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J Appl Physiol 64: 367-370, 1988;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 64, Issue 1 367-370, Copyright © 1988 by American Physiological Society

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Comparison of glottic areas measured by acoustic reflections vs. computerized tomography

A. D. D'Urzo, I. Rubinstein, V. G. Lawson, K. P. Vassal, A. S. Rebuck, A. S. Slutsky and V. Hoffstein
Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

We compared measurements of glottic area obtained by acoustic reflection technique with anatomically equivalent area measured from computerized tomographic (CT) scans of the neck in 11 subjects with glottic pathology. Both measurements were performed in the supine position during tidal breathing at functional residual capacity. We found excellent agreement in glottic areas obtained by both methods: the mean (+/- SD) values were 1.8 +/- 0.8 cm2 for the acoustic method and 1.7 +/- 0.9 cm2 for the CT method. Linear regression analysis revealed the following relationship between the area measured by acoustic technique (AAC) and that measured by CT (ACT): AAC = 0.81.ACT + 0.36. There was a significant correlation between the two measurements of glottic area (r = 0.95, P less than 0.0001). We conclude that the acoustic reflection technique may be used reliably in clinical and physiological studies concerned with glottic geometry.


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