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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2012
Applicants:
Hidetake Segawa, Hachioji, JP;
Atsushi Chiba, Hachioji, JP;
Atsushi Kimura, Akiruno, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Olympus Medical Systems Corp., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/05 (2006.01); H01F 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A magnetically guiding system includes: a capsule medical device that has a magnet provided therein; an information acquiring unit that acquires physical information about magnetic guiding of the capsule medical device; a magnetic field generating unit that generates a magnetic field for magnetically guiding the capsule medical device; and a control unit that sets a magnetic field condition based on the physical information acquired by the information acquiring unit and controls the magnetic field generating unit to generate a magnetic field corresponding to the magnetic field condition.