A Review and Adaptation of Methods of Object Tracking to Telemetry Capsules

Abstract This review considers techniques employing radio frequency (RF) as well as ultrasound signals for tracking. Medical capsules have been employed since the SOs to measure various physiological parameters in the human body. Examples are temperature, pH, or pressure inside the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. The development and subsequent incorporation of new technology into reasonably priced, commercially available devices have made ultrasound and RF devices readily accessible for medical diagnosis. Some applications for telemetry capsules are drug delivery, and collection of tissue/fluid samples. Samples are taken from the GI to understand or treat diseases where diagnosis can only be made by taking a biopsy from the intestinal walls. Such biopsies have traditionally been performed using customized endoscopes. In order for a telemetry capsule to be effective in the above named tasks, accurate knowledge of the location of the capsule within the body during tests is necessary. As such, methods for calcu...

[1]  Frederick W. Kremkau,et al.  Diagnostic Ultrasound: Principles and Instruments , 1989 .

[2]  Y. Akazawa,et al.  Jitter analysis of high speed sampling systems , 1989, Symposium 1989 on VLSI Circuits.

[3]  Joseph J. Carr,et al.  Practical Antenna Handbook , 1990 .

[4]  Y. Akazawa,et al.  Jitter analysis of high-speed sampling systems , 1990 .

[5]  Provision of facilities for manometry and pH monitoring in the investigation of patients with oesophageal disease. , 1991, Gut.

[6]  P J Kahrilas,et al.  American Gastroenterological Association technical review on the clinical use of esophageal manometry. , 1994, Gastroenterology.

[7]  J. Barkin,et al.  Small bowel push-type fiberoptic enteroscopy for patients with occult gastrointestinal bleeding or suspected small bowel pathology. , 1994, The American journal of gastroenterology.

[8]  John A. Kusters,et al.  Improved quality factor for quartz oscillators , 1996, Proceedings of 1996 IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium.

[9]  H. F. Routh,et al.  Doppler ultrasound , 1996 .

[10]  James A. Zagzebski,et al.  Essentials Of Ultrasound Physics , 1996 .

[11]  A. Ahlbom.  Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz) , 1998 .

[12]  Behzad Razavi,et al.  Oscillator jitter due to supply and substrate noise , 1998, Proceedings of the IEEE 1998 Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (Cat. No.98CH36143).

[13]  B. Favre-Bulle,et al.  Efficient tracking of 3D-robot positions by dynamic triangulation , 1998, IMTC/98 Conference Proceedings. IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference. Where Instrumentation is Going (Cat. No.98CH36222).

[14]  Shraga Shoval,et al.  MEASUREMENT OF ANGULAR POSITION OF A MOBILE ROBOT USING ULTRASONIC SENSORS , 1999 .

[15]  Reilly Jp.  Comments concerning "Guidelines for limiting exposure to time-varying electric, magnetic, and electromagnetic fields (up to 300 GHz)". , 1999 .

[16]  Yan Guozheng,et al.  Researches on a telemetry system for gastrointestinal motility monitoring , 2003, MHS2003. Proceedings of 2003 International Symposium on Micromechatronics and Human Science (IEEE Cat. No.03TH8717).

[17]  A Arshak,et al.  Review of the potential of a wireless MEMS and TFT microsystems for the measurement of pressure in the GI tract. , 2005, Medical engineering & physics.

[18]  菅野 健太郎,et al.  Double-balloon endoscopy : theory and practice , 2006 .

[19]  K. Arshak,et al.  Capsule tracking in the GI tract: a novel microcontroller based solution , 2006, Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium, 2006..

[20]  K. Arshak,et al.  Real -Time Tracking of a Moving Object Inside a Tube , 2006, 2006 25th International Conference on Microelectronics.

[21]  H. Lynch,et al.  Video Capsule Endoscopy: What Is the Role in Surveillance of Hereditary Colon Cancer Syndromes? , 2006 .

[22]  C. Mulder,et al.  Milestone in gastrointestinal endoscopy: Double-balloon enteroscopy of the small bowel , 2006, Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology. Supplement.