• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.646-651
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• 2014

Histogram equalization generally has the disadvantage that if the distribution of the gray level of an image is concentrated in one place, then the range of the gray level in the output image is excessively expanded, which then produces a visually unnatural result. However, a gamma transformation can reduce such unnatural appearances since it operates under a nonlinear regime. Therefore, this paper proposes a new histogram equalization method that can improve image quality by using a gamma transformation. The proposed method 1) derives the proper form of the gamma transformation by using the average brightness of the input image, 2) linearly combines the earlier gamma transformation with a CDF (Cumulative Distribution Function) for the image in order to obtain a new CDF, and 3) to finally perform histogram equalization by using the new CDF. The experimental results show that relative to existing methods, the proposed method provides good performance in terms of quantitative measures, such as entropy, UIQ, SSIM, etc., and it also naturally enhances the image quality in visual perspective as well.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.407-417
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• 2004

This study is to verify radiation detection method by using $\alpha$-spectroscopy and ${\gamma}$-spectroscopy for concretes and components which will be generated during the decommissioning of the uranium conversion plant. Components and inside walls of the building were contaminated with natural uranium materials. Some parts of the stainless steel pipes and concretes of the walls were sampled and analyzed their alpha and gamma activities respectively. Alpha and gamma activities are well matched each other in the range of high activity region to 0.01 Bq/g and gamma activities are over estimated comparing alpha activities corresponded in below 0.005 Bq/g region for the natural uranium of AUC sample. The $^{238}U$ originated from natural products of conversion process could be distinguished by measuring $^{214}Pb$ or $^{214}Bi$ and $^{234}Th$ or $^{234m}Pa$. Uranium contaminations mainly are in the wall surface of the plant. Decontamination process of generating wastes which can be reached tp background level gamma activities measured by gamma spectroscopy can also be used to conservative assessment data.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2410-2416
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• 2016

Recently, most countries in the world have pursued a denuclearization. So it has been of interest to increase to Nuclear weapon in such as North Korea's continued nuclear test. Pulsed gamma rays produced in the nuclear explosion and the space environment can give the big damage to the electronic device in a very short period of time. To confirm the extent of damage of these electronic devices, pulsed gamma irradiation facility that can occur in nuclear weapon or space environment are required. In this paper, we implemented the pulsed gamma-ray detection module and analyzed output of the irradiation test. We have experimented using an electron beam accelerator research facilities in Pohang Accelerator similar conditions to equip and Nuclear weapon. As a result, we confirmed that the pulsed gamma rays emitted by the gamma radiation and electron beam conversion device. The results of this paper will contribute to improve the reliability and accuracy of studies for utilizing pulsed gamma rays.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.06a
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• pp.59-62
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 평균 밝기 부분에 가중치 맵으로써 감마 변환에 기반한 선형 결합을 제안하고자 한다. 기존의 패치를 기반으로 한 가중치 맵은 평균 밝기 부분에서 영상 내 밝기 값이 한쪽으로 치우쳐 영상의 밝은 부분이 과포화 상태가 되어 세부 정보가 손실되는 단점이 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 전역적 및 지역적 영상의 평균 밝기 값을 이용하여 감마 변환된 값을 선형 결합 시켜줌으로써 영역 내 세부 정보를 보존시키고 주관적 화질을 향상시켰다. 실험을 통해 결과를 분석하고 성능을 비교하여 기존 알고리듬에 비해 제안한 알고리듬이 우수함을 증명하였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.81-88
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• 2014

Recently, a new imaging method, gamma vertex imaging (GVI), was proposed for the verification of in-vivo proton dose distribution. In GVI, the vertices of prompt gammas generated by proton induced nuclear interaction were determined by tracking the Compton-recoiled electrons. The GVI system is composed of a beryllium electron converter for converting gamma to electron, two double-sided silicon strip detectors (DSSDs) for the electron tracking, and a scintillation detector for the energy determination of the electron. In the present study, the modules of a charge sensitive preamplifier (CSP) and a shaping amplifier for the analog signal processing of DSSD were developed and the performances were evaluated by comparing the energy resolutions with those of the commercial products. Based on the results, it was confirmed that the energy resolution of the developed CSP module was a little lower than that of the CR-113 (Cremat, Inc., MA), and the resolution of the shaping amplifier was similar to that of the CR-200 (Cremat, Inc., MA). The value of $V_{rms}$ representing the magnitude of noise of the developed system was estimated as 6.48 keV and it was confirmed that the trajectory of the electron can be measured by the developed system considering the minimum energy deposition ( > ~51 keV) of Compton-recoiled electron in 145-${\mu}m$-thick DSSD.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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• 2003.09a
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• pp.39-39
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• 2003

목 적 : 병소가 바깥쪽 측면(far-lateral targets)에 위치한 경우 감마나이프 방사선 시술이 어렵다. 저자들은 새로운 식을 도입하여 치료 좌표계를 변환시키고 환자를 측면으로 눕혀 시술이 가능함을 보고하고자 한다. 대상 : 통상적으로 병소 위치가 X축 좌표 51.5mm-148.5mm 범위 내에 있는 경우, 감마나이프는 반듯이 누운 자세에서 시술을 한다. 그러나 병소가 바깥쪽 측면에 위치한 경우(51.5mm-148.5mm 범위를 벗어난 경우) 환자는 측면으로 굽혀진 상태에서만 시술이 가능하며 이때 환자 머리에 고정한 정위기구의 전면부분은 일직선 타입이어야 한다. 환자의 치료 자세가 90도 만큼 회전된 상태이므로 X축과 Y축이 서로 치환된다. 새로운 좌표계는 감마플랜에서 계산된 방사선 조사량의 각각 좌표계들이 새로운 식에 대입하여 얻어진다. 새로운 X축 좌표는 43mm 만큼 증가하였으며 범위는 30mm-170mm 이였다. 결과 : 환자를 측면으로 눕혀서 바깥쪽 측면 병소를 시술하는 방법은 방사선 조사 중심 위치의 정확도에 영향을 미치지 않았다. 새로운 X축과 Y축 좌표계는 새로운 식으로 쉽게 치환 변환된다. 결론 : 측면으로 누워서 시술하는 방법은 X축 좌표 범위를 증가시킬 수 있었으며 감마나이프 장비에서 X축의 이축 편위 (trunnion excursion) 한계 때문에 시술을 할 수 없는 경우의 수를 줄일 수 있었다. 이 방법은 바깥쪽 측면에 위치한 병소 시술에 매우 요긴하게 사용되며 특히 여러 개의 병변을 갖고 있는 전이성 뇌종양 질환에 유용하게 사용될 수 있는 방법으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.801-809
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• 2019

Existing Gamma Knife Radiosurgery(GKRS) for large lesions is often conducted in stages with volume or dose partitions. Often in case of volume division the target used to be divided into sub-volumes which are irradiated under the determined prescription dose in multi-sessions separated by a day or two, 3~6 months. For the entire course of treatment, treatment informations of the previous stages needs to be reflected to subsequent sessions on the newly mounted stereotactic frame through coordinate transformation between sessions. However, it is practically difficult to implement the previous dose distributions with existing Gamma Knife system except in the same stereotactic space. The treatment area is expanding because it is possible to perform the multistage treatment using the latest Gamma Knife Platform(GKP). The purpose of this study is to introduce the image-coregistration based on the stereotactic spaces and the strategy of multistage GKRS such as the determination of prescription dose at each stage using new GKP. Usually in image-coregistration either surgically-embedded fiducials or internal anatomical landmarks are used to determine the transformation relationship. Author compared the accuracy of coordinate transformation between multi-sessions using four or six anatomical landmarks as an example using internal anatomical landmarks. Transformation matrix between two stereotactic spaces was determined using PseudoInverse or Singular Value Decomposition to minimize the discrepancy between measured and calculated coordinates. To evaluate the transformation accuracy, the difference between measured and transformed coordinates, i.e., ${\Delta}r$, was calculated using 10 landmarks. Four or six points among 10 landmarks were used to determine the coordinate transformation, and the rest were used to evaluate the approaching method. Each of the values of ${\Delta}r$ in two approaching methods ranged from 0.6 mm to 2.4 mm, from 0.17 mm to 0.57 mm. In addition, a method of determining the prescription dose to give the same effect as the treatment of the total lesion once in case of lesion splitting was suggested. The strategy of multistage treatment in the same stereotactic space is to design the treatment for the whole lesion first, and the whole treatment design shots are divided into shots of each stage treatment to construct shots of each stage and determine the appropriate prescription dose at each stage. In conclusion, author confirmed the accuracy of prescribing dose determination as a multistage treatment strategy and found that using as many internal landmarks as possible than using small landmarks to determine coordinate transformation between multi-sessions yielded better results. In the future, the proposed multistage treatment strategy will be a great contributor to the frameless fractionated treatment of several Gamma Knife Centers.

• 대한방사선방어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.282-283
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• 2011

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.475-481
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• 2014

The aim of this work was to develop the gamma camera system for small animal gamma imaging and environmental radiation monitoring imaging using a parallel hole collimator and pinhole collimator. The small gamma camera system consists of a CsI(Tl) scintillation crystal with 6 mm in thickness and $50{\times}50mm$ in area coupled with a Hamamatsu H8500C PSPMT, are resistive charge divider, pre-amplifiers, charge amplifiers, nuclear instrument modules (NIMs), an analog to digital converter and a computer for control and display. We have developed a radiation monitoring system composed of a combined pinhole gamma camera and a charge-coupled devices (CCD) camera. The results demonstrated that the parallel hole collimator and pinhole collimator gamma camera designed in this study could be utilized to perform small animal imaging and environmental radiation monitoring system. Consequently in this paper, we proved that our gamma detector system is reliable for a gamma camera which can be used as small animal imaging and environmental radiation monitoring system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.161-166
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 영상 데이터의 저작권 보호를 위한 다중 워터마킹 기법을 제안한다. 다중 워터마킹은 하나의 컨텐츠에 복수개의 서로 다른 워터마크를 삽입하는 기법으로 각 워터마크들은 유일한 키로 정확한 추출이 가능해야 한다. 대역확산기법(spread spectrum)을 이용한 다중 워터마킹은 워터마크 삽입시 사용되는 키들간의 직교성(orthogonality)이 보장되어야 추출시 삽입된 워터마크들의 정확한 추출이 가능하게 된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 랜덤계열들을 Gram-schmidt 직교화 과정을 수행하여 직교화된 랜덤계열로 워터마크를 삽입하고 추출이 가능한 방법을 제안한다. 또한, 제안기법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 가우시안 노이즈와 감마변환에 대하여 강인함을 보인다.