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This chapter gives an overview of small bowel motility imaging. A short summarization on the physiology of small bowel peristalsis is followed by the different techniques currently used to monitor small bowel function such as manometry and scin-tigraphy. Until now, no technology has been available that is able to visualize bowel motility. For MRI, the techniques to acquire motility images are described as well as the analysis of motility and the interpretation of the data. Some clinical applications of small bowel motility changes are demonstrated to indicate the possibilities of monitoring bowel function with MRI.
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Patak, M.A., Weymarn, C.v., Wentz, KU., Tutuja, R., Wissmeyer, M., Froelich, J.M. (2010). MRI of Bowel Motility. In: Stoker, J. (eds) MRI of the Gastrointestinal Tract. Medical Radiology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85532-3_14
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