Evaluation of functional positions of tongue and soft palate with MR imaging: Initial clinical results

✍ Scribed by Berthold B. Wein; Matthias Drobnitzky; Stanislaw Klajman; Wolfgang Angerstein

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 310 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1053-1807
• DOI: 10.1002/jmri.1880010317

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Magnetic resonance imaging was used to analyze functional positions of the tongue and soft palate in 10 patients and 10 healthy volunteers. The patients had velopharyngeal insufficiency and/or dysfunction of the tongue. With snapshot FLASH (fast low‐angle shot) sequences (data acquisition time, <1 second), malpositions of the articulatory apparatus were imaged and recorded for follow‐up documentation.