Speyer, Renée, Wieneke, George, Ghazi Hosseini, Elham, Kempen, Pieter A., Kersing, Willem, and Dejonckere, Philippe H. (2002) Effect of voice therapy as objectively evaluated by digitized laryngeal stroboscopic imaging. Annals of Otology, Rhinology and Laryngology , 111 (10). pp. 902-908.

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Abstract

Objective measurements derived from digitized laryngeal stroboscopic images were used to demonstrate changes in vocal fold vibration and in the size of benign lesions after 3 months of voice therapy. Forty chronically dysphonic patients were studied. By means of a rigid stroboscope, pretreatment and posttreatment recordings were made of the vocal folds at rest and under stroboscopic light during phonation. From each recording, images of the positions at rest and during vibration at maximal opening and at maximal closure were digitized. The surface areas of any lesions and of the glottal gap were independently measured in the digitized images by 2 experienced laryngologists. Referential distances were determined in order to compensate for discrepancies in magnification in the various recordings. After 3 months of voice therapy, significant improvement in lesion size and degree of maximal closure during vibration could be demonstrated in about 50% of the patients. The degree of maximal opening did not prove to be a significant parameter.

Item ID:	31007
Item Type:	Article (Research - C1)
ISSN:	1943-572X
Keywords:	clinical practice, digital processing, quantification, treatment outcome, videostroboscopy, voice therapy
Date Deposited:	26 Feb 2014 04:29
FoR Codes:	11 MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES > 1103 Clinical Sciences > 110315 Otorhinolaryngology @ 100%
SEO Codes:	92 HEALTH > 9201 Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions) > 920107 Hearing, Vision, Speech and Their Disorders @ 100%
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