Researches on Gastric Interdigestive Pressure Activity: Methods, Analysis and Interpretation

Abstract

Aims: To give researches on gastric interdigestive pressure activity, including gastrointestinal (GI) physiological motility recording method, data processing and analysis method, as well as to give reasonable interpretation on how to generate such gastric pressure activity. Study design: Basic application study. Place and Duration of Study: School of Medical Instrument and Food Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology (USST), between June 2010 and October 2011. Methodology: We introduced a telemetric method to get the gastric physiological pressure activity inside the GI tract and the general process for processing such gastric Migrating Motor Complex (MMC) pressure activity including the process of abnormal value removing, medians of five-three-Hanning (53H) weighted average smoothing, and the fluctuation frequency estimation. Results: Using the process of abnormal value removing, medians of five-three-Hanning (53H) weighted average smoothing, and the fluctuation frequency estimation, we well obtained gastric interdigestive pressure activity (MMC). Conclusion: The methods introduced in the paper including abnormal value removing, the 53H weighted average smoothing, and the fluctuation frequency estimation were helpful for researches on gastric interdigestive pressure activity.