Our work on zero-echo time MRI and vocal tract segmentation has been featured as the "cover art" for the 54th annual symposium of The Voice Foundation!

The imagery showcases the registration of bony structures (skull, teeth) captured by zero-echo time MRI, along with the vocal tract segmented from a short, 10-second accelerated volume MRI scan during sustained phonation.

Our long-term goal is to use such non-invasive imaging and modeling tools to better guide oropharyngeal surgical procedures involving the vocal apparatus (eg. cleft palate repair)

We will be presenting this as an oral presentation at the symposium.

This project is spearheaded by BME graduate student Swati Ramtilak and is in collaboration with Prof. David Meyer (Music, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Univ of Iowa), Prof. James Holmes (Radiology, Univ of Iowa), Prof. Aiming Lu (Radiology, Mayo Clinic).