• The Journal of Korean Orthopaedic Ultrasound Society
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.69-73
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• 2010

Osteochondroma arising around the knee joint may sometimes be associated with vascular complication. Angiography is widely used to demonstrate the vascular complication, but it is invasive. Recently MR angiography is recommended as a non-invasive alternative, but it is very costly. We report a twenty-year-old man with popliteal arterial compression caused by osteochondroma who was diagnosed and assessed the surgical result by Doppler ultrasonography. And we also provide the usefulness of Doppler ultrasonography.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.05a
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• pp.71-73
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법과 히스토그램 분석 기법을 기반으로 한 개선된 FCM 알고리즘을 적용하여 색조 도플러 초음파 영상에서 상완 동맥의 혈류를 추출하고 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 상완 동맥의 혈류를 정확히 추출하기 위해 전처리 과정으로 색조 도플러 초음파 영상 이외의 환자 정보가 있는 영역을 제거한 후, ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 영상의 최대 명암도를 임계치로 설정한 이진화 기법을 적용하여 ROI 영역을 이진화한다. 이진화된 ROI 영역에서 4 방향 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 상완 동맥이 존재하는 사다리꼴 형태의 영역을 추출한다. 색 정보를 분석한 히스토그램을 이용하여 특징점의 개수를 계산하고 계산된 특징점의 개수를 FCM 알고리즘의 초기 클러스터의 개수로 설정한 후, 추출된 사다리꼴 형태의 영역에 적용하여 양자화 한다. 양자화된 영역 중에서 빨간색으로 분류된 영역을 고혈압 영역으로 추출한다. 제안된 추출 방법을 20개의 색조 도플러 초음파 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 20개의 색조 도플러 초음파 영상에서 18개의 색조 도플러 초음파 영상이 정확히 추출되었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.8
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• pp.580-589
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• 2012

In this paper, we studied on Doppler gap-filling algorithms suitable for a portable or low-cost medical ultrasound imaging system, and as a result, found out algorithms based on mirroring or autoregressive model. Moreover, controlling the computational demand in the proper range, we improved the performances of these algorithms by solving their problems. Effectiveness of these modified algorithms is verified by computer simulations and experiments which used artificially generated Doppler signals and Doppler data acquired from human body through an actual ultrasound system.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.33-40
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• 1984

In the conventional pulsed doppler system, gated CW is used to excite a ultrasonic transducer so that a group of linear RF amplifiers are required to excite a ultrasonic array transducer in the scanning pulsed doppler system. A pulsed doppler system without linear high voltage RF amplifiers, which excites the transducer impulsively, is studied theoretically and experimentally. In this paper, an experimental 8-channel pulsed doppler system is implemented, which uses quadrature defection to detect the direction of motion and can compensate the attenuation effect. The designed pulsed doppler system shows the possibility of real time multichannel doppler flow meter.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.25-39
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• 1994

To measure the velocity of heart wall and local flow transctaneously in blood vessels, we have developed a single channel 3.1 MHz pulsed ultrasonic Doppler velocity meter. Ultrasound pluse width and repetition frequency (PRF) used in the velocity meter is 1 ${\mu}$sec 6kHz reapectively, and the Doppler shift of the backscattered echo signal is sensed in a phase detector by coherent demodulation method. From the output of the phase detector, the Doppler signal corresponding to the mean velocity of acoustic wave scatterers over a small region is obtained by using a range gate, sample holder and band-pass filter. Mean frequency of Doppler signal is estimated by zero-crossing counter and the instantaneous velocity of scatters is displayed as a function of time. It is possible to estimate velocity profile, volume flow and flow acceleration of vessels in man if the number of channels and range resolution in increased.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.433-441
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• 2019

In this paper, a method of estimating speech parameters for ultrasonic Doppler signals reflected from the articulatory muscles using LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) RNN (Recurrent Neural Networks) was introduced and compared with the method using MLP (Multi-Layer Perceptrons). LSTM RNN were used to estimate the Fourier transform coefficients of speech signals from the ultrasonic Doppler signals. The log energy value of the Mel frequency band and the Fourier transform coefficients, which were extracted respectively from the ultrasonic Doppler signal and the speech signal, were used as the input and reference for training LSTM RNN. The performance of LSTM RNN and MLP was evaluated and compared by experiments using test data, and the RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error) was used as a measure. The RMSE of each experiment was 0.5810 and 0.7380, respectively. The difference was about 0.1570, so that it confirmed that the performance of the method using the LSTM RNN was better.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.377-380
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• 2000

도플러 로그용 센서를 이용하여 선박의 속도를 측정하면, 선박의 수평방향 이외의 움직임, 즉 핏칭이나 롤링 등에 의한 측정 속도의 부정확성이 문제가 된다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 핏칭과, 수중이라는 환경요인에 기인하여 다른 속도 측정용 센서들이 가지는 문제점을 극복할 수 있도록 진동판을 수평축에서 일정한 각을 가지도록 두 개 또는 네 개를 등 간격으로 배열한 야누스형 초음파 트랜스듀서를 개발하였다. 트랜스듀서 개발을 위하여 그 작동 구조를 해석하고 그에 따라 시제품을 제작한 후, 실험적인 성능 평가를 수행하였다. 시제작된 초음파 트랜스듀서는 지향성 및 감도가 우수하고, 대역폭이 넓은 성능을 가지고 있어, 실제 선박에 장착되어 도플러 로그용 초음파 트랜스듀서로 사용될 수 있는 가능성이 확인되었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.366-368
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위해 상완 동맥 영역에 대한 RGB 채널을 HSV 채널로 변환한다. 변환된 HSV 채널에 대해 고혈압 영역의 특징을 강조하게 하기 위해 밝기 값을 나타내는 V값을 조절한다. 조절된 HSV 채널을 다시 RGB 채널로 변환한 후, Fuzzy C_Means 기반 무게중심과 Possibilistc C_Means 기반 무게 중심을 기반으로 새로운 무게 중심을 구하여 픽셀들을 클러스터링하여 상완동맥 영역의 고혈압 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 상완 동맥의 고혈압 영역에 대해 헤모글로빈 색소 정보를 나타내는 IHb 값을 이용하여 상완 동맥의 고혈압 영역에서 유사한 헤모글로빈 색소 정보를 가지는 영역을 분할한다. 분할된 영역들을 혈류의 속도를 나타내는 색상표와 대조하여 고혈압의 진행에 대해 분석하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 색조 도플러 초음파 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 제안된 방법이 고혈압의 진행에 대한 분석 결과와 색조 도플러 초음파 영상 장비에 나타난 고혈압 진행 결과와 거의 일치하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.120-128
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• 2017

Acute flank pain from urolithiasis is the most common condition in people visiting emergency rooms. This study is to evaluate the usefulness of color Doppler in detecting ureteral stones in patients without hydronephrosis. We performed ultrasonography and retrospective analysis on 161 patients who were suspected of urinary stones through plain radiography of the kidney, ureter, and bladder examination or urine tests that showed positive signs of hematuria. In ultrasonography, a total of 154 (95.6%) cases from the 161 patients were diagnosed with ureteral stones. In color Doppler, ureteral stones with twinkling artifact (TA) in the absence of hydronephrosis was shown in 18 (85.7%) cases of the 21 patients(p<0.001). The use of color Doppler has a high diagnostic efficacy for the detection of indistinguishable stones, non-dilatational ureteral stones, and middle ureter stones.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.145-149
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• 2003

Color Doppler imaging(CDI) was carried out to determine CDI-derived resistive index(RI) values of normal canine ophthalmic vasculature and its reproducibility. CDI was performed on 58 dogs. and normal ranges of RI value were calculated for the medial long posterior ciliary artery(mLPCA), ciliary artery(CA), and ophthalmic artery(OA). Ophthalmic vascular RI values of normal dogs were 0.67$\pm$0.07, 0.70$\pm$0.06, and 0.80$\pm$0.04 in mLPCA, CA, and OA, respectively. Means of RT value of all vessel had no statistically significant difference by sex, fellow orbits, and skull type. The results suggest that color Doppler imaging is a noninvasive test which has the advantage of providing objective measurements of blood flow velocity parameter in the canine eye and orbit.