• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.245-252
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• 1994

의료용으로 사용되는 초음파 진단장치와 PC간의 인터페이스를 통해서 초음파 의료 영상 정보를 관리할 수 있는 시스템을 구현하였다. 초음파 진단장치와 PC간의 양방향 데이터 전송이 가능하도록 양방향 인터페이스 카드를 하드웨어로 제작하였고, 이에 맞는 통신 프로토콜을 구현하였다. 또한 영상 정보의 데이터 베이스를 구축하기 용이하도록 영상 파일의 형태를 새로이 정의하였으며 진단장치에서 디스플레이되는 영상을 PC에 맞도록 좌표 변환해서 디스플레이할 수 있도록 소프트웨어를 구현하였다. 특히, 초음파 진단장치의 컨벡스(convex)와 섹터(sector)의 의료영상을 PC에서 디스플레이하기 위해 위치지정과 인터폴레이션(interpolation)기법을 적용하였다. 본 시스템의 타당성을 입증하기 위해서 진단장치와 PC에서 디스플레이되는 영상을 서로 비교함으로써 전송시 영상의 좌표변환이 성공적으로 이루어졌음을 증명하였다.

• 전기의세계
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.9-18
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• 1989

초음파 CT는 시기적으로 가장 빨리 X-ray CT와 함께 연구되어 왔으나 인체내의 투과성, 난반사, 긴파장등에 의해 실용화가 아직은 요원하다. 초음파 CT는 크게 Time of flight (TOF)CT, Attenuation CT, Reflection CT, Diffraction CT등으로 나눌수 있다. 초기에는 TOF CT, Attenuation CT의 연구가 주로 이루어 졌으나 투과의 문제로 인하여 실제로는 유방의 진단에 국한되고 있다. Reflection CT는 초음파의 특성상 실용화가 가장 쉬우나 Transducer 크기등의 문제로 연구가 지연되고 있다. Diffraction CT는 모든 초음파 CT의 특성을 갖고 있으며 현재에 실용화는 요원한 실정이다. KAIST에서는 TOF CT와 Reflection CT의 특징을 결합한 초음파 CT를 연구 발표한 바 있다. 3-D Image은 지금까지의 초음파진단장치에서 표시하는 2-D Image가 갖고 있는 제반의 문제들을 극복하기 위해 현재 KAIST에서 활발히 연구가 진행중에 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.901-904
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• 2007

Nowadays, in many fields of medical treatment, we can make an observation and a diagnosis of inward disease without using a surgical operation. As one of them, ultra-sound diagnosis system can be available widely in its cost and size compared with other medical instruments. This system also make it possible for us to see the inner parts of the body in real time harmlessly for a long time. So it can be utilized to inspect the movement of heart or fetus and to diagnose an internal disease of the soft tissues. Ultra-sound images can be generated by the reflexive and scattered wave through the pulse generator and so in ultrasound images there exist inherently many affective noised signals. In this paper, we are to take an noise-restrained image and to extract a more affective regions of the images.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.355-364
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• 2010

Considering biological safety, it is very important to measure acoustic power from ultrasonic array probe for diagnostic ultrasound imaging applications. In this paper, to measure acoustic power from each element on array probe for ultrasonic diagnostic equipment, we reconstruct and automate the acoustic power measurement system. The acoustic power from linear, phased and curved array were measured and analyzed. As a result of measurement, the effects caused by directivity of sound beam from curved array were founded. To remove these effects, we developed and applied the correction model. The proposed system is useful to evaluate characteristics of the acoustical output power of array probe.

• 전기의세계
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• v.34 no.9
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• pp.541-547
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• 1985

생체내부의 영상진단법 중에 진단시 인체에 무해, 무통하며 실시간 동적 영상을 제공해주는 치명적인 잇점을 갖고 있는 초음파영상 진단장치는 그 내부를 살펴보면 타 의용장치와는 달리 전기.전자공학의 결정체이다. 그러나 X선 CT에 비해 화질이 멀어지고 정량성 결여의 문제점을 안고 있다. 그러나, 소형, 저렴성은 그 이용도를 높혀주고 있으나 화질불량은 화상진단시 숙련을 요구하고 확실한 정보 제공의 장벽이 되고 있다. 따라서 상기의 문제점을 해결하기 위한 노력의 일환이 Tissue Characteization이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.221-225
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• 2017

To evaluate the performance of ultrasound imaging system, we investigated the change of spatial resolution according to changing sonic velocity change parameter provided by ultrasound equipment. Ultrasound phantom images were obtained using a 3.0 ~ 5.0 MHz convex transducer in an ultrasound diagnostic device used at a medical institution located at Iksan. N-365 multi-purpose ultrasound phantom was used to measure longitudinal distance measurement accuracy and longitudinal and transverse resolution. In the same manner, the sonic velocity of the ultrasound equipment was changed from 1580 m/sec to 1400 m/sec in six steps, and the full width at half maximum(FWHM) was measured using the image J program to determine whether the measured values were different. As a result, lateral resolution was measured from 1.91 mm to 5.3 mm according to the speed change, and the smallest FWHM was 1.91 mm at 1420 m/sec. The axial resolution was measured from 1.03 mm to 1.14 mm according to the speed change, and the smallest FWHM was 1.03 mm at 1400 m/sec. The slower the sound velocity of the ultrasound equipment, the shorter the length of longitudinal measurement.

• The Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Illuminating and Electrical Installation Engineers
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.46-53
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• 1994

This paper presents a diagnosis teclmique using ultrasonic sensors for monitoring the growth of partial discharge in power transformers. This teclmique counts the ultrasonic pulses generated from partial discharge over a threshold leveL In experiments, a ultrasonic generator and the point to plane electrodes generated ultrasonic pulses. With a constant voltage between the electrodes, the ultrasonic pulses over a threshold were a fairly constant. When the voltage increased or insulation paper was inserted between the electrodes, the partial discharge increased. In this case the number of ultrasonic pulses also increased and therefore the proposed teclmiques successfully diagnosed the growth of partial discharge.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.744-756
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• 2002

The transient acoustic fields formed by a 3.5 ㎒ curved linear array transducer which is commonly used in ultrasonic medical imaging system for diagnosis of abdomen are systematically analyzed to obtain new design parameters for the better acoustic image. In the analysis with an assumption of radiating waveform, element size, radius of curvature, amplitude apodization are considered as parameters giving constitutive relations with the fields. As simulation results, appropriate new parameters with the reduced curvature and elevation aperture and the apodization of Hamming window, which make an improved acoustic beam with lower side lobe levels than a conventional typical transducer, are obtained.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.18A no.2
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• pp.45-52
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• 2011

In the past, a patient went to the room where an ultrasound image diagnosis device was set, and then he or she was examined by a doctor. However, currently a doctor can go and examine the patient with a handheld ultrasound device who stays in a room. However, it was implemented with only fundamental functions, and can not meet the high performance required by the focusing algorithm of ultrasound beam which determines the quality of ultrasound image. In addition, low energy consumption was satisfied for the mobile ultrasound device. To satisfy these requirements, this paper proposes a high-performance and low-power single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) based multi-core processor that supports a representative beamforming algorithm out of several focusing methods of mobile ultrasound image signals. The proposed SIMD multi-core processor, which consists of 16 processing elements (PEs), satisfies the high-performance required by the beamforming algorithm by exploiting considerable data-level parallelism inherent in the echo image data of ultrasound. Experimental results showed that the proposed multi-core processor outperforms a commercial high-performance processor, TI DSP C6416, in terms of execution time (15.8 times better), energy efficiency (6.9 times better), and area efficiency (10 times better).

• Electrical & Electronic Materials
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.56-64
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• 1998