Sung MW, Kim KH, Koh TY, Kwon TY, Mo JH, Choi SH, Lee JS, Park KS, Kim EJ, Sung MY. Videostrobokymography: a new method for the quantitative analysis of vocal fold vibration.
Laryngoscope 1999;
109:1859-63. [PMID:
10569423 DOI:
10.1097/00005537-199911000-00027]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVES
To develop a new analysis method for the quantitative assessment of vibration of the vocal folds, using conventional videostroboscopic image data.
METHODS
We used prerecorded videostroboscopic images to evaluate quantitatively the vibration of the vocal folds. Successive images were converted as digital images by means of an image-grabbing board, processed for analysis, and reconstructed as kymograms by rearranging the same lines of all processed images along the time axis.
RESULTS
We developed a new technique for evaluating the vibration of the vocal folds. The vibrations of multiple vocal fold regions were easily and objectively evaluated by this technique. The objective parameters, such as open quotient and asymmetry index, could be obtained easily using this technique.
CONCLUSIONS
Videostrobokymography demonstrated objectively the vibrations of several vocal fold regions at the same time. This technique has the potential to be a new tool to analyze and monitor the pathological changes and treatment results of vocal fold movement in a more refined quantitative fashion, using videostroboscopic images.
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