Using standardized ultrasound imaging to correlate OSA severity with tongue morphology.

Pien F N Bosschieter¹, Stanley Y C Liu², Pei-Yu Chao³, Argon Chen⁴, Clete A Kushida⁵

¹Department of Otolaryngology, head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address: p.f.n.bosschieter@tue.nl.

²Department of Otolaryngology, head and Neck Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.

³AmCad BioMed Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: peiyu.chao@gmail.com.

⁴Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: achen@ntu.edu.tw.

⁵Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA. Electronic address: clete@stanford.edu.

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: Ultrasound imaging has been explored as a potential diagnostic tool for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA); we reported backscatter ultrasound imaging (BUI) of the tongue correlates with OSA severity in adults. We focus on anatomical features of the tongue using standardized ultrasonography and hypothesize that differences in morphology correlate with OSA severity. METHODS: This prospectiv…

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