Versatile Endoscopic Capsule for gastrointestinal TumOr Recognition and therapy
  Funded by the European Commission, Sixth Framework Programme, Information Society Technologies Priority
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Scientific Societies
SMIT - Society of Medical Innovation and Technology
EAES - European Association for Endoscopic Surgery
ESGE - European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
ASGE - American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
SAGES - The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons

Conferences
19th international conference of the Society for Medical Innovation and Technology SMIT
15th international congress of the EAES

Endoscopy Resources
The DAVE Project (English)
ENDOSCOPIA & CHIRURGIA (Italian)
The Gastrointestinal Video Atlas (English / Spanish)
Endoskopie-Atlas (German)
Atlas of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (English)
Gastroenterology & Hepatology Resource Center (English)

Research Information
Information Society Technologies Priority of the EU Sixth Framework Programme

Neighboring EU Projects
A.R.A.K.N.E.S. | Array of Robots Augmenting the KiNematics of Endoluminal Surgery
MiniSurg | Miniaturized Stereoscopic Distal Imaging Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery

 

 

  

NEWS

11.2009
VECTOR partner from Barcelona receives Best Paper Award at DCIS'09 in Zaragoza, Spain, for their paper on the development of an integrated circuit enabling active locomotion in capsular endoscopy

10.2009
SMIT conference 2009, Sinaia, Romania,
7-9 October 2009:
Technology Award 2009 for outstanding development goes to the VECTOR Consortium

09.2009
VECTOR takes centre stage in reports and interviews of Ralf Krauter with Marc Schurr in Munich at the World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering on 09.09.09

09.2009
Innovative approach to active locomotion for capsular endoscopy in the gastric district

09.2009
Marc O. Schurr, novineon, invited to present VECTOR project at World Congress of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in Munich, 09.09.2009

03.2009
VECTOR project presented at 2009 Korea-EU Joint Workshop in Seoul, Korea

12.2008
New success in smart capsule technology: European collaboration yields the first OTSC clip release via telemetric endoscopic capsule

10.2008
Tiny medical implant developed in Tuebingen - microtechnologies from the EU project VECTOR facilitate early detection of acute bleeding in the GI tract.

08.2008
VECTOR: New Frontiers of Capsule Endoscopy – Project members present intermediate results at scientific VECTOR project session at the SMIT conference in Vienna;
28 - 30 August 2008

07.2008
Report on 245,000 screening colonoscopies in Bavaria, Germany

05.2008
Research and Expectations about Capsule Endoscope Systems in Diagnosis and Therapy

04.2008
VECTOR project presented at scientific conferences on oncological and bariatric surgery