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Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 272: G1159-G1167, 1997;
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AJP - Gastrointestinal and Liver Physiology, Vol 272, Issue 5 1159-G1167, Copyright © 1997 by American Physiological Society

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Correlation and comparison of magnetic and electric detection of small intestinal electrical activity

L. A. Bradshaw, S. H. Allos, J. P. Wikswo Jr and W. O. Richards
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville 37235, USA.

The small intestinal basic electrical rhythm (BER) was detected simultaneously with serosal electrodes and a transabdominal superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometer in anesthetized rabbits. We induced mesenteric ischemia to correlate serosal electrode recording of changes in BER with the SQUID magnetometer. The BER frequency was obtained by spectral analysis of the data using Fourier and autoregressive techniques. There was a high degree of correlation (r = 0.96) between the BER frequency determined using the serosal electrodes and the BER frequency ascertained from SQUID data. Additionally, the effects of an electrical insulator on the external electric and magnetic fields were studied in the rabbit model. The presence of an insulator profoundly attenuates external electric potentials recorded by cutaneous electrodes but does not significantly affect external magnetic fields or serosal potentials. We conclude that SQUID magnetometers could noninvasively record small intestinal BER that was highly correlated with the activity recorded by invasive serosal electrodes. The advantages of magnetic field measurements have encouraged us to investigate clinical applications.


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