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laryngeal function study
Indications:
- dysphonia
Procedure:
- aerodynamic voice analysis
- measures how air from the lungs passes between & drives the vocal folds as the patient makes sound into an air transducer
- acoustic analysis
- the patient speaks into a microphone, & instruments translate factors including hoarseness, pitch, & loudness as a function of time
General
clinical procedure
References
- Aerodynamic Study for Laryngeal Function Assessment
Using Airflow Interruption Methods
University of Wisconsion, Dept of Surgery
http://www.surgery.wisc.edu/research/grants/26
- The Bain Block
Institute for Voice Analysis and Rehabilitation
http://www.bbivar.com/function_studies.php