In this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Antoniou et al. describe a novel
scintigraphic procedure designed to evaluate in a physiologic manner the transit of both the …

Intestinal chyme and indigestible solids move through the small and large bowels via
complex gastrointestinal contractions. Identifying the location of a motility disorder causing …

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 …

A radionuclide methodology and reference values have been developed for a single
gastrointestinal transit study including esophageal transit, liquid and solid gastric emptying …

The appropriate use of scintigraphy for studying gastrointestinal (GI) motility requires not
only an understanding of the normal physiology and pathophysiology of the various …

649 Objectives Gastric emptying scintigraphy is a well-established technique for the
determination of gastroparesis or dumping syndrome. The technique however does not lend …

Despite the introduction of numerous competing diagnostic imaging technologies, nuclear
medicine has remained one of the main modalities for the routine clinical assessment of …

Opinion statement The diagnostic imaging evaluation of patients with suspected
esophagogastrointestinal transit disorders is changing. Anatomical methods, eg, barium …

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 …

Since first introduced by Griffith et al. in 1966 (1), gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) of a
radiolabeled meal has been considered the gold standard for measuring gastric emptying …