Assessment of Gastric Emptying by 13C-octanoic Acid Breath Test. Mathematical Analysis of Elimination: Moment Method of Incomplete Gamma Function Estimation

Abstract

A review of methods of gastric emptyig evaluation that use 13C-breath test. The description of original method of 13CO2 elimination.

Parameters of incomplete gamma function are estimated by the moment method.

Keywords

• 13C-octanoic acid breath test
• gastric emptying
• mathematical model