MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE VOCAL TRACT - Techniques and Applications

Sandra M. Rua Ventura, Diamantino Rui S. Freitas, João Manuel R. S. Tavares

2009

Abstract

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 each 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 measurements 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.

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Rua Ventura S., S. Freitas D. and R. S. Tavares J. (2009). MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE VOCAL TRACT - Techniques and Applications . In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Imaging Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IMAGAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009) ISBN 978-989-8111-68-5, pages 105-110. DOI: 10.5220/0001792901050110


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@conference{imagapp09,
author={Sandra M. Rua Ventura and Diamantino Rui S. Freitas and João Manuel R. S. Tavares},
title={MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE VOCAL TRACT - Techniques and Applications },
booktitle={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Imaging Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IMAGAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={105-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001792901050110},
isbn={978-989-8111-68-5},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the First International Conference on Computer Imaging Theory and Applications - Volume 1: IMAGAPP, (VISIGRAPP 2009)
TI - MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OF THE VOCAL TRACT - Techniques and Applications
SN - 978-989-8111-68-5
AU - Rua Ventura S.
AU - S. Freitas D.
AU - R. S. Tavares J.
PY - 2009
SP - 105
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0001792901050110