SASKATOON – Imagine having certain medical tests done without having to be put under. Instead, you just swallow a pill and carry on with your every day routine.
Well, that’s exactly what researchers at the University of Saskatchewan are striving for and they received a big boost from the federal government to get there.
Close to $100,000 is being invested to help purchase equipment to develop and test electronic pills and supporting software.
Technology that will help doctors gather improved information on their patients intestinal health and better diagnosis of ailments such as Crohn’s disease and colorectal cancer.
Similar technology to this does already exist but researchers say they’re version is new and improved.
“The one that we have is loss-less, that means you will not lose any medically important information and also be able to compress that image significantly so you can save power while transmitting all images out from the small intestine and use that extra power to do something else like multi-spectral images, improve the frame rate,” said Khan Wahid, U of S professor of engineering.
The technology will have to go through extensive testing and human trials before it can be launched on the market.
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