New aspects of modern endoscopy

Figure 1 Digital chromoendoscopy. Digital chromoendoscopy can be achieved by simply pressing a button on the endoscope. NBI focuses on vessel architecture by narrowing the light spectrum which is emitted to the mucosa. Fujinon Intelligent Color Enhancement System, i-scan and STORZ Professional Image Enhancement System are technologies, which use the reflected light for post-processing light filtering which is used to obtain different effects (like surface, tissue and vessel enhancement). (mod. advanced imaging in endoscopy 2009).

Figure 2 Virtual chromoendoscop using STORZ Professional Image Enhancement System of colorectal lesions.

Figure 3 Confocal Endomicroscopy in normal colonic epithelium (A) and of a colonic dyspalsia (B).

Figure 4 GEye balloon colonoscopy with inflated balloon at the distal tip of the colonscope the balloon is inflated to straight intestinal folds in the colon.

Figure 5 Full spectrum endoscopy colonoscopy utilizes unique imaging technology, which allows the endoscopist to view 330 degrees while maintaining identical standard colonoscope technical features. Property of full spectrum endoscopy, EndoChoice, Alpharetta, GA, United States.