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Figure 13. Differences in dynamic motion of hypopharynx in 2-year-old boy with inability to tolerate tracheotomy tube decannulation. Volume segmentation of transverse cine MR data depicted on graph of hypopharyngeal airway volume versus time. Note markedly increased changes in volume when tracheotomy tube is capped (gray line) compared with when tube is not capped (black line).