title: Evaluation of functional positions of tongue and soft palate with MR imaging: initial clinical results.
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, less than 1 second), malpositions of the articulatory apparatus were imaged and recorded for follow-up documentation.
authors.affiliation: Clinics for Diagnostic Radiology, Hospital of the Technical University of Aachen, Germany.
authors.forename: B B
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Wein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drobnitzky
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Klajman
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Angerstein
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001184:Articulation Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D010160:Palate, Soft / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014059:Tongue / Q000503:physiopathology*