• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.69-73
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• 2002

Exposure measurement data with parallel plate ionization chambers were known to depend on the polarity ($k_{pol}$) effect. In this work, the polarity effect were investigated for three parallel plate ionization chambers with different volume. The ionization chamber was fabricated using acrylic plate for the chamber medium and printed circuit board for electrical configuration. The various sizes of the sensitive volumes designed so far were 0.9, 1.9, and 3.1 co. High voltage generator was fabricated using the conventional 9 V batteries to apply the high voltage (300-500 V) to the electrode of the parallel plate ionization chamber. The gap between two electrodes ranged from 3, 6, and 10mm. As the result of our experiment, the polarity effect was within 0.5% in photon beam and 1% to 3.5% in the electron beams. Among electron beams, 16 MeV beam, which had highest energy, showed less polarity effect than electron beams with other energies.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.647-649
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 다각 근사화 방법과 래스터 기반 연산 알고리즘을 이용하여 평면 지도상에 나타난 등고선을 3차원 가시화(Visualization)하여 보여준다. 다각 근사화 방법은 입력한 등고선에 대한 특징을 반영할 수 있는 최소한의 선형구분 오차 임계값을 이용하여 등고선에 근사화 시킨 것으로 저장 데이터의 양을 축소할 수 있다. 래스터 기반 알고리즘은 이웃한 두 개의 등고선 내부점의 높이 값을 그 점에서 두 등고선까지의 최단거리 및 등고선의 높이값을 변수로 하는 선형보간식으로 정의하고, 거리변환 연산을 도입하여 계산하는 알고리즘으로 구현이 용이하며, 간단한 계산만을 수행하기 때문에 처리 방법이 간단하다는 장점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 래스터 방법만을 이용한 복원보다 자료의 양이 감소함을 보였고, 전체 처리과정의 간단함과, 3차원 가시화된 등고선을 그래프 좌표상의 X, Y, Z축으로 원하는 각도만큼씩 회전시키며 관찰 할 수 있도록 하였다. 본 연구를 통해 지형의 특징을 원형 등고선과 유사하게 유지하면서, 데이터 양을 축소하고 계산식을 간략화된 효과적인 지형정보 시각화를 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 2012.02a
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• pp.141-141
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• 2012

X-선 반사율 측정법(XRR)은 비파괴적인 측정방법과 수 nm의 두께를 정밀하게 측정할 수 있는 장점으로 인하여 반도체 산업현장에서 많은 관심과 연구가 이루어지고 있다. 이러한 XRR은 두께 분석 측정의 정밀도를 향상시키고 부정확한 결과를 방지하기 위하여 측정기기를 검증하고 보정할 수 있는 두께 표준물질을 필요로 하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 XRR용 두께 표준물질을 이온빔 스퍼터링 증착방법을 이용하여 제작하였다. 두께 표준물질 제작에 있어 공기 중 노출에 의해 산화가 되지 않는 산화물 박막과 산화물 기판을 선택하였다. 후보물질은 glass, sapphire, quartz, SiO2기판과 HfO2, Ta2O5, Cr2O3 산화물 타켓을 이용하여 박막을 제작하였다. 제작된 후 보물질은 교정된 XRR을 통하여 박막의 두께, 계면 및 표면 거칠기, 밀도등 박막의 구조특성분석을 하였다. Glass, quartz의 경우 기판 표면 거칠기가 좋지 않아 제작된 샘플의 X-선 반사율 곡선이 급격히 떨어지면서 측정되는 각도의 영역이 작아졌다. Sapphire로 제작한 시편은 측정된 데이터와 simulation의 curve fitting이 양호하지 않았다. 이 중 SiO2기판을 사용하고 HfO2박막을 증착한 샘플이 다른 후보물질보다 XRR curve fitting 결과가 가장 양호하여 두께 표준물질로 응용하기에 적절하였다. 그리고 AFM (Atomic Force MicroScope)을 이용하여 기판의 거칠기 및 증착한 박막표면 거칠기 측정을 하였고, TEM (Transmission Electron Microscope)으로 두께 측정을 하여 XRR로 얻은 데이터와 비교하였다. 이러한 결과를 토대로 XRR용 두께 표준물질 제작할 수 있었고, 추후 불확도 평가 및 비교실험을 통하여 제작된 XRR용 두께 표준물질을 이용할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Society for Simulation
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-29
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• 2007

In this paper, we present a method of detecting the boundary of the intima-media complex for automated measurement based on dynamic programming from carotid artery B-mode ultrasound images and then show the experimental results. We apply the dynamic programming for determining the optimal locations that a cost function is minimized. The cost function includes cost terms which are representing image features such as intensity, intensity gradient and geometrical continuity of the vessel interfaces. Moreover, we improve the boundary continuity by applying the B-spline to smooth the rough boundary due to noise such as speckle, dropout and weak edges. The proposed method has obtained more accurate reproducible results than conventional edge-detection by considering multiple image features and ensures efficient automated measurement by solving the problems of the inter- and intra-observer variability and its inefficiency due to manual measurement.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.395-403
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• 2022

Flat-panel detector (FPD) used in digital radiographic imaging systems was used to perform a quantitative power spectrum evaluation as a result of the thickness change of polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA), a tissue equivalent. As the PMMA thickness increases with the resolution-chart phantom image, the effect of the scattering line increases, indicating that the modulation characteristics decrease, and the image is bright. The results show that the noise of the image increases, and noise-power spectral images are obtained by Fourier transform to confirm by spatial frequency. Thus, it can be verified that the PMMA thickness and noise are proportional through the result of evaluating the change of resolution characteristics and representing the 2D noise-power spectrum as one-dimensional values by evaluating the change of scattering line with MTF as the PMMA thickness increases in the image.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.719-725
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• 2022

This study aimed to measure, quantitatively evaluate, and set the criteria for the minimum lead(Pb) shield thickness per level of clinically applied electron beam energy. The lead shield thickness per electron beam energy was measured using the primary field 95% reduction based on the open field at the depth of maximum dose (d_max) and depth from the surface as the reference depth of tissue dose(10 mm). The measured values were 1.906 mmPb and 1.992 mmPb at the d_max and 10 mm, respectively, regarding the lead shield thickness for 6 MeV electron beam; 2.746 mmPb and 3.743 mmPb for 9 MeV electron beam, 3.718 mmPb and 6.093 mmPb for 12 MeV electron beam, 7.300 mmPb and 15.270 mmPb for 16 MeV electron beam, and 16.825 mmPb and 25.090 mmPb for 20 MeV electron beam. Consequently, a thicker lead shield was required if the measurement was at 10 mm. The required lead shield thickness was also higher than that of the theoretical formula for electron beams of ≥ 16 MeV.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.562-569
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• 2001

This paper presents the optimum design method for T-shaped microstrip-line-fed slot antennas on various substrates. Since the impedance bandwidth of the antenna depends highly on the vertical offset position and the length of horizontal strip conductor, we derived the formulas regarding these design parameters to get the maximum bandwidth. The formulas can compute the offset position and the length of horizontal strip conductor for any given substrate parameters. We compared the results obtained by using these design formulas and the one obtained by the simulation for each slot width, and it showed very good agreement.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.12B no.3 s.99
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• pp.337-342
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• 2005

This paper presents a typographical analyses and classes. Typographical analysis is an indispensable tool for machine-printed character recognition in English. This analysis is a preliminary step for character segmentation in OCR(Optical Character Recognition). This paper is divided into two parts. In the first part, word typographical classes from words are defined by the word typographical analysis. In the second part, character typographical classes from connected components are defined by the character typographical analysis. The character typographical classes are used in the character segmentation.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.30 no.11
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• pp.629-654
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• 2003

A new multiresolutional scheme that reconstructs a polygonal mesh from the set of contours is presented. In the first step, we apply a radial gradient method to extract the contours on the sampled slices from a volume data. After classifying the types of the edges on the contours, we represent the contour using the context-free grammar. The polygons between two neighboring contours are generated through the traversal of the derivation trees of the context-free grammar. The polygonal surface of the coarsest resolution is refined through the refinement of the contours, which is executed by casting more rays on the slices. The topologies between the polygonal surfaces of various resolutions are maintained from the fact that the radial gradient method preserves the topologies of the contours of various resolutions. The proposed scheme provides efficient computation and compression methods for the tiling procedure with the feature preservation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.18-23
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• 1966

An experimental study of a steel plate thickness gauge by means of the measurements of backscatered gamma-rays has been carried out. The difference between this and other methods is that this method does not include any shilding matterials in the detecting probe, because the primary radiations and the backscattered radiations are detected simultaneously by an NaI (TI) scintillating crystal, and the activity of the Co-60 source used is low enough. In this thickness gauge, the thickness of the steel plates can be read directly on the counting ratemeter scale. The optimum conditions in the source-to-detector distance, window width of the analyzer, energy and strength of the gamma-ray source were found experimentally. The results have shown that the accuracy of the gauge was about $\pm$3% in the range of 3 to 8mm thickness. This gauge can be used to detect the pits or corrosions on the inner walls of the steel pipes.