Concentric ring electrodes for non-invasive recording of gastric myoelectric activity

Abstract

[EN] Electrogastrography has emerged as a non-invasive technique for diagnosing an extensive variety of gastrointestinal disorders. The non-invasive electrogastrogram (EGG) remains a challenge due to the poor spatial resolution of conventional disk electrodes. In this work we attempted to determine the possibility of detecting gastric myoelectric activity using concentric ring electrodes (CRE) proposed to improve the spatial resolution of bioelectrical recordings. We simultaneously recorded 8 bipolar and bipolar concentric (BC) EGGs acquired by disk electrodes and CREs, respectively. The BC EGG showed lower signal amplitude than the bipolar recordings but were less influenced by cardiac interference and had a slow wave (SW) detectability above 80% when positioned over the stomach. We found a similar gastric SW frequency in both bipolar and BC EGG records in both fasting and postprandial states and a similar postprandial/fasting power ratio, suggesting the feasibility of using CRE to identify gastric myoelectric activity.