A method of determining the location of an ingested capsule comprising the
steps of providing an ingestible capsule (15) having a shell (16) and a
flexible fluid retaining sleeve (17) affixed to the sleeve and defining a
chamber (19) between the shell and the sleeve, the fluid retaining sleeve
having a fill port (30), providing a radioactive material (22) contained
in a filling device (31) having an output port (32) adapted to engage the
fill port of the sleeve, engaging the output port of the filling device
with the fill port of the sleeve, moving the radioactive material through
the output port and into the chamber of the sleeve through the sleeve
fill port, sealing the fill port to provide a radio-labeled ingestible
capsule, having a subject ingest the radio-labeled capsule, and screening
the subject by gamma imagining to determine location of the radio-labeled
capsule within the subject.