digestive tract, colon or throat. These tools are long, flexible cords about 9
mm wide, about the width of a human fingernail. Because the cord is so wide patients must
be sedated during the scan. The tiny camera is like swallowing a pill attached to a string.
The camera's 1.4-mm-thick tether allows the doctor to move the camera around and pull it
back up once the five- or 10-minute test is finished An endoscope can consist of
A rigid or flexible tube. A lens system transmitting the image to the viewer from the
fiber scope an additional channel to allow entry of medical instruments or manipulators
Fig 2.1 pill camera

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Chapter 3
Architectural design
3.1 Architecture design
Measuring 11×26 mm, the capsule is constructed with an isoplast outer envelope that
is biocompatible and impervious to gastric fluids. Despite its diminutive profile, the
envelope contains LEDs, a lens, a colour camera chip, two silver- oxide batteries, a
transmitter, an antenna, and a magnetic switch. The camera chip is constructed
in complementary-metal–oxide-semiconductor technology to require significantly less
power than charge-coupleddevices.
Other construction benefits includes the unit’s dome shaped that cleans itself of body
fluids and moves along to ensure optimal imaging to its obtained. For this application, small
size and power efficiency are important. There are three vital technologies that made the
tiny imaging system possible: improvement of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in CMOS
detectors, development of white LEDs and development of application- specific integrated
circuits(ASI Cs).
The silver oxide batteries in the capsule power the CMOS detector, as well as the
LEDs and transmitter. The white- light LEDs are important because pathologists distinguish
diseased tissue by colour The developers provided a novel optical design that uses a wide-
angle over the imager ,and manages to integrate both the LEDs and imager under one dome
while hadliung stray light and reflections. Recent advances in ASIC design allowed the
integration of a video transmitter of sufficient power output ,efficiency, and band width of
very small size into the capsule. Synchronous switching of the LEDs, the CMOS sensor,
and ASI C transmitter minimizes the power consumptions. The system’s computer work
station is equipped with software for reviewing the camera data using a variety of diagnostic
tools. This allows physicians choice of viewing the information as either streaming or single
video images.

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Fig 3.1 architectural design
Fig 3.2 real view of pill camera

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Chapter 4
Internal view of capsule
4.1 Internal view of capsule
The figure shows the internal view of the pill camera. It has 8 parts:
1.Optical Dome.
2.Lens Holder.
3.Lens.
4.Illuminating LEDs.
5.CMOS Image Sensor.
6.Battery.
7.ASIC Transmitter.
8.Antenna.
Fig 4.1 Internal view of capsule

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4.1.1 OPTICAL DOME
It is the front part of the capsule and it is bullet shaped. Optical dome is the light
receiving window of the capsule and it is a non- conductor material. It prevent the filtration
of digestive fluids inside the capsule.
4.1.2 LENS HOLDER
This accommodates the lens. Lenses are tightly fixed in the capsule to avoid
dislocation of lens.
4.1.3 LENS
It is the integral component of pill camera. This lens is placed behind the Optical
Dome. The light through window falls on the lens.
4.1.4 ILLUMINATING LEDs
Illuminating LEDs illuminate an object. Non reflection coating id placed on the light
receiving window to pr event the reflection. Light irradiated from the LED s pass through
the light receiving window.
4.1.5 CMOS IMAGE SENSOR
It have 140 degree field of view and detect object as small as 0.1mm. Ithave high
precise.
4.1.6 BATTERY
Battery used in the pill camera is bullet shaped and two in number and silver oxide
primary batteries are used. It is disposable and harmless material.
4.1.7 ASIC TRANSMITTER
It is application specific integrated circuit and is placed behind the batteries. Two
transmitting electrodes are connected to this transmitter and these electrodes are electrically
isolated

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4.1.8 ANTENNA
Parylene coated on to polyethylene or polypropylene antennas are used. Antenna
received data from transmitter and then send to data recorder.
4.2 PILL CAMERA PLATFORM COMPONENTS:
In order for the images obtained and transmitted by the capsule endoscope to be
useful, they must be received and recorded for study. Patients undergoing capsule
endoscopy bear an antenna array consisting of leads that are connected by wires to the
recording unit, worn in standard locations over the abdomen, as dictated by a template for
lead placement.The antenna array is very similar in concept and practice to the multiple
leads that must be affixed to the chest of patients undergoing standard lead
electrocardiography. The antenna array and battery pack cam be worn under regular
clothing. The recording device to which the leads are attached is capable of recording the
thousands of images transmitted by the capsule and received by the antenna array.
Ambulary (non-vigorous) patient movement does not interfere with image acquisition and
recording. A typical capsule endoscopy examination takes approximately 7 hours.
Mainly there are 5 platform components:
1. Pill cam Capsule -SB or ESO.
2.Sensor Array Belt.
3.Data Recorder.
4.Real Time Viewer.
5.Work Station and Rapid Software.

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Fig 4.2 sensor array belt
Several wires are attached to the abdomen like ECG leads to obtain images by radio
frequency. These wires are connected to a light weight data recorder worn on a belt. Sensor
arrays are used to calculate and indicate the position of capsule in the body. A patient
receiver belt around his or her waist over clothing. A belt is applied around the waist and
holds a recording device and a batter y pack. Sensors are incorporated within the belt. Parts
of sensor array are sensor pads, data cable, battery charging, and receiver bag.
To remove the Sensor Array from your abdomen, do not pull the leads off the Sensor
Arr ay! Peel off each adhesive sleeve starting with the non adhesive tab without removing
the sensor from the adhesive sleeve. Place the Sensor Array with the rest of the equipment.

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Fig 4.3 platform components
4.3 DATA RECORDER:
Data recorder is a small portable recording device placed in the recorder pouch,
attached to the sensor belt. It has light weight (470 gm). Data recorder receives and records
signals transmitted by the camera to an array of sensors placed on the patients body. It is of
the size of walkman and it receives and stores 5000 to 6000 JPEG images on a 9 GB hard
drive. Images takes several hours to download through several connection.
The Date Recorder stores the images of your examination. Handle the Date Recorder,
Recorder Belt, Sensor Array and Battery Pack carefully. Do not expose them to shock,
vibration or direct sunlight, which may result in loss of infor mation. Return all of the
equipment as soon as possible.

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Fig 4.4 belt
4.3.1 REAL TIME VIEWER
It is a handheld device and it enables real-time viewing. It contains rapid reader
software and colour LCD monitor. It test the proper functioning before procedures and
confirms location of capsule.
Fig 4.5 real time viewer
4.4 WORKSTATION AND RAPID SOFTWARE
Rapid workstation per forms the function of reporting and processing of images and
data. I mage data from the data recorder is downloaded to a computer equipped with

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software called rapid application software. I t helps to convert images in to a movie and
allows the doctor to view the colour 3D images.
Once the patient has completed the endoscopy examination, the antenna array and
image recording device are returned to the health care provider. The recording device is
then attached to a specially modified computer wor kstation, and the entire examination is
downloaded in to the computer, where it becomes available to the physician as a digital
video. The workstation software allows the viewer to watch the video at varying rates of
speed, to view it in both forward and rever se directions, and to capture and label individual
frames as well as br ief video clips. I mages showing normal anatomy of pathologic findings
can be closely examined in full colour.
A recent addition to the software package is a feature that allows some degree of
localisation of the capsule within the abdomen and correlation to the video images. Another
new addition to the software package automatically highlights capsule images that
correlates with the existence of suspected blood or red areas.
Fig 5.6 output of pill camera

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Chapter 5
THE CAPSULE ENDOSCOPY PROCEDURES
5.1 The capsule endoscopy procedures:
A typical capsule endoscopic procedures begins with the patient fasting after midnight
on the day before the examination. No formal bowel preparation is required; however,
surfactant (eg: simethicone) may be administered prior to the examination to enhance
viewing.
After a careful medical examination the patient is fitted with the antenna array and
image recorder. The recording device and its battery pack ar e worn on a special belt that
allows the patient to move freely. A fully charged capsule is removed from its holder; once
the indicator lights on the capsule and recorder show that data is being transmitted and
received, the capsule is swallowed with a small amount of water. At this point, the patient is
free to move about. Patients should avoid ingesting anything other than clear liquids for
approximately two hours after capsule ingestion( although medications can be taken with
water).
Patients can eat food approximately 4 hours after they swallow the capsule without
inter fering with the examination. Seven to 8 hours after ingestion. The examination can be
considered complete, and the patient can return the antenna array and recording device to
the physician. It should be noted that gastrointestinal motility is variable among individuals,
and hyper and hypo motility states affect the free-floating capsule’s transit rate through the
gut. Download of the data in the recording device to the workstation takes approximately
2.5 to 3 hours. Interpretation of the study takes approximately 1 hour. Invidual frames and
video clips of normal or pathologic findings can be saved and exported as electronic files
for incorporation into procedure reports or patient records.

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Chapter 6
Researches
6.1 Researches:
One research suggests that , with the use of capsule endoscopy, certain
gastrointestinal diseases were diagnosed from a number of patients in a hospital, such as
obscure gastrointestinal bleeding(OGB) and Crone’s disease, and is believed useful in
investigating and guiding further management of patients suspected with the identified
diseases. Another research by supports this claim, and reported that capsule endoscopy is
useful for evaluation of suspected Crohn’s disease, r elated enteropathy and celiac disease,
and is helpful in assessment of small bowel disease of children. The third study also
evaluates the potential of capsule endoscopy, and conducts a research to evaluate its safety
in patients with implanted cardiac devices, who were being assessed for obscure
gastrointestinal bleeding, and determine whether implanted cardiac devices had any effect
on the image capture by capsule endoscopy.
Thus, study concludes that capsule endoscopy was not associated with any adverse
cardiac events, and implanted cardiac devices do not appear to interfere with video capsule
imaging. To put it simply, the three researches conducted, emphasize that the use of capsule
endoscopy is safe, has no side effects, effective, and is efficient in the careful diagnosis and
treatment of the patients.
All of the three research studies were able to effectively convey their message and
aim, and give importance to the value and efficiency of using the capsule endoscope as a
way of evaluating the existing gastrointestinal diseases of patients. The researches were
done by letting the participants swallow the
capsule endoscope for the physicians to examine and assess the conditions of their
gastrointestinal tract by the image captured by the capsule endoscope. This process does not
only help to detect the severity of the existing gastrointestinal disease but also determine its
effective to the presence of implanted cardiac devices.
The researches also emphasized that the use of the capsule endoscope is better than
using the traditional endoscope, for the use of the traditional endoscope does not only
damage the gastrointestinal tract of the patients but affects also the patients and the hospital
staffs because of the pain stacking process.

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Chapter 7
Advantages
7.1. ADVANTAGES:
 Painless, no side effects.
 Miniature size.
 Accurate, precise (view of 150 degree) .
 High quality images.
 Harmless material
.
 Simple procedure.
 High sensitivity and specificity
.
 Avoids risk in sedation
.
 Efficient than X-ray CT-scan, normal endoscopy.

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Chapter 8
Disadvantages
8..1 .DISADVANTAGES:
 Gastrointestinal obstructions prevent the free flow of capsule.
 Patients with pacemakers, pregnant women face difficulties.
 It is very expensive and not reusable.
 Capsule endoscopy does not replace standard diagnostic endoscopy.
 It is not a replacement for any existing GI imaging technique, generally performed
after a standard endoscopy and colocoscopy.
 It cannot be controlled once it has been ingested, cannot be stopped or steered to
collect close-up details.
 It cannot be used to take biopsies, apply therapy or mark abnormalities for surgery
Fig 8.1 disadvantage causes operation

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Chapter 9
Applications and future scope
9.1 Applications
 It is used to detect ulcers
 Biggest impact in the medical industry.
 Nano robots perform delicate surgeries.
 Pill cam ESO can detect esophageal diseases, gastrointestinal reflex diseases,
barreff’s esophagus.
 It is used to diagnose Malabsorption
 Pill cam SB can detect Crohn’s disease, small bowel tumours, small bowel injury,
celiac disease, ulcerative colitis etc.
9.2.Future scope:
It seems likely that capsule endoscopy will become increasingly effective in
diagnostic gastrointestinal endoscopy. This will be attractive to patients especially for
cancer or varices detection because capsule endoscopy is painless and is likely to have a
higher take up rate compared to conventional colonoscopy and gastroscopy. Double imager
capsules with increased frame rates have been used to image the esophagus for Barrett’s and
esophageal varices. The image quality is not bad but needs to be improved if it is to become
a realistic substitute for flexible upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy. An increase in
the framerate, angle of view, depth of field, image numbers, duration of the procedure and
improvements in illumination seem likely.
Colonic, esophageal and gastric capsules will improve in quality, eroding the
supremacy of flexible endoscopy, and become embedded into screening programs.
Therapeutic capsules will emerge with brushing, cytology, fluid aspiration, biopsy and drug
deliver y capabilities.
Electrocautery may also become possible. Diagnostic capsules will integrate
physiological measurements with imaging and optical biopsy, and immunologic cancer
recognition. Remote control movement will improve with the use of magnets and/or electro
stimulation and perhaps electromechanical methods. External wireless commands will

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influence capsule diagnosis and therapy and will increasingly entail the use of real-
time imaging. However, it should be noted that speculations about the future of technology
in any detail are almost always wrong.
The development of the capsule endoscopy was made possible by miniaturization of
digital chip camera technology, especially CMOS chip technology. The continued reduction
in size, increases in pixel numbers and improvements in imaging with the two
rival technologies-CCD and CMOS is likely to change the nature of endoscopy. The current
differences ar e becoming blurred and hybrids are emerging.The main pr essure is to reduce
the component size, which will release space that could be used for other capsule functions
such as biopsy, coagulation or therapy. New engineering methods for constructing tiny
moving parts, miniature actuators and even motors into capsule endoscopes are being
developed.
Although semiconductor lasers that are small enough to swallow are available, the
nature of lasers which have typical inefficiencies of 100-1000 per cent makes the idea of a
remote laser in a capsule capable of stopping bleeding or cutting out a tumour seems to be
something of a pipe dream at present, because of power requirements
The construction of an electrosurgical generator small enough to swallow and
powered by small batteries is conceivable but currently difficult because of the limitations
imposed by the internal resistance of the batteries. It may be possible to store power in
small capacitors for endosurgical use, and the size to capacity ratio of some capacitor s has
recently been reduced by the use of tantalum. Small motors are currently available to move
components such as biopsy devices but need radio- controlled activators.
One limitation to therapeutic capsule endoscopy is the low mass of the capsule
endoscope (3.7 g). A force exerted on tissue for example by biopsy forceps may push the
capsule away from the tissue. Opening small biopsy forceps to grasp tissue and pull it free
will require different solutions to those used at flexible endoscopy-the push force exerted
during conventional biopsy is typically about 100 g and the force to pull tissue free is about
400 g.
Future diagnostic developments are likely to include capsule gastroscopy, attachment
to the gut wall, ultrasound imaging, biopsy and cytology, propulsion methods and therapy
including tissue coagulation. Narrow band imaging and immunologically or chemically
targeted optical recognition of malignancy are currently being explored by two different

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groups supported by the European Union as FP6 projects: -the VECTOR and NEMO
projects. These acronyms stand for: VECTOR = Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for
gastrointestinal Tumour Recognition and therapy and NEMO = Nano-based capsule-
Endoscopy with Molecular Imaging and Optical biopsy.
The reason because of doctors rely more on camera pill than other types of endoscope
is because the former has the ability of taking pictures of small intestine which is not
possible from the other types of tests
Fig future pill camera

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Chapter 10
Conclusion
10.1 Conclusions:
Wireless capsule endoscopy represents a significant technical breakthrough for the
investigation of the small bowel, especially in light of the shortcomings of other available
techniques to image this region. Capsule endoscopy has the potential for use in a wide range
of patients with a variety of illnesses. At present, capsule endoscopy seems best suited to
patients with gastrointestinal bleeding of unclear etiology who have had non-
diagnostic traditional testing and whom the distal small bowel(beyond reach of a push
enetroscope) needs to be visualised.
The ability of the capsule to detect small lesions that could cause recurrent
bleeding(eg. tumours, ulcers) seems ideally suited for this particular role. Although a wide
variety of indications for capsule endoscopy are being investigated, other uses for the device
should be considered experimental at this time and should be performed in the context of
clinical trials.
Care must be taken in patient selection, and the images obtained must be interpreted
approximately and not over read that is, not all abnormal findings encountered are the
source of patient’s problem. Still, in the proper context, capsule endoscopy can provide
valuable information and assist in the management of patients with difficult –to- diagnose
small bowel disease.
In this study capsule endoscopy was superior to push enteroscopy in the diagnosis of
recurrent bleeding in patients who had a negative gastroscopy and colonoscopy. It was safe
and well tolerated
Wireless capsule endoscopy represents a significant technical breakthrough for the
investigation of the small bowel, especially in light of the shortcomings of other
available techniques to image this region.
The capsule endoscopy seems best suited to patients with gastrointestinal bleeding of
unclear
etiology who have had nondiagnostic traditional testing and in whom the distal small
bowel(beyond reach of a push enteroscope) needs to be visualized

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Chapter 11
Reference
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