Sensitivity of vocal fold vibratory modes to their three-layer structure: Implications for computational modeling of phonation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 965-976

  Xue, Q ^a   Zheng, X ^a   Bielamowicz, S ^b   Mittal, R ^a  

^a Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; COVER LAYERS; EIGEN FREQUENCIES; EIGEN MODES; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; GEOMETRIC PARAMETER; LIGAMENT LENGTHS; LONGITUDINAL VARIATIONS; THREE-LAYER; THREE-LAYER STRUCTURES; UNIFORM STRUCTURE; VIBRATORY MODE; VOCAL FOLDS;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; SOLIDS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SPEECH;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LIGAMENT; PHONATION; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORD; YOUNG MODULUS;

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LIGAMENTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PHONATION; VIBRATION; VOCAL CORDS;

EID: 80052432270     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3605529     Document Type: Article

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