Figure 6
(a) Scheme of assessment of intestinal motility. It is deemed to have impaired motility if x1 ≥ α and x2 ≤ β, where α and β are the threshold values. An intestinal tract that had no impairment in motility satisfies the condition x1 < α or x2 > β, which implies denial of the proposition x1 ≥ α and x2 ≤ β. (b) The flowchart of cine-MRI diagnosis for chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIPO). A patient is deemed to have CIPO if any of the intestinal tracts with impaired motility was detected.
