Although not as well standardized as gastric emptying (GE) scintigraphy, esophageal transit
scintigraphy, if performed in a comprehensive manner including both quantitative and …

Disorders of the upper digestive tract have a high impact on modern society, in terms of both
direct and indirect health care costs and of social burden. The most common presenting …

Nuclear medicine offers a variety of studies for evaluating motility throughout the
gastrointestinal tract. Gastric emptying remains the “gold standard” for studying gastric motor …

OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this article is to describe the clinical utility of state-of-theart
gastrointestinal transit scintigraphy, including the standardized esophageal transit, solid and …

For many years, gastric emptying (GE) studies were performed using various local protocols
and different radiolabeled meals. This lack of standardization and normal values made the …

This consensus statement from the members of the American Neurogastroenterology and
Motility Society and the Society of Nuclear Medicine recommends a standardized method for …

The measurement of gastrointestinal functions by the use of scintigraphy is established in
clinical practice and research. The most commonly used test is the gastric-emptying test …

Because of the difficulty often encountered in deciding whether a patient's symptoms
originate in the upper or lower gastrointestinal tract, gastrointestinal transit scintigraphy is a …

Gastric emptying scintigraphy has long been the standard method for measuring gastric
motility. Various methodologies for this study have been used including meal composition …

Scintigraphy remains the most reliable method to measure gastric emptying. Standardized
dual-isotope radionuclide gastric emptying techniques and appropriate meals, which …