基于单幅数字散斑投影及图像相关的离面振动测量

采用单幅数字散斑图投影及高速数字图像采集技术,研究了动态离面位移的测量。采用商用液晶投影仪将计算机产生的模拟散斑图投影到待测动态变形物体表面,由高速数字图像采集设备摄取并保存变形散斑图,采用时间序列数字图像相关软件计算出物体表面各点随时间变化的离面位移。这种方法用于振动分析时不仅可以获得振型分布,而且还可以获得各点的振幅值。与现有的激光频闪照相测振及激光多普勒测振等方法相比,具有光学系统简单,可全场定量测量。悬臂梁振动实验结果证实了该方法的有效性。     

高速摄影成像分析声带振动发声的前后不对称性

高速摄影成像直接观察到声带振动的前后不对称性。将11个离体狗喉声带进行发声实验,设置3组声门下压分别为10 cm H₂O,20 cm H₂O和30 cm H₂O,利用高速摄像仪和传声器,分别记录不同声门下压的声带振动图像和声信号.对高速摄影成像与同步采集的声信号基频进行定量分析和比较,基频均随声门下压的增大而增加。此外,对两种测量方法得到的基频进行相关分析比较,得到在同一声门下压下两种方法的基频相关系数均大于0.9,表明高速摄影成像得到的基频与声信号的基频具有高度相关性。高速摄影成像能直观地测量声带振动行为,对研究声带振动发声机理提供了有价值的测量手段。高速摄影获得的声带线性结构上25%,50%,75%位置处的振动幅度,显示了声带前后振动不对称且声门下压较低时振动不对称较明显。      

男女嗓音源特性的比较研究

以男女性发声生理差异为基础,采用作者研制的嗓音测试系统无侵入地获取电声门波波形图、反滤波声门波波形图、扰动、声门发声效率等稳态和动态图谱与参数,对男女声带振动和嗓音源特性的差异进行了定量的比较研究,在男女性稳态发声声问波波形图时相参数对比、声门发声效率、浊音起声声带振动动态特性等方面获得了较多新的实验结果。这些结果与男女喉部解剖、发声生理解释相一致,对发声基础研究、言语工程技术和艺术嗓音学等领域有重要意义。     

时间分辨光学层析的实验研究

描述了一个基于Ti:Sapphire飞秒激光和同步扫描相机的时间分辨光层析（CT）实验系统。该系统采用步进电机驱动的三维移动平台对被测组织体作类似X射线层析工作方式的平行扫描,由此可获得多角度下的时间分辨投影,通过对三种代表不同吸收和散射特性组合的模拟组织体（phantom)进行实际测量,并应用相应的非线性迭代图像重建算法,获得了可靠的重建图像,研究结果表明,该系统构思简洁,工作可靠,是进行光层析成像技术研究的理想模式之一。     

受力腓肠肌剪切波速度的超声检测*

肌肉组织受力时的弹性特征变化,是其功能特性、健康状态的重要评估参量。该文利用在离体肌肉组织表面施加低频振动引起组织发生形变,在组织内部产生剪切波的方法,经过快速超声成像,通过剪切波图像估计剪切波的传播速度。研究结果表明顺肌纤维方向传播的剪切波速度快于垂直肌纤维方向传播的剪切波速度,剪切波的传播速度随受力的增加而变大,且顺肌纤维方向传播的剪切波速度与受力大小呈正相关。探讨肌纤维不同方向上的剪切波速度,为肌肉组织的病变及疲劳状态的检测和评估提供了参考。     

一种辐射声场近似计算方法——单元辐射叠加法

提出一种基于表面振速预报辐射声场的近似方法--单元辐射叠加法.研究表明,声传递向量中的每项元素等于对应单元以单位速度振动、其它单元振速都为零时的辐射声压,即刚性障板上活塞面以单位速度振动时的辐射声压.在此基础上,利用刚性障板上单位速度振动活塞面的辐射声压直接建立表面振速与辐射声压之间的传递关系,根据这个传递关系对表面振速进行加权、求和便得到总的辐射声压.计算时采用规则形状障板面去拟合实际障板面,以规则形状障板上振动活塞面的辐射声压去近似实际障板上振动活塞面的辐射声压.相对于边界元方法,该方法在计算速度与存储空间上具有很大的优势.计算表明该近似方法是合理的、可行的.     

基于双目视觉的多点三维振动测量系统

振动测量是现代制造业发展的关键技术之一,在军事、工业、农业等方面具有重要的应用意义。为了实现大视场、高效率的非接触式测量,基于双目视觉原理设计了一种多点三维振动测量系统。在待测物体表面粘贴多个标志点,对左右相机图像上的标志点进行多点同步准确匹配计算得到其空间三维坐标,实现三维测振。选取五个标志点进行实验,结果表明,测量误差最大为91μm/m,可满足大多数振动测量的要求。     

嗓音的测试与处理系统

本文介绍了一种无侵入、直接、客观、定量地反映发声过程中声带振动特性及嗓音嘶哑程度的自动测试与处理系统．该系统具有多路生理信号检测，电声门图参数提取，诣波噪声比分析，扰动分析，频谱分析，语话图分析等多种信息处理功能．实验与临床使用结果表明，本系统在正常与病变发声检查、艺术嗓音测试等方面具有重要应用价值．     

稀疏测点条件下的结构法向速度重建

为了实现稀疏测点条件下结构表面法向速度的准确重建,利用声辐射模态包含结构表面几何形状信息的性质,以声辐射模态作为基函数提出了一种稀疏测点条件下的结构法向振速重建方法。首先对结构表面的声辐射模态进行计算,并建立结构表面法向振动速度与声辐射模态之间的关系;在此基础上,由实际布置情况形成测点位置处的振速与其声辐射模态值的关系,并通过最小二乘法求得展开系数;最后由展开系数重建出结构表面的全部法向振速。利用两端封闭的双层钢质圆柱壳体在消声水池中进行了试验验证,分别开启激振器和转子台进行激励,两个试验的结果均表明,当测点数目较少时,所测的结果不能准确地表示结构的实际振动情况,在波数域内就表现为与振动相关的波数成份的丢失;利用所提出的方法,可以较为准确地重建和恢复结构的表面法向速度及其波数成份,由此验证了所提出方法的有效性。      

板结构的声辐射模态分析及其高分辨率法向振动速度重建

提出了一种基于声辐射模态的速度基向量构建方法,该速度基向量不受网格划分的影响,可用于高分辨率的板结构法向振动速度重建。首先对板表面稀疏网格的声辐射模态进行计算,再以声辐射模态和模态系数构建板法向振动速度分布的基向量,然后由声场测量声压求解基向量系数,最后由该系数和加密网格的速度基向量重建高分辨率的板法向振动速度分布。以简支板声源进行仿真计算,当测量声压信噪比为30 dB时,低频的法向振动速度重建误差最低可达3.7%;以固支板声源在消声室中进行实验验证,131.5 Hz振动频率下的重建误差低于7%。该方法实现了只需要少量声压测量点即可精确重建板声源更高分辨率的法向振动速度分布。      

The physics of small-amplitude oscillation of the vocal folds

A theory of vocal fold oscillation is developed on the basis of the body-cover hypothesis. The cover is represented by a distributed surface layer that can propagate a mucosal surface wave. Linearization of the surface-wave displacement and velocity, and further small-amplitude approximations, yields closed-form expressions for conditions of oscillation. The theory predicts that the lung pressure required to sustain oscillation, i.e., the oscillation threshold pressure, is reduced by reducing the mucosal wave velocity, by bringing the vocal folds closer together and by reducing the convergence angle in the glottis. The effect of vocal tract acoustic loading is included. It is shown that vocal tract inertance reduces the oscillation threshold pressure, whereas vocal tract resistance increases it. The treatment, which is applicable to falsetto and breathy voice, as well as onset or release of phonation in the absence of vocal fold collision, is harmonized with former treatments based on two-mass models and collapsible tubes.     

Vocal fold vibration of the canine larynx: Observation from an infraglottic view

The authors studied the vibratory action of the canine vocal fold from the tracheal side utilizing high-speed cinematography. Five excised canine larynges were used, and the lower surface of the vocal fold of three of them were marked with India ink as a tracer of a specific point on the vocal fold. A mucosal prominence, called the mucosal upheaval, appeared between the anterior commissure and the vocal process. Vibration was not seen below the mucosal upheaval. The mucosal wave started to move medially from just above the mucosal upheaval. The mucosal wave then became the free edge (lower lip) and collided with that of the other side at the midline. After collision, the lower lip moved upward to become the upper lip. At the same time, a part of the lower lip reflected laterally. The mucosal wave of the next cycle started from just above the mucosal upheaval during an opening phase. The mucosal upheaval vibrated with a low amplitude and with an earlier phase than the other portion of the vocal fold. The increase in tension of the vocal fold did not change the basic vibratory pattern of the mucosal upheaval, the mucosal wave, or the free edge. However, analysis of the mark before and after the increase in tension revealed that the mucosal upheaval occurred more medially or above when the vocal fold tension increased.     

Medial Surface Dynamics as a Function of Subglottal Pressure in a Canine Larynx Model

During vocal fold vibration, there may be a mucosal wave in the superior-inferior (vertical) direction, resulting in a convergent shape during opening and a divergent shape during closing. Most of our understanding of the converging/diverging shape of the glottis has come from studies in a hemilarynx model. Previous work has shown that vibratory patterns in the full excised larynx are different than the hemilarynx. This study characterized the dynamics of the medial glottal wall geometry during vibrations in the full excised canine larynx model. Using particle image velocimetry, the intraglottal geometry was measured at the midmembranous coronal plane in an excised canine larynx model. Measurements of the glottal area were taken simultaneously using high-speed imaging. The results show that skewing of the glottal area waveform occurs without the presence of a vocal tract and that the phase-lag of the superior edge relative to the inferior edge is smaller than reported and depends on the subglottal pressure. In addition, it shows that the glottal divergence angle during closing is proportional to the magnitude of the acoustic intensity and the intraglottal negative pressure. This preliminary data suggests that more studies are needed to determine the important mechanisms determining the relationship between intraglottal flow, intraglottal geometry, and acoustics.     

Direct-numerical simulation of the glottal jet and vocal-fold dynamics in a three-dimensional laryngeal model

An immersed-boundary method based flow solver coupled with a finite-element solid dynamics solver is employed in order to conduct direct-numerical simulations of phonatory dynamics in a three-dimensional model of the human larynx. The computed features of the glottal flow including mean and peak flow rates, and the open and skewness quotients are found to be within the normal physiological range. The flow-induced vibration pattern shows the classical "convergent-divergent" glottal shape, and the vibration amplitude is also found to be typical for human phonation. The vocal fold motion is analyzed through the method of empirical eigenfunctions and this analysis indicates a 1:1 modal entrainment between the "adduction-abduction" mode and the "mucosal wave" mode. The glottal jet is found to exhibit noticeable cycle-to-cycle asymmetric deflections and the mechanism underlying this phenomenon is examined.     

Anterior-posterior biphonation in a finite element model of vocal fold vibration

In this paper, a finite-element model is used to simulate anterior-posterior biphonation [Neubauer et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110(6), 3179-3192 (2001)]. The anterior-posterior stiffness asymmetric factor and the anterior-posterior shape asymmetric factor describe the asymmetry properties of vocal folds. Spatiotemporal plot, spectral analysis, anterior-posterior fundamental frequency ratio, cross covariation function, and correlation length quantitatively estimate the spatial asymmetry of vocal fold oscillations. Calculation results show that the anterior-posterior stiffness asymmetry decreases the spatial coherence of vocal fold vibration. When the stiffness asymmetry reaches a certain level, the drop in spatial coherence desynchronizes the vibration modes. The anterior and posterior sides of the vocal fold oscillate with two independent fundamental frequencies (f(a) and f(p)). The complex spectral characteristics of vocal fold vibration under biphonation conditions can be explained by the linear combination of f(a) and f(p). Empirical orthogonal eigenfunctions prove the existence of higher-order anterior-posterior modes when anterior-posterior biphonation occurs. Then, it is found that the anterior-posterior shape asymmetry also decreases the spatial coherence of vocal fold vibration, and shape asymmetry is a possible reason for anterior-posterior biphonation.     

Comparison between thyroplasty type I andArytenoid rotation: a study of vocal fold vibration using excised human larynges

The purpose of this paper was to compare the vibration of the vocal fold submitted to Isshiki thyroplasty type I (TPI) to that of the contralateral one adducted by the arytenoid rotation (AR) technique. The vocal folds of ten human fresh excised larynges were medialized by TPI on one side and by rotation of the arytenoid on the contralateral side. Laryngeal vibration was artificially produced and was recorded by videostroboscopy. The images were subjectively and objectively analyzed. Subjective analysis included periodicity of vibratory cycles, features of the mucosal wave present on the TPI side, amplitude of vibration, and profile of free border of each vocal fold during the opening phase. Objective analyses were carried out on frame-by-frame digitalized images to determine amplitudes of vibrations and phase differences between the folds in three glottic regions (anterior, middle, and posterior). Subjective analysis revealed regular periodicity in 100% of the larynges, a decrease in the mucosal wave on the TPI side in 70%, reduction in amplitude in 30%, and a sigmoid profile of the free border on the TPI side in 80%. Objective analysis showed mean amplitude in the posterior glottic region on the TPI side significantly larger than that on the arytenoids rotation side and phase asymmetry in 90% of the larynges.     

Infraglottic aspect of canine vocal fold vibration: Effect of increase of mean airflow rate and lengthening of vocal fold

The mucosal upheaval (MU), where the mucosal wave starts and propagates upward, appears only when the vocal fold vibrates. The location of the MU histologically and the effect of changes in mean air flow rate (MFR) and vocal fold length on occurrence of the MU were studied in twelve excised canine larynges. The lower surface of the vocal fold was marked to serve as a landmark for subsequent study. Cricothyroid approximation was performed to lengthen the vocal fold. After taking high-speed pictures or recording stroboscopic images from the tracheal side, a small cut wound was made at the mark. This wound served to compare the position of the MU with the histologically identified location of the mark. The larynx was then sectioned in the frontal plane. Before lengthening the vocal fold, the MU occurred on the area where the lamina propria became thinner and where the muscular layer neared the epithelial layer. After lengthening the vocal fold, the MU actually shifted medially compared with its original position. The subglottic area surrounded by the bilateral MUs became longer and thinner. Whether or not complete glottal closure during a vibratory cycle was achieved did not alter these findings. In contrast, with a fixed vocal fold length the MU appeared more laterally as MFR increased, but, based on the relation with the mark, its location on the vocal fold did not change from its original position before increase of MFR.     

Endoscopic microsuture repair of vocal fold defects

The presence of a nonvibratory segment of vocal folds after microlaryngeal surgery is often a cause of poor voice result. The etiology of a nonvibratory segment is due to full thickness epithelial defect followed by secondary wound closure and scar contracture. To reduce scar contracture and nonvibratory segment of the vocal folds, primary repair with a 6-0 chromic endo-knot suture technique was used to close defects and approximate microflaps of the vocal folds. This was done in 18 patients with epithelial defects after resection of benign vocal fold lesions. The pathologic findings included severe polypoid degeneration (n = 7), fusiform laryngeal polyps (n = 5), sulcus vocalis (n = 2), cyst (n = 2), and keratosis (n = 2). Voice was improved in all patients after surgery. Comparison of vocal fold vibration before and after surgery showed improvements in configuration, amplitude, and mucosal wave. Vocal folds that were sutured all had good vibratory characteristics; none had a nonvibrating segment at the site of suture placement. Voice and healing after microsuture technique were near normal by Day 10 and return of mucosal wave was often complete by Day 14. Endoscopic microsuture closure of microflaps of the vocal folds edge is safe and affords the surgeon an opportunity for primary repair with improved functional result.     

Visualization and Quantification of the Medial Surface Dynamics of an Excised Human Vocal Fold During Phonation

SUMMARY: The purpose of this investigation was to investigate physical mechanisms of vocal fold vibration during normal phonation through quantification of the medial surface dynamics of the fold. An excised hemilarynx setup was used. The dynamics of 30 microsutures mounted on the medial surface of a human vocal fold were analyzed across 18 phonatory conditions. The vibrations were recorded with a digital high-speed camera at a frequency of 4,000 Hz. The positions of the sutures were extracted and converted to three-dimensional coordinates using a linear approximation technique. The data were reduced to principal eigenfuctions, which captured over 90% of the variance of the data, and suggested mechanisms of sustained vocal fold oscillation. The vibrations were imaged as the following phonatory conditions were manipulated: glottal airflow, an adductory force applied to the muscular process, and an elongation force applied to the thyroid cartilage. Over the range of variables studied, only the variation in glottal airflow yielded significant changes in subglottal pressure and fundamental frequency. All recordings showed high correlation for the distribution of the dynamics across the medial surface of the vocal fold. The distribution of the different displacement directions and velocities showed the highest variations around the superior region of the medial surface. Although the computed vibration patterns of the two largest empirical eigenfunctions were consistent with previous experimental observations, the relative prominence of the two eigenfunctions changed as a function of glottal airflow, impacting theories of vocal efficiency and vocal economy.