• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.363-368
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• 1999

Ultrasonic pulse-echo methods measuring the transit time through specimens have been widely used in determination of ultrasonic velocity and thickness of specimens. Usually, to determine the velocity of the ultrasonic. the transit time of the ultrasonic pulse through specimen is measured by using the ultrasonic measuring equipment such as the oscilloscope including ultrasonic pulser/receiver and the thickness of the specimen is measured by using the length measuring instrument such as micrometer or vernier calipers etc., i. e. each parameter is measured by using each measuring method. In the case of the measuring the thickness of a specimen by using the ultrasonics. the ultrasonic equipments, which measure the thickness, such as the ultrasonic thickness gauge must be calibrated by using the reference block of which the ultrasonic velocity is known beforehand. In the present work, we proposed a new method for simultaneous measurement of ultrasonic velocity and thickness without reference blocks. Experimental results for several specimens show that proposed method have good agreements with those by traditional ultrasonic method.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.34 no.4
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• pp.290-298
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• 2014

Ultrasonic thickness measurement is a non-destructive method to measure the local thickness of a solid element, based on the time taken for an ultrasound wave to return to the surface. When an element is very thin, it is difficult to measure thickness with the conventional ultrasonic thickness method. This is because the method measures the time delay by using the peak of a pulse, and the pulses overlap. To solve this problem, we propose a method for measuring thickness by using the power cepstrum and the minimum variance cepstrum. Because the cepstrums processing can divides the ultrasound into an impulse train and transfer function, where the period of the impulse train is the traversal time, the thickness can be measured exactly. To verify the proposed method, we performed experiments with steel and, acrylic plates of variable thickness. The conventional method is not able to estimate the thickness, because of the overlapping pulses. However, the cepstrum ultrasonic signal processing that divides a pulse into an impulse and a transfer function can measure the thickness exactly.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.25-33
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• 1985

The main purpose of this work is to investigate the effects of the wall thickness, the ultrasonic frequency, and the acoustic impedance of wall material on the liquid-film thickness measurement by an ultrasonic pulse echo method. A series of liquid-film thickness measurements in a horizontal air-water stratified system was performed employing a plate-type and a tube-type test sections. Measurements were repeated changing (1) the wall thickness of the test section and (2) the transducer frequency. Also, in an effort to improve the accuracy of the measurement and to exam me the effect of acoustic impedance of wall material on the measurement by an ultrasonic technique, two different stand-off rods, one made of stainless steel and the other polyacrylate, were used in the liquid-film thickness measurement. These experimental results are discussed and compared with the actual film thicknesses.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.1-3
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 요부 초음파 영상에서 다열근의 두께를 자동으로 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 방법에서는 Valley Search 알고리즘을 적용하여 측정 기준 객체를 추출하고 다열근의 두께를 측정하였으나, 다열근의 형태학적 위치 정보를 반영하지 않았기 때문에 잘못된 측정 기준 객체를 추출하는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 중앙 객체 탐색 알고리즘을 적용하여 측정 기준 객체를 추출하고 다열근의 두께를 자동으로 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 획득한 요부 초음파 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 방법보다 효율적으로 측정 기준 객체를 추출하고 다열근의 두께를 기존의 방법보다 정확히 측정하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 경추 초음파 DICOM 영상에서 심부 경부 굴곡근의 하단 후보 경계선을 이용하여 경추가 위치하는 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출한 경추 후보 영역에 퍼지 시그마 이진화 기법을 적용하여 경추 객체를 추출한다. 심부 경부 굴곡근의 두께를 측정하기 위한 측정 기준점을 정확하게 추출하기 위해 심부 경부 굴곡근의 하단 경계선의 위치 정보를 이용하여 심부 경부 굴곡근내의 지방이 경추 객체로 추출되는 문제점을 개선하고, 개선된 영상에서 경추 객체들이 가진 픽셀 좌표를 이용하여 측정 기준점을 설정한다. 그 후, 객체들의 위치 정보를 이용하여 측정 기준점을 다시 설정한다. 심부 경부 굴곡근 영역과 측정 기준점을 이용하여 심부 경부 굴곡근의 두께를 측정한다. 제안된 방법을 경추 초음파 DICOM 영상에 적용하여 심부 경부 굴곡근의 두께를 측정한 결과, 기존의 심부 경부 굴곡근 두께 측정 방법보다 정확한 결과를 얻을 수 있는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한우개량
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• no.5 s.26
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• pp.10-15
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• 2000

초음파를 이용하여 가축의 생체 상태에서 도체형질을 추정하기 위한 연구가 50년대부터 시작되었다. 초기에는 초음파 반사파를 진폭으로 표시하는 방식인 A-mode(Amplitude-mode)를 이용하여 가축의 등지방두께 및 등심두께를 측정하였으며, 60년대부터 반사파의 강약을 명암으로 나타내는 B-mode (Brightness-mode) 방식으로 두께 및 면적을 측정하였다. 일본에서는 70년대 후반부터 등심 내 지방교잡을 조사하기 위한 연구가 활발하게 진행되었으나 미국, 유럽 등에서는 최근에서야 비로소 marbling 추정을 위한 연구가 시도되고 있다. 우리나라에서는 90년대 초부터 한우의 경쟁력을 높이기 위하여 육질향상에 중점을 두고 종모우의 조기 선발과 적정한 출하시기 판정에 초음파를 적용시키기 위한 연구가 여러 연구기관 및 학계에서 시도되었으나 인체에서 임신진단용으로 이용되거나 외국의 육우에 사용하던 기종을 한우에 적용시킴으로서 육질능력을 판정하는데 기계의 정확도가 많이 떨어지고 있는 실정이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.5
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• pp.557-563
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• 2022

The cortical bone thickness of the tibia is related to fracture risk and overall bone status. The present study aims to investigate the feasibility of two different ultrasonic methods for measuring the cortical bone thickness in bovine tibia in vitro. In the reflection technique, the tibial cortical thickness was determined from ultrasonic reflections from the periosteum and the endosteum producing specific peaks in the signal envelope. In the axial transmission technique, the tibial cortical thickness was determined from ultrasonic guided wave velocities measured along the axial direction of the tibia. The cortical bone thickness determined by using the reflection technique correlated significantly with that measured by using a caliper, with a Pearson's correlation coefficient of r = 0.97 (p < 0.0001). In contrast, the correlation coefficients for the axial transmission technique were r = 0.92 (p < 0.0001) for the first arriving signal method and r = 0.89 (p < 0.0001) for the slow guided wave method. Clinical feasibility should be demonstrated with an in vivo application to address the question whether the ultrasonic methods presented here could be useful as a screening tool for osteoporosis and potentially could be applied to other skeletal sites such as the femur and the radius.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.190-197
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a method for optical parameter-based material rendering with measuring the thickness of a material using ultrasonic waves. Thickness is an important element in determining the reflectance and transmittance of a material along with its optical characteristics and plays a crucial role in more realistic object rendering. In studies conducted thus far, thickness has been measured and used for rendering. The proposed method is a novel method attempted for the first time ever to render a material considering the thickness of a material whose thickness cannot be measured by visual assessment, using ultrasonic waves. It was implemented by measuring the sound velocity of the reference sample and applying the results to the thickness measurement of other objects that have the same characteristics. The characteristics of the objects measured are reflected in the quality of the final rendering, thus verifying the importance of thickness in rendering.

• Journal of Animal Science and Technology
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• v.54 no.5
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• pp.331-336
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• 2012

This study was conducted to estimate genetic parameters for ultrasound and carcass traits in Hanwoo. Heritabilities and genetic and phenotypic correlations were estimated for carcass and ultrasound measurements collected from Hanwoo cows (n=312) born at Hanwoo experiment station. Traits evaluated were eye muscle area (EMA), backfat thickness (BF), marbling score (MS) from carcass, and ultrasound eye muscle area (UEMA), ultrasound backfat (UBF), and ultrasound marbling score (UMS). Parameters were estimated using multi-trait animal models byderivative-free restricted maximum likelihood procedures. Estimated heritabilities for UBF, UEMA and UMS were 0.43, 0.23 and 0.32, while heritabilities for BF, EMA and MS were 0.33, 0.13 and 0.33 in fattened cows, respectively. Genetic correlations between ultrasound and carcass measurements were estimated to -0.19, -0.61, and -0.36 for UBF: UEMA, UBF: UMS, and UEMA: UMS in fattened cows, respectively. Phenotypic correlations between ultrasound and carcass measurements were 0.03, 0.13 and 0.26 for UBF: UEMA, UBF: UMS, and UEMA: UMS in fattened cows, respectively. As for the steer, genetic correlations between ultrasound and carcass measurements were 0.36, -0.80 and 0.27 for UBF: UEMA, UBF: UMS, and UEMA: UMS in steers, respectively. Phenotypic correlations between ultrasound and carcass measurements were 0.13, 0.07 and 0.41 for UBF: UEMA, UBF: UMS, and UEMA: UMS in steers, respectively. In conclusion, this finding would be very useful to implement into Hanwoo breeding program.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.470-473
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• 2021

In this study, we developed the biometric ultrasound transducer, residual thickness measurement algorithm and optimized ultrasound operation methods to diagnose precise conditions of implanted medical prosthetic material inserted during total hip artificial joint replacement. In detail, ultrasound transducers having 8 MHz and 20 MHz center frequencies with similar sensitivity and bandwidth were fabricated to measure various thicknesses of commercial polyethylene-based artificial hip liners, resulting in a comparative analysis of signal-to-noise ratio and axial resolution to conduct an optimization study of ultrasound operations in vivo.