title: Simple clinical method of measuring gastric emptying of solid meals.
abstract: The radioisotope techniques used for the measurement of gastric emptying of solid meals in man require complex and expensive scintiscanners of cameras. We have evaluated a simple technique which uses a fixed scintillation detector and compared the results with those obtained from a gamma camera. The rates and patterns of gastric emptying recorded by the two methods correlated well in both healthy volunteers (mean r= 0.95) and patients with duodenal ulcer (mean r =0.89). The scintillation detector provides a reliable and inexpensive method for measurement of gastric emptying of solid meals.
mesh_terms: D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000503:physiopathology; D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D012588:Scintillation Counting; D013270:Stomach / Q000502:physiology*; D013667:Technetium; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D013667:Technetium