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(108,903 posts) Mon Jan 14, 2013, 08:29 AM Jan 2013

Pill-sized scanner images gullet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20983324

The scanner uses infrared to create images

Doctors have made a pill-sized device that can take detailed microscopic images of inside the gullet.

It is hoped the US technology could become an easier way of screening people for a condition called Barrett's oesophagus, which can lead to cancer.

Unlike current imaging techniques, the device can be used while the patient is conscious and takes only a few minutes.

The device has been tested in a small number of patients so far, Nature Medicine reports.