Measurement of temporal changes in vocal tract area function from 3D cine-MRI data

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 1037-1049

  Takemoto, Hironori ^a   Honda, Kiyoshi ^a   Masaki, Shinobu ^a   Shimada, Yasuhiro ^a   Fujimoto, Ichiro ^a  

^a ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEAD-NECK VOLUMES; LARYNX; TEMPORAL CHANGES; VOCAL TRACT AREA FUNCTION;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; GEOMETRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GEOMETRY; HARD PALATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JAPAN; LARYNX; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MOUTH CAVITY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SAMPLING; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH; SPEECH ARTICULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOCAL CORD;

HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LARYNX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHARYNX; PHONATION;

EID: 31744433323     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2151823     Document Type: Article

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