Clinical Research Directory

PURPOSE 1: Inclusion criteria for surgery participants: * Persons who will soon undergo surgery on the vocal folds and/or larynx (including glottoplasty, cricothyroid approximation, thyroplasty and/or thyroid chondroplasty) at UZ Gent * At least 18 years old * Sufficient command of the Dutch language for understanding the informed consent letter and completing Dutch questionnaires Inclusion criteria for volunteers to provide speech samples: \- Cisgender men or women Inclusion criteria for volunteer listeners for the listening experiment: * Dutch-speaking * Self-reported normal hearing PURPOSE 2: same as above. PURPOSE 3: Inclusion criteria for the healthy participants: * At least 18 years old * Sufficient command of the Dutch language to complete a Dutch questionnaire Exclusion criteria for the healthy participants: \- One or more contraindications for an MRI examination. These contraindications are checked using a questionnaire (safety checklist). Inclusion criteria for the pre- and postoperative MRI participants: \- Random selection of +- 10 participants of purpose 1. Exclusion criteria for the pre- and postoperative MRI participants: \- One or more contraindications for an MRI examination. These contraindications are checked using a questionnaire (safety checklist).