Armed Services YMCA art contest winners named NWSB2913. Detecting prostate cancer early can save your life NWSA2914. 168, Washington, DC 20373-5819. News stories are intended for use in Navy newspapers or other internal products. The colonoscope uses a fiber optic camera attached to a slender tube to provide video inside the human body.
Surgeons control the camera remotely, while viewing the video on a monitor.
Four days prior to the F-14's structural evaluation, the aircraft had suffered a hard landing on Nimitz' flight deck. Dennis Reilly, familiar with the innovations of naval medicine, suggested contacting the ship's medical department. Reilly asked Gould if there were any medical procedures that could be used to inspect an internal structural beam. Gould suggested the ship's new colonoscope could assist in identifying internal damages. Ludwig inserted the colonoscope into the internal wall of the aircraft and maneuvered the camera, viewing a video image on a monitor.