Function of Tongue-Related Muscles during Speech-A Tagging MRI Movie Study.

Accession number;00A0534305
Title;Function of Tongue-Related Muscles during Speech-A Tagging MRI Movie Study.
Author; KUMADA MASANOBU (Univ. of Tokyo) MASAKI SHINOBU (ATR Human Information Processing Res. Lab.) HONDA KIYOSHI (ATR Human Information Processing Res. Lab.) SHIMADA YASUHIRO (Shinseikai Sogo Byoin Takanohara Chuo Byoin) MORI KOICHI (National Rehabilitation Center for Disabled, Inst.) NIIMI SEIJI (Univ. of Tokyo)
Journal Title;Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics
Journal Code:Z0214B
ISSN:0030-2813
VOL.41;NO.2;PAGE.170-178(2000)
Figure&Table&Reference;FIG.4, REF.27
Pub. Country;Japan
Language;Japanese
Abstract;This study introduces the "tagging MRI movie", a new method which combines the synchronized sampling method and tagging snapshot MRI. With this method, both the outer and inner configurations of the tongue during speech are visualized as a movie, and contraction of tongue-related muscles during speech can be estimated. Using data for /tata/ and /kaka/ produced by one Japanese-speaking male subject, we estimated that the superior longitudinalis and the anterior part of the genioglossus muscles synergically move the tongue-body antero-inferiorrly, and antagonically move the tongue-tip antero-superioly/postero-inferiorly. This new method can be used to acquire information with on the function of tongue muscles during speech, which is very important for clinical matters such as rehabilitation of dysarthria. (author abst.)