• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1067-1073
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• 2023

Breast cancer is one of the top three most common cancers in modern women, and the incidence rate is increasing rapidly. Breast cancer has a high family history and a mortality rate of about 15%, making it a high-risk group. Therefore, breast cancer needs constant management after an early examination. Among the various equipment that can diagnose cancer, ultrasound has the advantage of low risk and being able to diagnose in real time. In addition, breast ultrasound will be more useful because Asian women's breasts are denser and less sensitive. However, the results of ultrasound examinations vary greatly depending on the technology of the examiner. To compensate for this, we intend to incorporate motion tracking technology. Motion tracking is a technology that specifies and analyzes a location according to the movement of an object in a three-dimensional space. Therefore, real-time control is possible, and complex and fast movements can be recorded in real time. We would like to present the production of an ultrasound examination guide using these advantages.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.521-537
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• 2000

Ultrasonic imaging is the most widely used modality among modern imaging device for medical diagnosis and the system performance has been improved dramatically since early 90's due to the rapid advances in DSP performance and VLSI technology that made it possible to employ more sophisticated algorithms. This paper describes "main stream" digital signal processing functions along with the associated implementation considerations in modern medical ultrasound imaging systems. Topics covered include signal processing methods for resolution improvement, ultrasound imaging system architectures, roles and necessity of the applications of DSP and VLSI technology in the development of the medical ultrasound imaging systems, and array signal processing techniques for ultrasound focusing.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.338-344
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• 2010

A double rotation C-scanning system and a software program Under-Sodium MultiVIEW have been developed for the under-sodium viewing of a reactor core and in-vessel structures of a sodium-cooled fast reactor KALIMER-600. Double rotation C-scanning system has been designed and manufactured by the reproduction of double rotation plug of a reactor head in KALIMER-600. Hardware system which consists of a double rotating scanner, ultrasonic waveguide sensors, a high power ultrasonic pulser-receiver, a scanner driving module and a multi channel A/D board have been constructed. The functions of scanner control, image mapping and signal processing of Under-Sodium MultiVIEW program have been implemented by using a LabVIEW graphical programming language. The performance of Under-Sodium MultiVIEW program was verified by a double rotation C-scanning test in water.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.368-375
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• 2013

Failure of small bore piping welds is a recurring problem at nuclear power plants. And the socket weld cracking in small bore piping has caused unplanned plant shutdowns for repair and high economic impact on the plants. Consequently, early crack detection, including the detection of manufacturing defects, is of the utmost importance. Until now, the surface inspection methods has been applied according to ASME Section XI requirements. But the ultrasonic inspection as a volumetric method is also applying to enforce the inspection requirement. However, the conventional manual ultrasonic inspection techniques are used to detect service induced fatigue cracks. And there was uncertainty on manual ultrasonic inspection because of limited access to the welds and difficulties with contact between the ultrasonic probe and the OD(outer diameter) surface of small bore piping. In this study, phased array ultrasonic inspection technique is applied to increase inspection speed and reliability. To achieve this object, the 3.5 MHz phased array ultrasonic transducer are designed and fabricated. The manually encoded scanner was also developed to enhance contact conditions and maintain constant signal quality. Additionally inspection system is configured and inspection procedure is developed.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.607-611
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• 2001

Ultrasonic inspection system consist of the operator, equipment and procedure. The reliability of results in ultrasonic inspection is affected by its ability. Furthermore, the reliability of nondestructive testing is influenced by the inspection environment, materials and types of defect. Therefore, it is very difficult to estimate the reliability of NDT due to the various factors. In this study, the probability of detection by logistic probability model and Monte Carlo simulation is used for the reliability assessment of ultrasonic inspection. The utility of the NDT reliability assesment is verified by the analysis of the data from round robin test nth these models.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.493-500
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• 2009

An ultrasonic signal processing algorithm was developed for extracting the information of cracks generated around the keyway of a turbine rotor disk. B-scan images were obtained by using keyway specimens and an ultrasonic scan system with x-y position controller. The B-scan images were used as input images for 2-Dimensional signal processing, and the algorithm was constructed with four processing stages of pre-processing, crack candidate region detection, crack region classification and crack information extraction. It is confirmed by experiments that the developed algorithm is effective for the quantitative evaluation of cracks generated around the keyway of turbine rotor disk.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.194-205
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• 1994

이종재료 접합재의 연구개발(R&D)이나 품질보증(QA)분야에서 최적 접합조건의 신속한 결정과 사용중 접합재의 접합강도에 결정적으로 영향을 미치는 접합계면의 박리 미접합부등의 비파괴진단 평가기법에 적극 활용되고 있는 초음파비파괴평가(UNDE)기법의 주된 특징과 적용한계, 향후 연구되어야할 과제등을 최근의 특징적인 연구경향과 적용예를 중심으로 소개하고자 한다. 본고(本稿)에서 기술하는 초음파비파괴평가기법은 부분적으로는 기술의 안정화단계에 까지 상당히 접근하여, 현재 국내 반도체산업의 품질보증분야에서는 접합재료 접합계면의 비파괴적해석에 그 유용성이 어느정도 확인되고 있으나 정량적비파괴평가(QNDE)와 검사시스템의 꽃이라 불리는 전문가시스템화에의 접근에는 아직 해결되어야할 문제가 많다. 따라서, 저자들은 앞으로 접합재료 접합계면의 비파괴적해석에 관련한 연구사례와 결과를 정량적비파괴평가의 중요성과 방향성에 초점을 두고 본학회지를 통하여 계속 연재할 계획이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.36 no.3
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• pp.236-239
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• 2016

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2000.10b
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• pp.535-537
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• 2000

인체 장기의 내부 벽면을 관찰하기 위하여 사용된 내시경 검사 기법은 내시경을 삽입하고, 질병 부위를 찾는 과정에서 환자에게 고통을 유발시키고, 정확한 진단을 내리기 위해서는 검사자의 오랜 경험과 숙달을 필요로 한다. 그러므로 각종 의료 영상을 기반으로 한 가상 내시경 시스템에 대한 연구와 개발이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 영상을 기반으로 하여 병변 부위의 3차원 영상을 생성하고, 탐색하는 시스템을 제안한다. 우선 획득된 초음파 영상으로부터 장기에 대한 윤곽선 정보를 얻기 위하여, 초음파 영상에 대한 전처리 작업과 분할 작업을 수행하였고, 추출된 윤곽선 정보를 기반으로 3차원 표면 모델을 생성하였다. 3차원 표면 모델은 VRML 2.0 형식의 3차원 객체로 자동 변환되어 일반 VRML Plug-in viewer 및 자바 제어 모듈을 이용하여 3차원 장기 모델에 대한 탐색을 가능하도록 하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.37-43
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• 2017

Ultrasonic transducers with high resolution and resonant frequency are required to detect small defects (less than hundreds of ${\mu}m$) by ultrasonic testing. The resonance frequency and resolution of an ultrasonic transducer are closely related to the thickness of piezo-electric materials, backing materials, and the electric impedance matching technique. Among these factors, electrical impedance matching plays an important role because it can reduce the loss and reflection of ultrasonic energy differences in electrical impedance between an ultrasonic transducer and an ultrasonic defects detecting system. An LC matching circuit is the most frequently used electric matching method. It is necessary for the electrical impedance of an ultrasonic transducer to correspond to approximately $50{\Omega}$ to compensate the difference in electrical impedance between both connections. In this study, a 15 MHz immersion ultrasonic transducer was fabricated and an LC electrical impedance circuit was applied to that for having broad-band frequency characteristic.