• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.112-117
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• 2013

Background and Objectives : This study aimed to determine the clinical effect of $Artecoll^{(R)}$ injection laryngoplasty for patients with vocal atrophy and mild sulcus vocalis. Materials and Method : Forty-one patients with vocal atrophy and/or mild sulcus vocalis received transcutaneous $Artecoll^{(R)}$ injection into the vocal folds under local anesthesia. Subjective evaluations including voice handicap index (VHI) and perceptual grading with Grade, Roughness, Breathiness, Asthenia, Strain (GRBAS) scales and objective evaluations including jitter, shimmer, noise-to-harmonic ratio (NHR), speaking fundamental frequency (SFF) and maximum phonation time (MPT) were evaluated before and 3 months after the injection. Results : VHI and Grade, Breathiness and Strain scales in GRBAS showed significant improvement 3 months after injection. SFF and MPT also significantly improved after the injection ; MPT increased and SFF in male patients decreased. Conclusion : Injection laryngoplasty with $Artecoll^{(R)}$ is an effective method for correcting the glottal insufficiency and improving voice quality in patients with vocal atrophy and/or mild sulcus.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.536-545
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• 2016

Household refrigerator radiates noise of which the pattern is dependent on the operating condition of its parts, such as compressor, flow fans, etc. Thus the refrigerator noise has a variety of frequency characteristics. Therefore, it is required to consider the noise characteristics for evaluating the noise quality and eventually developing the sound quality index of the refrigerator noise. In this study, five units of household refrigerator were selected to measure their noises that were used to generate sound sources for jury test of the study. The measured noises of five refrigerators were divided into ten kinds of sound source by considering operating condition and frequency characteristics. Additionally, the ten sources were each edited to have the same SPL of 30 dBA. Totally twenty kinds of sound sources (10-original SPL, 10-edited SPL 30 dBA) were evaluated by twenty-two subjects, and compared with their sound quality metrics. It was found that only the loudness of the metrics was meaningfully correlated with the subjective evaluation. The rests, sharpness, roughness and fluctuation strength, were not related. The conclusion of this study is that a new sophisticated index is necessary to be developed to qualitatively evaluate the household refrigerator noise.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.509-523
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• 2012

The sound quality based on design optimization, throughout the development process of various electronic office equipments, needs to be considered in order to respond the increased needs for the emotional satisfaction of customers in terms of psycho-acoustics. This paper focuses on how to describe the characteristics of operating sound radiated from laser printers by using various sound attributes, and to model the sound quality index that can properly evaluate the subjective preference on modification conditions in the improvement study quantitatively. Especially, the proposed verification process, in the form of combining the correlation based method and the decision error based method, was applied to improve the generality and reliability of a group of participants in the jury evaluation. The modified Aures tonality model was also proposed to improve the correlation coefficient with the mean response of participants by optimizing some parameters. As a result, the loudness, articulation index, roughness, tonality, fluctuation strength were used to model the sound quality index for laser printers by using the multiple-linear regression method. Through the improvement study, it was confirmed that replacing the absorbing materials is effective to reduce the tonalness radiated from the side of a reference printer model. Based on above results, it can be concluded that the proposed model has enough usefulness as quantitative evaluation index to evaluate the difference between modification conditions in the improvement study.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제32권2호
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• pp.75-80
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• 2021

Background and Objectives Functional aphonia refers to in which by presenting whispering voice and almost producing very high-pitched tensed voices are produced. Voice therapy is the most effective treatment, but there is a lack of consensus for application of voice therapy. The purpose of this study was to examine the vocal characteristics of functional aphonia and the effect of voice therapy applied accordingly. Materials and Method From October 2019 to December 2020, 11 patients with functional aphonia were treated using voice therapy which was processing three stages such as vocal hygiene, trial therapy, and behavioral therapy. Of these, 7 patients who completed the voice evaluation before and after voice therapy was enrolled in this study. By retrospective chart review, clinical information such as sex, age, symptoms, duration, social and medical history, process of voice therapy, subjective and objective findings were analyzed. Voice parameters before and after voice therapy were compared. Results In GRBAS study, grade, rough, and asthenic, and in Consensus Auditory-Perceptual Evaluation of Voice, overall severity, roughness, pitch, and loudness were significantly improved after voice therapy. In Voice handicap index, all of the scores of total and sub-categories were significantly decreased. In objective voice analysis, jitter, cepstral peak prominence, and maximum phonation time were significantly improved. Conclusion The voice therapy was effective for the treatment of functional aphonia by restoring patient's vocalization and improving voice quality, pitch and loudness.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.67-74
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• 2021

본 연구는 영유아 교육시설에서 근무하는 음성의 불편감을 호소하는 10명의 여성 교사들을 대상으로 반폐쇄성도훈련(semi-occluded vocal tract exercise, SOVTE)을 원격으로 실시하였을 때 주관적으로 평가하는 음성평가에 미치는 효과를 살펴보았다. 원격 SOVTE의 효과는 한국어판 음성장애지수(Korean voice handicap index, KVHI), 음성 활동 및 참여 프로파일-한국판(Korean version of the voice activity and participation profile, K-VAPP), 음성노력도 및 GRBAS를 이용한 청지각적 평가로 평가하였다. 연구 결과, KVHI의 총 점수, 기능적 점수, 신체적 점수는 원격 SOVTE를 실시한 후에 통계적으로 유의하게 낮아졌다. 원격 SOVTE 실시 후 K-VAPP의 총 점수도 유의하게 감소하였으며, 음성노력도 또한 유의하게 감소하였다. 그러나 GRB 척도는 원격 SOVTE 실시 전과 후 간에 통계적으로 유의한 차이를 보이지 않았다. 본 연구를 통해 영유아 여성 교사에게 원격으로 실시한 SOVTE는 음성의 불편감을 감소시키는데 효과적임을 입증하였으며, 원격으로 실시한 음성치료가 효과가 있음을 보여준다.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.27-35
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• 2013

목적: 본 연구에서는 RGP렌즈의 제조과정 중 연마에 의하여 유발되는 렌즈의 물성 변화를 조사하고 이에 따른 실제 착용감과 착용자의 눈물막 파괴시간은 어떻게 달라지는지 알아보고자 하였다. 방법: RGP렌즈(fluorosilicone acrylate재질) 제조 시 연마시간을 각각 0초, 25초, 50초 및 100초로 달리하여 제조한 4개의 렌즈두께, 렌즈 표면 및 렌즈 접촉각을 비교하였다. 또한 이들 렌즈를 눈물량이 정상인 피검안에 착용시키고 피검자들이 느끼는 착용감을 설문조사하였으며, 피검자들의 비침습성 눈물막 파괴시간을 측정하였다. 결과: 연마시간을 달리한 4개의 RGP렌즈 두께는 유의한 차이는 없었으나 연마 후에는 렌즈 표면이 매끄러워짐을 주사전자현미경으로 확인하였다. RGP렌즈의 접촉각은 연마시간의 증가에 따라 유의하게 감소하여 연마시간이 0초인 렌즈와 100초인 렌즈 간의 접촉각 차이는 약 $16^{\circ}$ 정도이었으며 이는 통계적으로도 유의한 차이이었다. RGP렌즈의 실제 착용감은 렌즈의 습윤성이 증대할수록 좋아지는 경향을 보였으나 비례적으로 좋아지는 것은 아니었다. 연마조건에 따른 착용자의 눈물막 파괴시간변화는 습윤성이나 착용감의 변화와는 다른 양상을 보였다. 결론: 본 연구에서는 RGP렌즈 제조 시 물리적인 자극에 의한 습윤성의 증대나 렌즈두께의 얇아짐, 렌즈조도의 향상이 실제 착용 시 타각적 및 자각적 만족도의 증가와 일치하지 않는 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 RGP렌즈 제조 시 렌즈의 물성뿐만 아니라 착용자의 생리적인 요인 또한 고려되어야 할 것을 제안할 수 있다.