• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.225-228
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• 2006

Purpose: Accurate clinical evaluation of the alignment of the calcaneus relative to the tibia in the coronal plane is essential in the evaluation and treatment of hindfoot pathologic condition. Previously described standard anteroposterior, lateral, and oblique radiographic methods of the foot or ankle do not demonstrate alignment of the tibia relation to the calcaneus in the coronal plane. The purpose of this study was to introduce hindfoot coronal alignment view. Material : 1) Both feet were imaged simultaneously on an elevated, radiolucent foot stand equipment. 2) Both feet stood on a radiolucent platform with equal weight on both feet. 3) Both feet are located foot axis longitudinal perpendicular to the platform. 4) Silhouette tracing around both feet are made, and line is then drawn to bisect the silhouette of the second toe and the outline of the heel. 5) The x-ray beam is angled down approximately $15^{\circ} to $20^{\circ} Result : 1) This image described tibial axis and medial, lateral tuberosity of calcaneus. 2) Calcaneus do not rotated. 3) The view is showed by talotibial joint space. Conclusion: Although computed tomographic and magnetic resonance imaging techniques are capable of demonstrating coronal hindfoot alignment, they lack usefulness in most clinical situations because the foot is imaged in a non-weight bearing position. But hindfoot coronal alignment view is obtained for evaluating position changing of inversion, eversion of the hindfoot and varus, valgus deformity of calcaneus.

• Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.153-160
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• 2008

Seismic modeling is used to simulate wave propagation in the earth. Although the earth's subsurface is usually semi-infinite, we cannot handle the semi-infinite model in seismic modeling because of limited computational resources. For this reason, we usually assume a finite-sized model in seismic modeling. In that case, we need to eliminate the edge reflections arising from the artificial boundaries introducing a proper boundary condition. In this study, we changed three kinds of boundary conditions (sponge boundary condition, Clayton and Engquist's absorbing boundary condition, and Higdon's transparent boundary condition) so that they can be applied in elastic wave modeling for anisotropic media. We then apply them to several models whose Poisson's ratios are different. Clayton and Engquist's absorbing boundary condition is unstable in both isotropic and anisotropic media, when Poisson's ratio is large. This indicates that the absorbing boundary condition can be applied in anisotropic media restrictively. Although the sponge boundary condition yields good results for both isotropic and anisotropic media, it requires too much computational memory and time. On the other hand, Higdon's transparent boundary condition is not only inexpensive, but also reduce reflections over a wide range of incident angles. We think that Higdon's transparent boundary condition can be a method of choice for anisotropic media, where Poisson's ratio is large.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.661-666
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• 2019

Diverging collimators is used to obtain reduced images of an object, or to detect a wide filed-of-view (FOV) using a small gamma camera. In the gamma camera using the diverging collimators, the block scintillator, and the pixel scintillator array, gamma rays are obliquely incident on the scintillator surface when the source is located the periphery of the FOV. Therefore, the spatial resolution is reduced because it is obliquely detected in depth direction. In this study, we designed a novel system to improve the spatial resolution in the periphery of the FOV. Using a tapered crystal array to configure the scintillation pixels to coincide with the angle of the collimator's hole allows imaging to one scintillation pixel location, even if events occur to different depths. That is, even if is detected at various points in the diagonal direction, the gamma rays interact with one crystal pixel, so resolution does not degrade. The resolution of the block scintillator and the tapered crystal array was compared and evaluated through Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation. The spatial resolution of the obtained image was 4.05 mm in the block scintillator and 2.97 mm in the tapered crystal array. There was a 26.67% spatial resolution improvement in the tapered crystal array compared to the block scintillation.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.35.5-36
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• 2021

'역상고성'은 '신법산서'에 수록되어 있는 티코브라헤의 역법체계와 그 밖의 천문 내용들을 중국인 천문학자들에 의하여 확실하게 정리를 하였지만 '역상고성'에 따른 추보는 천상과 불일치를 보게 되었다. 藪內淸(야부우치 키요시) 저(1969), 유경로 역(1985)에 의하면 이러한 불일치는 옹정 8년 6월 초 1일의 일식이었는데 예보의 오류를 정정한다는 것을 중국 천문학자들이 감당하기 어려웠다. 퀘글러(Ignatius Kögler, 戴進賢, 1680~1746)와 페레이라(Andreas Pereira, 서무덕(徐懋德), 1690-1743) 등의 선교사 천문학자들이 칙명을 받아 종사하게 되고, 이들이 중심이 되어 '역상고성'보다 더 진보된 서양천문 역법에 기초를 둔 역서가 편찬되게 되었다. '신법산서'와 '역상고성'은 모델에서는 평원(平圓)을 사용하지만 '역상고성후편'에서는 타원(楕圓) 모델을 사용하게 된다. 건륭 7년(1742년)에 10권이 완성되어 '역상고성후편'이라 명하였다. 타원모델을 채택하였지만 지동설에 대한 내용은 전혀 기술되어 있지 않다. 아마도 태양이나 달의 운동을 추보하는데 지구를 중심으로 해야 하기에 이에 대한 언급을 필요치 않았을 수도 있다. '역상고성후편' 은 태양과 달의 운행, 일식과 월식에 대해서만 다루고 있다.그러나 '역상고성'에서는 청몽기차나 지반경차를 티코브라헤의 표 값을 그대로 사용하였고, 이 값들이 관측과 관련이 되어 있음을 설명하려는 무리를 두고 있다. 너무 정확하게 값들이 관측 값들로부터 유도되어 의심이 갈 정도이다. 카시니(Giovanni Domenico Cassini, 喝西尼, 1625~1712)는 자신의 동료 리셰와 함께 파리와 프랑스령 기아나 카이엔에서 충의 위치에 있는 화성과 부근 별의 고도를 관측하여 충의 위치에 있는 화성의 시차를 측정하여 최초로 태양과 지구 사이의 거리를 어림하고, 태양의 지반 경차를 현재와 값과 거의 비슷하게 얻었다. '역상고성후편'에서는 이 내용을 상세하게 다루고 있다. 또한 대기에서 입사각과 굴절각 사이에 Snell의 법칙이 성립하는데 이를 이용하여 모호하게 알았던 청몽기차를 대기의 굴절을 이용하여 현재의 값과 비슷한 값을 얻어 사용할 수 있게 되었다. 이는 모든 천체의 위치를 관측하는데 있어서 매우 정확한 값들을 얻을 수 있게 되고 이에 따라 황도-적도 경사각도 정확하게 얻어진다. '역상고성후편'은 옹정원년을 역원으로 하고 있다. 태양의 운행에 있어서 케플러의 타원 궤도를 이용하게 된다. '신법산서'와 '역상고성'에서는 평균근점이각 M을 모델에서 보여 줄 수 있지만 타원 궤도에서는 이 각이 면적각으로 주어지고, 원 대신 타원을 다루기에 쉽지 않다. 현재는 케플러 방정식을 풀어 가감차를 구하게 되는데 이를 기하학적으로 풀이하는 차적구적법을 소개하고 있다. 이와 함께 면적을 이용하여 타원계각과 타원차각을 구하는 차각구각법도 소개한다. 타원계각과 타원차각을 모두 고려하였기에 현재의 태양의 운동을 기술하는 타원모델과 완벽하게 같다. 다만 사용하는 상수가 아주 조금 다를 분이다. 태양의 경도를 추보하는 방법도 동지점을 기준으로 하고 현재의 방법과 동일하다. 달의 운행도 타원 궤도를 사용한다. '역상고성후편'의 내용은 우리나라의 전해져서 1860년 남병길이 쓴 '시헌기요(時憲紀要)'에는 태양, 달, 일·월식, 오행성의 운동, 항성의 위치, 시간 등을 추보하는데 필요한 내용들이 매뉴얼화 되어 기록되어 있고, 1862년 남병철이 쓴 '추보속해(推步續解)'에도 같은 내용을 담고 있다.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.78-82
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• 2023

A fabrication of smart windows with controllable visible light transmittance in three steps by using λ/2 retardation films based on a reactive mesogen (RM) material and polarizing films is demonstrated. The phase retardation films with a Δn·d value of λ/2 (λ: wavelength) convert the direction of a traveling light to the optical axis of the film symmetrically. In this work, the retardation characteristics according to the RM thickness were evaluated and henceλ/2 phase retardation film can be fabricated. The phase retardation film with Δn·d of 276.1 nm, which is close to λ/2 (=275 nm @550 nm), was fabricated. The light transmittance of a smart window with the structure of (polarizing film)/(glass)/(alignment layer)/(λ/2 retardation film) was measured in the transmission mode, half mode and blocking mode. The evaluation results show that the transmittance of the smart window can be controlled in three steps with 35.8%, 27.8%, and 18.2% at each mode, respectively. In addition, by fabricating a smart window with a size of 15×200 mm², the feasibility of use in various fields such as buildings and automobiles was verified.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.157-163
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• 2024

We developed a 3-channel fiber laser with a common seed and a phase control system for laser beam combining through a diffractive optical element. Beam combining was performed by adjusting the angles of the beams incident on the diffractive optical elements, and the phase of each beam was controlled to maximize the intensity of the combined laser beam. The power of the 3-channel laser before passing through the diffractive optical elements is about 65 mW. The power of the combined beam varied between 2.9 mW and 48.3 mW depending on the phase change of each channel. Through phase control, the output of the combined beam can be maintained at 42 mW for more than 91.8% of the total time. It is expected that higher combining efficiency can be achieved by improving the transmittance of the diffractive optical elements and the performance of the phase control system.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.233-241
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• 2011

Currently, solar module is using the two methods such as a glass-filled method or a super-straight method. The common point of these methods is to use glass structure on the front of solar module. However, the reflectance of the solar module is high depending on the height of the incident sunlight due to the flat surface of the module front glass. Purposed to solve these problems, AG (anti-glare) structures were formed on the glass surface. Next is fabrication methods of AG structure. First, uneven structure made by micro blaster equipment was dipped in Hydro-fluidic acid (HF) acid. HF acid process was carried out to remove particles and to make high transmittance. The reflectance and transmittance of the anti-glare glass was compared to those of the bare glass. The reflectance of anti-glare glass decreased approximately 1% compared with bare glass. The transmittance of anti-glare glass was similar to bare glass. According to the sample angle, the difference of the reflectance between bare glass and the anti-glare glass was about 19%. Isc and efficiency value of anti-glare glass on bare solar cell appeared about 3.01 mA and 0.228% difference compared with bare glass. Anti-glare glass on textured solar cell appeared about 9.46 mA and 0.741% difference compared with bare glass. As a result, the role of anti-glare in the substrate is to reduces the loss of sunlight reflected from the surface. In this study, therefore, AG structure on the solar cell was used to improve the efficiency of solar cell.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.46-50
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• 2018

Purpose Generally, a collimator that installed in front of detector set a direction of gamma ray and remove a scatter ray. By the way, a lateral or oblique scatter ray is detected into crystal through collimator. At this study, we will evaluate a mount of count and spectrums of lateral scatter ray. Materials and Methods We used the SKY LITE (philips, netherlands) as a gamma camera, and $^{99m}Tc$, 1.11 GBq point source as a phantom. we put this point source at backside 50 cm of detector. After acquiring this for 1 min, we turned a detector next 10 degrees. Likely this, we acquired images at every 10 degrees from $0^{\circ}$ to $360^{\circ}$, analyzed images and spectrums. In case of patient study, we choose a 3 phase bone scan patient who had a hand disease, because scatter rays from body would detect on crystal. After acquiring blood flow and blood pool images, we analyzed images and spectrums. Additional, we put a lead gown on patient's hand, body. And then we compared and evaluated 3 type blood pool images (non lead gown, lead gown on a hand and on body). Results In case of phantom study, scatter ray counts at backside ($270^{\circ}-90^{\circ}$) are same with a background count. By the way, counts of scatter ray of oblique side ($0^{\circ}-50^{\circ}$, $220^{\circ}-270^{\circ}$) are 100-600 cps, furthermore, counts at frontside are over 4 Mcps. In case of patient study, a counts of hand blood pool scan are 1510 cps. But counts of hand with lead gown on hands and on body are each 1554 cps, 1299 cps. Conclusion Therefore, even though there is a collimator in front of detector, lateral scatter rays detect on crystal and affect to images and spectrums. Especially, if there is a high activity source at outside of detector when we examine low activity organs like hands or foot, we have to shield and remove the source at outside for a good image.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.163-169
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• 2005

Photocatalytic oxidation of Cu(II)-EDTA has been studied using solar/$TiO_2$ photocatalysis as an energy source. Photocatalysis efficiency on the treatment of Cu(II)-EDTA was investigated using different types of solar collectors as well as by variation of the angles of solar collector solar light intensities, flow rates, and areas of solar collector. effect of $H_2O_2$ and types of $TiO_2$ catalyst on the treatment of Cu(II)-EDTA was also investigated. Removal of Cu(II) and DOC was favorable with a hemispherical collector than with a flat collector Removal of Cu(II) and DOC increased with increasing angles of solar collector up to $38^{\circ}$. Slurry type $TiO_2$ showed four-times higher removal efficiency than immobilized type $TiO_2$. Removal of both Cu(II) and DOC at a clear sky of solar light intensity ranging from 0.372 to $2.265\;mW/cm^2$ was greater than removal at a cloudy day of solar light intensity ranging from 0.038 to $1.129\;mW/cm^2$. From the result of this research that the removal efficiency of Cu(II) and DOC increased as the solar light intensity increased, it can be inferred that quantum yield in the destruction of Cu(II)-EDTA may directly related with the solar light intensity. Removal of Cu(II) increased as increasing the area of solar collector and was similar at lower flow rates white removal of Cu(II) was interfered at higher flow rates. When immobilized $TiO_2$ was used, removal efficiency of Cu(II) increased in the presence of $H_2O_2$ while negligible effect was found in the use of $TiO_2$ slurry.