Non-invasive <i>in vivo</i> measurement of the mechanical properties of human vocal fold tissue
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The mechanical properties of the vocal fold mucosa have a great effect on the vocal folds oscillations, and voice quality. A non-invasive method was developed and examined to obtain the mechanical properties of human vocal fold tissue in vivo via measurements of the mucosal wave propagation speed during phonation. High speed and MRI images of three subject’s vocal folds were captured while phonating at different pitches. The images obtained from these two techniques were matched and the dimensions of the vocal folds were obtained. The mucosal wave propagation speed was determined for the three subjects at different pitches through an automatic image processing procedure. The shear modulus of the subjects’ vocal fold mucosa was then calculated using a surface (Rayleigh) wave propagation model and the measured wave speeds. This is revealed that the mucosal wave propagation speed and the shear modulus of the vocal fold tissue increased with the pitch. The results were in good agreement with those from other studies obtained via in vitro measurements, thereby supporting the validity of the proposed measurement method. This method offers the potential for in vivo clinical assessments.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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