Patent ID: 8419620
Filing Date: 2013-04-16
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A magnetically guiding system comprising: a capsule medical device that has a magnet; an information acquiring device 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; a control unit that sets a magnetic field condition based on the physical information acquired by the information acquiring device and controls the magnetic field generating unit to generate the magnetic field corresponding to the magnetic field condition; a container that has the capsule medical device and a liquid introduced thereinto; a liquid temperature adjusting unit that adjusts temperature of the liquid inside the container; a temperature measuring unit that measures the temperature of the liquid adjusted by the liquid temperature adjusting unit; and a receiving unit that receives an image captured by the capsule medical device, wherein the information acquiring device determines timing when the capsule medical device starts floating up or sinking down in the liquid, based on the image received by the receiving unit, and obtains the physical information, based on the temperature of the liquid measured by the temperature measuring unit at the timing.