Magnetic markers as a noninvasive tool to monitor gastrointestinal transit.
A novel method to monitor gastrointestinal transit of solid oral dosage forms or nutrients is presented, providing a simultaneous recording of gastrointestinal motility of the traversed section. Based on the measurement of the magnetic field of an ingested magnetized marker, its location is found by fitting a magnetic dipole field to the measured data.
Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin.
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D005769:Gastrointestinal Motility / Q000502:physiology; D005772:Gastrointestinal Transit / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic; D012016:Reference Values