• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2019

본 연구는 자동노출제어장치(Automatic Exposure Control, AEC)와 수동노출 이용 시 입사표면선량(Entrance Surface Dose, ESD)과 Entropy를 분석하여 자동노출제어장치의 유용성에 대해 알아보고자 하였다. 실험방법은 Skull, Chest, Abdomen, Pelvis 부위에 대하여 란도팬텀(Rando Phantom)에 반도체 선량계를 위치시켜 선량을 측정하였고, 동시에 획득한 DICOM(Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine) 파일을 Matlab으로 Entropy 분석을 하였다. 그 결과 자동노출제어장치 이용 시 모든 부위의 입사표면선량이 수동노출보다 낮았고 Entropy 수치는 높았으며, paired t-test는 p<0.05로 유의한 차이가 있음을 알 수 있었다. 결론적으로 자동노출제어장치의 사용은 X선 검사 시 발생할 수 있는 불필요한 방사선량과 정보의 손실량을 줄여서 피폭선량과 영상 화질의 최적화에 기여할 수 있는 유용한 방법이 될 수 있다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제20권10호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2020

CMOS 카메라 영상의 화질을 좌우하는 것은 여러 가지가 있는데 그 중에서 영상 노출시간은 중요한 요소이다. 영상 노출시간이 길게 되면 화면 전체 영상이 밝아지게 되고 노출시간이 짧아지면 전체 영상이 어두워지게 된다. 정지 피사체를 사진 촬영할 경우 자동노출 시스템이 적절한 노출시간을 얻는데 충분한 시간이 주어지기 때문에 실시간성이 요구되지 않는다. 하지만 주행 중인 자동차의 블랙박스 같이 주변 빛 환경이 빠르게 변하게 되면 이에 맞추어서 노출시간도 실시간으로 반응하여 적용되어야 한다. 이를 위해서는 실시간성과 주변 빛 환경에 대하여 강건한 자동노출 시스템이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 ZYNQ의 로직과 ARM코어를 적용한 임베디드 시스템 설계로 병렬 연산처리 가능한 실시간 제어 시스템을 설계하였고 이를 바탕으로 PID 제어를 통해서 66ms 이내에 원하는 목표 값으로 수렴하고 노이즈에 강건한 실시간 CMOS 자동 노출 시스템을 개발하였다.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.66-69
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• 2013

In the U.S., performance assessment on the Automatic Exposure Control system (AEC) is managed according to the Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA). However, The AEC is not available in the performance assessment conducted in Korea. Also, there is no study made on the performance of the automatic exposure control system for mammography in Korea. For this reason, this study examined the performance of the automatic exposure control system for mammography that was clinically used in the Incheon area. Result showed that the difference of the mean optical density was 0.79 ~ 2.81. This implies that some devices caused unnecessary x-ray exposure to patients. Furthermore, only 61.5% of the entire experimental device was shown to be satisfactory in terms of change in mean optical density. Moreover, in terms of the subject's thickness, change in radiographic density was shown to be severe among lower X-ray tube voltage while there was severe density change in X-ray image depending on X-ray tube voltage among the subjects with more thickness. Therefore, it is suggested to provide performance management on the AEC for mammography.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.23-28
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• 1991

Automatic exposure control systems are now readily available and widly used in radiography. A device that automatically determines the amount of radiation required to produce an acceptable level of film blackness is called a phototimer, or automatic exposure control. There are limitations in the use of phototimers ; however, equipment can be used much more effectively if one recognize these limitations, and the goal of obtaining a properly exposed, reproducible radiography can be achieved. We have some results in this experimental study. The variations of film density due to kVp are in propotion to below 80 kVp range. But indicate constant level above 80 kVp to 120 kVp. The characteristic density variation by phantom thickness shows the higher the thiner in exit type. AEC system have a density control that is designed to make adjustments increase or decreas the density 10% per step or 25% per step. The automatic exposure control circuits must meet the several regulations of the HEW. Some forms of technique chart is recomened for use of AEC.

• 대한안전경영과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한안전경영과학회 2011년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.563-571
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• 2011

The purpose of the study was to evaluation of the radiation dose reduction using various automatic exposure control (AEC) systems in different manufactures multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT). We used three different manufacturers for the study: General Electric Healthcare, Philips Medical systems and Siemens Medical Solutions. The general scanning protocol was created for the each examination with the same scanning parameters as many as possible. In the various AEC systems, the evaluation of reduced-dose was evaluated by comparing to fixed mAs with using body phantom. Finally, when we applied to AEC for three manufacturers, the radiation dose reduction decreased each 35.3% in the GE, 58.2% in the Philips, and 48.6% in the Siemens. This applies to variety of the AEC systems which will be very useful to reduce the dose and to maintain the high quality.

• International Journal of Contents
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.103-107
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• 2011

The effective dose and the organ absorbed dose, which are given to a breast in the cases of using and not using the bismuth breast protection shield for the protection of a breast with the coronary artery CT angiography, have been measured and compared for the manual exposure control (MEC)and the automatic exposure control (AEC). In the cases of using and not using the bismuth breast protection shield, it has been found that the measured dose shows the reduction of about 23 to 26% for the MEC and about 22 to 25% for the AEC when the shield is used compared to the case of not using it. By comparing the shield and non-shield cases for the AEC and the MEC, it can be said that the value measured by carrying out the scanning process with the AEC mode has decreased by about 24 to 30% compared to the case of applying the MEC mode. Such a result shows that it is recommended to use the AEC mode for the reduction of the patient's exposure dose during the CT examination.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.173-181
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to reduce dose while maintaining image quality during digital radiographic examination of paranasal sinus by using the automatic exposure control (AEC) system. The tube voltage was set as six stages that increased by about 10 kVp to 70 kVp, 81 kVp, 90 kVp, 102 kVp, 109 kVp and 117 kVp. And then the AEC system conditions were consisted of 9 setting environments, that change mode of the sensitivity (S200, S400, S800) and the density (+2.5, 0, -2.5). We measured automatically exposed tube current (mAs) under 54 conditions with combined these, and assessed SNR and PSNR through the acquired images. In addition, four radiologists performed a qualitative assessment of the acquired images for each combination on a five-point scale of the Likert. As a result, the lowest dose and the highest values of SNR and PSNR in images with a qualitative assessment more than 4 point were the AEC control factors of 90 kVp, S800, D2.5. We applied this condition to the clinical trial, it showed an effect of 83.1% reduction in exposure radiation dose (mR). Therefore, AEC system could be used as dose reduction technology if it understood and used related regulatory factors and physical characteristics.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2022

In this study, we proposed an image quality control for an automatic exposure control (AEC) of digital radiographic imaging system and tried to analyze the performance of the AEC by various manufacturer. The subjects of the experiment were analyzed for the AEC image quality evaluation using digital radiation generators from four manufacturer such as PHILIPS, GE Healthcare, SAMSUNG Healthcare, DK Medical Solution. We used as materials for the implementation of the image quality evaluation by coins (500 won, KOMSCO, Korea). This study evaluated the performance evaluation of the AEC as image quality and exposure dose (Milliampere-seconds; mAs). The image quality evaluation was tried visual assessment by two radiologic technologists and contrast to noise (CNR) by ImageJ. The exposure dose investigated mAs on digital radiation generators. The radiographic coin images acquired 360 images based on change in the control factors of the AEC, which were kVp, the consistency of field configuration and dominant zone, sensitivity and density. As a result, there was a significant difference in the AEC performance between manufacturer. The CNR by the AEC for each manufacturer showed a difference of up to about 1.9 times. The exposed tube current by the AEC for each manufacturer showed a difference of up to about 5.8 times. It is expected that our proposed evaluation method using coins could be applied as the AEC performance evaluation method in the future.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.290-299
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• 2013

건강검진 목적으로 심장 CT검사를 시행한 198명의 대상자 중 수동노출조절 방법(n=123)의 대조군과 자동노출조절 방법(n=75)의 실험군으로 BMI에 따라 Grade 1(BMI < 23kg/$m^2$), Grade 2(23 $$\leq_-$$ BMI < 25kg/$m^2$), Grade 3(25 $$\leq_-$$ BMI < 30kg/$m^2$), Grade 4(30 $$\leq_-$$ BMI kg/$m^2$)로 분류하고 영상의 질을 객관적, 주관적 평가로 분석하였고 방사선량을 비교하였다. 자동노출조절 방법을 사용하였을 때 모든 Grade에서 관전압이 유의하게 감소하였고, $CTDI_{vol}$, effective dose 값은 Grade 2에서는 통계적으로 유의하지 않게 감소하였으나 Grade 1, 3, 4에서는 유의하게 감소하였다(p<0.05). SNR은 Grade 1에서 유의하게 감소하였고 Grade 3에서는 유의하게 증가하였지만(p<0.05) Grade 2와 4에서는 유의한 차이가 없었다(p>0.05). CNR은 Grade 1에서 유의하게 감소하였고(p<0.05), Grade 2, 3, 4에서는 유의한 차이는 없었다(p>0.05). 영상의 주관적인 평가에서도 두 그룹간의 모든 Grade에서 유의한 차이가 없었다(p>0.05). 결론적으로 자동노출조절 방법은 수동노출조절 방법에 비해 영상의 주관적 평가는 변하지 않으면서도 피폭선량을 줄일 수 있는 유용한 방법으로 나타났다.

• 한국건축시공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국건축시공학회 2009년도 춘계 학술논문 발표대회 산업계
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• pp.135-141
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• 2009

This technology is able to construct with hardening UREPALT adhesives and TPO URE-Sheet simultaneously using automatic equipments. the benefit of this construction method is that The layer of waterproofing is uniform and defect of construction would be reduced because of no construction joints between UREPALT adhesives and TPO URE-Sheet. Furthermore, this new method could accomplish shortening of construction period, quality control and saving of labor costs. Also the non-exposure waterproofing method would be protected from fire and safe for workers without using a torch.