• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.429-435
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to prospectively estimate the effectiveness of multi-transmit parallel technique in reduced FOV(Field of View) less than 26 cm. Homogeneity, SNR(signal to noise ratio) and acquisition time were measured and compared by setting FOV less than 26cm on the T1 and T2 weighted images using ACR phantom. The multi-transmit parallel technique resulted in significantly faster image acquisition by 46.8 % in T1 weighted images and 18.9% in T2 weighted images. The homogeneity and SNR values had no significant difference between pre and post application of the multi-transmit parallel technique. In conclusion, this study demonstrates the feasibility of multi-transmit parallel technique in FOV less than 26cm with a rapid acquisition and maintained image quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2000

The error diffusion technique is frequently utilized for the digital Imaging output devices to convert continuous level Image into bi-level Image It Yields the binary image with the high frequency emphasis that gives a pleasing perception to human eyes But, due to the non-homogeneous distribution of dots, It exhibits undesirable patterns that degenerate the perceived quality Various techniques have been proposed to Improve the Image quality by the error diffusion techniques In this paper, the cause of non-homogeneity of dot distribution is analyzed first. A threshold modulation technique that employs a simple sinusoidal function is proposed in this paper The proposed method achieves the homogeneous dot distribution by forcing the minor pixels on the binary Image to maintain the principal distance defined according to their gray levels. It also minimizes the void and clusters of minor pixels.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.337-344
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiolucency for the phantom output to the 3D printing technology. The 3D printing technology was applied for FDM (fused deposition modeling) method and was used the material of ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) resin. The phantom was designed in cylindrical uniformity. An image uniformity was measured by a cross-sectional images of the 3D printed phantom obtained from the CT equipment. The evaluation of radiolucency was measured exposure dose by the inserted ion-chamber from the 3D printed phantom. As a results, the average of uniformity in the cross-sectional CT image was 2.70 HU and the correlation of radiolucency between PMMA CT phantom and 3D printed ABS phantom is found to have a high correlation to 0.976. In the future, this results will be expected to be used as the basis for the phantom production of the radiation quality control by used 3D printing technology.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.631-636
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• 2018

The problem that the existing the magnetic resonance image (MRI) was prone to have not only long readout duration and low bandwidth in the phase-encode direction, but also geometric distortion was pointed out. The purpose of this study is to identify the usefulness of FOCUS-DWI through comparing FOCUS-DWI with the Conventional-DWI on a degree of uniformity and artifacts caused by the distance change in the central axis within the magnetic field. In terms of artifacts, there happened irregular striped artifacts in the Conventional-DWI technique, which in particular, more often arose in the central axis. Also, the overlap of imaging drastically increased. By contrast, there were no irregular striped artifacts in the FOCUS-DWI technique. In conclusion, it was found that the FOCUS-DWI technique was superior to the Conventional-DWI technique in terms of artifacts, the overlap of imaging, and a degree of uniformity. In addition, there was no difference of the change in distance from the central axis between the FOCUS-DWI technique and the Conventional-DWI technique. Thus, it is considered the FOCUS-DWI technique having less imaging distortion and high image quality will be highly clinically used.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.1307-1314
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• 2012

To reduce the effects of clutters with subsurface inhomogenities in ground-penetrating radar(GPR) images, an eigenimage based signal-processing technique is presented. If the conventional eigenimage filtering technique is applied to B-scan images of a GPR survey, relatively homogeneous clutters such as antenna ringing, direct coupling between transmitting and receiving antennas, and soil-surface reflection, can be removed sufficiently. However, since random clutters of subsurface inhomogenities still remain in the images, target signals are distorted and obscured by the clutters. According to a comparison of the eigenimage filtering results, there is different coherency between subsurface clutters and target signals. To reinforce the pixels with high coherency and reduce the pixels with low coherency, the pixel-by-pixel geometric-mean process after the eigenimage filtering is proposed here. For the validity of the proposed approach, GPR survey for detection of a metal target in a randomly inhomogeneous soil is numerically simulated by using a random media generation technique and the finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) method. And the proposed signal processing is applied to the B-scan data of the GPR survey. We show that the proposed approach provides sufficient enhancement of target signals as well as remarkable reduction of subsurface inhomogeneous clutters in comparison with the conventional eigenimage filtering.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.07a
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• pp.341-342
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• 2007

3T MRI system에서 고해상도 영상을 얻기 위해서는 magnetic field를 균일하게 만들어야 한다. 특히 초고속 영상 기법인 Spiral scan 방식과 EPI scan 방식에서는 이미지 영역에서의 magnetic field의 inhomogeneity에 의해 영상의 왜곡이 심해진다. 본 논문에서는 magnetic field의 inhomogeneity를 단시간 내에 측정하기 위해 fast spin echo방식의 pulse sequence 제안하고, magnetic field를 분석하기 위한 field map의 구성과, field pattern의 효과적인 분석을 통하여, magnetic field를 균일하게 만드는 방법을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.10B
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• pp.1375-1381
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• 2001

영상 부호화 기법에 적용하여 향상된 성능을 나타내는 균일 양자화기를 제안하였다. 또한 두 가지 형태의 서로 다른 균일 양자화기에 대하여 비트율-왜곡(rate-distortion) 특성을 분석하였다. 분석결과 입력(input source)의 평균값을 기준으로, 구간값(decision level)을 이동시키는 제안한 양자화 기법이 다른 양자화기 보다 향상된 비트율-왜곡 특성을 보였다. 아울러 제안한 양자화기를 웨이브릿 변환 부호화기에 적용한 결과, 여러 가지 영상에 대하여 기존의 양자화 기법보다 우수한 결과를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.75-75
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• 2003

목적： MR 영상에 나타나는 bias field, 즉 영상의 특정 부분이 주위보다 어둡거나 밝게 나타나는 현상을 보다 균일하게 보정시키는 방법으로 제시된 N3 방법에서 Gaussian kernel을 사용한 smoothing 방법 대신에 Wavelet(Daubechies, D4)함수를 smoothing기법으로 사용했을 때 어느 정도 균일함에 향상이 일어나는지를 알아보는 것이다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.810-819
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• 2001

칼라가 물체 인식에 아주 효율적인 단서를 제공하지만 칼라 분포는 시청 조건과 카메라의 위치에 아주 큰 영향을 받는다. 생김새와 모양의 변화에 의한 칼라 분포 변화 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 밝기 값의 변화에 영향을 받지 않고, 색상(hue) 성분에 민감한 칼라 벡터각(color vector angle)을 이용하여 칼라 에지를 추출한 후, 영상의 화소들을 평탄 화소와 에지 화소로 구분하여 칼라 특징 값을 추출하였다. 에지 화소의 경우에는 에지 주위 칼라 쌍의 전체 분포를 HLS 색좌표계의 비균일 양자화를 통해 칼라 인접 히스토그램(color adjacency histogram)으로 표현하고, 평탄 화소의 경우에는 HLS 색좌표계의 비균일 양자화와 칼라 벡터각 균일 양자화를 통해 칼라 벡터각 히스토그램(color vector angle histogram)을 구성하여 공간적인 칼라분포를 표현하였다. 제안한 칼라 히스토그램을 이용하여 영상 검색에 적용하여 성능을 실험한 결과, 작은 빈의 수를 가지는 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법들보다 훨씬 효율적이고, 생김새와 모양의 변화에 아주 강건한 영상 검색이 가능하였고, 기존의 칼라 히스토그램 역투사 방법보다 훨씬 정확한 물체 위치 추정이 가능함을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.446-448
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 조명 보정과 지역적인 밝기 정보를 이용한 유해 영상에서의 피부색 검출 방법을 제안한다. 첫번째, 조명의 영향을 줄이기 위하여 입력 영상을 히스토그램 평활화하여 명암 값의 분포가 한쪽으로 치우치거나 균일하지 못한 영상의 명암 값 분포를 균일화 시켜 영상을 향상될 수 있도록 한다. 그 다음, 평활화 시킨 영상을 25 개의 블록으로 분할한 후, 각 블록에서의 밝기 값에 대한 통해 평균과 왜도를 구한다. 구해진 값들을 영상의 임계값으로 설정하여 이진화 시킨다. 그리고, 평활화시킨 영상의 RGB 값을 Lab 컬러 공간으로 변환한다. 변환된 컬러 공간내의 조명 성분 값인 L(Luminance)값을 추출하여 이를 역변환 한다. 역변환한 L 값은 비정규 조명을 갖는 유해 영상의 조명에 민감한 영향을 제거하기 위하여 평활화 영상에 합한다. 마지막으로, 밝기 임계값을 통해서 얻어진 이진영상내의 객체 영역과 RGB 피부색 임계값을 통한 조명 보정된 평활화 영상내의 피부색 영역의 공통된 영역을 결과값으로 추출한다.