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Letter from the Editors: Functional Studies of the Gastrointestinal Tract
As pointed out by Dr. Alan Maurer in his guest editorial, it has been more than 15 years since he guest edited another Seminars issue, a two-part review of gastrointestinal (GI) nuclear imaging. A sig...
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Leonard M. Freeman,
M. Donald Blaufox
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73
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Guest Editorial: Gastrointestinal Nuclear Medicine: Are We Making Progress?
In my last guest editorial on gastrointestinal (GI) nuclear medicine in the Seminars in Nuclear Medicine in October 1995, I pointed out that there are few, if any, other nuclear medicine studies, such...
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Alan H. Maurer
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74-75
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Scintigraphy for Evaluation of Patients for GI Motility Disorders—The Referring Physician's Perspective
Gastrointestinal (GI) motility disorders are common and cause either delayed or accelerated transit through the stomach, small intestine, or colon. Assessment of GI transit times can provide direct me...
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Henry P. Parkman
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76-78
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Sincalide Cholescintigraphy—32 Years Later: Evidence-Based Data on Its Clinical Utility and Infusion Methodology
Sincalide cholescintigraphy was first reported to have clinical utility in 1980. Since then, many publications have found that a reduced gallbladder ejection fraction (GBEF) can confirm the clinical d...
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Harvey A. Ziessman
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79-83
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Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy in Acute Cholecystitis
Hepatobiliary scintigraphy is a mature imaging technique for evaluation of patients with acute cholecystitis (AC). It is effective in calculous and acalculous forms of AC. The test is used in contempo...
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Mark Tulchinsky,
Patrick M. Colletti,
Thomas W. Allen
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84-100
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Advancing Gastric Emptying Studies: Standardization and New Parameters to Assess Gastric Motility and Function
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 test results unreli...
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Alan H. Maurer
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101-112
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Methods for the Assessment of Small-Bowel and Colonic Transit
Transit assessment of the small intestine and colon is relevant in the study of physiology, pathophysiology, and pharmacodynamics, and there is increasing use of small-bowel and colonic transit measur...
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Lawrence A. Szarka,
Michael Camilleri
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113-123
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Liver Function Testing with Nuclear Medicine Techniques Is Coming of Age
Liver function is a broad term, as the organ participates in a multitude of different physiological and biochemical processes, including metabolic, synthetic, and detoxifying functions. However, it is...
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Roelof J. Bennink,
Mark Tulchinsky,
Wilmar de Graaf,
Zakiyah Kadry,
Thomas M. van Gulik
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124-137
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Update on Gastrointestinal Radiopharmaceuticals and Dosimetry Estimates
The gold standard technique for measuring gastric emptying is scintigraphy using radiolabeled test meals. Recently, a standardized radiolabeled solid meal has been proposed and adopted by many centers...
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Linda C. Knight
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138-144
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