Perfusion cuvette for the simultaneous measurement of mechanical, optical and energetic parameters of skinned muscle fibres

A fibre optic catheter for simultaneous

A fibre optic catheter for simultaneous measurement of longitudinal and circumferential muscular activity in the gastrointestinal tract

✍ John W. Arkwright; Neil G. Blenman; Ian D. Underhill; Simon A. Maunder; Nicholas 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 268 KB

## Abstract Diagnostic catheters based on fibre Bragg gratings (FBG's) are proving to be highly effective for measurement of the muscular activity associated with motility in the human gut. While the primary muscular contractions that generate peristalsis are circumferential in nature, it has long