• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.50-55
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• 2007

We have installed a 61-channel magnetocardiography (MCG) system inside a magnetically shielded room (MSR) with a size of $2.4\;m\;{\times}2.4\;m\;{\times}2.4\;m$. The MCG system consists of 1st-order axial gradiometers containing double relaxation oscillation SQUIDs (DROSs) with pick-up coils of a base line of 70 mm. The MSR holds a shielding factor of 50 at 0.1 Hz and 10000 at 100 Hz, when its door in the middle on a front wall is closed. On opening the MSR door, we have obtained the characteristics of the MCG system with a 2.9 Hz noise generated from an air conditioning unit at 13 m distance off the MSR. In an open-door MSR ($140^{\circ}$ opening), a noise at the center channel increases up to $700\;fT/Hz^{l/2}$ at 2.9 Hz and $1.7\;pT/Hz^{1/2}$ at 60 Hz. MCG signals for a healthy human do not show distortion until the door opens to $45^{\circ}$, but show the effect of noise when the door opens further at $90^{\circ}$ and $140^{\circ}$. With the door opens to $45^{\circ}$, MCG measurement can be performed with ease of door operation and without creating claustrophobia for the patient.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.530-538
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• 2007

Magnetocardiography (MCG) is a device to measure the magnetic field from the heart. It is a noninvasive device and takes only few minutes to record magnetocardiogram from a subject. In this study, we compared the difference of MCG data recorded from 56 normal subjects in early twenties (28 males and 28 females, mean $age=21.0{\pm}1.6$ years) and 36 elderly subjects (20 males and 16 females, mean $age=61.9{\pm}6.9$ years) for the analysis of the age and gender difference. A total of 24 parameters used in the analysis were derived from QRS complex, R-wave, T-wave, and ST-T period. As a result, seven parameters including maximum current angle and map angle showed the significant difference (p<0.01 and p<0.05, respectively) between young males and young females. Significant difference (p<0.05) between elderly males and elderly females was found from a parameter, pole distance at T-wave peak. In the comparison of age difference, seven parameters regarding current moment, pole distance, and dynamics showed the significant difference between young and elderly males. Eight parameters also showed significant difference (p<0.05) between two younger and elderly female groups. Results showed that parameters regarding current moment, pole distance, and dynamics might be changed when people get older. In conclusion, gender and age difference should be considered when MCG data are analyzed for certain parameters.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.111-120
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• 2005

Objectives : The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of acupuncture stimulation on the relationship of change in magnetocardiography (MCG). Methods : For this purpose, 30 heart deficiency volunteers were acupunctured at Shinmun (HA7) and Naegwan (PC6) acupoint. Then, we measured and observed the change of frequency parameters in MCG. Results : In the mean frequency, during and after acupuncture treated groups of PC6 were decreased the activity of $f\;_{mean-max}$ compared to the control group. In the median frequency, during the acupuncture treated group of PC6 was decreased the activity of $f\;_{median-max}$ compared to the control group. Conclusion : These results suggested that acupuncture stimulation plays an important role to the activities of MCG.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.46-51
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• 2005

We have developed control electronics to operate flux-locked loop (FLL), and analog signal filters to process FLL outputs for 64-channel Double Relaxation Oscillation SQUID (DROS) magnetocardiography (MCG) system. Control electronics consisting of a preamplifier, an integrator, and a feedback, is compact and low-cost due to larger swing voltage and flux-to-voltage transfer coefficients of DROS than those of dc SQUIDs. Analog signal filter (ASF) serially chained with a high-pass filter having a cut-off frequency of 0.1 Hz, an amplifier having a gain of 100, a low-pass filter of 100 Hz, and a notch filter of 60 Hz makes FLL output suitable for MCG. The noise of a preamplifier in FLL control electronics is $7\;nV/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 1 Hz, $1.5\;nV/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 100 Hz that contributes $6\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 1 Hz, $1.3\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 100 Hz in readout electronics, and the noise of ASF electronics is $150\;{\mu}V/{\surd}\;Hz$ equivalent to $0.13\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ within the range of $1{\sim}100\;Hz$. When DROSs are connected to readout electronics inside a magnetically shielded room, the noise of 64-channel DROS system is $10\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 1 Hz, $5\;fT/{\surd}\;Hz$ at 100 Hz on the average, low enough to measure human MCG.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.139-145
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• 2012

Electric activity of cardiac muscles generates magnetic fields. Magnetocardiography (or MCG) technology, measuring these magnetic signals, can provide useful information for the diagnosis of heart diseases. It is already about 40 years ago that the first measurement of MCG signals was done by D. Cohen using SQUID (superconducting quantum interference device) sensor inside a magnetically shielded room. In the early period of MCG history, bulky point-contact RF-SQUID was used as the magnetic sensor. Thanks to the development of Nb-based Josephson junction technology in mid 1980s and new design of tightly-coupled DC-SQUID, low-noise SQUID sensors could be developed in late 1980s. In around 1990, several groups developed multi-channel MCG systems and started clinical study. However, it is quite recent years that the true usefulness of MCG was verified in clinical practice, for example, in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease. For the practical MCG system, technical elements of MCG system should be optimized in terms of performance, fabrication cost and operation cost. In this review, development history, technical issue, and future development direction of MCG technology are described.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

Measurement of magnetic signals generated from electric activity of myocardium provides useful information for the functional diagnosis of heart diseases. Key technical component of the magnetocardiography (MCG) technology is SQUID. To measure MCG signals with high signal-to-noise ratio, sensitive SQUID magnetic field sensors are needed. Present magnetic field sensors based on Nb SQUIDs have field sensitivity good enough to measure most of MCG signals. However, for accurate measurement of fine signal pattern or detection of local atrial fibrillation signals, we may need higher field sensitivity. In addition to field sensitivity, economic aspect of the SQUID system is also important. To simplify the SQUID readout electronics, the output voltage or flux-to-voltage transfer of SQUID should be large enough so that direct measurement of SQUID output can be done using room-temperature preamplifiers. Double relaxation oscillation SQUID (DROS), having about 10 times larger flux-to-voltage transfers than those of DC-SQUIDs, was shown to be a good choice to make the electronics compact. For effective cancellation of external noise inside a thin economic shielded room, first-order axial gradiometer with high balance, simple structure and long-baseline is needed. We developed a technology to make the axial gradiometer compact using direct bonding of superconductive wires between pickup coil and input coil. Conventional insert has mechanical support to hold the gradiometer array, and the dewar neck has equal diameter with the dewar bottom. Boiling of the liquid He can generate mechanical vibrations in the gradiometer array due to mechanical connection structure. Elimination of the mechanical support, and direct mounting of the gradiometer array into the dewar bottom can reduce the dewar neck diameter, resulting in the reduction of liquid He consumption.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.164-168
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• 2007

We developed a SQUID magnetometer based on Double Relaxation Oscillation SQUID(DROS) for measuring magnetocardiography(MCG). Since DROS provides a 10 times larger flux-to-voltage transfer coefficient than the conventional DC-SQUID, simple flux-locked loop electronics could be used for SQUID operation. Especially, we adopted an external feedback to eliminate the magnetic coupling with adjacent channels. When the DROS magnetometer was operated inside a magnetically shielded room, average magnetic field noise was about 5 $fT/^{\surd}Hz$ at 100 Hz. Using the DROS magnetometer, we constructed a multichannel MCG system. The system consisted of 61 magnetometers are arranged in a hexagonal structure and measures a vertical magnetic-field component to the chest surface. The distance between adjacent channels is 26 mm and the magnetometers cover a circular area with a diameter of 208 mm. We recorded the MCG signals with this system and confirmed the magnetic field distribution and the myocardinal current distribution.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2008

Magnetocardiography (MCG) is a non-contact, non-invasive, and harmless diagnostic tool to detect the abnormal electrical conductivities of the heart caused by the various coronary artery disease or cardiac muscular disease. The purpose of this study is to identify whether MCG signals and MCG parameter values vary depending on the location of sensor assembly. It will be an important reference for the standard measurement. Four healthy male subjects (33.3$\pm$6.3 years) participated in this study. Basal recording was made at 20 mm apart from the chest surface. All subjects were requested to take a regular breathe while MCG was taken. The gap between the chest surface and the bottom of the sensor assembly was 20, 40, 60, and 80 mm. Recording was made using 64 channel MCG system (Axial type, first order gradiometer) developed by Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). After resting for two minutes in a supine position on the bed in magnetically shielded room, MCG were recorded for 30 s. As the sensor location is getting away from the chest surface signal, the amplitude of R and T wave peak decreases to 70% (at 40 mm gap), 50% (at 60 mm), and 37% (at 80 mm) of the reference strength measured (y = $1.3903e^{-0.0169x}$, $R^2$ = 0.99; where y=amplitude remained after reduction, x=distance between chest surface and sensor location). The regression equations may be used as a good reference to calculate how much strength will be decreased by the distance. In MCG parameters, most values of parameters were decreased as the gap was increased. As an example, the current moment at T-wave peak reduced to 52% (at 40 mm gap), 33% (at 60 mm), and 19% (at 80 mm). However, the difference caused by the gap could be reduced by considering the distance when the MCG parameters were calculated. The study results can be used as a useful reference to design the baseline and the sensor location.

• 헤리티지:역사와 과학
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• 제52권3호
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• pp.160-171
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• 2019

나주 정촌고분 1호 석실 출토 소환두도는 내부 별도 장식이 없는 오각형 환두도이다. 또한 모도와 자도 2자루로 구성된 모자대도이다. 정촌고분 소환두도는 환두부, 병부, 신부, 초미금구로 구성되었다. 소환두도 환두는 철지은장(鐵地銀裝)이지만 은(銀)이 염화은으로 부식되면서 연보라색을 띠며 내부 철제 심의 부식물이 표면에 형성되었다. 염화은은 염화이온이 용해된 매장 환경에서 은이 수분과 반응하여 생성되는데, 가루 형태로 부식되어 유물의 형태 보존을 어렵게 한다. 정촌고분에서 함께 출토된 다른 은제 유물도 유사한 부식 형태를 보여주고 있다. 정촌고분 소환두도의 X선 투과조사 및 CT 분석 결과, 철제 외환에 T자형 슴베를 만들고 신부의 슴베와 연결하였다. 소환두도의 자도를 참고하여 모도의 형태를 유추하면, 모도는 환두, 병두금구, 병연금구를 은판(銀板)으로 감싸고 금제 환과 은제 선으로 병부를 장식하였다. 환두 슴베와 신부 슴베의 연결 방식은 리벳 구멍이 확인되지 않아 단접(鍛接)한 것으로 판단되었다. 초미금구는 철판으로 형태를 만들고 끝단을 견직물로 감싸고 그 아래를 은판과 금제 환으로 장식하였다. 정촌고분 소환두도는 금 은 철제 금속을 다양하게 사용하였으며 백제, 신라, 가야의 여러 가지 요소가 복합적으로 구성되어 주변 유적 및 여러 문화권 영향을 받았음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국철학논집
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• 제52호
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• pp.107-130
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• 2017

본 연구는 퇴계 이황(退溪 李滉, 1501~1570)의 물격설(物格說)인 이도설(理到說)에 대한 한주 이진상(寒洲 李震相, 1818~1886)의 견해를 바탕으로 한주의 '리(理)' 개념의 특징을 파악하고, 이를 통해 퇴계 이도설에서 포착되는 퇴계 성리학 체계에서의 '리' 개념이 후대에 전개 심화되는 양상을 확인하는 데 그 목적이 있다. 무위의 본체인 '리'를 살아 움직이는 것으로 간주한다는 비판에 직면하였던 이도설에 대해 영남지역의 퇴계 후학들은 대체적으로 자구(字句) 해석의 정합성을 확보하는 것으로 논리적 정합성을 확보하려 하였다. 한주 역시 '격물(格物)' '물격(物格)'에서의 '격(格)'을 '구(究)'의 의미로 풀이한 것에 기반하여 이도(理到)의 서술어인 '도(到)'를 '진(盡)'의 의미로 풀이하였다. 그러나 한편으로 그는 퇴계가 '리(理)의 자도(自到)'를 승인하면서 체인하였던 '리'의 '체용(體用)'과 '활물'적 특성을 퇴계 성리학의 종지(宗旨)로 보았으며, 이는 그의 인식방법론으로 대표되는 삼간법(三看法)을 설명하는 곳에서 나타난다. 한주 이전의 학자들은 자구의 의미를 수정하는 데에서 더 이상의 논의가 진행되지 않고 있어 이도설 해석을 통해서 학문적 특성을 파악하기에는 부족하였다. 한주는 리(理)에 대한 활간(活看)이 부족할 경우 '심(心)'과 '리(理)'의 관계를 곡해할 수 있다는 문제의식 하에서 리일분수(理一分殊)의 관점에 기반하여 퇴계 이도설을 평가하였다. 그 결과 물리(物理)를 본구한 '심'의 주류변화(周流變化)와 '리'의 작용성을 등치시켜 '리'의 '분수' 적 측면을 아우르면서 '심'이 만물의 '리'를 통섭한다는 '리일'의 측면을 강조하였다.