Talk:Scintigraphy

It is my understanding that Scintigraphy is of special interest in the diagnosis of medical problems in horses. It appears to be an increasingly expensive procedure due to regulations on radioactive substances. Can someone who knows more about this confirm? David Spector (talk) 11:14, 20 October 2010 (UTC)Reply

I suggest merging Scintillography into Scintigraphy.

1. It has no sources and neither page discusses the difference between the two. They discuss many of the same technologies.

2. It has hundreds of times fewer Google results, many of them empty. There are a good number of academic results, but none explicitly compare the methods, and many use the words interchangeably. http://books.google.com/books?isbn=8131231666

http://bopss.org/plugins/abstracts/view_abstract.php?abs_id=1397

http://www.bjcvs.org/article/365/Should_the_diabetics_have_the_internal_thoracic_artery_skeletonized__Assessment_of_sternal_perfusion_by_scintillography

3. Scintillography's only non-English results are Portuguese and Russian, which both point back to Scintigraphy. If there is any realy difference, it is small enough that Scintillography could be listed as a variant of Scintigraphy. --Martin Berka (talk) 13:44, 26 June 2013 (UTC) Based on the absence of objections, I have merged these two articles. LT90001 (talk) 13:18, 26 August 2013 (UTC)Reply

It would be great if someone could add a section about the Gastric Emptying Study procedure (also known as Gastric Emptying Scan or Gastric Scintigraphy). Thank you. —24.235.78.115 (talk) 17:18, 14 April 2014 (UTC)Reply

I agree, I came here looking for that exact thing and was surprised to not see it listed under the "By Organ and Organ System" section. Perhaps this from medicine.net: "For a gastric emptying study, a patient eats a meal in which the solid component of the meal (for example, scrambled eggs), the liquid component of the meal (for example, water), or both, are mixed with a small amount of radioactive material. A scanner (acting like a Geiger counter) is placed over the patient's stomach to monitor the amount of radioactivity in the stomach for several hours after the test meal is eaten. As the radioactively-labeled food empties from the stomach, the amount of radioactivity in the stomach decreases. The rate at which the radioactivity leaves the stomach reflects the rate at which food is emptying from the stomach" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.39.191.168 (talk) 04:18, 19 May 2016 (UTC)Reply

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