Patent ID: 8195276

Claim:
An in-vivo information acquisition system comprising: an in-vivo information acquisition apparatus to be inserted into a body to examine a specimen and acquire in-vivo information, the in-vivo information acquisition apparatus comprising: a specimen-collecting section for collecting a specimen at an examination site in a body cavity; a reactor section for reacting the specimen collected by the specimen-collecting section with a reagent; a specimen-evaluating section for evaluating measurement data of the specimen reacted in the reactor section based on reference data and outputting an evaluation result; a labeling section having identification information unique to the in-vivo information acquisition apparatus; a memory for saving the evaluation result and the identification information unique to the in-vivo information acquisition apparatus; a communication section for receiving a signal transmitted from outside and for transmitting to the outside the evaluation result output by the specimen-evaluating section; a power supply section for supplying electrical power; an indwelling section for affixing to a tissue surface in the body cavity; and an external apparatus outside the body cavity, that acquires the evaluation result obtained by the in-vivo information acquisition apparatus via the communication section, wherein a plurality of the in-vivo information acquisition apparatuses are provided inside the body cavity, in which collecting the specimen by the specimen-collecting section is simultaneously started in response to a first command signal sent from the external apparatus to the plurality of the in-vivo information acquisition apparatuses; and the plurality of the in-vivo information acquisition apparatuses send the evaluation result and the identification information stored in the memory to the external apparatus in response to a second command signal sent from the external apparatus to the plurality of the in-vivo information acquisition apparatuses.