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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 8.
Published in final edited form as: Gut. 2010 Sep;59(9):1288–1296. doi: 10.1136/gut.2009.199653

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Example of radio-opaque marker colonic transit measurement. Plain x-ray obtained 4 days after ingestion of 72 radio-opaque markers on days 1–3 (ie, Metcalf technique) shows 22 markers scattered throughout the colon, suggestive of normal colonic transit.