University of Leicester

Nottingham University Hospitals Nhs Trust

Alan Christopher Perkins

Roy Harris

John Ernest Wyper Lees

Penelope Anne Gowland

Luca Marciani

Mark Robert Fox

John Ernest Lees

Caroline Louise Hoad

Robin Charles Spiller

Methods and apparatus for the study of gastrointestinal transit in a human or animal subject. The method being for the study of a subject which has previously ingested a container containing first and second fluids that are detectable and distinguishable by MRI, which method comprises the steps of forming a first magnetic resonance image of at least a portion of the subject's GI tract in which the container is located, wherein the magnetizations of the first and second fluids are in-phase; forming a second magnetic resonance image, coincident with the first image, wherein the magnetizations of the first and second fluids are out-of-phase; and subtracting the second image from the first image, or vice versa, to form a composite image.

Magnetic resonance imaging methods for the study of gastrointestinal transit

A device () for use in imaging a subject using both light and gamma rays emanating from the subject, the device including: a first sensor means () responsive to light received thereby from the subject to generate first signals () for use in forming a first image () of the subject; a second sensor means () responsive to gamma rays received thereby from the subject to generate second signals () for use in forming a second image () of the subject and arranged to receive gamma rays from the subject which have passed from the subject through the first sensor means before reaching the second sensor means.

Imaging device and method

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Alan Christopher Perkins