• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.10c
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• pp.480-484
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• 2007

일반적으로 x선 CT는 물체 투과율이 짧기 때문에 대형 산업공정 내부의 영상진단 시 대상체는 금속으로 구성되어 있으며 내부는 액체, 고체, 기체 등 고밀도 물질이 포함되어 있어 계측이 어렵다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 물체 투과율이 x선에 비해 긴 감마선을 사용하였다. 대형 산업공정 내부의 단면영상을 재구성하기 위하여 반복적인 영상재구성 방법의 가중치 함수를 비교하였다. 실험 결과를 통하여 감마 CT 영상에서 빔 통과 여부에 따른 가중치 함수보다 빔 길이나 면적에 의한 가중치 함수로 복원할 경우, 원 영상과 유사함을 확인하였다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.51-61
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• 2009

A Compton camera, which is based on the geometrical interpretation of Compton scattering, is a very promising gamma-ray imaging device considering its several advantages over the conventional gamma-ray imaging devices: high imaging sensitivity, 3-D imaging capability from a fixed position, multi-tracing functionality, and almost no limitation in photon energy. In the present study, a Monte Carlo-based, user-friendly Compton imaging simulator was developed in the form of a graphical user interface (GUI) based on Geant4 and $MATLAB^{TM}$. The simulator was tested against the experimental result of the double-scattering Compton camera, which is under development at Hanyang University in Korea. The imaging resolution of the simulated Compton image well agreed with that of the measured image. The imaging sensitivity of the measured data was 2~3 times higher than that of the simulated data, which is due to the fact that the measured data contains the random coincidence events. The performance of a stacking-structure type Compton camera was evaluated by using the simulator. The result shows that the Compton camera shows its highest performance when it uses 4 layers of scatterer detectors.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.151-156
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to confirm the feasibility of imaging of therapy region from the boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) using the measurement of the prompt gamma ray depending on the neutron flux. Through the Monte Carlo simulation, we performed the verification of physical phenomena from the BNCT; (1) the effects of neutron according to the existence of boron uptake region (BUR), (2) the internal and external measurement of prompt gamma ray dose, (3) the energy spectrum by the prompt gamma ray. All simulation results were deducted using the Monte Carlo n-particle extended (MCNPX, Ver.2.6.0, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA) simulation tool. The virtual water phantom, thermal neutron source, and BURs were simulated using the MCNPX. The energy of the thermal neutron source was defined as below 1 eV with 2,000,000 n/sec flux. The prompt gamma ray was measured with the direction of beam path in the water phantom. The detector material was defined as the lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (Lu0,6Y1,4Si0,5:Ce; LYSO) scintillator with lead shielding for the collimation. The BUR's height was 5 cm with the 28 frames (bin: 0.18 cm) for the dose calculation. The neutron flux was decreased dramatically at the shallow region of BUR. In addition, the dose of prompt gamma ray was confirmed at the 9 cm depth from water surface, which is the start point of the BUR. In the energy spectrum, the prompt gamma ray peak of the 478 keV was appeared clearly with full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the 41 keV (energy resolution: 8.5%). In conclusion, the therapy region can be monitored by the gamma camera and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) using the measurement of the prompt gamma ray during the BNCT.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.661-666
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• 2019

Diverging collimators is used to obtain reduced images of an object, or to detect a wide filed-of-view (FOV) using a small gamma camera. In the gamma camera using the diverging collimators, the block scintillator, and the pixel scintillator array, gamma rays are obliquely incident on the scintillator surface when the source is located the periphery of the FOV. Therefore, the spatial resolution is reduced because it is obliquely detected in depth direction. In this study, we designed a novel system to improve the spatial resolution in the periphery of the FOV. Using a tapered crystal array to configure the scintillation pixels to coincide with the angle of the collimator's hole allows imaging to one scintillation pixel location, even if events occur to different depths. That is, even if is detected at various points in the diagonal direction, the gamma rays interact with one crystal pixel, so resolution does not degrade. The resolution of the block scintillator and the tapered crystal array was compared and evaluated through Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation. The spatial resolution of the obtained image was 4.05 mm in the block scintillator and 2.97 mm in the tapered crystal array. There was a 26.67% spatial resolution improvement in the tapered crystal array compared to the block scintillation.

• 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 Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.531-533
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 퍼지 영상처리 기법을 이용하여 손뼈의 X-Ray 영상에서 손뼈의 윤곽선을 추출하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 전 처리 단계로써 감마 상관관계를 이용하여 X-Ray 영상에서 손뼈를 제외한 피부층을 제거한다. 피부층이 제거된 영상에서 손뼈를 뚜렷하게 만들기 위해 샤프닝 기법을 사용한다. 샤프닝 기법이 적용된 영상에서 손뼈의 명암대비를 선명하게 하기 위해 사다리꼴 형태의 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용한다. 사다리꼴 형태의 Fuzzy Stretching 기법을 적용한 영상에서 Canny Edge 기법을 적용하여 손뼈의 윤곽선을 추출한다. 제안된 추출 방법을 20개의 실험 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 16개의 실험 영상에서는 손뼈의 윤곽선이 정확히 추출되었고 4개의 실험 영상에서는 손뼈의 윤곽선이 손실된 상태로 추출되었다.

• KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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• v.10
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• pp.73-77
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• 1971

The experiment was carried out to investigate post-irradiation storage effect which was related to temperature(i.e. at 2$^{\circ}C$, 17$^{\circ}C$ and 4$0^{\circ}C$) on wheat seeds; Weibull's Svenno, treated with gamma-ray and fast neutron. Results obtained showed that the seedling height in both radiation sources was decreased with prolongation of storage period, especially when the seeds were treated with high dosage and stored at high temperature(4$0^{\circ}C$). The results of this trial, however, showed that storage effect was influenced by irradiation dose, temperature and storage time.

• 대한방사선방어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.124-125
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• 2011

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2009.06a
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• pp.261-262
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• 2009

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.20-30
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• 2010

In this paper, a new tomographic scan method with fixed installed detectors and rotating source from gamma projector was presented to diagnose the industrial plants which were impossible to be examined by conventional tomographic systems. Weight matrix calculation method which was suitable for volumetric detector and statistical iterative reconstruction method were applied for reconstructing the simulation and experimental data. Monte Carlo simulations had been performed for two kinds of phantoms. Lab scale experiment with a same condition as one of phantoms, had been carried out. Simulation results showed that reconstruction from photopeak counting measurement gave the better results than from the gross counting measurement although photopeak counting measurement had large statistical errors. Experimental data showed the similar result as Monte Carlo simulation. Those results appeared to be promising for industrial tomographic applications, especially for petrochemical industries.