Pressure Distributions in a Static Physical Model of the Hemilarynx: Measurements and Computations

Journal of Voice

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 2-20

  Fulcher, Lewis P ^a   Scherer, Ronald C ^a   De Witt, Kenneth J ^b   Thapa, Pushkal ^a   Bo, Yang ^c   Kucinschi, Bogdan R ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Toledo   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow rates; Glottis; Hemilarynx; Larynx; Physical model; Pressure distributions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GLOTTIS; LARYNX; PHARYNX; PHONATION; PHYSICAL MODEL; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT;

AIR PRESSURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GLOTTIS; HUMANS; LARYNX; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTION; PRESSURE; SOFTWARE; UNCERTAINTY; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 72749105410     PISSN: 08921997     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2008.02.005     Document Type: Article

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