Application of RSS output of a Radio Transceiver to 2D Tracking of Ingestible Capsules

Author

Arshak, Khalil ; Adepoju, Francis

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Limerick Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

131

Lastpage

134

Abstract

Facilities for on-site drug delivery and the need for taking tissue/fluid samples within the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract are quite invaluable for diagnosing GI related diseases where diagnosis can only be made by taking a biopsy from the intestinal walls. Such biopsies have traditionally been preformed using custom endoscopes. To be effective in the above named tasks, the real-time location of telemetry capsules within the GI tract must be known with minimum error. Our Real time laboratory experimental results shows that the presented method can be adapted into medical equipments with a high degree of reliability

Keywords

biomedical equipment; biomedical telemetry; diseases; patient diagnosis; radio tracking; transceivers; 2D tracking; RSS output; disease diagnosis; human gastrointestinal tract; ingestible telemetry capsules; intestinal walls; medical equipments; radio frequency signal-strength output; radio transceiver; real-time location; Biopsy; Diseases; Drug delivery; Endoscopes; Gastrointestinal tract; Humans; Intestines; Laboratories; Radio transceivers; Telemetry; Endoscopes; Gasto intestinal tract; RF signals; Telemetry capsule; Trilateration;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology, 2006. The 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-5-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2006.280452

Filename

4057455