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High-speed imaging: applications and development.

Stellan Hertegård·Hans Larsson·Thomas Wittenberg
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This article shows some examples of applications of digital high-speed imaging in phoniatrics. Advantages and disadvantages of digital high-speed imaging as compared to the current world-wide standard, videostroboscopy, are discussed as well as possible future developments in this area. Parts of this paper were presented by the authors at the Pan European Voice Conference in Stockholm in 2001 (Pevoc IV).

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Stellan Hertegård, Hans Larsson, Thomas Wittenberg. 2003. High-speed imaging: applications and development.. https://doi.org/10.1080/14015430310015246

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