Journal of the Japan Society of Applied Electromagnetics and Mechanics
Online ISSN : 2187-9257
Print ISSN : 0919-4452
ISSN-L : 0919-4452
Special Issue on The 21th MAGDA Conference in SENDAI (MAGDA2012)
Examination of Locomotive System for Capsule Endoscope in Small Intestine
Koki UENOMasaya WATADAAkira MORI
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2013 Volume 21 Issue 2 Pages 320-325

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The cancer death toll of the digestive organs increases every year in japan. Now, the capsule endoscope is paid to attention as an image diagnosis device. However, the capsule endoscope is not equipped with locomotive system. So, research institutions develops locomotive system for the capsule endoscope. In this paper, the result of simulation that the power which is needed for this system is shown. And we described the result of animal experiment for checking the validity of this system.
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