• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1996.05d
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• pp.57-62
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• 1996

ANSI N13.32는 손목팬텀과 손가락팬텀에서 말단선량계의 특성조사를 위하여 방향의존성인자를 선량계의 성능평가에 적용하도록 권고하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 말단선량의 정확한 선량평가를 위하여 ANSI N13.32에 제안된 팬텀과 동일하게 모사하고 그 팬텀내의 7mg/$\textrm{cm}^2$ 깊이에서 단일에너지를 가진 광자의 선량당량환산인자 및 방향의존성인자를 MCNP 전산코드를 사용함으로써 계산하였다. 또한 본 연구의 최종목적인 ISO Narrow X-선 빔에 의해 조사된 손가락팬텀에서 선량당량환산인자 및 방향의존성인자를 도출하였다. 전산 수행한 결과 낮은 전압에서 발생된 X-선 빔인 경우, 팬텀의 주축을 따라 수평회전각이 증가할수록 방향의존성인자가 크게 감소하며, 한편 높은 전압에서 생성된 X-선 빔인 경우, 수평회전각이 증가할수록 방향의존성인자간 처음에는 근소하게 감소하지만 90。까지는 증가하고 있음을 알 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05b
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• pp.883-888
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• 1995

본 연구에서 말단선량계에 대한 선량평가시 선량환산인자를 산출하기 위해 1995년의 ANSI N13.32 기준인 “말단선량계의 성능평가를 위한 기준”에서 제안된 기준 팬덤을 가지고 MCNP 전산코드를 이용하여 커마근사법에 의해 수행하였다. ANSI N13.32의 기준팬텀은 손·발 그리고 손가락을 대표하는 원통형으로서 특히 손·발 팬텀에 대해서는 뼈등가물질로 알루미늄을 삽입한 것을 제안함에 따라 본 계산 목적을 위하여 팬텀설계를 똑같이 모사하였으며 사용된 광자빔 에너지는 20keV에서부터 1.5MeV에 걸쳐 14개의 단일에너지를 선택하여 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 전산수행한 결과를 ANSI N13.32의 실험적 결과와 비교해 볼 때 50keV에서부터 1.5 MeV까지의 에너지 영역에서는 최대오차 6% 이내에서 거의 일치함을 보였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.297-311
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• 1996

ANSI decided PMMA slab phantom as a calibration phantom and introduced a conversion coefficient calculation method for it. For photon, the conversion coefficient can be obtained by using backscatter factor and conversion coefficient of the ICRU tissue cube and backscatter factor of the PMMA slab. For neutron, however, the ANSI has not introduced any conversion coefficient calculation method for the PMMA slab. In this work, the ANSI method for the photon conversion coefficient calculation was applied to the neutron conversion coefficient calculation of the PMMA slab. Quality weighted tissue kerma of neutron was applied to calculate the backscatter factors on the ICRU cube and the PMMA slab. The dose conversion coefficient of the ICRU cube was also calculated by using MCNP code. Then, the dose conversion coefficient of the PMMA slab was calculated from two backscatter factors and the dose conversion coefficient of the ICRU cube. The discrepancies of the dose conversion coefficients of the PMMA slab and the ICRU cube were less than 10% except 1eV(20%), 1keV(17%), and 4 MeV(16%).

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.41-50
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• 1996

In this study, the theoretical calculation of the air kerma-to-dose equivalent conversion factors was performed with a Monte Carlo N-Particle transport code for the two types of extremity phantom of the ANSI and the KAERI, respectively. Considering the distribution of absorbed dose due to the interaction of homogeneous Parallel broad beam of monoenergetic primary photons in the range between 15keV and 1.5MeV, the air kerma-to-dose equivalent conversion factors based on the kerma approximation were calculated. It is showed that all the theoretical conversion factors of the two types of the extremity phantom for the ANSI and the KAERI agree well with the experimental values of the ANSI N13.32 draft(1995) for each energy within 5.7%, maximum difference ratio, except for 13.6%, difference ratio in the case for the energy of less than 40keV. It is due to uncertainties of experiment occurred in the low X-ray energy range and geometry considered in the MCNP code.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.263-271
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• 1996

The ANSI N13.32 recommends that a study of the angular response of a dosimeter be carried out once, although no pass/fail criterion is given for angular response. Gamma dose equivalent conversion and angular dependence factors were calculated by using MCNP code for the case of ANSI N13.32 extremity phantoms(finger and arm) at the depth of $7mg/cm^2$. Those extremity dosimeters were assumed to be irradiated from both monoenergitic photons and ISO X-ray narrow beams. These calculated gamma dose equivalent conversion and angular dependence factors were compared to B. Grosswendt's result calculated by using X-ray beams. The result showed that the dose equivalent conversion factors of this study agreed well with that of B. Grosswendt for all energies within 2% except 7% in the case of the low energies. In the case of angular dependence factors comparison, they agreed within 3%. It was shown that angular dependence factors of the finger phantom decreased as the horizontal angle of the phantom increased for the ISO X-ray beams less than 60keV. For the higher energy X-ray beams range they decreased slightly around 40 degree, but then increased from this energy to 90 degree.

• Proceedings of the Korean Nuclear Society Conference
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• 1995.05b
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• pp.889-894
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• 1995

본 연구에서는 ANSI N13.32(1995)에서 제시한 손가락, 손목/발목 기준 팬텀(1)을 설계 제작하여 Teledye사의 말단선량계(finger와 wrist dosimeter)에 대한 방향의존성 실험을 수행하였다. 방사선원으로는 PTB 2차 베타표준선원 $^{204}$Tl(0.24 MeV), $^{90}$ sr/Y(0.8 MeV) 그리고 $^{l37}$ Cs(0.66 MeV) 표준 감마선원을 사용하였으며, 말단선량계로는 LiF Teflon(D-LiF-7-0.13)을 사용하였다. 90$^{\circ}$ 에서 $10^{\circ}$ 까지 20$^{\circ}$ 씩 수직과 수평으로 팬텀을 회전하여 정상각과 비정상각에 대한 상대응답을 제시하였다. 실험결과 90$^{\circ}$에서 모든 선량계는 잘 일치하였다. $^{90}$ Sr/Y은 50$^{\circ}$ 정도에서 다소 방향의존성이 적은 결과를 보였으며, $^{204}$ TI는 20$^{\circ}$에서 최소 13% 정도의 심한 방향의존성이 나타났다. 또한 $^{137}$Cs은 $10^{\circ}$에서도 최대 10.6% 정도의 적은 방향의존성을 나타냈다. 본 실험의 결과로부터 말단선량계는 저에너지와 낮은 투과 방사선[2]에서 심하게 방향의존성이 나타남을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.663-669
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• 2017

In diagnostic medical imaging, it is essential to reduce the scattered radiation for the high medical image quality and low patient dose. Therefore, in this study, the influence of the scattered radiation on medical images was analyzed as the tube voltage increases. For this purpose, ANSI chest phantom was used to measure the scattering ratio, and the scattering effect on the image quality was investigated by RMS evaluation, RSD and NPS analysis. It was found that the scattering ratio with increasing x-ray tube voltage gradually increased to 48.8% at 73 kV tube voltage and to 80.1% at 93 kV tube voltage. As a result of RMS analysis for evaluating the image quality, RMS value according to increase of tube voltage was increased, resulting in low image quality. Also, the NPS value at 2.5 lp/mm spatial frequency was increased by 20% when the tube voltage was increased by 93 kV compared to the tube voltage of 73 kV. From this study, it can be seen that the scattering radiation have a significant effect on the image quality according to the increase of x-ray tube voltage. The results of this study can be used as basic data for the improvement of medical imaging quality.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.671-677
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• 2017

In this study, scattering factors affecting the quality of medical images were quantitatively analyzed and investigated. MCNPX simulation was conducted by using ANSI phantom, made of tissue equivalent materials, to calculate the scattering ratio occurred by the increase of the object thickness. Then, the result of the simulation was compared with the result of actual radiation measurement. In addition, we evaluated the image quality by the RMS evaluation, RSD and NPS analysis using X-ray images acquired with increasing object thickness. Furthermore, the scattering ratio was analyzed by increasing the thickness of acrylic phantom on chest phantom. The result showed that the scattering ratio was increased to 57.2%, 62.4%, and 66.8% from 48.9%, respectively, when the acrylic phantom thickness was increased by 1 inch from 6.1 inches. The results of MCNPX simulation and the actual measured scattering dose showed similar results. Also, as a result of RMS measurement from acquired x-ray images, the standard deviation decreased as the object thickness increased. However, in the RSD analysis considering the average incident dose, the results were increased from 0.028 to 0.039, 0.051, 0.062 as the acrylic phantom thickness was increased from 6.1 inches to 7.1 inch, 8.1 inch, and 9.1 inch, respectively. It can be seen that the increase of the scattering effect due to the increase of the object thickness reduces the SNR. Also, the NPS results obtained by measuring scattered radiation incident on the detector resulted in the increase of the noise as the object thickness increased.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.549-555
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• 2018

The medical imaging technique images the contrast formed based on the difference in absorption coefficient of X-rays which changes according to the composition and thickness of the object. At this time, not only primary rays entering the image detector but also scattered rays greatly affect the image quality. Therefore, in this paper, Forward scattering rate and Scattered to primary ratio analysis were performed through Monte Carlo simulation in order to consider influence of scattered ray generated according to object thickness and radiation exposure area change on image quality. In the study, the Forward scattering rate corresponding to the thickness of the object was analyzed at a maximum of 15.3%p and the Scattered to primary ratio was analyzed at 2.00 to 4.54, but it was analyzed as maintaining a constant value for radiation exposure area change. Based on these results, the thickness of the object should be considered as a factor influencing the quality of the image, but radiation exposure area verified that it is a factor that does not affect the image quality. We believe that the results of this research can be utilized as basic information of scattered radiation to improve image quality.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.597-602
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• 2016

Recent clinical field utilizes the aluminium filter in order to reduce the low-energy photons. However, the usage of the filter can cause adverse effect on the image quality because of the scattered dose that is generated by X-ray hardening phenomenon. Further, usage of filter with improper thickness can be a reason of dose creep phenomenon where unnecessary exposure is generated towards the patient. In this study, the author evaluated the RMS and the RSD analysis in order to have a quantitative evaluation for the effect of forward scattering dose by the filter on the image. as a result of the study, the FSR and the RSD was increased together with the increasing of thickness of the filter. In this study the RSD means the standard deviation of the mean value is relatively size. It can be understood that the signal-to-noise ratio decreases when the average value is taken as a signal and the standard deviation is judged as a noise. The signal-to-noise ratio can understanding as index of resolution at image. Based on these findings, it was quantitatively verified that there is a correlation of the image quality with the FSR by using an additional filter. The results, a 2.5 mmAl which is as recommended by NCRP in the tube voltage of 70 kVp or more showed the 14.6% on the RSD when the filter was not in used. these results are considered able to be utilized as basic data for the study about the filter to improve the quality of the image.