• Journal of The Korean Society of Grassland and Forage Science
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.123-128
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• 2004

This study was conducted to investigate the effects of bulb size (10, 15, 20, 25 cm) on growth and yield characteristics of edible canna in Jeju region from 20 May to 24 Nov. 2003. The results obtained were summarized as follows; Plant height grew big 78.8~129.1 cm as bulb size increased 10~25 cm. Leaf length, leaf width, number of leaves, tillers and bulb per plant and stem diameter were the same trend with plant height response. Fresh matter yield increased 29.0~91.1 MT/ha as bulb size increased from 10 to 25 cm. Fresh weight of above-ground part and bulb yield were the same trend with fresh matter yield.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.419-430
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• 2002

In this paper. we propose an efficient method for implementing hi-directional pixel-based focusing(BiPBF) based on a sparse array imaging technique. The proposed method can improve spatial resolution and frame rate of ultrasound imaging with reduced hardware complexity by synthesizing transmit apertures with a small number of sparsely distributed subapertures. As the distance between adjacent subapertures increases, however. the image resolution tends to decrease due to the elevation of grating lobes. Such grating lobes can be eliminated in conventional synthetic aperture imaging techniques. On the contrary, grating lobes arisen from employing sparse synthetic transmit apertures can not be eliminated, which has been shown analytically in this paper. We also propose the condition and method for suppressing the grating lobes below -40dB, which is generally required in practical imaging. by placing the transmit focal depth at a near depth and properly selecting the subaperture distance in Proportion to receive aperture size. The results of both the Phantom and in vivo experiments show that the proposed method implements two-wav dynamic focusing using a smaller number of subapertures, resulting in reduced system complexity and increased frame rate.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.247-255
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• 2008

A coded aperture camera has been developed to improve the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) while keeping the spatial resolution of a pinhole gamma camera. The purpose of this study was to optimize a coded aperture camera and to evaluate its possibility for thyroid imaging by Monte Carlo simulation. A clinical gamma camera, a pinhole collimator with 1.0 mm hole diameter, and a $79{\times}79$ modified uniformly redundant array (MURA) mask were designed using GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission). The penetration ratio, spatial resolution, integral uniformity and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) were simulated and evaluated as a function of the mask thickness. The spatial resolution of the coded aperture camera was consistent with the various mask thickness, SNR showed a maximum value at 1.2 mm mask thickness and integral uniformity was improved by increasing mask thickness. Compare to the pinhole gamma camera, the coded aperture camera showed improved SNR by a factor of 30 while keeping almost the same spatial resolution. In this simulation study, the results indicated that high spatial resolution and ultra-high SNR of the thyroid imaging are feasible using a coded aperture camera.

• Korean Journal of Weed Science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.252-257
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• 1994

The sprouting characteristics of Scirpus planiculmis and storage methods of corm for the herbicide screening were investigated under both laboratory and greenhouse conditions. Sprouting and elongation of S. planiculmis corms were continued during storage at low temperature ($5^{\circ}C$) and wet condition. However, sprouting of corm was failed when the surface water was removed from the corm, and elongation was reduced by the treatment of 0.5-1.0% sodium chloride(NaCl) solution. Alternate temperature was more effective on the sprouting of S. planiculmis corm than constant temperature. Optimum temperature for the sprouting of S. planiculmis corm was alternation between $25^{\circ}C$ to $35^{\circ}C$. Storage at $-20^{\circ}C$ for 10 min. or 14.7% dehydration made the corm of S. planiculmis to fail for sprouting. S. planiculmis corm was more tolerant to sodium chloride than Echinochloa crus-galli or Oryza sativa(Donginbyeo) seeds. Sprouting rate was decreased by cutting of the corm. Sprouting percent by vertical cuttings, horizontal cuttings, and vertical plus horizontal cuttings were 72, 56, and 28%, respectively.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.503-513
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• 1999

A general expression for the beam patterns of various synthetic aperture(SA) techniques was derived based on a unified SA model. This model was used to analyze and compare the performance of existing SA methods. Based on the theoretical studies, we propose a new synthetic aperture technique that is best suitable for the linear-scan imaging. The proposed method enables dynamic tow-way focusing in real imaging so that the B-mode image resolution can be greatly improved. Compared to the conventional focusing technique, the focused beam pattern by the proposed shows the mainlobe width reduced by half and comparable sidelobe levels. Computer simulation results demonstrated the validity of the theoretical analysis and the proposed SA method.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.5-9
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• 2011

There are technical difficulties in measuring the numerical apertures of multi-mode gradient-index plastic optical fibers (GI-POFs) due to their strong speckle noise originating from dopants, non-uniformity of gradient-index profile, and multi-mode interference. Therefore, we propose a new method of obtaining the numerical aperture by controlling the size of the incident laser beam and measuring the numerical aperture of GI-POF. The results show that we can get a value for the numerical aperture of GI-POF very similar to that measured by the conventional method. We can also obtain the optimum launching condition of input beam and maximum coupling efficiency.

• The Optical Journal
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• v.3 no.16 s.16
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• pp.56-64
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• 1991

• The Magazine of the Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.31-32
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• 1972

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 2003.02a
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• pp.144-145
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• 2003

VCSEL은 우수한 소자 특성과 표면 발광 구조가 갖는 여러 가지 장점들로 인하여 병렬 광연결과 근거리 광섬유 통신에서 이상적인 광원으로 인정받고 있다. 특히 산화막 구경을 갖는 VCSEL은 이득영역 근처에서 횡 방향으로 광학적, 전기적 제한을 가함으로써 낮은 문턱전류와 높은 전력변환 효율을 갖기 때문에 현재까지 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔다. 본 논문에서는 in-situ 광 반사법을 이용한 VCSEL의 MBE 성장과 1■10 산화막 구경 VCSEL 어레이의 제작공정, 그리고 발진특성에 대하여 논하고자 한다. (중략)

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.27.3-27.3
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• 2010

편대비행위성을 이용하여 우주간섭계 영상시스템을 구현하였을때 위성의 배치에 따른 점분포함수(Point Spread Function, PSF)를 계산하고 관측될 영상을 예측하여 편대비행위성 간섭계 관측시스템의 예상되는 성능을 분석하였다. 적외선과 가시광 영역에서 관측하는 경우에 대하여 단일구경과 합성구경 관측시스템의 점분포함수를 계산하고 이에 해당되는 예측 영상의 해상도를 비교하였을 때, 합성구경으로 관측 시 더 높은 해상도를 보이는 것을 확인하였다. 또한 편대비행 위성을 이용하여 합성구경 관측을 하는 경우에 대하여 단순한 원형 배열뿐만 아니라 간섭계 관측에 유리한 골레이(Golay) 배열 등 다양한 위성 배치에 따른 점분포함수를 구하고 비교하여 위성 배치에 따른 간섭계관측 시스템의 성능 차이를 분석하였다. 이 결과를 통하여 실제 편대비행위성을 이용하여 간섭계 관측시스템을 구현할 때, 관측시스템을 구성하는 편대 위성의 개수와 배치를 효율적으로 결정할 수 있는 토대를 마련하였다.