| 摘要 |
<p>An improved and novel ingestible capsule (10) and method for determining medical information from within the alimentary canal of a human or an animal utilizing the ingestible capsule including a non-digestible outer shell (20) that is configured to pass through the alimentary canal. A marker membrane (12) is exposed through a portion of the non-digestible outer shell. The marker membrane is characterized as detecting and identifying predetermined detectable information. Housed within the non-digestible outer shell are a bio-sensor (14) that alters its electronic properties in the presence of specific information obtained by the marker membrane from within the alimentary canal, a low frequency transducer (16) that sends a signal of the changed electronic properties to a receiver positioned outside the body and a miniature battery (18) for powering the transducer.</p> |
