FEASIBILITY OF MEASURING GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT TIME IN HEALTHY DOGS USING ALICAM

摘要

The lack of a simple and widely available test for assessing gastrointestinal motility in dogs can make diagnosing disorders difficult. Ambulatory light-based imaging is an easy to use, novel gastrointestinal imaging technique performed by oral administration of a fully automated capsule-sized camera device (ALICAM) that is propelled by natural peristalsis. The time required for passage of the capsule through the stomach and small intestine can be determined based on correlation of images with an internal clock. The aim of this study was to evaluate the feasibility of using ALICAM to measure gastric transit time (GTT) and small intestinal transit time (STT) in healthy dogs.