• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.171-176
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• 1998

The objective of this study was to re-evaluate ultrasound attenuation as an indicator of bone properties. Ultrasound attenuation(BUA), were measured in the three orthogonal directions of trabecular bone cubes, Measurements of bone mineral density(BMD) were made using quantitative computed tomography and apparent density by weighing bone specimens and measuring their volume. Ultrasonic modulus was calculated from the standard equation with apparent density and ultrasound velocity. Ultrasound attenuation at a frequency of 0.5 MHz and BUA were correlated with BMD and ultrasonic modulus in the anterior/posterior, medial/lateral, and superior/inferior directions. Analysis of correlations demonstrated that attenuation at 0.5 MHz was superior to BUA in describing both BMD and elastic modulus of trabecular bone. This result may be used to improve current ultrasound diagnostic techniques for assessing bone status.

• Proceedings of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.674-677
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 지반에 매립된 파이프에서 전파되는 유도초음파의 종파 모드 특성을 분석하였다. 지상 배관과는 달리 매립 배관에서는 주변 매질로 유도초음파의 누설이 발생할 수 있으며, 이로 인하여 유도초음파의 감쇠가 상대적으로 커질 수 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 유도초음파의 여러 특성들 중 종파 모드의 감쇠 특성을 중점적으로 분석하였다. 감쇠에 영향을 미치는 지반의 파동 특성(밀도, 체적종파속도, 체적횡파속도)을 결정하기 위하여 포화도와 다짐을 고려하였다. 포화도가 증가할수록 지반의 체적종파속도와 체적횡파속도는 감소하며, 다짐된 지반은 밀도와 체적종파속도, 체적횡파속도를 증가시킨다. 이와 같은 조건으로 결정된 지반의 파동 특성치와 배관의 물성치를 바탕으로 유도초음파 종파 모드의 감쇠 곡선을 계산하고, 특성을 분석하였다. 결과적으로 포화도가 증가할수록 종파 모드의 감쇠는 감소하는 경향을 나타내었고, 다짐이 증가할 경우 감쇠는 전반적으로 증가하는 경향을 나타냄을 알 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.244-252
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• 2012

The purpose of the present study is to investigate the correlations between acoustic properties, such as speed of sound and normalized broadband ultrasound attenuation, and bone mineral density in femur with high fracture risk. The speed of sound and the normalized broadband ultrasound attenuation in 15 bovine femoral trabecular bone samples in vitro were measured by using a through-transmission method with two matched pairs of ultrasonic transducers with center frequencies of 0.5 and 1.0 MHz. The volumetric bone mineral density of the trabecular bone samples was measured by using micro-computed tomography. The bone mineral density exhibited strong correlations with both the speed of sound and the normalized broadband ultrasound attenuation measured by using the 0.5 and the 1.0 MHz transducers. The highest correlation was found between the bone mineral density and the normalized broadband ultrasound attenuation measured by using the 0.5 MHz ultrasonic transducers. The results suggest that the acoustic properties measured in the femur in vitro can be used as indices for the prediction of femoral bone mineral density.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.163-166
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• 2001

초음파를 이용하여 인체 조직의 특성을 알아내는 방법은 매우 광범위하게 응용되어 오고있다. 그 중에서 초음파를 발생시킨 후 반사되어 되돌아오는 신호를 측정하여 그 감쇠 정도로부터 조직의 특성을 추정하는 방법이 많이 사용되고 있다. 이러한 감쇠현상은 발생된 초음파가 조직 내에서 흡수 또는 산란현상을 거치면서 주파수가 변이를 일으키기 때문에 발생한다. 따라서, 조직의 감쇠 특성을 알아내기 위해서, 주파수의 함수로 근사할 수 있는 감쇠 계수(attenuation coefficient)를 이용하여 시간에 따라 달라지는 주파수 변화를 추정한다. 그러나, 기존의 Ah(Auto-Regressive) 모델을 통한 시간영역 및 주파수 영역에서의 추정 방법을 사용하면 잡음이 존재하는 상황에서 시변 신호를 추정하는데 성능이 많이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위해서, 가변 망각 인자와 재귀적인 TLS(Total Least Squares) 방법을 사용하여 시간에 따라 변하는 신호를 정확하게 추정하고 잡음환경에도 강인한 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 또한, 제안된 알고리듬은 추정 성능을 향상시킬 뿐 아니라 감쇠정도의 강약에 관계없이 망각인자의 값을 적응적으로 변화시켜 동작하는 장점을 가진다.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.17-24
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• 2002

The objective of the present research is to evaluate the wave propagation velocity and attenuation characteristics of kaolin clay specimens using ultrasonic testing. Test specimens with known initial micro-fabric were prepared using a two-stage slurry consolidation technique. For a known state of stress conditions, initial void ratio, and micro-fabric, a series of experiments were conducted to evaluate the longitudinal wave propagation velocity and associated damping behavior. The effects of major variables involved in ultrasonic testing of cohesive soil were considered in this study. Ultrasonic velocity was not correlated to the microfabric structure under the given consolidated pressure whereas ultrasonic attenuation was affected by the microstructural properties of the specimen.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.16 no.7
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• pp.927-934
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• 2022

This study attempted to find out the degree of agreement between ultrasound image findings along with analysis of attenuation index and scatter distribution index values within tissues through quantitative measurement analysis using liver ultrasound images. From August 2022 to October 2022, liver ultrasound was performed on 45 patients who were suspected of having fatty liver and who received a prescription for liver ultrasound. As a result of the study, as a result of analyzing the agreement between the ultrasound image findings and the tissue attenuation index, the Kappa value was 0.82 (p<0.05), showing a very high agreement between the two examination methods. In addition, as a result of the agreement analysis between the ultrasound image findings and the scatter distribution index in the tissue, the Kappa value was 0.642 (p<0.05), showing high agreement between the two examination methods. At the time of fat liver prediction, the use of liver ultrasound findings and quantitative ultrasonography techniques, such as intra-tissue attenuation index and intra-tissue scatter distribution index, may be helpful in determining the degree of progression of fatty liver patients.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.195-198
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• 2008

Ultrasonic method is applied for measuring burning rates of the solid propellants, since it can measure burning rates as a function of pressure in a single test performed. However, to replace the stand burner method by the ultrasonic method, it is necessary to verify of its accuracy and reliability. In this study, we investigated the performance of the ultrasonic method for burning rate measurements by comparison to the strand burner results. Furthermore, we investigated the relation between the attenuations of solid propellants and data scattering in the measured burning rates.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.23-31
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• 1994

Sound scattering by cylindrical tubes submerged in water is numerically analyzed with material attenuation considered. Complex wave numbers is introduced to see the effects of material attenuation on resonance scattering Backscattering pressures from the shells immersed in water are calculated for air-filled aluminium and acryl tubes. In order to investigate the resonance characteristics in detail, numerical analysis program has been completed which enables us to evaluate the effects of material attenuation. The testing of the program by comparison with previous results is reported and calculation results are compared and discussed for both aluminium and acryl tubes with material attenuation considered. The resonance peak and width is strongly affected by attenuation and this becomes severe as the peak is sharp and narrow and $k_{1{\alpha}}$ is high.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.20-25
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• 2013

Ultrasonic methods are widely used to degradation assessment. Remaining-life cycle of metal can be estimated by ultrasonic parameters because ultrasonic velocity and attenuation are affected by change of material properties with accumulated fatigue in the metal. Therefore, in this study, we will estimate overall change of material properties by 2D C-scan image. Fatigued aluminum alloy 6061-T6 samples from 0 to 85% were prepared for evaluating fatigue life cycle. Also, degraded image of materials using attenuation is proposed to estimate degree of material degradation for determining degraded area of fatigued samples. Finally, we will predicts process pf degradation with measured attenuation of fatigued aluminum alloy 6061-T6 samples.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2014

The temperature change due to focused ultrasound in dissipative acoustic medium is very important because it provides us much information. To measure the temperature change inside of the dissipative acoustic medium non-invasively, we adopt a temperature sensitive film which has thermochromic particles with critical temperature of $30^{\circ}C$. As a dissipative acoustic medium, agar layer is chosen in the study. The temperature change due to the ultrasound was measured depending on the concentration of the sugar in the agar layer. The color change on the film due to the ultrasound was investigated when the concentration of sugar was from 25% to 40%. As the result, there were rapid increases of discolored area on the film within 2~5 second after the ultrasound driving and the increasing rates decreased after the period. To compare the simulation results were also shown. However in the simulated result, the discolored areas linearly increased from start to 10 seconds. The reason of the differences between the experimental results and simulated ones is that the change of thermal conductivity and heat capacity of the medium were not considered in the simulation program.