• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.55-66
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• 2018

Purpose In PET/CT exam, washed-out artifact could occur due to severe motion of the patient and high specific activity, it results in lowering not only qualitative reading but also quantitative analysis. Scatter limitation correction by GE is an algorism to correct washed-out artifact and recover the images in PET scan. The purpose of this study is to measure the threshold of specific activity which can recovers to original uptake values on the image shown with washed-out artifact from phantom experiment and to compare the quantitative analysis of the clinical patient's data before and after correction. Materials and Methods PET and CT images were acquired in having no misalignment(D0) and in 1, 2, 3, 4 cm distance of misalignment(D1, D2, D3, D4) respectively, with 20 steps of each specific activity from 20 to 20,000 kBq/ml on $^{68}Ge$ cylinder phantom. Also, we measured the distance of misalignment of foley catheter line between CT and PET images, the specific activity which makes washed-out artifact, $SUV_{mean}$ of muscle in artifact slice and $SUV_{max}$ of lesion in artifact slice and $SUV_{max}$ of the other lesion out of artifact slice before and after correction respectively from 34 patients who underwent $^{18}F-FDG$ Fusion Whole Body PET/CT exam. SPSS 21 was used to analyze the difference in the SUV between before and after scatter limitation correction by paired t-test. Results In phantom experiment, $SUV_{mean}$ of $^{68}Ge$ cylinder decreased as specific activity of $^{18}F$ increased. $SUV_{mean}$ more and more decreased as the distance of misalignment between CT and PET more increased. On the other hand, the effect of correction increased as the distance more increased. From phantom experiments, there was no washed-out artifact below 50 kBq/ml and $SUV_{mean}$ was same from origin. On D0 and D1, $SUV_{mean}$ recovered to origin(0.95) below 120 kBq/ml when applying scatter limitation correction. On D2 and D3, $SUV_{mean}$ recovered to origin below 100 kBq/ml. On D4, $SUV_{mean}$ recovered to origin below 80 kBq/ml. From 34 clinical patient's data, the average distance of misalignment was 2.02 cm and the average specific activity which makes washed-out artifact was 490.15 kBq/ml. The average $SUV_{mean}$ of muscles and the average $SUV_{max}$ of lesions in artifact slice before and after the correction show a significant difference according to a paired t-test respectively(t=-13.805, p=0.000)(t=-2.851, p=0.012), but the average $SUV_{max}$ of lesions out of artifact slice show a no significant difference (t=-1.173, p=0.250). Conclusion Scatter limitation correction algorism by GE PET/CT scanner helps to correct washed-out artifact from motion of a patient or high specific activity and to recover the PET images. When we read the image occurred with washed-out artifact by measuring the distance of misalignment between CT and PET image, specific activity after applying scatter limitation algorism, we can analyze the images more accurately without repeating scan.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.292-300
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• 1996

The scattering of incident ions and target atoms in the amorphous solid matters are calculated by Monte Carlo simulation method. The experimentally derived universal scattering cross-section of Kalbitzer and Oetzmann is used to describe nuclear scattering. For electronic energy loss, the Lindhard-Scharff and Bethe formula are used. Comparing the ion scattering formulas and ranges with the known results of experiment and other programs, we find our results are good agreement with others.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.72-79
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• 2009

Scatter correction for I-131 plays a very important role to improve image quality and quantitation. I-131 has multiple and higher energy gamma-ray emissions. Image quality and quantitative accuracy in I-131 imaging are degraded by object scatter as well as scatter and septal penetration in the collimator. The purpose of this study was to estimate scatter and septal penetration and investigate two scatter correction methods using Monte Carlo simulation. The gamma camera system simulated in this study was a FORTE system (Phillips, Nederland) with high energy, general-purpose, parallel hole collimator. We simulated for two types of high energy collimators. One is composed of lead, and the other is composed of artificially high Z number and high density. We simulated energy spectrum using a point source in air. We estimated both full width at half maximum (FWHM) and full width at tenth maximum (FWTM) using line spread function (LSF) in cylindrical water phantom. We applied two scatter correction methods, triple energy window scatter correction (TEW) and extended triple energy window scatter correction (ETEW). The TEW method is a pixel-by pixel based correction which is easy to implement clinically. The ETEW is a modification of the TEW which corrects for scatter by using abutted scatter rejection window, which can overestimate or the underestimate scatter. The both FWHM and FWTM were estimated as 41.2 mm and 206.5 mm for lead collimator, respectively. The FWHM and FWTM were estimated as 27.3 mm and 45.6 mm for artificially high Z and high density collimator, respectively. ETEW showed that the estimation of scatter components was close to the true scatter components. In conclusion, correction for septal penetration and scatter is important to improve image quality and quantitative accuracy in I-131 imaging. The ETEW method in scatter correction appeared to be useful in I-131 imaging.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.25-29
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• 2013

Purpose: In this study, we evaluated the accuracy of CT-based attenuation correction (AC) under the conventional CT protocol (140 kVp, on average 50-60 keV) by comparing the SPECT image qualities of different energy of radioisotopes, $^{201}Tl,\;^{99m}Tc$ and $^{131}I$. Materials and Methods: Using a cylindrical phantom, three different SPECT scans of $^{201}Tl$ (70 keV, 55.5 MBq), $^{99m}Tc$ (140 keV, 281.2 MBq) and $^{131}I$ (364 keV, 96.2 MBq) were performed. The CT image was obtained with 140 kVp and 2.5 mA in GE Hawkeye 4. The OSEM reconstruction algorithm was performed with 2 iterations and 10 subsets. The experiments were performed in the 4 different conditions; non-AC and non-scatter correction (SC), only AC, only SC, AC and SC in terms of uniformity and center to peripheral ratio (CPR). Results: The uniformity was calculated from the uniform whole region in the reconstructed images. For $^{201}Tl$ and $^{99m}Tc$, the uniformities were improved by about 10-20% AC was applied, but these were decreased by about 2% as SC was applied. The uniformity of $^{131}I$ was slightly increased as both AC and SC were applied. The CPR of the reconstructed image was close to one, when AC was applied for $^{201}Tl$ and $^{99m}Tc$ scans and $^{131}I$ was distant from 1 and that is only AC. Conclusion: The image uniformity improved by AC on low energy likely to $^{201}Tl$ and $^{99m}Tc$. However, image uniformity of high energy such as $^{131}I$ was improved, when both AC and SC was applied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.11a
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• pp.708-710
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 X-ray 진단에서 산란선으로 인한 영상의 왜곡을 보정하는 방법으로서 수정된 구조의 AE(Auto-Encoder) 모델에 기반한 방법론을 제안한다. 기존 AE 모델의 계층에 따라 특징지도의 크기가 축소되고 팽창되는 과정에서 영상 복원에 필요한 정보가 소실될 가능성을 보완하기 위하여 동일 레벨 계층 간에 스킵 연결을 추가하였다. 또한 X-ray 영상에서 피사체 세부 부위의 두께와 밀도에 따라 산란선의 영향이 서로 다른 형태로 나타난다는 특성을 학습 과정에 효과적으로 반영하기 위하여 어텐션 모듈을 추가한 네트워크 구조를 도입하였다. 총 80 쌍의 흉부 X-ray 영상 데이터에 대하여 기존의 AE 모델을 사용한 방법 및 U-Net 과 FFA-Net 모델을 사용한 영상 복원 기법의 실험 결과를 상호 비교함으로써 제안된 방법의 타당성을 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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• 2006.03a
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• pp.145-148
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• 2006

새로 조성된 간척지 갯벌이 건조 수축하면 지반 침하와 더불어 토양 내로의 마이크로파의 침투 깊이가 증가한다 따라서 인공위성 DInSAR를 이용하여 지반 침하량을 구하고자 할 때, 건조 시 동시에 발생하는 마이크로파의 개펄 침투 현상을 규명하여 보정해 주어야 한다. 이를 위하여 다편광 산란계(Polarimetric Scatterometer)를 구성하여 건조 개펄에 대한 실내실험을 실시하였다. PolScat의 구성은 5.0-5.6GHz 대역의 dual-polarization square horn antenna를 사용하였으며 Agilent 8753ES 벡터 네트워크 분석기를 사용하였다. 길이 2m, 폭 2m, 높이 20cm의 개펄 샘플을 약 6주 동안 실내에서 건조시켜 위상을 측정한 결과 지반 침하와 함께 약 4mm의 마이크로파 투과현상이 발견되었다. 따라서 인공위성 DInSAR 지반침하량 계산에 있어서 반드시 토양 수분에 따른 마이크로파의 토양 침투 깊이를 보정해 주어야 함이 밝혀졌다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.915-916
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 X-ray 영상에서 산란선의 영향을 보정하는 소프트웨어 기법을 제시한다. 영상에서 픽셀값과 에지 요소가 연관된 에너지함수를 정의하고 이를 최적화 하는 방법을 통하여 X-ray 영상을 개선한다. 영상개선 과정에서 추출하는 에지정보의 신뢰성은 응용의 특성과 연관하여 성능에 민감한 영향을 준다. 이에 본 연구에서는 기존의 에지 추출 기법을 통합한 에지 정보 개선 기법을 적용하였으며 실제 X-ray 영상을 사용한 실험결과로부터 제안된 이론의 타당성을 고찰하였다. 이는 X-ray를 사용한 의료진단에서 산란선 보정을 위한 하드웨어의 기능을 대치할 수 있는 방법으로서 의미를 갖는다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.917-919
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• 2017

본 연구에서는 X-ray 산란선 보정을 위한 신경망에서 학습기법의 세부 방법론을 고찰한다. 학습데이터의 생성 과정과 데이터의 표현 과정에서 X-ray 영상의 특성을 반영하여 다양한 방법을 제시하고 실험적으로 고찰하였다. 학습을 위한 계산량의 문제와 유효하지 않은 학습데이터로 인한 성능 저하를 개선하기 위하여 샘플링과정을 수행하고 로컬영역을 고려하는 학습데이터 생성방법을 제시하였다. 실제 동일 피사체에 대하여 그리드 장비를 사용한 영상과 비교한 실험 결과를 통하여 제안된 방법의 유용성을 평가하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2021.06a
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• pp.117-117
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• 2021

본 연구에서는 Sentinel-1A/B C-band SAR(Synthetic Aperture Radar) 위성영상을 기반으로 인공신경망(Artificial Neural Network, ANN) 모형을 활용해 금강 유역 상류 40×50 km² 면적에 대한 토양수분을 산정하였다. 10 m 공간 해상도의 Sentinel-1A/B SAR 영상은 8일 간격으로 2015년부터 2019년까지 5년 동안 구축하였고, SNAP(SentiNel Application Platform)을 통해 기하 보정, 방사 보정 및 잡음(Noise) 보정을 수행하고 VV 및 VH 편파 후방산란계수로 변환하였다. ANN 모형 검증자료로 TDR(Time Domain Reflectometry)로 측정된 9개 지점의 실측 토양수분 자료를 구축하였으며, 수문학적 개념인 선행강우를 고려하기 위해 동지점에 대한 강수량 자료를 구축하였다. ANN은 각 지점에 해당하는 토양 속성별로 모델링하고, 전체 기간 및 계절별로 나누어 모의하였으며, 전체 자료의 60%와 40%를 각각 훈련 및 테스트 데이터로 사용하였다. 산정된 토양수분은 상관계수(Correlation Coefficient, R)와 평균제곱근오차(Root Mean Square Error, RMSE)를 활용하여 검증을 수행할 예정이다.

• 대한방사선방어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2011.11a
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• pp.138-139
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• 2011