Magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and magnetogastrography evaluation on the gastrointestinal system

Abstract

Evaluating the gastrointestinal tract (GI) has become vital due to the essential clinical information it presents, particularly for diabetic and elderly patients. Hence, various methods have been studied and applied to analyze the GI tract from different perspectives. These include evaluations by endoscopy, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), scintigraphy and various biomagnetic techniques. Two of the parameters that are assessed to aid in the diagnosis of gastric disorders are gastric motility and emptying. This work discusses three different techniques used to evaluated the GI lack of ionizing radiation: MRI, ultrasound, and magnetogastrography. The results obtained by each method are mentioned and compared to determine their viability and potential as complementary clinical diagnostic tests. These three alternative techniques for gastroenterology evaluations are still not routine clinical procedures and are not known by patients with gastrointestinal diseases. In authors opinion, these could bring benefits to service providers and patients themselves.

Modeling and measurements of the mechanophysiological function of the gastrointestinal organs

“…Furthermore, the GI transit function, including gastric emptying and GI motility, can be observed and evaluated non-invasively by scintigraphy, ultrasound, MRI, electrogastrography, and magnetogastrography. These methods measure the motility and movements of the luminal contents by imaging (scintigraphy, ultrasound, MRI) (Benini et al 1999, Córdova-Fraga et al 2017, bioelectric (electrogastrography), orbiomagnetic (magnetogastrography) analyses (Bradshaw et al 2003, de la Roca-chiapas et al 2007. Recently, ambulatory technology-based ingestible wireless capsule devices have been developed to track capsule movements and to measure the motility patterns of the gut, such as wireless-capsule GI endoscopy (Nakamura and Terano 2008), the wireless motility capsule (Farmer et al 2013) and the 3D-transit system (Mark et al 2019b).…”