Tethered capsule endomicroscopy enables less invasive imaging of gastrointestinal tract microstructure
Menée sur 13 participants (7 témoins sains, 6 patients atteints d'un endobrachyœsophage), cette étude évalue la faisabilité d'une technique d'endomicroscopie à l'aide d'une capsule télécommandée pour l'imagerie du tube digestif supérieur
Here we introduce tethered capsule endomicroscopy, which involves swallowing an optomechanically engineered pill that captures cross-sectional microscopic images of the gut wall at 30
μm (lateral)
× 7
μm (axial) resolution as it travels through the digestive tract. Results in human subjects show that this technique rapidly provides three-dimensional, microstructural images of the upper gastrointestinal tract in a simple and painless procedure, opening up new opportunities for screening for internal diseases.
Nature Medicine , résumé, 2012