Quantitative assessment of bowel motility in healthy individuals and patients with organic small bowel disease using MR cine -Initial Experiences

Function of small bowel motility is essential to sustain life, especially for patients suffering from small bowel diseases by whom those invasive examination such as intraluminal manometry may not be tolerated. In this study, dynamic MR series was used to evaluate the small bowel motility in healthy volunteers and patients with various kinds of organic small bowel diseases. Several types of abnormal peristalsis in patients group were differentiate from those in healthy volunteers.Clinician could make a more comprehensive view on the small bowel function in patients with organic small bowel diseases with the additional information provide by cine MR.

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