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
American Journal of Physiology, 272: G1159-G1167 (1997)
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 notentials. 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. © 1997 The American Physiological Society
Reprinted with permission from American Journal of Physiology, 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., Vol. 272: G1159-G1167, © 1997 The American Physiological Society This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and The American Physiological Society.
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