Traditional Japanese Medicine Daikenchuto Improves Functional Constipation in Poststroke Patients
Figure 1
Estimation of gas volume score (GVS). Plain abdominal radiographs obtained from fasting subjects were converted to digital data. The data were read using ImageJ, an image analysis program, and intestinal gas was traced using the program. (a) Tracing image and pixel count of the gas was 3,533 in this patient. (b) The window of abdominal area. The rectangular area was measured as the area between the inferior right side margin of the diaphragm, the inner costal margin, and the superior border of the pubic symphysis. The pixel count of the rectangular area was calculated as 92,968 in (b). GVS was calculated as (a)/(b)%; therefore, the GVS of this image is “.”
