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Milk effective as gastrointestinal contrast agent

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Michael J. Lander

Patients who have undergone CT imaging of their abdominal tract may have swallowed a barium-based solution before the procedure. The mixture -- usually a suspension of radio-opaque barium sulfate -- attenuates the x-ray signal from the machine and helps illuminate details of adjacent tissue in the images. At the November meeting of the Radiological Society of North America, however, Dr. Lisa Shah-Patel from St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in New York presented results from an ongoing study that could help make cow’s milk an accepted radiological contrast agent for some patients....Read full article

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    Published: January 2007
    barium-based solutionBiophotonicsCT imagingNews & Featuresradio-opaque barium sulfateSensors & Detectors

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