Weitschies W, Wedemeyer J, Stehr R, Trahms L
Institute of Pharmacy, Freie Universität Berlin.
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng. 1994 Feb;41(2):192-5. doi: 10.1109/10.284931.
A novel method to monitor gastrointestinal transit of solid oral dosage forms or nutrients is presented, providing a simultaneous recording of gastrointestinal motility of the traversed section. Based on the measurement of the magnetic field of an ingested magnetized marker, its location is found by fitting a magnetic dipole field to the measured data.