• The Journal of the Korean bone and joint tumor society
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2005

Purpose: This study was designed to know the usefulness of the MRI to distinguish lipoma and well differentiated liposarcoma (WDL). Materials and methods: 47 lipomatous tumors with MRI were reviewed among the 107 lipomatous tumors operated in our department. MRI examinations and their corresponding pathology reports were compared to determine sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic ability, positive predictable value and negative predictable value. Statistical analysis was performed to know the relationship between malignancy of the tumor (WDL) with the age and gender of the patients, and location, depth, size and the enhancement of tumors in MRI. Results: Among 28 lipoma in MRI examinations, 26 were proved as lipoma in pathology, and only 6 were WDL from 19 suspicious lesions in MRI, and others were proved as lipoma variants mostly. The varieties of lipoma variants were fibrolipoma, angiolipoma, spindle cell lipoma, lipoblastoma and angiomyolipoma. The sensitivity, specificity, diagnostic ability, positive predictable value and negative predictable value of MRI were 100%, 68 %, 72%, 31% and 100% in WDL, and 90%, 89%, 89%, 93% and 84% in lipoma. Among the variants to distinguish WDL and lipoma, the size of tumor and enhancement in MRI were significant statistically (p<0.05). Conclusion: MRI was highly sensitive in detection of WDL and highly specific in detection of simple lipoma. The size of tumor and enhancement in MRI were significant variants to distinguish WDL and lipoma. When MRI finding is non-specific, it is more likely to represent one of lipoma variants.

• Journal of Chest Surgery
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• v.39 no.1 s.258
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• pp.42-47
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• 2006

Background: The new Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT) is useful in visualization of complex coronary artery anatomy. We investigated usefulness comparing of invasive coronary angiography with noninvasive MDCT in judgment of functional degree of coronary arteries grafts after coronary artery bypass graft operation. Material and Method: We analyzed the patency of 52 conduits from 15 patients whom consented to take both 32 Channel MDCT and coronary angiography from November 2003 to November 2004. Comparisons were performed for sensitivity, specificity, positive prediction value and negative prediction value between coronary angiography and 3 dimensional reconstruction image using MDCT. Result: The average graft used was 3.4 $\pm$ 0.8 per patient. Average heart rate during MDCT was 86/minute (Range, 60$\∼$110/minute) without administration of $\beta$-blocker. All patients could hold breath as much as necessary. The average graft patency obtained through corollary angiography was 96.2$\%$. In MDCT group, the sensitivity, the specificity, the positive predictive value and the negative predictive value for diagnosis was 100$\%$, 98.0$\%$, 100$\%$ and 66.6$\%$ respectively. Conclusion: The effectiveness of 32 Channel MDCT may be compared to coronary angiography in grasping about patency and bloodstream of graft conduits after coronary artery bypass graft. Also MDCT has the advantage of noninvasiveness and inexpensiveness compared to coronary angiography.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.242-249
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to compare the properties of dental pulp and periodontal ligament stem cells from extracted supernumerary teeth by quantitative real-time PCR. Impacted supernumerary teeth in the maxillary anterior region were extracted. Dental pulp and periodontal ligament cells were collected from extracted supernumerary teeth on the same day. After isolation and culture of cells, compare characterization of them by using qRT-PCR. Primer sequences for odontoblasts are ONT, ALP, OCN, DMP-1 and DSPP. On dental pulp group, ONT has the largest quantity of gene expression, followed by OCN, ALP, DMP-1 and DSPP. On periodontal ligament group, ONT has the largest quantity of gene expression, followed by OCN, ALP, DSPP and DMP-1. Analysis of quantitative gene expression data using relative quantification showed that the expression of all genes decreased in periodontal ligament cells. Dental pulp and periodontal ligament stem cells from supernumerary teeth have the properties of odontoblasts. Considering that properties, supernumerary teeth were considered a useful donor site of dental pulp and periodontal ligament stem cells.

• Korean Journal of Materials Research
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.422-423
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• 1993

In this short note, we report the result of measurement for the ferro- to paramagnetic phase transition temperature, that is Curie point of bulk gadolinium. This note is written to give the solid validity for the previous measurement of Curie point shift of gadolinium film (1. Rhee, E. Lee and S. Lee, Kor. J. of Mat. Research,3, 3, 1993). The Curie point of bulk gadolinium is determined by measuring the resistance of sample as function of temperatures. At Curie point, we can observe the resistivity anomaly which arises due to the heat capacity difference between below and above Curie point. Finally, the curie point of bulk gadolinium is found to be 19.2${\pm}$0.$3^{\circ}C$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.7
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• pp.1346-1353
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• 2001

This paper presents an algorithm for the design of 2 dimension separable denominator digital filter(SDDF). The proposed algorithm is based on the reduced dimensional decomposition not only 2 dimension SDDF's but also of given 2 dimension specification. The frequency domain design of 2 dimension separable denominator digital filters based on the reduced dimensional decomposition can be realized when the given 2 dimension frequency specification are optimally decomposed into a pair of 1 dimension digital filter specification via singular value decomposition. the algorithm is computationally efficient and numerically stable. In case of the low pass filter, the approximation error of the proposed design algorithm is $e_{m}$=5.17, $e_{r1}$ =8.78, $e_{r2}$=7.34, while in case of band pass filter, the approximation error is $e_{m}$=13.00, $e_{r1}$=62.76, $e_{r2}$=62.7676.7676

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.163-173
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• 1999

Precise and reasonable modelling is necessary and indispensable to the analysis of dynamic characteristics of mechanical structures. Also. the effective prediction of the change of modal properties due to the variation of design parameters is required especially for the application of finite element method to the structural dynamics problems. To meet those necessity and requirement, three model updating algorithms are proposed for finite element methods. Those algorithms are based on sensitivity analysis of the modal data obtained from experimental modal analysis(EMA) and analytical modal analysis(AMA). The adapted sensitivity analysis methods of the algorithms are 1)eigensensitivity(EGNS) method. 2)frequency response function sensitivity(FRFS) method. 3)sensitivity based element-by-element method (SBEEM), Singular value decomposition(SVD) is used for performing eigenanalysis and parameter estimation in the updating process. Those algorithms are applied to finite element of a plate and the updating capability of each algorithm is compared in terms of accuracy. reliability and stability of the updating process. It is shown that the model updating method using frequency response function is superior to the other methods in view of various updating capabilities.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.15-21
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• 2009

In this paper, we consider the design problem of robust stabilization and robust guaranteed cost state feedback controller for discrete-time singular systems with parameter uncertainties by LMI(linear matrix inequality) approach without semi-definite condition and decomposition of system matrices. The objective of robust stabilization controller is to construct a state feedback controller such that the closed-loop system is regular, causal, and stable. In the case of robust guaranteed cost control, the optimal value of guaranteed cost and controller design method are presented on the basis of robust stabilization control technique. Finally, a numerical example is provided to show the validity of the design methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.752-757
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• 2006

In the case of the requirement of high speed transmission, OFDM is a powerful technique employed in communications systems suffering from frequency selective fading. In this paper, we apply an optimal adaptive bitloading algorithm technique. The BER performance of the fixed-rate SISO and adaptive SISO is simulated. Specially, we can decompose the MIMO channel into the SISO channel by making use of the singular value decomposition(SVD) assuming channel knowledge in a multipath environment. As a results of simulation, we confirmed that the BER enhancement of MIMO-OFDM system with the bitloadins algorithm was superior to the SISO-OFDM system.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1991.06a
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• pp.32-37
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• 1991

고해상도 신호처리의 기본적인 문제는, 관찰 데이터의 개수가 작고 신호 대 잡음비(SNR)가 낮아서, 푸리에 분석기법에 의해 주기신호가 분해되지 않는 경우에, 신호의 파라미터를 추정하는 것이라 할 수 있다. 주기신호의 주파수 추정 문제에서는 일반적으로 주기신호의 개수를 알고 있다고 가정하는데, 주기신호의 개수가 사전에 알려져 있지 않은 경우, 주파수 추정은 결국 주기신호의 개수결정문제가 되어, EVD나 SVD를 이용한 개수 결정방법이 활발히 연구되어 왔다. 고해상도 신호처리에서는 EVD나 SVD의 비선형 특성 상임게치 신호 대 잡음비가 존재하며 이 SNR보다 낮은 경우 심각한 왜곡현상을 보이게 되어, 주파수 추정 또는 주기신호의 개수결정에 큰 오차를 보이게 된다. 주기신호의 개수를 사전에 알고 있는 경우, 임게치 SNR를 낮추려는 노력으로는 overdetermined over-ranked structured correlation matrix의 rank reduction과 averaging을 이용한 신호 향상방법(signal enhancement)이 연구되어 왔다. 그러나 사전에 주기신호의 개수를 알아야만 하는 결점이 있고, 잡음이 백색이여야 하는 제약이 있었다. 일반적으로 환경 잡음은 유색이고, 주기신호의 개수를 사전에 모르는 경우이므로, 낮은 SNR에서의 주파수 추정문제는 유색잡음을 고려한 신호향상으로 임게치 SNR을 낮추고 주기신호의 개수를 결정한 후 주파수 추정이 이루어져야 한다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위해 광대협 유색잡음에서의 신호향상과 그 과정 중 중 주기신호의 개수를 결정하는 알고리즘ㅇ르 제시하고자 한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.155-165
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• 1990

The problem of quantization errors in digital filter design arises because of the practical necessity due to finite wordlength implementation. These errors are classified into coefficient quantization error and roung off error. In this paper, in order to analyze and reduce these errors, minimum ceefficient quantization realization is directly derived form impulse responese design specification. And using the equivalent transform relation between minimum coefficient quantization error and minimum roundoff error realizations, we synthesize an optimal realization state-space digital filter. This technique is analyzed by the simulation of an approximated 3rd model, which shows that it is superior to direct or cascade state-space digital filter in quantization errors.