Small-bowel capsule endoscopy: A ten-point contemporary review

Table 1 Available types of small-bowel capsule endoscopes and operating characteristics

Capsule device	Company	Country	Field of view (°)	Lens	LEDs	Image sensor	Transmission	Frames per second (fps)	Dimensions (mm)	Weight (g)	Battery life (h)	Real-time imager	FDA approval	Reviewing software	Optical enhancements
PillCam®SB2	Given®Imaging, Yokneam	Israel	156	Multi-element	4	CMOS	Radiofrequency	2-41	11 × 26	3.45	9->11.52	Yes	Yes	Rapid®v7	Blue-mode FICE 1,2,3
MiroCam®v2	IntroMedic® Co., Seoul	South Korea	170	N/A	4	CMOS	EFP	3	ø11 × 24	3.2	12	Yes	Yes	MiroView®v2	ALICE colour-mode
EndoCapsule®	Olympus© Co., Tokyo	Japan	145	N/A	4	CCD	Radiofrequency	2	ø11 × 26	3.45	10	Yes	Yes	OLYMPUS®WS-1	Contrast imaging
OMOM® (SmartCapsule)	Chongding Jinshan Science and Technology Co., Beijing	China	140	N/A	4	CCD	Radiofrequency	2 (variable)	13 × 27.9	6	8	Yes	No	OMOM® workstation	N/A
CapsoCam®SV1	CapsoVision® Inc., Saratoga	United States	360	N/A	16	N/A	On-board EPROM flash memory (USB)	16 (4 per camera)	11 × 31	N/A	15	No	No	CapsoView®	N/A

¹PillCam^®SB2 (L) captures 2 fps - PillCam^®SB2-4 captures 4 fps;

²PillCam^®SB2 (L) battery life > 11.5 h - PillCam^®SB2-4 battery life 8 h. LED: Light emitting diode; N/A: Not available; CMOS: Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor; CCD: Charge-coupled device; EFP: Electric field propagation; EPROM: Erasable programmable read-only memory; USB: Universal Serial Bus; FDA: Food and Drug Administration; FICE: Fujinon Intelligent Chromo Endoscopy; ALICE: A Large Ion Collider Experiment.