• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Radiological Science
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• 1989.06a
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• pp.84.3-84.3
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• 1989

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Radiological Science
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• 1992.05a
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• pp.14.2-15
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• 1992

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Radiological Science
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• 1995.10a
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• pp.135-136
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• 1995

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Radiological Science
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• 1992.05a
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• pp.13.2-13.2
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• 1992

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.310.2-310
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• 2001

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.482-491
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed the microcalcification detection algorithm which is based on wavelet transform and automatic thresholding method in the X-ray mammographic images. Digital X-ray imaging system is essential equipment in the field diagnosis and is widely used in the various fields such as chest, fracture of a bone, and dental correction. Especially, digital X-ray mammographic imaging is known as the most important method to diagnose the breast cancer, many researches to develop the imaging system are processing in country. In this paper, we proposed a microcalcifications detection algorithm necessary in the early phase of breast cancer diagnosis and showed that a algorithm could effectively detect microcalfication and could aid diagnosis-radiologist.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.35-42
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• 2003

Methodology for calculating the organ equivalent doses and the effective doses of pediatric and adult patients undergoing medical X-ray examinations were established. The MIRD-type mathematical phantoms of 4 age groups were constructed with addition of the esophagus to the same phantoms. Two typical examination procedures, chest PA and abdomen AP, were simulated for the pediatric patients as well as the adult as illustrative examples. The results confirmed that patients pick up approximate 0.03 mSv of effective dose from a single chest PA examination, and 0.4 to 1.7 mSv from an abdomen AP examination depending on the ages. For dose calculations where irradiation is made with a limited field, the details of the position, size and shape of the organs and the organ depth from the entrance surface considerably affect the resulting doses. Therefore, it is important to optimize radiation protection by control of X-ray properties and beam examination field. The calculation result, provided in this study, can be used to implement optimization for medical radiation protection.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.440-445
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• 2007

본 논문에서는, 폐 종류 음영검출에 대해서 다중해상도 필터를 에너지 차분 영상에 적용하여 기존 방법과의 비교평가 및 폐 종류 음영검출 자체에 관하여 그 검출성능에 영향을 주는 요인을 선택해서 분석을 하였다. 다시말해서, 폐 종류 음영 검출자체에 관해서 복수의 분석인자를 선택해서 복수의 관점에서 성능을 분석하였다. 즉, 영상 인자로서 보통 X선 영상 및 에너지 차분영상을, 검출필터 인자로서 라플라시안-가우시안 필터, 최소방향 차분필터 및 본 연구에서 제안하는 다중해상도 필터를 선택해서 분석을 하였다. 그 결과, 폐 종류 음영검출에 있어서 에너지 차분 영상의 유효성, 최소방향 차분필터의 보통 X선 영상에서의 효과 및 다중해상도 필터의 에너지 차분 영상에 있어서의 유효성을 식견으로서 터득하게 되었다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.829-840
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• 2001

In this study, we propose a method for quantifying the degree of advance of pulmonary emphysema by using chest X-ray images. With this method, we devise two schemes for this purpose. One is for detecting blood vessels by using a deformable model with the tree-like structure and using an evaluation function specialized by knowledge about blood vessels appeared in chest X-ray images, and the other is for quantifying the degree of advance by using several features, which were extracted from blood vessels, and the equation of quantitative evaluation. In order to evaluate the performance, we applied the proposed method to 189 ROIs(Regions of Interest) of ten chest X-ray images and compared the values by the proposed method with those by a medical doctor.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.163-171
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of various technical parameters for the dose optimization in pediatric chest radiological examinations by evaluating effective dose and effective detective quantum efficiency (eDQE) including the scatter radiation from the object, the blur caused by the focal spot, geometric magnification and detector characteristics. For the tube voltages ranging from 40 to 90 kVp in 10 kVp increments at the FDD of 100, 110, 120, 150, 180 cm, the eDQE was evaluated at the same effective dose. The results showed that the eDQE was largest at 60 kVp when compares the eDQE at different tube voltage. Especially, the eDQE was considerably higher without the use of an anti-scatter grid on equivalent effective dose. This indicates that the reducing the scatter radiation did not compensate for the loss of absorbed effective photons in the grid. When the grid is not used the eDQE increased with increasing FDD because of the greater effective modulation transfer function (eMTF). However, most of major hospitals in Korea employed a short FDD of 100 cm with an anti-scatter grid for the chest radiological examination of a 15 month old infant. As a result, the entrance surface air kerma (ESAK) values for the hospitals of this survey exceeded the Korean DRL (diagnostic reference level) of $100{\mu}Gy$. Therefore, appropriate technical parameters should be established to perform pediatric chest examinations on children of different ages. The results of this study may serve as a baseline to establish detailed reference level of pediatric dose for different ages.