Capsule endoscopy
Cápsula endoscópica
- Date
- 2000-2001 · confidence high
- Place
- Yokneam, Northern District, Israel
- Credited to
- Gavriel Iddan (Given Imaging), with Paul Swain
- People
- 👤 Gavriel Iddan👤 Paul Swain1951–
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A pill-sized capsule with a camera, light and transmitter that the patient swallows, which photographs the entire small intestine, inaccessible to conventional endoscopes. Approved by the FDA in 2001.
Iddan built on his work in missile guidance at Rafael; the first paper appeared in Nature in 2000.
What it led to
- diagnosis of occult intestinal bleeding
- capsules for the colon and oesophagus
- ingestible medicine