Voice low tone to high tone ratio - A new index for nasal airway assessment

Chinese Journal of Physiology

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 123-127

  Lee, Guoshe ^a,b   Yang, Cheryl C H ^b   Kuo, Terry B J ^b  

^a HUALIEN ARMED FORCES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Nasal airway; Nasal decongestion; Power spectral analysis; Voice

Indexed keywords

DECONGESTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; POWER SPECTRUM; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VOICE;

EID: 0042882191     PISSN: 03044920     EISSN: 26660059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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