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Nuclear Medicine Imaging Techniques of the Gastrointestinal System

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Gastrointestinal scintigraphy takes advantage of the physiologic basis of radionuclide imaging and makes effective use of its quantitative potential. This chapter discusses the importance and clinical use of older, tried, and true scintigraphic studies of the gastrointestinal system, as well as newer techniques that are increasing in clinical importance. They are discussed not in the more common aboral order, from mouth to rectum, but according to a logical progression. All topics will be covered, beginning with solid gastric emptying, then liquid gastric emptying, gastric accommodation, small and large bowel intestinal transit, esophageal transit, gastroesophageal reflux, gastrointestinal bleeding, and the Meckel’s scan.

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  1. Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Harvey A. Ziessman

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Westfalen - Knappschaftskrankenhaus Academic teaching hospital of the Ruhr University, Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Beta Klinik Bonn, Bonn, Germany

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  3. Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, USA

    Leonard M. Freeman

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Ziessman, H.A. (2020). Nuclear Medicine Imaging Techniques of the Gastrointestinal System. In: Ahmadzadehfar, H., Biersack, HJ., Freeman, L., Zuckier, L. (eds) Clinical Nuclear Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39457-8_9

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