Gastrocamera
Gastrocámara
- Date
- 1950 · confidence high
- Place
- Olympus and University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Credited to
- Uji Tatsuo (University of Tokyo) and Sugiura Mutsuo (Olympus)
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
A flexible probe with a tiny camera and a lamp at the tip that photographed the inside of the stomach. It made early diagnosis of gastric cancer possible in Japan.
What it led to
- gastric cancer screening
- video endoscopy (Olympus, 1980s)