KMID : 0372919930140030243
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Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research 1993 Volume.14 No. 3 p.243 ~ p.250
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On the Development of a Video Endoscope Having a Swallowable Insertion Tube
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Kim WS
Lee WC/Min BG/Song IS
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An endoscope is a medical device which observes the inner surface of an organ inside a body. Recently, a new type of endoscope using a CCD image sensor has been developed and turned out to have many strong points over the conventional optical fiber endoscope system. A swallowable insertion tube is an insertion tube having so small a diameter that the head of the insertion tube can reach the end of stomach only by mechanical movement of the esphagus and stomach or the patient¡¯¡¯¡¯¡¯s external movement. This paper presents some of the results that the Institute of Biomedical Engineering at Seoul National University has obtained while developing an electronic endoscope having a swallowable insertion tube. After some of the features of the developed system are presented, some of the image processing techniaues are addressed.
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