Patent ID: 7822463

Claim:
A method for administering a medicament to a patient, the method comprising: imaging a first set of images from an area of the gastrointestinal tract with a first autonomous swallowable device in a first pass through the gastrointestinal tract; accepting identification of an image of a location of interest in the gastrointestinal tract, with an analyzing unit; imaging a second set of images from an area of the gastrointestinal tract with the first or a second autonomous swallowable device in a second pass through the gastrointestinal tract; accepting results of image analysis performed with the analyzing unit by comparing images from the first set with images from the second set to identify in the second set an image of the location of interest corresponding to an image of the location of interest in the first set; and releasing a medicament from said first or second device at said location of interest in the gastrointestinal tract during said second pass through the gastrointestinal tract.