Comparison of gastric emptying scintigraphy based on the geometric mean of the gastric proportion of the abdominal radioactivity or on the geometric mean of the intragastric radioactivity

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 431-437

  Salaun, Pierre Yves ^a   Querellou, Solène ^a   Nguyen, Jean Michel ^a   Bodet Milin, Caroline ^a   Carlier, Thomas ^a   Turzo, Alexandre ^a   Bizais, Yves ^b   Couturier, Olivier ^b  

^a University of Brest   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal method; Gastric emptying; Intragastric method; Scintigraphy

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; TECHNETIUM;

ABDOMEN; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HALF LIFE TIME; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCINTISCANNING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASE; STOMACH EMPTYING; ADULT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPEPSIA; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; RADIATION DETECTION; SAMPLE SIZE; STOMACH CONTENT; STOMACH SCINTISCANNING; TEST MEAL;

ABDOMEN; FEMALE; GASTRIC EMPTYING; HALF-LIFE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; METABOLIC CLEARANCE RATE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASES; TECHNETIUM;

EID: 33745953569     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: 14735628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006231-200605000-00004     Document Type: Article

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