Journal of Voice
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 1-7 , January 2011

Measurement of Young's Modulus of Vocal Folds by Indentation

This article was a poster presentation at the 130th Annual Meeting of the American Laryngological Association, Phoenix, Arizona, May 28–29, 2009.

  • Dinesh K. Chhetri

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence and reprint requests to Dinesh K. Chhetri, MD, 62-132 CHS, Division of Head and Neck Surgery, The Laryngeal Dynamics Laboratory, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California Los Angeles, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90095.
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  • Zhaoyan Zhang
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  • Juergen Neubauer

,Accepted 22 September 2009.

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 This study was funded by a grant from the American Laryngological Voice and Research Education Foundation (D.K.C.) and by grants R01DC003072 and R01DC009229 from the National Institutes of Health.

 Other financial disclosures: None.

PII: S0892-1997(09)00152-0

doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2009.09.005

Journal of Voice
Volume 25, Issue 1 , Pages 1-7 , January 2011

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