• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.615-620
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• 2018

Evaluation of clinical usefulness of current perception threshold test and vibration sense perception threshold test in diagnosing the diabetic poly-neuropathy patients is one of the diagnosis methods for diabetic poly-neuropathy. Up to the present, some diagnostic methods were used for diabetic poly neuropathy patients. For example, there are neuropathy impairment score test of lower limbs, nerve conduction test, cooling detection threshold test, heat-pain threshold test and so on. However, most of the above tests require very expensive cost and take a lot of time in test. In this paper, a new apparatus estimating vibration sense ability is introduced. For this purpose, the VCM(voice coil motor) stimulating patient's peripheral nerve and current amplifier were manufactured. Also, softwares sensing and driving the vibration detection threshold test in order to measure the quantitative vibration sensory levels in diabetic poly-neuropathy patients were developed.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.187-200
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• 2007

This study attempted to contribute to the clinical application of implant operation by making a quantitative nerve examination using a neurometer for the evaluation of sensory disturbances that could be incurred after the implantation in the dental clinics, and it intended to establish an objective guideline in the evaluation of sensory nerve after the operation of implant. An inspection was performed with the frequencies of 2000Hz, 250 Hz and 5 Hz before and after the operations of tooth implant using $Neurometer^{(R)}$ CPT/C (Neurotron, Inc. Baltimore, Maryland, USA) for 44 patients who had performed an implant operation among the patients coming to Daejeon Sun Dental Hospital in 2006 and 30 people for control group. The measuring sites were maxillary nerve ending and mandibular nerve ending of trigeminal nerve according to the implant operating regions. The current perception threshold (CPT) by each nerve fiber was specifically responded under the electric stimulation of 2000 Hz in case of $A{\beta}$ fiber and of 250 Hz in case of $A{\delta}$ fiber and of 5Hz in case of C fiber. The CPT test could be performed to assess the damages of peripheral nerve in the trigeminal nerve area and it stimulated selective nerve fibers by generating the electricity of specific frequency in the peripheral nerve area. The nerve fibers with varied thickness were responsive selectively to the electric stimulation with different frequencies; accordingly, they applied the electric stimulation with different frequencies and the reaction threshold of $A{\beta},\;A{\delta}$ and C fibers selectively responsive to each electric current could be individually evaluated. In the assessment through the CPT, the increase and decrease of the CPT could be measured so that sensory disturbances such as hyperaesthesia or hypoaesthesia could be diagnosed. This study could obtain the following results after the assessment of the CPT before and after the implant operation. 1. In the assessment before and after the implant operation, the CPT in the frequencies of 2000 Hz, 250 Hz, 5 Hz for maxillary branch increased on the whole after the operation and the CPT for mandibular branch in the $A{\beta}$-fiber(2000 Hz) and C-fiber(5 Hz )after the operation increased statistically significantly. 2. For the groups of patients with medically compromised or its subsequent medicinal prescription, there were no significant differences before and after the implant operation and for the control groups, significantly high CPT was shown after the implant operation in the left $A{\beta}$-fiber(2000 Hz) and C-fiber(5 Hz). 3. In the comparison of the measured value of the CPT before the operation between the control group and the implant operation group, the latter group had a significantly high measured value of the CPT in the right $A{\beta}$-fiber(2000 Hz) and C-fiber(5 Hz) and there were significant differences in $A{\beta}$-fiber(2000 Hz) in the CPT assessment after the implant operation for the control group. 4. Male participants had higher CPT than female counterparts; however, there were no statistic significances. In the CPT evaluation before and after implant operation, there were no statistical differences in the male group while the right C-fiber(5 Hz) and left $A{\beta}$-fiber(2000Hz) were significantly high in the female group. 5. In the comparison between the group who complain sensory disturbance and the other group, the CPT increased on the whole in the former group, but there were no statistical significances. In the groups, whom there was an increase in VAS, the CPT after the implant operation in the right C-fiber(5 Hz) increased significantly; meanwhile, in case that the VAS mark was '0' before and after the operation, the CPT after the operation in the left $A{\beta}$-fiber(2000 Hz) increased significantly. This study suggested that the CPT measurements using $Neurometer^{(R)}$ CPT/C, provide useful information of objective and quantitative sensory disturbances for tooth implantation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2022.10a
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• pp.539-541
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• 2022

Photodynamic therapy is one of the ways to treat cancer using light and during laser irradiation, photosensitizers react and combine with oxygen to destroy cancer cells. This treatment is in the spotlight as a treatment that minimizes side effects in cancer patients. Among them, photosensitizers differ in the treatment area, treatment effect, and degree of absorption depending on the type. Therefore, in this study, a quantitative evaluation study was conducted on the effect of inhibiting cancer cell proliferation by irradiating blue LEDs on HELA cell lines injected with 5-ALA among photosensitizers.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.34 no.10
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• pp.900-909
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• 2007

This paper describes an experiment on the evaluation of human sensibility by monitoring responses to changes In the frequency and amplitude of a tactile display system. Preliminary tasks were performed to obtain effective adjectives concerning texture perception. The number of collected adjectives was originally 33. This number of adjectives was reduced to 14 by a suitability survey that asked whether an adjective is suitable for expressing a texture feeling. Finally after performing a semantic similarity evaluation, the number of adjectives was further reduced to ten and these ten were used in the main experiment. In the main experiment, selected sandpaper types and 15 selected combinations of frequencies and amplitudes of a tactile display were utilized to quantitatively evaluate the ten adjectives using a bipolar seven-point scale. The data show that a relationship exists between the independent variables(frequency, amplitude, and grit site) and the dependent variable(perceived texture). That is, the change of frequency and amplitude is directly related to perceived roughness or essential elements of human tactile sensitivity found in the preliminary experiment.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.20 no.12
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• pp.645-651
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• 2019

This study examined the correlation between the forward head posture (FHP), temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD), and temporomandibular joint quantitative somatosensory sensation. This study examined the correlation between the temporomandibular joint function and somatosensory sensation according to the change in FHP after the intervention on the head posture in 62 subjects (22.15 ± 2.56 years) Biofeedback training was administered to the FHP, which was performed 12 times for a total of four weeks. To assess the FHP, the craneovertebral angle (CVA) was examined. The temporomandibular joint (TMJ) function was measured by the Therapeutic Range of Motion Scale and the left and right lateral deviation, and the sensation of vibration threshold was measured to confirm the change in somatic sensation. Multiple regression analysis was performed to confirm the influence of each variable and Pearson's correlation analysis was performed to assess the correlation. Changes in the temporal joint function (p<.001) and somatic sensation (p<.001) were correlated significantly with the changes in CVA. These results show that there is a significant correlation between the frontal head position, TMJ function, and somatosensory sensation. These results provide a new paradigm for the treatment of jaw joints for patients suffering from TMD and provide a basis for the future treatment of the temporomandibular joint.

• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.243-250
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• 2012

Trigeminal nerve injuries due to invasive dental procedures such as implant surgery and extraction is one of the most serious issues in dentistry and may provoke medico-legal problems. Thus, for objective and reliable assessment of nerve injury, a need of QST (quantitative sensory testing) is emphasized and thermal threshold test is an essential part of QST, reported to have acceptable reliability in the orofacial region. This pilot study aimed to evaluate thermal thresholds for limited cases of trigeminal nerve injures. The study investigated 18 clinical cases with trigeminal nerve injuries who visited Department of Oral Medicine, Dankook Univeristy Dental Hospital during the period from May 2011 to Oct 2012. Thermal thresholds was measured by Thermal Sensory Analyzer, TSA-II (Medoc, Israel). Their CDT(cold detection threshold) was significantly decreased in the affected sides compared to the unaffected sides. Other parameters such as WDT(warm detection threshold), CPT(cold pain threshold) and HPT(heat pain threshold) did not show statistical difference between the affected and unaffected sides. Further researches are required to compare thermal thresholds relative to types of nerve deficits such as thermal hyper- or hypoesthesia and hyper- or hypoalgesia for larger sample.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.293-297
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• 2001

본 연구는 공간상에서 초점 주의의 공간 위치가 인간의 감각 운동 협응에 의한 회귀억제에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 분석하기 위하여 수행되었다. 본 실험은 20∼25세 나이의 성인 남·여를 대상으로 하였고, 자체 제작한 방음 암실에서 실시되었다. 지금까지의 회귀억제는 위치와 시간에 관련된 특이한 현상이라고 정의되어 왔다. 그러나 본 실험에서는 피험자의 주의가 집중되어 있는 공간에서는 시간에 관계없이 일어나지 않지만 피험자의 주의가 분산되었을 경우는 한 번 집중된 공간으로 주의를 옮기기가 어려운 회귀억제 현상이 일어났다. 본 연구에서는 회귀억제는 조건에 따라서는 자극 제시 간격(SOA)과 무관하며 초짐 주의 공간 위치와 관련된 현상임을 정량적으로 평가하였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.35-42
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• 1998

소비자의 감성적 요구를 충족시킬 수 있는 직물 및 의류의 설계 및 생산을 위해서는 직물의 접촉시에 유발되는 감성반응의 객관적이고 정량화된 평가 체계의 개발이 절실히 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 질감을 표현하는 형용사들을 추출하여 최종적으로 18개의 감각 및 감성을 구분한 Likert Scale을 개발하였으며 이 척도의 신뢰도(reliability)는 매우 높았다. 이들 18개의 형용사는 요인분석 결과 5개의 주된 요인으로 묶였으며 구성타당도가 높은 척도이다. 19종의 내의 표본에 대한 세 차례의 측정을 통해 내의 직물의 선호도(감성)에 영향을 미치는 주된 감각적 감성요인을 추출하였다. 특히 "매끄러움", "부드러움". "섹시함". "편안함". "폭신함". 등의 감성요인이 선호직물과 비선호 직물을 매우 잘 구분해 주는 소비자의 대표적 감성으로 나타났다. 본 연구의 가장 중요한 결과로, Kawabata Evaluation System을 이용하여 시료 내의 직물의 16개 역학적 특성을 분석하였으며, 이들 특성이 감성에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 회귀 분석을 통해 분석하였다. 본 연구의 시료직물 중 선호되는 내의류들은 폴리에스테르(속칭, 물실크)종류이었으며, 가장 비선호 되는 것들은 망사나 모시메리로 나타났다. 내의류 js호도에 가장 많은 영향을 미치는 주된 심리적 특성인 "매끄러움". "부드러움". "섹시함". "편안함" 그리고 "푹신함" 등을 결정짓는 방정식을 만들었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.379-382
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 촉각의 효과적인 제시를 위한 하나의 보조수단으로 진동의 제시를 상정하고, 이를 위한 사전작업으로 진동에 따른 촉감의 변화를 파악하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 진동 제시 장치를 제작하였고, 진동에 의한 촉감의 효율적인 평가를 위하여 손가락을 제외한 다른 경로로의 진동 전달 및 소음 전달을 차단하고자 하였다. 또한, 진동과 관련된 물리량으로 주파수와 진폭을 결정하였으며 이를 정량화 하였다. 본 연구의 목적이 진동에 의한 촉감의 미세조정과 관련된 것임을 고려하여 주관 평가 시 진동의 제시는 각 주파수별로 진동에 의한 촉감의 변화가 발생하는 기준 진폭으로 하였다. 주관 평과 결과, 주파수가 증가할수록 더 매끄럽게 느끼며 그 감각이 분명해 짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.27-43
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• 1991

연소 가공은 고품질 고정도를 필요로 하는 경우 매우 유효한 가공방법이지만 그 공정이 많은 Parameter에 의해 구성되기 때문에 동일한 조건에서도 정량적인 평가가 어려우므로 작업현장 에서는 과학적 원리와 공학적 지식 보다는 숙련자의 경험과 기능에 의존하고 있는 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 이와 같은 국면에 대처한 문제 해결을 위해 Computer가 인간사고에 근접 할 수 있도록 Fuzzy 이론과 Default 이론을 도입하고 전문가의 이론적 지식과 숙련자의 감각적 지식을 적극 수용 하여 연소용 Expert system (최적 가공 조건의 설정 System과 Trouble shooting system)을 개발하였다. 또한 연소 가공 Data의 불확실한 애매성을 효과적으로 이용 할 수 있도록 Fuzzy 가능성이론에 의해 가공 Datad을 회귀 분석하여 실가공 Data base에 축적시켜 재활용토록 설계하었으며 개발된 본 System 의 실행 결과 그 활용성이 높음을 입증하였다.