Gastric Emptying Study
By: Paige Pollreisz 5 The gastric emptying study is conducted by a nuclear physician. The study evaluates people who have slow or rapid stomach emptying. Physicians use chemicals with radioactivity to measure how fast or slow food leaves the stomach and enters the intestine. To prepare for the exam you must eat a small meal that has a tiny amount of radioactive material in it. You will also receive an injection with a radioactive tracer in it. A radioactive tracer has a radioactive isotope in it. It can be tracked through your body to study disease and biochemical processes. During the exam a scanner is placed over your abdomen for several hours taking continuous pictures and tracking the radioactive chemicals. The scanner
By: Paige Pollreisz 5 The gastric emptying study is conducted by a nuclear physician. The study evaluates people who have slow or rapid stomach emptying. Physicians use chemicals with radioactivity to measure how fast or slow food leaves the stomach and enters the intestine. To prepare for the exam you must eat a small meal that has a tiny amount of radioactive material in it. You will also receive an injection with a radioactive tracer in it. A radioactive tracer has a radioactive isotope in it. It can be tracked through your body to study disease and biochemical processes. During the exam a scanner is placed over your abdomen for several hours taking continuous pictures and tracking the radioactive chemicals. The scanner