Innovations: "A candid camera for the gut"
Embargo date: 5:00 p.m EST, 26 June 2000
IEEE Spectrum Associate Editor Samuel K. Moore describes a newly developed microcamera that is swallowed as a pill, to provide wireless images of the inside of the intestine. A substitute for the endoscope, a flexible optical-fiber device that must be inserted through the mouth or anus, the pill-encapsulated camera was invented by an Israeli company, Given Imaging Ltd.
Contact: Samuel K. Moore, 212-419-7921, [email protected]
For faxed copies of the complete article or to arrange an interview, contact: Nancy T. Hantman, 212-419-7561, [email protected]
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