Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 547-552 , June 2009

Validation of the newborn larynx modeling with aerodynamical experimental data

  • R. Nicollas

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de l’I.U.S.T.I., U.M.R. 6595 C.N.R.S.-Université de Provence, Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 5 Rue Enrico Fermi 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France
    • Laboratoire d’Audiophonologie clinique et expérimentale, Université de la Méditerranée, C.H.U. Timone, 264 Rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Service d’ORL pédiatrique, CHU Timone Enfants, 264 rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 5, France.
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  • J. Giordano

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de l’I.U.S.T.I., U.M.R. 6595 C.N.R.S.-Université de Provence, Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 5 Rue Enrico Fermi 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France
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  • R. Garrel

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Audiophonologie clinique et expérimentale, Université de la Méditerranée, C.H.U. Timone, 264 Rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
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  • M. Medale

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de l’I.U.S.T.I., U.M.R. 6595 C.N.R.S.-Université de Provence, Technopôle de Château-Gombert, 5 Rue Enrico Fermi 13453 Marseille cedex 13, France
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  • P. Caminat

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides, UNIMECA, 60 rue Joliot Curie, Technopole de Chateau-Gombert, 13453 Marseille, France
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  • A. Giovanni

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Audiophonologie clinique et expérimentale, Université de la Méditerranée, C.H.U. Timone, 264 Rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
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  • M. Ouaknine

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Audiophonologie clinique et expérimentale, Université de la Méditerranée, C.H.U. Timone, 264 Rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France
  • ,
  • J.M. Triglia

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire d’Audiophonologie clinique et expérimentale, Université de la Méditerranée, C.H.U. Timone, 264 Rue Saint Pierre, 13385 Marseille cedex 05, France

Received 14 August 2007 ,Revised 20 July 2008 ,Accepted 30 August 2008.

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PII: S1350-4533(08)00174-4

doi: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2008.08.009

Medical Engineering & Physics
Volume 31, Issue 5 , Pages 547-552 , June 2009