High frequency ultrasonic characterization of human vocal fold tissue

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1827-1832

  Huang, Chih Chung ^a,b   Sun, Lei ^a   Dailey, Seth H ^c   Wang, Shyh Hau ^b   Shung, K Kirk ^a  

^a University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^b CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; IMAGE RESOLUTION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; ULTRASONIC TRANSDUCERS; ULTRASONICS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

ENDOLARYNGEAL SONOGRAPHY; ULTRASONIC PARAMETERS; VOCAL FOLDS (VF);

MUSCLE;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; BIOMICROSCOPY; CADAVER; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTENSIFIER; IMAGE QUALITY; LAMINA PROPRIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; VOCAL CORD;

ELASTICITY; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LARYNX; PHONATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOCAL CORDS; VOICE;

EID: 35248817403     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2756759     Document Type: Article

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