The results, observed by an endoscope (a camera on a tube) revealed no damage to the mucous membrane.

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Then your doctor uses a thin tube equipped with a camera lens and light (laparoscope) to view the area.

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They did the operation manually, maneuvering chopstick-like instruments through small incisions while watching via a laparoscope, a tube with a tiny camera at the end.

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The laparoscope is a flexible controllable tube, with a camera and a bright light at the end, which allows the surgeon to see inside a patient's body.

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Unlike conventional cameras, our femto camera captures an image as one thin slice at a time of one-dimensional space using a "streak tube, " a laboratory instrument that is commonly used by chemists to study light passing through chemical samples.

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