How to Interpret Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy.
- Author:
Ju Won SEOK
1
Author Information
1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea. ethmoid@hanmail.net
- Publication Type:Note
- Keywords:
Gastric emptying;
Methods;
Stomach
- MeSH:
Gastric Emptying;
Meals;
Patient Positioning;
Reference Values;
Stomach
- From:Journal of Neurogastroenterology and Motility
2011;17(2):189-191
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
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Abstract:
Gastric emptying scintigraphy has long been the standard method for measuring gastric motility. Various methodologies for this study have been used including meal composition, patient positioning, instrumentation, frequency of data acquisition, study length and quantitative method. For accurate quantification, it is not important which method is in use, except that the methodology should always be the same and normal values need to be derived and validated for that methodology.
