Repository logo
 
No Thumbnail Available
Publication

Magnetic resonance imaging of the vocal tract: techniques and applications

Use this identifier to reference this record.
Name:Description:Size:Format: 
COM_SandraVentura_2009.pdf231.99 KBAdobe PDF Download

Advisor(s)

Abstract(s)

Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging has been used to analyse and evaluate the vocal tract shape through different techniques and with promising results in several fields. Our purpose is to demonstrate the relevance of MR and image processing for the vocal tract study. The extraction of contours of the air cavities allowed the set - up of a number of 3D reconstruction image stacks by means of the combination of orthogonally oriented sets of slices for e ach articulatory gesture, as a new approach to solve the expected spatial under sampling of the imaging process. In result these models give improved information for the visualization of morphologic and anatomical aspects and are useful for partial measure ments of the vocal tract shape in different situations. Potential use can be found in Medical and therapeutic applications as well as in acoustic articulatory speech modelling.

Description

Keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging Speech production study Image processing 3D modeling Vocal tract study

Citation

Research Projects

Organizational Units

Journal Issue

Publisher

Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication Press

CC License