• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.74-80
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• 2001

Purpose : Irradiation cones by using backscatter electrons are made for the treatment of superficial small lesions of skin, oral cavity, and rectum where a significant dose gradient and maximum surface dose is desired. Methods and Materials : Backscatter electrons are produced from the primary electron beams from the linear accelerators. The design consists of a cylindrical cone that has a thick circular plate of high atomic number medium (Pb or Cu) attached to the distal end, and the plate can be adjusted the reflected angle. Primary electrons strike the metal plate perpendicularly and produce backscatter electrons that reflect through the lateral hole for treatment. Using film and a parallel plate ion chamber, backscatter electron dose characteristics are measured. Results : The depth dose characteristic of the backscatter electron is very similar to that of the hard x-ray beam that is commonly used for the intracavitary and superficial lesions. The basckscatter electron energy is nearly constant and effectively about 1.5 MeV from the clinical megavoltage beams. The backscatter electron dose rate of $35\~85\;cGy/min$ could be achieved from modern accelerators without any modification. and the depth in water of $50\%$ depth dose from backscatter electron located at 6mm for $45^{\circ}$ angled lead scatter. The beam flatness is dependent on the slit size and the depth of treatment, but is satisfactory to treat small lesions. Conclusions : The measured data for backscatter electron energy, depth dose flatness dose rate and absolute dose indicates that the backscatter electrons are suitable for clinical use.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.77-77
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• 2003

공생별의 고분산 분광 자료에서 대부분 발머 방출선은 매우 넓게 펼쳐진 날개 부분이 나타나며, 일부 어린 행성상 성운과 post-AGB별에서도 비슷한 현상이 보고되었다. 날개 부분의 형성 과정으로 현재 제안된 이론은 발머선 광자의 전자 산란과 수소 라이먼 방출선의 라만 산란이 있다. 우리는 이 연구에서 전자 산란과 라만 산란 과정에서 나타나는 날개 부분의 선윤곽의 미세한 차이점을 제시하고자 한다. 또한, 두 산란 과정이 공생별의 궤도 위상에 따라 나타나는 세기 변화의 양상을 계산하고, 장기간 관측을 통하여 공생별의 궤도 요소에 대한 정보를 얻을 수 있는 가능성에 대하여 토의한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1998.05b
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• pp.741-745
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• 1998

양전자방출단층촬영 영상획득시 수반되는 산란분획의 분포를 Monte-Carlo simulation을 이용하며 평가하고자 하였다. 모사계산에서는 GE Advance PET 스캐너와 NEMA 규정에 의한 팬텀을 모델화하였고 선상선원을 대상으로 평균 산란분획 10.2%와 산란방사선의 축방향 분포를 구하였다. 방사선원 F-18을 사용한 실제 측정의 평균산란 분획 9.16%와 산란방사선 분포를 비교하여 유사한 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.239-247
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• 2015

It should be accurate dose calculation to increase the efficiency of radiation therapy, and it is priority to figure out the beam characteristics for this purpose. The target and primary collimator in head components of the linear accelerator have the greatest influence on determining the beam characteristics which is caused by backscatter and it is the factor to consider the shielding structures and equipment management. In this study, we made modeling of the linear accelerator through the Geant4 Monte Carlo simulation and investigated backscatter according to the change of the size and shape in head components. For the scattered electrons, it showed the greatest number of distributions inside of the inner radius at primary collimator. But, for the scattered photons which have the high energy, it was mostly located outside of the inner radius at primary collimator. Scattered positrons showed a small occurrence in about 0.03%. According to the change of the inner radius at primary collimator, it was great changes in the inside of inner radius for all three scattered particles. According to the change of the outer radius at primary collimator, it was shown some considerable effects from more than 60 mm outer radius. It was no significant effect according to the change of target thickness. In this study, we found that backscatter should be considered, and figured out that geometric size and shape of the peripheral components are the factors that influences the backscatter effect.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.7-12
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• 2019

Ambient backscatter communication is limited to channel estimation technique through a pilot signal, which is a channel estimation method in current RF communication, due to transmission power efficiency. In a limited transmission power environment, the research of traditional ambient backscatter communication has been studied assuming that it is an ideal channel without signal distortions due to channel conditions. In this paper, we propose an expectation-maximization(EM) algorithm, one of the blind channel estimation techniques, as a channel estimation method in ambient backscatter communication system which is the state of channel following normal distribution. In the proposed system model, the simulations confirm that channel estimate through EM algorithm is approaching the lower bound of the mean square error compared with the Bayesian Cramer-Rao Boundary(BCRB) to check performance. It shows that the channel parameter can be estimated in the ambient backscatter communication system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.379-382
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• 1998

접지된 유전체층 위에 위치한 스트립 격자구조에 TM 편파된 입사파가 입사할 경우 전자기 산란문제를 특성 모드 이론으로 해석하였다. 몇 개의 특성 모드전류로부터 원거리 산란패턴을 구하여 blazing 현상과 같은 산란특성과 특성모드 패턴과의 연관성을 관찰하고, 기존의 결과들과 비교하여 특성모드 해석방법의 타당성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2004.06a
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• pp.247-249
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 격자구조의 유전체에 수직으로 입사된 전자기파의 산란, 투과 특성을 얇은 위상 막 근사화 이론을 이용하여 분석하였다. 위상 막 근사화 이론은 격자구조가 입사되는 전자기파의 위상 변화만을 주는 것으로 간주하는 것으로 이를 이용하여 격자구조를 통과한 직후인 근거리 필드 분포를 TE 모드에서 계산하였다. 기존의 제시된 이론에 비해 비교적 간단하고 빠르게 산란 필드를 분석할 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.87-93
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• 2002

The previous RST postulates that the scattering field, within each modal partial wave, comprise of the resonance and the background components. The new RST is recently developed by the product expansion of the scattering functions in the field of acoustics. The new formulation suggests that the scattering coefficients consist of resonance, non-resonance, and their interactional portions. In the scattering problems of acoustic waves, the moduli and phase of the resonance coefficient are obtained correctly by the new RST. In our recent works the new RST was successfully applied to the scattering problem of electromagnetic waves for coated conducting cylinder and sphere. In this paper, the new RST is extended to the 2-dimensional scattering problem of electromagnetic waves for a homogeneous dielectric cylinder, and the numerical results are compared with the previous RST.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.457-466
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• 2014

During irradiation of lesions in cancer treatment with high energy electrons, normal tissue and critical organs are protected by the shielding material. Scattered radiation that generated the shielding materials affect the depth dose and atomic number. Therefore, we want to examine secondary particles and the scattered photons through calculation and its associated analysis, and compare the measurement for the aluminum, copper, and lead shielding substance of which thickness has 95% charge reduction. Dose change rate which effected scattering radiation was found to be +0.88% for material thickness, +0.43% for atomic number, and +19.70%, +15.20%, +12.40% for measurement, +25.00%, +15.10%, +13.70% for calculation on the aluminum, copper, and lead materials of which thickness has 95% charge reduction, respectively, As a result, we found that scattering rate was dependent on thickness than atomic number. In the dose increasing rate, scattered electrons are more important than scattered photon. For the above mentioned reasons, I think that high atomic number materials should be applied to reduce scattered radiation that generated with thickness effect.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.36-38
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• 2008

We calculate the electron scattering amplitude with reduced angular momentum expansion(RAME) and compare it with the plane wave approximation. By using WKB approximation it is shown that the curvature correction factor given by RAME is originated from the source wave centrifugal potential energy. The factor also can be understood as an effective wave number correction factor in plane wave approximation. Angular momentum and its relationship with scattering amplitude is explicitly shown.