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New Advances in Gastrointestinal Motility Research

  • Historical as well as current views, and future challenges in gastrointestinal motility
  • Suitable for gastroenterologists, surgeons, bioengineers, GI researchers
  • Presented in multiscale approach, covering cell, organ, whole body through to clinical translation
  • Includes finite element models, computational, fluid dynamics, signal processing, imaging processing, experimental techniques

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics (LNCVB, volume 10)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. New Advances in Gastrointestinal Motility Research

    • Leo K. Cheng, Gianrico Farrugia
    Pages 1-6
  3. ICC Network Density: Regulation and Consequences

    • Simon J. Gibbons, Jerry Gao, Gianrico Farrugia
    Pages 29-49
  4. The Principles and Practice of Gastrointestinal High-Resolution Electrical Mapping

    • Gregory O’Grady, Timothy R. Angeli, Wim J. E. P. Lammers
    Pages 51-69
  5. Quantitative Analysis of Electrical Activity in the Gastrointestinal Tract

    • Jonathan C. Erickson, Niranchan Paskaranandavadivel, Simon H. Bull
    Pages 71-93
  6. The Electrical Regulation of GI Motility at the Whole-Organ Level

    • Timothy R. Angeli, Gregory O’Grady, Wim J. E. P. Lammers
    Pages 95-112
  7. Gastric Electrical Stimulation: Twentieth Century Development to Twenty-First Century Implementation and Personalization of Programming

    • James Griffith, Sumanth Daram, Ben Boatright, Joy Hughes, Christopher J. Lahr, Archana Kedar et al.
    Pages 129-139
  8. Biomagnetic Signatures of Gastrointestinal Electrical Activity

    • L. Alan Bradshaw, Juliana Kim, Leo Cheng, William Richards
    Pages 141-165
  9. Modelling Tissue Electrophysiology in the GI Tract: Past, Present and Future

    • Alberto Corrias, Peng Du, Martin L. Buist
    Pages 167-195
  10. Spatiotemporal Mapping Techniques for Quantifying Gut Motility

    • Patrick W. M. Janssen, Roger G. Lentle
    Pages 219-241
  11. Computational Modeling of Gastrointestinal Fluid Dynamics

    • Maria J. Ferrua, R. Paul Singh
    Pages 243-266

About this book

Research into gastrointestinal motility has received renewed interest in part due to recent advances in the techniques for measuring the structure and function of gastrointestinal cells, tissue and organs. The integration of this wealth of data into biophysically based computation models can aid in interpretation of experimental and clinical measurements and the refinement of measurement techniques.

The contents of this book span multiple scales - from cell, tissue, organ, to whole body and is divided into four broad sections covering: i) gastrointestinal cellular activity and tissue structure; (ii) techniques for measuring, analyzing and visualizing high-resolution extra-cellular recordings; (iii) methods for sensing gastroelectrical activity using non-invasive bio-electro-magnetic fields and for modulating the underlying gastric electrical activity and finally (iv) methods for assessing manometric and videographic motility patterns and the application of these data for predicting the flow and mixing behavior of luminal contents by using computational fluid dynamic techniques.

This book aims to provide both an overview of historical and existing research techniques as well as to highlight future directions and challenges for the community as a whole. It  will be suitable for clinicians to  understand the cellular and  biophysical underpinnings of gastric emptying, gastroenterologists, surgeons, bioengineers and all scientists with interests in gastrointestinal motility research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • , Auckland Bioengineering Institute, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    L. K. Cheng, A. J. Pullan

  • The Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA

    G. Farrugia

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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