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치료중 실시간 모니터링을 위한 투과형 빔측정장치 개발

  • Kim, Jae-Hong;Swanepoel, M.W.;Dekock, E.A.;Park, Yeon-Su;Yang, Tae-Geon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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    • 2010.08a
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    • pp.315-315
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    • 2010
  • 양성자 빔을 이용하여 두경부 암 치료를 South Africa의 iTHEMBA에서 시행하고 있다. 200 MeV의 양성자 빔라인으로부터 진공에서 대기로 인출하여 노즐을 통과하여 종양세포에 조사된다. 치료계획에 적합하게 빔에너지와 모양을 변환하고, 빔을 모니터링하는 기계적 장치들이 노즐에 구성된다. 빔라인에는 이온챔버, Steering Magnet, Multi-wire 이온챔버, Range trimmer plates, lead scattering plate, Double-wedge energy degrader, Multi-layer Faraday cup, Range modulator, Range monitor, occluding ring, Shielding collimators, Quadrant and monitor ionization chamber, Treatment collimator, 그리고 Wellhofer dosimetry tank로 구성되어 있다. 총길이는 6.6m이며 노즐 끝에서 환자의 isocenter 까지는 30cm 정도 아래에 위치한다. 상기의 배치를 갖는 시스템의 양성자 scattering system의 성능을 MCNPX v2.5.0 Monte Carlo simulation을 실시하였다. 또한 정확한 선량을 실시간으로 측정하는 방법인 투과형 검출기를 개발하여 치료와 빔 특성을 동시에 수행하는 기술개발연구가 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Multileaf Faraday Cup (MLPC) 검출기 설계구조와 데이터 측정방법에 관한 연구를 수행하고자 한다. 빔의 전송 방향으로 3개층의 $4{\times}4$ 배열의 구조로 48 channel의 전류값을 측정하여 입자빔의 분포를 실시간으로 관측하고, 측정된 전류는 ADC를 거쳐 치료계획에 의해 선택된 영역의 SOBP를 유지하도록 range modulation propeller를 조절하는 feed-back system을 갖춘 방사선치료빔 실시간 측정장치 개발에 관한 결과를 보고하고자 한다.

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An Analysis of the Radiation Exposure of Radiologic Technologists in the Field of Diagnostic Radiology according to Duty Station (방사선 진단영역에서 방사선사의 부서별 의료피폭의 분석)

  • Han, Jae-Jin;Kim, Seung-Kook
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.71-75
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    • 1997
  • This study was Investigation that we will become aware of the scattering dose of duty station and TLD value of the radiation exposure by the radiation technologists based on the university hospital located in Kwang ju. The results are followings ; 1. The air of scattering dose in chest, when the number of objects are large, is 2.0 mR in P-A and 4.6 mR in Lat. at the back of X-ray tube 2. Radiologists, radiation exposure in duty station Is 0.22 mSv to 1.96 mSv in general examination, 0.22 mSv to 1.12 mSv in contrast and special examination, 0.26 mSv to 30.96 mSv in angiography, and 0.22 mSv to 0.40 mSv in C.T 3. The value of workig condition reveals 85.5% in general examination, 6% in contrast and special examination, and 5.8% in C.T. When the annual exposure is over 20 mSv, it must be measured again according to ICRP public 60.

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Dense Spray Patternation using Optical Tomography

  • Cho, Seongho;Park, Gujeong;Yoon, Youngbin
    • International Journal of Aeronautical and Space Sciences
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.398-407
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    • 2013
  • Optical tomography was used to measure the pattern of spray cross-section. The maximum-likelihood estimation (MLE) algorithm was used to reconstruct the spray cross-section from the measured transmission rate of the spray. A swirl-type injector was used to form an optically dense spray, and the test was carried out in a high-pressure chamber, to control the pressure condition of the test site. Before the experiment, the reliability of the MLE-based reconstruction algorithm was verified, by comparing it with a conventional filtered back projection reconstruction (FBP) method. The MLE algorithm showed superior reconstruction of the image. In the spray patternation experiment, the results of the optical tomography and optical line patternator, which uses Mie scattering signal information, were compared. While measuring the cross-section of optically dense spray, the intensity of the scattering signal had attenuated to an uncorrectable level, which led to incorrect spray pattern measurement by the optical line patternator. However, reliable results were obtained by optical tomography, under the same condition. Finally, the pattern of the optically dense spray was measured at various chamber pressures, of up to 3 MPa. As the chamber pressure increased, the hollow cone-shaped swirl spray shrank, and the attenuation coefficient value of the inner region increased.

Electromagnetic Wave Scattering from a Perfectly Conducting Fractional Brownian Motion Fractal Surface Using a Monte-Carlo FDTD Method (몬테칼로 유한차분 시간영역 방법을 이용한 프랙셔널 브라운 모션 프랙탈 완전도체 표면에서의 전자파 산란)

  • Choi, Dong-Muk;Kim, Che-Young
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.28 no.2A
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 2003
  • In this paper, the scattered field from a perfectly conducting fractal surface by Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD) method was computed. A one-dimensional fractal surface was generated by using the fractional Brownian motion model. Back scattering coefficients are calculated with different values of the spectral parameter(S0), fractal dimension(D) which determine characteristics of the fractal surface. The number of surface realization for the computed field, the point number, and the width of surface realization are set to be 80, 1024, 16λ, respectively. In order to verify the computed results these results are compared with those of small perturbation methods, which show good agreement between them.

High resolution imagings of the Gegenschein with WIZARD

  • Yang, Hongu;Ishiguro, Masateru;Kwon, Suk Minn
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.106.1-106.1
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    • 2012
  • The Gegenschein is a faint glow around the anti-solar point caused by the interplanetary dust particle(IDP)'s back-scattering enhancement. From the previous low resolution observations, the overall morphology of the Gegenschein has been intensively studied. However, sub-degree scale fine structure of the Gegenschein is still not well known, even though the detailed morphology of the Gegenschein within a few degree from the anti-solar point may supply pivotal information about the property of the IDPs. We made optical CCD observations of the Gegenschein between 2003 March and 2006 November. From the observations, we succeeded in making high resolution images of the Gegenschein, with unprecedented 1.'4 resolution. Our results concur with IDP cloud model based on the infrared observations combined with scattering phase function derived from low resolution data. The only exception is the anti-solar point. We found a steep additional brightness enhancement existing at the exact anti-solar point. Plausible explanation of the finding is that the IDPs are significantly larger than observing wavelength, and have irregular morphology or inhomogeneous internal structure. Furthermore, we measured average geometric albedo of the IDPs from the optical brightness of the anti-solar point. The geometric albedo was $0.06{\pm}0.01$, similar to those of comets or C-type asteroids.

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A Study on the Distribution of X-ray according to the Thickness of Soft Tissue in Radiography (X선촬영시(線撮影時) 연부조직(軟部組織) 두께에 따른 선량분포(線量分布)에 관(關)한 연구(硏究))

  • Park, Soung-Ock
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.3-15
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    • 1988
  • When X-rays were projected into a patient, there occured the phenomena such as penetration, absorption and scattering etc. The penetrating rays were recorded on films as X-ray image used for diagnosis but scattered rays caused the radiation hazard both to the patient, specialist and technicians. The soft tissue includes many organs which are sensitive to the radiation and in may occupy $40{\sim}50%$ of body weight. Therefore X-rays should be carefully projected to the patient and it is strongly recommended to analyse the distribution of X-rays, when ever the patient is exposed to X-rays. In this study, the distribution of X-ray according to the thickness, the radiation field and the tube voltages (kVp) in soft tissue, the following results were obtained: 1. Total transmitted rays which kept the step with X-ray tube voltage (kVp) increased in proportion to the increasing of X-ray tube voltage. 2. The scattered ray rate in the total transmitted ray was not significantly found with X-ray tube voltage. 3. The affecting factors of the scattered ray rate in total transmitted ray were shown through the radiation field and the thickness. 4. The dose of scattered ray by the angle was observed more in direction of primary ray ($0^{\circ}$) and back scattering ($160^{\circ}$) than in direction of $90^{\circ}$. 5. The more the distance from phantom to the patient should be less distribution of scattered ray.

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A Study on Pattern Fabrication using Proximity Effect Correction in E-Beam Lithography (전자빔 리소그래피에서의 근접효과 보정을 이용한 패턴 제작에 관한 연구)

  • Oh, Se-Kyu;Kim, Dong-Hwan;Kim, Seung-Jae
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 2009
  • This study describes the electron beam lithography pattern fabrication using the proximity effect correction. When electron beam exposes into electron beam resist, the beam tends to spread inside the substance (forward scattering). And the electron beam reflected from substrate spreads again (back scattering). These two effects influence to distribution of the energy and give rise to a proximity effect while a small pattern is generated. In this article, an electron energy distribution is modeled using Gaussian shaped beam distribution and those parameters in the model are computed to solidify the model. The proximity effect is analyzed through simulations and appropriate corrections to reducing the proximity effect are suggested. It is found that the proximate effect can be reduced by adopting schemes of dose adjustment, and the optimal dose is determined through simulations. The proposed corrected proximity effect correction is proved by experiments.

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A SCATTERING MECHANISM IN OYSTER FARM BY POLARIMETRIC AND JERS-l DATA

  • Lee Seung-Kuk;Won Joong Sun
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2005.10a
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    • pp.538-541
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    • 2005
  • Tidal flats develop along the south coast ofthe Korean peninsula. These areas are famous for sea farming. Specially, strong and coherent radar backscattering signals are observed over oyster sea farms that consist of artificial structures. Tide height in oyster farm is possible to measure by using interferometric phase and intensity of SAR data. It is assumed that the radar signals from oyster farm could be considered as double-bouncing returns by vertical and horizontal bars. But, detailed backscattering mechanism and polarimetric characteristics in oyster farm had not been well studied. We could not demonstrate whether the assumption is correct or not and exactly understand what the properties of back scattering were in oyster farm without full polarimetric data. The results of AIRSAR L-band POLSAR data, experiments in laboratory and JERS-l images are discussed. We carried out an experiment simulating a target structure using vector network analyser (Y.N.A.) in an anechoic chamber at Niigata University. Radar returns from vertical poles are stronger than those from horizontal poles by 10.5 dB. Single bounce components were as strong as double bounce components and more sensitive to antenna look direction. Double bounce components show quasi-linear relation with height of vertical poles. As black absorber replaced AI-plate in bottom surface, double bounce in vertical pole decreased. It is observed that not all oyster farms are characterized by double bounced scattering in AIRSAR data. The image intensity of the double bounce dominant oyster farm was investigated with respect to that of oyster farm dominated by single bounce in JERS-l SAR data. The image intensity model results in a correlation coefficient (R2 ) of 0.78 in double bounce dominant area while that of 0.54 in single bouncing dominant area. This shows that double bounce dominant area should be selected for water height measurement using In8AR technique.

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Characteristics of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering Suppression in High-power Fiber Lasers Using Temperature Gradients (온도구배에 의한 고출력 광섬유 레이저의 유도 브릴루앙 산란 억제 특성)

  • Jeong, Seongmook;Kim, Kihyuck;Lee, Sunghun;Hwang, Soonhwi;Yang, Hwanseok;Moon, Byunghyuck;Jhon, Young Min;Park, Min Kyu;Lee, Jung Hwan
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.167-173
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    • 2019
  • In this paper, we studied characteristics of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) suppression in high-power fiber lasers by using apparatuses applying a temperature gradient (i.e. a step, a sine shape, and random temperature distribution) along the fiber. From the ytterbium-doped polarization-maintaining fiber master oscillator power amplifier built in house, we measured the back-reflection spectrum and power for each temperature gradient, showing that the step shape temperature distribution was the most effective way to suppress SBS. In addition, we investigated the interaction of pseudo-random binary sequence phase modulation conditions and temperature gradients for SBS suppression.

An efficient method using the modified view factor for estimating the molecular backscattering probability in the space conditions (Modified View Factor를 이용한 인공위성 분자오염 역류확률 예측법)

  • Lee, Jin-Won;Lee, Jae-Dal;Yi, Min-Young;Han, Dong-In;Lee, Chang-Ho;Lee, S.-R.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.57-62
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    • 2005
  • Satellite contamination from back-scattered molecules has long been analyzed using the BGK theory or the DSMC technique which are rather inefficient in that they are complicated or take a long time in the analysis. This study presents a new technique of estimating the back-scattering contamination, which is very simple and easy to use like the view factor method and also very accurate. This method, called the modified view factor method, is equivalent to the DSMC in so far as the molecular thermal velocity is much smaller than the satellite velocity and the mean free path much longer than the satellite.