[Possibility of a method for dynamic study of abdominal viscera contractility from echographic images. 1st results]

Brilliance variations in selected areas of echographic display are recorded in real time thanks to photoconductive integrations from the screen. The areas concerned are: 1) gastroduodenal or colonic wall; 2) intraluminal medium in the same portion of the digestive tract. Simultaneously the pneumogram is recorded with these photometric variations in long period of time (1/2 h-2 h). Visceral displacements or medium echographic modulations give us informations about motricity and hydraulic changes. Several components of frequency are shown: pulse, respiratory interactions and several components of parietal contractions; we can notice the concordance between frequency variations obtained with others technics such as electrosplanchnography or manometry. This possibility of atraumatic confrontations with a visual control allows us new perspectives in physiopathological studies concerning hemodynamic, biomechanic interactions between viscera.