Massachusetts General Hospital
The goal of this research is to learn how a new device called the wireless thermal capsule (WTC) can collect thermal data to help see diseases that happen in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, such as Crohn's Disease.
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of using the wireless thermal capsule (WTC) to collect temperature information from the human GI tract in healthy adult subjects. Participants will be asked to do a standard of care bowel prep with instructions to start the prep three days before their scheduled procedure. Participants may also be asked to fast for several hours and consume a series of laxative prep mixtures. This is a two visit study, during the first study visit, informed consent will be collected. Afterwards, a receiver belt and 8 antennas will be placed on the subje…
Inclusion Criteria: * Participant is 18 -75 years old * Participant is considered healthy, with no known illnesses * Participant can follow fasting requirements * Participant can follow bowel prep instructions * Participant can provide informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Participant is older than 75 years of age * Participant with current dysphagia or any swallowing disorder * Participant with any current condition believed to have an increased risk of capsule retention such as gastrointestinal strictures, intestinal tumors, bowel obstruction, incomplete colonoscopies or fistula * Partic…
A total of 25 healthy participants will be enrolled in this study all consented participants will receive the same intervention.
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