Tongue function is vital for chewing and swallowing and lingual dysfunction is often
associated with dysphagia. Better treatment of dysphagia depends on a better …

Dexterous tongue deformation underlies eating, drinking, and speaking. The orofacial
sensorimotor cortex has been implicated in the control of coordinated tongue kinematics, but …

The tongue has a wide variety of motor functions, which are driven by tongue muscle
contractions and associated with movements of the hyoid bone (HB) connected to the …

Surgery for tongue cancer often results in a major loss in quality of life. While MRI may be
used to minimise the volume of excised tissue, often the full tumour extent is missed. This …

Radiation therapy (RT) is an important adjuvant and primary treatment modality for head and
neck cancers. A severe side effect of RT is fibrosis or scarring of muscle tissues of the oral …

The purpose of this study was to analyze the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) signs of
acute gastrocnemius injury and to provide the basis for clinical diagnosis. Thirty‐two patients …

In this thesis, a novel device for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is
developed and tested. This device uses intra-oral suction to stabilize tongue and/or soft …

N qu ()≥ 0) can be done with both implicit and explicit integrators. FEM models are often
solved with an implicit integrator to allow larger time steps and thus to boost the …

抄録 構音時の舌運動を理解するためには, 3 次元で捉えることが必要である. そこで著者らは,
東京都市大学と, 2 次元舌超音波画像を基に 3 次元の舌画像 (以下, 舌モデル) を構築するツール …