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Analysis of 3-D Tongue Motion from Tagged and Cine Magnetic Resonance Images by Xing, Fangxu, Woo, Jonghye, Lee, Junghoon, Murano, Emi Z, Stone, Maureen, Prince, Jerry L

“…Purpose: Measuring tongue deformation and internal muscle motion during speech has been a challenging task because the tongue deforms in 3 dimensions, contains…”
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Vocal Tract Adjustments of Dysphonic and Non-Dysphonic Women Pre- and Post-Flexible Resonance Tube in Water Exercise: A Quantitative MRI Study by Yamasaki, Rosiane, Murano, Emi Z, Gebrim, Eloisa, Hachiya, Adriana, Montagnoli, Arlindo, Behlau, Mara, Tsuji, Domingos

“…Summary Objective To compare vocal tract (VT) adjustments of dysphonic and non-dysphonic women before and after flexible resonance tube in water exercise…”
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Reconstruction of High-Resolution Tongue Volumes From MRI by Woo, Jonghye, Murano, Emi Z., Stone, Maureen, Prince, Jerry L.

“…Magnetic resonance images of the tongue have been used in both clinical studies and scientific research to reveal tongue structure. In order to extract…”
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Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function: Baseline Findings From the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health: ELSA-Brasil by Samelli, Alessandra G., Santos, Itamar S., Deal, Jennifer A., Brunoni, André R., Padilha, Fernanda Y.O.M.M., Matas, Carla G., Moreira, Renata R., Rabelo, Camila M., Murano, Emi Z., Bensenõr, Isabela J., Lotufo, Paulo A., Suemoto, Claudia K.

“…Hearing loss (HL) has been associated with cognitive impairment in high-income countries. However, no study has investigated this association in low- and…”
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Segmentation of tongue muscles from super-resolution magnetic resonance images by Ibragimov, Bulat, Prince, Jerry L., Murano, Emi Z., Woo, Jonghye, Stone, Maureen, Likar, Boštjan, Pernuš, Franjo, Vrtovec, Tomaž

“…[Display omitted] •The first attempt to segment tongue muscles from in vivo MR images is presented.•The focus is on segmenting the genioglossus and inferior…”
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Semi-automatic segmentation for 3D motion analysis of the tongue with dynamic MRI by Lee, Junghoon, Woo, Jonghye, Xing, Fangxu, Murano, Emi Z, Stone, Maureen, Prince, Jerry L

“…Highlights • We proposed a segmentation method for dynamic MRI-based tongue motion analysis. • Proposed method requires a small amount of user-interactions. •…”
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Measuring tongue motion from tagged cine-MRI using harmonic phase (HARP) processing by PARTHASARATHY, Vijay, PRINCE, Jerry L, STONE, Maureen, MURANO, Emi Z, NESSAIVER, Moriel

“…A cine series of tagged magnetic resonance (MR) images of the tongue is used to measure tongue motion and its internal deformation during speech. Tagged images…”
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Perturbation Measurements on the Degree of Naturalness of Synthesized Vowels by Yamasaki, Rosiane, Montagnoli, Arlindo, Murano, Emi Z, Gebrim, Eloisa, Hachiya, Adriana, Lopes da Silva, Jorge Vicente, Behlau, Mara, Tsuji, Domingos

“…Summary Objective To determine the impact of jitter and shimmer on the degree of naturalness perception of synthesized vowels produced by acoustical simulation…”
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Tissue-Point Motion Tracking in the Tongue from Cine MRI and Tagged MRI by Woo, Jonghye, Stone, Maureen, Suo, Yuanming, Murano, Emi Z, Prince, Jerry L

“…Purpose: Accurate tissue motion tracking within the tongue can help professionals diagnose and treat vocal tract--related disorders, evaluate speech quality…”
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Compensatory articulation during bilabial fricative production by regulating muscle stiffness by Gomi, Hiroaki, Honda, Masaaki, Ito, Takayuki, Murano, Emi Z.

“…The cooperative mechanisms in articulatory movements were examined by using mechanical perturbations during bilabial phonemic tasks. The first experiment…”
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Incompressible Deformation Estimation Algorithm (IDEA) From Tagged MR Images by Xiaofeng Liu, Abd-Elmoniem, K. Z., Stone, M., Murano, E. Z., Jiachen Zhuo, Gullapalli, R. P., Prince, J. L.

“…Measuring the 3D motion of muscular tissues, e.g., the heart or the tongue, using magnetic resonance (MR) tagging is typically carried out by interpolating the…”
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Fluctuating flow. Vibrato, tremolo, or upper airway oscillation by Sowho, Mudiaga O, Wolfe, Erica, Murano, Emi Z, Kirkness, Jason P

“…A 48-year-old African-American woman presented for an overnight polysomnography study as part of participation in a research protocol. Voice tremor is the…”
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Effect of oral appliances on genioglossus muscle tonicity seen with diffusion tensor imaging: A pilot study by Shinagawa, Hideo, DDS, PhD, Murano, Emi Z., MD, PhD, Zhuo, Jiachen, MS, Landman, Bennett, PhD, Gullapalli, Rao P., PhD, Prince, Jerry L., PhD, Stone, Maureen, PhD

“…Objective The purpose of this study was to examine whether the diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) technique can be used as a modality to represent the structural…”
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Motion of apical and laminal /s/ in normal and post-glossectomy speakers by Reichard, Rachel, Stone, Maureen, Woo, Jonghye, Murano, Emi Z, Prince, Jerry L

“…There are two ways to produce an `s' in English: apical and laminal. They are almost identical perceptually and the reason for choosing one type is not well…”
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Semi-automatic segmentation of the tongue for 3D motion analysis with dynamic MRI by Junghoon Lee, Jonghye Woo, Fangxu Xing, Murano, Emi Z., Stone, Maureen, Prince, Jerry L.

“…Accurate segmentation is an important preprocessing step for measuring the internal deformation of the tongue during speech and swallowing using 3D dynamic…”
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3D tongue motion from tagged and cine MR images by Xing, Fangxu, Woo, Jonghye, Murano, Emi Z, Lee, Junghoon, Stone, Maureen, Prince, Jerry L

“…Understanding the deformation of the tongue during human speech is important for head and neck surgeons and speech and language scientists. Tagged magnetic…”
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Fast force-generation dynamics of human articulatory muscles by Ito, Takayuki, Murano, Emi Z, Gomi, Hiroaki

“…1 NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Kanagawa 243-0198; 2 ATR Human Information Science Laboratories, Kyoto…”
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Application of diffusion tensor imaging after glossectomy by Murano, Emi Z., Shinagawa, Hideo, Zhuo, Jiachen, Gullapalli, Rao P., Ord, Robert A., Prince, Jerry L., Stone, Maureen

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MRI analysis of 3D normal and post-glossectomy tongue motion in speech by Fangxu Xing, Murano, Emi Z., Junghoon Lee, Jonghye Woo, Stone, Maureen, Prince, Jerry L.

“…Measuring the internal muscular motion and deformation of the tongue during natural human speech is of high interest to head and neck surgeons and speech…”
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Hearing Loss and Cognitive Function: Baseline Findings From the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health: ELSA-Brasil by Samelli, Alessandra G., Santos, Itamar S., Deal, Jennifer A., Brunoni, André R., Padilha, Fernanda Y.O.M.M., Matas, Carla G., Moreira, Renata R., Rabelo, Camila M., Murano, Emi Z., Bensenõr, Isabela J., Lotufo, Paulo A., Suemoto, Claudia K.

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