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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 29.
Published in final edited form as: Anat Rec (Hoboken). 2008 Jul;291(7):886–893. doi: 10.1002/ar.20699

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

Array of six ultrasonic crystals and diagram of tongue volume reduction surgery. A: Wedge-shaped configuration of implanted crystals array. Numbers indicate the location of crystals. #1−2: anterior width (AW); #3−4: posterior dorsal width (PDW); #5−6: posterior ventral width (PVW); #1−3 and #2−4: right and left length (RL and LL); and #3−5 and #4−6: right and left thickness (RT and LT). B: Dorsal view of the tongue. C,D: Cross-sectional views of the posterior and the anterior tongue. Dotted circles indicate implanted crystal sites. Black-shaded areas represent surgical incisions and removed tongue tissue. Arrows indicate two circumvallate papillae (CP).