How Do Endoscopes Work?

Endoscopes aren’t just for lighting in and out of a patient’s body. It can also be used for small surgical operations and procedures. Because of the delicate nature of its use, it often leads to wear and tear that can easily be fixed with professional Endoscope Repair. Here is a look at how endoscopes work:

• One of the two main endoscope cables carries light from a bright lamp in the operating room into the body, illuminating the cavity where the endoscope has been inserted.
• The light bounces along the walls of the cable into the patient's body cavity.
• The diseased or injured part of the patient's body is illuminated by the light shining in.
• Light reflected off the body part travels back up a separate fiber-optic cable, bouncing off the glass walls as it goes.
• The light shines into the physician's eyepiece so he or she can see what's happening inside the patient's body. Sometimes the fiber-optic cable is directed into a video camera (which displays what's happening on a television monitor) or a CCD (which can capture images like a digital camera or feed them into a computer for various kinds of image enhancement).

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