Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Olympus Medical Systems Corporation

Olympus Corporation

Siemens Healthcare Gmbh

Given Imaging Ltd.

Henrik Keller

Aleksandar Juloski

Mario Bechtold

Hironao Kawano

Stefan Förtsch

Stefan Foertsch

In a method and a system for contact-free magnetic navigation of a magnetic body in a work space that is at least partially filled with a fluid, a thickening agent is added to the fluid. The use of a thickening agent as an additive for such a fluid is also described.

Method for contact-free magnetic navigation

A system and method for guiding a capsule medical device. The method includes: changing, by a control unit, a gradient distribution of a gradient magnetic field generated by a magnetic field generator in a vertical direction, the magnetic field generator generating at least the gradient magnetic field in the vertical direction to guide a capsule medical device that includes a magnetic-field responding unit; detecting, by a position detector, a position of the capsule medical device in the vertical direction based on a gradient distribution of the gradient magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator, a physical parameter of the capsule medical device, and a physical parameter of a liquid when the capsule medical device starts to move; and setting, by the control unit, the magnetic field generated by the magnetic field generator based on the detected position of the capsule medical device in the vertical direction.

Capsule medical device guidance system and method for guiding capsule medical device

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Erlangen, Germany

Henrik Keller