Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Nat Med. 2013 Feb;19(2):238-40. doi: 10.1038/nm.3052. Epub 2013 Jan 13.
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.
在这里,我们介绍一种 tethered 胶囊内窥技术,该技术涉及吞咽一个光机械工程设计的药丸,当它在消化道移动时,以 30μm(横向)×7μm(轴向)的分辨率捕获肠道壁的横截面微观图像。在人体受试者中的结果表明,该技术以简单无痛的程序快速提供上消化道的三维微观结构图像,为内部疾病的筛查开辟了新的机会。