• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.165-172
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• 1986

In electron therapy, lead cutout or low-melting alloy block is used for shaping the field. Material for shaping electron field affects the output factor as wet 1 as the collimation system. The authors measured the output factors of electron beams for shaped fields from Clinac-18 using ionization chamber of Farmer type in polystyrene phantom. They analyzed the parameters that affect the output factors. The output factors of electron beams depend on the incident energy, collimation system and size of shaped field. For shaped field the variation of output factor for the field size (A/P) has appearence of a smooth curve for all energy and all applicator collimator combination. The output factors for open field deviate from the curves for shaped fields. An output factor for a given field can be calculated by equivalent field method such as A/P method, if a combination of applicator and collimator is fixed.

• The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.65-73
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• 2017

Purpose: Machine Performance Check (MPC) is a self-checking software based on the Electronic Portal Imaging Device (EPID) to measure daily beam outputs without external installation. The purpose of this study is to verify the usefulness of MPC by comparing and correlating daily beam output of QA Beamchecker PLUS. Materials and Methods: Linear accelerator (Truebeam 2.5) was used to measure 10 energies which are composed of photon beams(6, 10, 15 MV and 6, 10 MV-FFF) and electron beams(6, 9, 12, 16 and 20 MeV). A total of 80 cycles of data was obtained by measuring beam output measurement before treatment over five months period. The Pearson correlation coefficient was used to evaluate the consistency of the beam output between the MPC and the QA Beamchecker PLUS. In this study, if the Pearson correlation coefficient is; (1) 0.8 or higher, the correlation is very strong (2) between 0.6 and 0.79, the correlation is strong (3) between 0.4 and 0.59, the correlation is moderate (4) between 0.2 and 0.39, the correlation is weak (5) lower than 0.2, the correlation is very weak. Results: Output variations observed between MPC and QA Beamchecker PLUS were within 2 % for photons and electrons. The beam outputs variations of MPC were $0.29{\pm}0.26%$ and $0.30{\pm}0.26%$ for photon and electron beams, respectively. QA Beamchecker PLUS beam outputs were $0.31{\pm}0.24%$ and $0.33{\pm}0.24%$ for photon and electron beams, respectively. The Pearson correlation coefficient between MPC and QA Beamchecker PLUS indicated that photon beams were very strong at 15 MV, and strong at 6 MV, 10 MV, 6 MV-FFF and 10 MV-FFF. For electron beams, the Pearson correlation coefficient were strong at 16 MeV and 20 MeV, moderate at 9 MeV and 12 MeV, and very weak at 6 MeV. Conclusion: MPC showed significantly strong correlation with QA Beamchecker PLUS when testing with photon beams and high-energy electron beams in the evaluation of daily beam output, but the correlation when testing with low-energy electron beams (6 MeV) appeared to be low. However, MPC and QA Beamchecker PLUS are considered to be suitable for checking daily beam output, as they performed within 2 % of beam output consistency during the observation. MPC which can perform faster than the conventional daily beam output measurement tool, is considered to be an effective method for users.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.2410-2416
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• 2016

Recently, most countries in the world have pursued a denuclearization. So it has been of interest to increase to Nuclear weapon in such as North Korea's continued nuclear test. Pulsed gamma rays produced in the nuclear explosion and the space environment can give the big damage to the electronic device in a very short period of time. To confirm the extent of damage of these electronic devices, pulsed gamma irradiation facility that can occur in nuclear weapon or space environment are required. In this paper, we implemented the pulsed gamma-ray detection module and analyzed output of the irradiation test. We have experimented using an electron beam accelerator research facilities in Pohang Accelerator similar conditions to equip and Nuclear weapon. As a result, we confirmed that the pulsed gamma rays emitted by the gamma radiation and electron beam conversion device. The results of this paper will contribute to improve the reliability and accuracy of studies for utilizing pulsed gamma rays.

• 대한방사선치료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 1998.03a
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• pp.18-19
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• 1998

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.66-72
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• 1999

This paper deals with the output characteristics of resonant PWM inverter type X-ray generators connected to different DC power units i.e. a single phase full bridge rectifier, a three phase full bridge rectifier and a power storage unit(PSU). The quality of X-ray beam depends on the pulsating waveforms of DC voltage supplied to the X-ray tube. In a X-ray generator, the waveform of DC output voltage can be affected from affected from harmonic distortion of DC input power. When a tube voltage waveform is distorted, the property of X-ray beam such as reproducibility, linearity and dose can be reduced. Therefore, we compared DC output waveforms and dose with three type of DC power units and show the experimental results in this paper.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.83-84
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 무효전력 오차를 야기하는 유도성-저항성 복합성의 불평형 임피던스 선로 하에서 가상 인덕터와 가상 저항을 사용한 드룹 제어 기반의 병렬형 인버터 시스템에 관해 다루고 있다. 여기서 무효 전력 분담 에러는 각 선로 임피던스의 전압 강하를 고려함에 따라 개선 가능하다. 그러나 병렬형 인버터 시스템이 고전류, 고용량일 경우 지령 출력 전압 크기는 정격 전압 크기에 미치지 못하게 되며 이는 가상 인덕터 및 저항값과 출력 전류의 곱을 통한 가상 임피던스의 전압강하 산출법에 기인한다. 이러한 이유로 본 논문에서는 기존의 드룹 방식에 선로 임피던스 전압 강하 뿐만 아니라 가상 임피던스의 전압 강하도 추가되었고 이를 통해 병렬형 인버터의 전압 출력이 정격 출력값의 범위 안에서 구동하도록 하였다. 가상 인덕터와 가상 저항의 적용법에 대한 비교에 기반을 둔 제안된 드룹 방식은 PSIM 시뮬레이션을 통해 검증되었다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.1035-1042
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• 2017

In this paper, we implement a public address system using power line communication in order to operate, extend, and expand the complicated public address devices and cables easily. Power line communication based public address system implemented consists of a public address control board and public address speaker boards which are suitable to digital streaming modulation. It can be noticed that we met satisfied results from performance measurement such as maximum audio output, audio channel response time, audio output SNR, and audio output THD+N.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.203-205
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• 2009

풍력발전기가 계통에 연계되어 유효전력이 출력되면 PCC의 전압이 변동하며, 이러한 전압변동은 풍력발전기 출력에 비례한다. 전압변동의 발생요인은 전원에서 PCC지점까지의 선로 등가 임피던스의 크기와 풍력발전기 출력 전류의 곱의 형태로 표현 된다. 이러한 전압변동은 무효전력의 공급으로 억제할 수 있으며 필요로 하는 무효전력량은 풍력발전기 출력량에 비례한다. 이를 검증하는 방안으로 삽시도의 계통을 바탕으로 PSCAD/EMTDC 시뮬레이션과 실측데이터를 활용하였다.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.25-30
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• 2016

The dosimetric characteristics were experimentally evaluated for electron beams from the prototype linac developed for radiotherapy units. This paper focuses on the electron beam output and energy variations as a function of electron gun heater current. The electron energy was derived from its mean and most probable energies measured by film dosimetry. The electron beam output at the maximum electron energy was measured with the plane parallel ionization chamber in water using TRS-398 dosimetry protocol. The mean energy and the most probable energy of the electron beam were 6.54~3.31 MeV and 5.94~2.80 MeV at electron gun current of 2.02~2.50 A respectively. The output dose rate for an electron beam of mean energy 6.54 MeV was 5.41 Gy/min ${\pm}1.5%$ at the reference depth in water.

• Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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• 2004.07a
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• pp.430-434
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 관전류 직접제어 방식을 채택한 3.2kW(80kV,40mA)급 최소형, 최경량 Portable X-선 장치를 제안한다 본 장치는 X-선 발생을 위한 고전압 발생 단에 모노탱크 블록 사용하였고, 고주파 고전압용 인버터에는 스위칭 전력소자로서 Mini block type의 MOS-FET를 채용, 80kHz로 스위칭 함으로서 고전압 변압기를 비롯한 고전압 발생부의 크기와 무게를 최소화하였다. X-ray Power의 출력이 높아짐에 따라, X-ray tube의 필라멘트 인버터의 출력용량 또한 증가되었다. 본 논문에서는 설정 관전류에 대한 정밀한 제어를 위하여 2단계 모드로 필라멘트 예열을 행하여 관전류 응답특성을 개선하였으며 제안한 휴대용 X-선 발생장치의 부하변동에 따른 X-선 관전압과 관전류의 개선된 특징을 실험파형을 통하여 입증하였다.