Gastric Emptying Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Lawrence A. Szarka, Michael Camilleri Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology Volume 7, Issue 8, Pages 823-827 (August 2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.cgh.2009.04.011 Copyright © 2009 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Scintigraphic gastric emptying demonstrating accelerated or delayed gastric emptying. Scintiscans show the radiolabeled meal in the stomach, identified by the variable region of interest. The gamma camera quantitates the amount of radioactivity in the stomach, allowing for an estimation of the percentage of the meal emptied from the stomach at each time point. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology 2009 7, 823-827DOI: (10.1016/j.cgh.2009.04.011) Copyright © 2009 AGA Institute Terms and Conditions