Effect of postmortem changes and freezing on the viscoelastic properties of vocal fold tissues

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 482-491

  Chan, Roger W ^a   Titze, Ingo R ^b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Denver Center for the Performing Arts   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Freezing; Larynx; Postmortem; Shear elasticity; Stiffness; Tissue mechanics; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; ELASTIC MODULI; FREEZING; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHEOMETERS; SOLUTIONS; TISSUE; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOSITY;

CANINE VOCAL FOLD MUCOSA; LARYNX; POSTMORTEM; TORSIONAL RHEOMETER; VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES; VOCAL FOLD TISSUES;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOG; ELASTICITY; EVALUATION; FREEZING; IN VITRO STUDY; LARYNX MUCOSA; METHODOLOGY; MUCOSA; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY; VOCAL CORD;

ANIMALS; CRYOPRESERVATION; DOGS; ELASTICITY; FREEZING; LARYNGEAL MUCOSA; MUCOUS MEMBRANE; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VISCOSITY; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 0037799365     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1561287     Document Type: Article

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