Measuring Body-Cover Vibration of Vocal Folds Based on High-Frame-Rate Ultrasonic Imaging and High-Speed Video

Author

Xulei Qin ; Liang Wu ; Hujie Jiang ; Shanshan Tang ; Supin Wang ; Mingxi Wan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Biomed. Eng., Xi´an Jiaotong Univ., Xi´an, China

Volume

58

Issue

8

fYear

2011

Firstpage

2384

Lastpage

2390

Abstract

Vibration of vocal folds is a body-cover layered vibration pattern due to the two-layer tissue structures of vocal folds. A method based on a synchronal imaging system is proposed in order to image and measure the body-cover vibration pattern of vocal folds. This imaging system contains two parts: high-frame-rate ultrasonic imaging part and high-speed video part, which can synchronously image the vibration of the body and cover layers at high speed. Then, image analysis methods are applied to measure the body-cover vibration of vocal folds from both recorded image sequences. We analyze characteristics of body-layer vibration based on the measurements from designed experiments. Moreover, these results meet simulations of a body-cover model.

Keywords

biological tissues; biomechanics; biomedical optical imaging; biomedical ultrasonics; speech; vibration measurement; vibrations; body cover layered vibration pattern; body cover model simulations; body cover vibration measurement; body layer vibration characteristics; high frame rate ultrasonic imaging; high speed video imaging; image sequences; synchronal imaging system; vocal fold two layer tissue structures; vocal fold vibration; Acoustics; Image motion analysis; Optical imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Vibration measurement; Vibrations; Body-cover layers of vocal folds; high-frame-rate ultrasonic (HFRU); high-speed video (HSV); vibration measurement; Humans; Image Enhancement; Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; Oscillometry; Reproducibility of Results; Sensitivity and Specificity; Speech Production Measurement; Ultrasonography; Vibration; Video Recording; Vocal Cords;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9294

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TBME.2011.2157156

Filename

5771542