The process of viewing the entire length of the small intestine using an ingestible video camera with a light source, which is enclosed in a capsule about the size of a large vitamin pill, is known as a capsule

The process of viewing the entire length of the small intestine using an ingestible video camera with a light source, which is enclosed in a capsule about the size of a large vitamin pill, is known as capsule endoscopy. The small video camera would produce images of the whole length of the small intestine enabling to view parts of the intestine that cannot be viewed by other methods.