Effect of nasal decongestion on voice spectrum of a nasal consonant-vowel

Journal of Voice

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 71-77

  Lee, Guo She ^a,b   Yang, Cheryl C H ^d   Wang, Ching Ping ^c   Kuo, Terry B J ^a  

^a TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d Department of Physiology ^*

Author keywords

Nasal airway; Nasal decongestion; Voice spectrum

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSONANT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NOSE CAVITY; NOSE CONGESTION; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; SOUND INTENSITY; VOCALIZATION; VOICE;

EID: 14844314446     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2004.03.002     Document Type: Article

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