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Quality Management of Radionuclide Activity Meter using Ge-68/Ga-68 Rod Sources (Ge-68/Ga-68 Rod Sources을 이용한 방사능측정기의 정도관리)

  • Jung, Seung Hwan;Jin, Gye Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.12 no.5
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    • pp.575-582
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    • 2018
  • This article compared accuracy of 5 types of radionuclide activity meters that are being used in medical institutions and proposed the correction factor for each radionuclide activity meters type, using Ge-68/Ga-68 radiation sources for scanner setting, regular scanner correction, attenuation correction, and normalization. The calibration constant between baseline values and measured values by CRC-15R, CRC-15 PET, CRC-712M, CRC-15 Beta, and CRC-25PET was 0.99999(P<0.0001), which showed very high linearity. In the accuracy test, CRC-15R, CRC-15 PET, CRC-712M, CRC-15 Beta, and CRC-25PET model showed -3.232%, -1.342%, -2.815%, -2.913%, and -3.089% respectively.

Measuring Absorbed Dose from Medical X-ray Equipment Using Optically Stimulated Luminescence Dots (광자극선량계의 저에너지 엑스선 특성비교)

  • Jung, Sook Jin;Jin, Gye Hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.79-83
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    • 2018
  • In this paper, we measured and analyzed the dose correction factor, absorbed dose linearity, peak voltage X-ray response, angular dependence. Exposure dose correction factor, absorbed dose linearity, and peak voltage linearity using the medical X-ray generator were all in accordance with IEC-62387-1 (2007). The reference to the dosimetry direction at 0, 30, and 60 degrees relative to baseline radiation exposure was -29% (${\pm}30^{\circ}$) and + 67% (${\pm}60^{\circ}$). The values measured at $30^{\circ}$ were -8% lower than the standard and -18% lower than the standard at $60^{\circ}$. Therefore, the effect of direction should be corrected when using OSL dot dosimeter.

Correction of post-traumatic enophthalmos with anatomical absorbable implant and iliac bone graft

  • Choi, Ji Seon;Oh, Se Young;Shim, Hyung-Sup
    • Archives of Craniofacial Surgery
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.361-369
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    • 2019
  • Background: Trauma is one of the most common causes of enophthalmos, and post-traumatic enophthalmos primarily results from an increased volume of the bony orbit. We achieved good long-term results by simultaneously using an anatomical absorbable implant and iliac bone graft to correct post-traumatic enophthalmos. Methods: From January 2012 to December 2016, we performed operations on seven patients with post-traumatic enophthalmos. In all seven cases, reduction surgery for the initial trauma was performed at our hospital. Hertel exophthalmometry, clinical photography, three-dimensional computed tomography (3D-CT), and orbital volume measurements using software to calculate the specific volume captured on 3D-CT (ITK-SNAP, Insight Toolkit-SNAP) were performed preoperatively and postoperatively. Results: Patients were evaluated based on exophthalmometry, clinical photographs, 3D-CT, and orbital volume measured by the ITK-SNAP program at 5 days and 1 year postoperatively, and all factors improved significantly compared with the preoperative baseline. Complications such as hematoma or extraocular muscle limitation were absent, and the corrected orbital volume was well maintained at the 1-year follow-up visit. Conclusion: We present a method to correct enophthalmos by reconstructing the orbital wall using an anatomical absorbable implant and a simultaneous autologous iliac bone graft. All cases showed satisfactory results for enophthalmos correction. We suggest this method as a good option for the correction of post-traumatic enophthalmos.

A STUDY OF TROPOSPHERIC EFFECT ON HIGH PRECISION GPS HEIGHT DETERMINATION

  • Wang, Chuan-Sheng;Liou, Yuei-An
    • Proceedings of the KSRS Conference
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    • 2007.10a
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    • pp.382-385
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    • 2007
  • Constantly enhancing positioning accuracy by the Global Positioning System (GPS) technique is of great importance, but challenging, especially after the GPS positioning technique has been improved considerably during the past two decades. The associated main error sources have been reduced substantially, if not eliminated. Troposhpeic influence with its highly temporal and spatial variability appears to be one of the major error sources. It is hence an increased interest among GPS researchers to reduce the tropospheric influence or delay. Two techniques have been commonly implemented to correct the tropospheric impact. The first technique, known as parameter estimation, characterizes the path delay with empirical models and the parameters of interest are determined from the GPS measurements. The second strategy, termed as external correction, involves independent path delay measurements. The present study is an integration of both techniques in which the parameter estimation as well as external correction are used to correct the path delay for $110{\sim}210$ km range baselines. Twenty-four parameters have been obtained in 24 hours solution by setting the cutoff angle at 3 and 15 degrees for parameter estimation strategy. Measurements from meteorological instruments and water vapor radiometer (WVR) are applied in the GPS data processing, separately, as an external strategy of present research work. Interesting results have been found, indicating more stable repeatability in baseline when the external correction strategy is applied especially with the inclusion of WVR observations. The offset of an order of 1 cm is found in the baselines determined by the two strategies. On the other hand, parameter estimation exhibits more stable in terms of GPS height repeatability. The offset in the GPS height determined by the two strategies is on the order of few centimeters.

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THE IMPROVEMENT OF POSITION ACCURACY USING INVERTED DGPS (NVERTED DGPS를 이용한 위치 정밀도 향상)

  • 이상혁;최규홍;박종욱;박필호
    • Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.63-70
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    • 2001
  • IDGPS(Inverted Differential Global Positioning System) is one of technique improving the accuracy of GPS positioning and is mostly used for tracking an automatic vehicle. In the IDGPS, the user send it’s GPS position and related satellite information to dispatcher, and the corrections are made at the dispatcher to get corrected user position. IDGPS suffered correction degradation as the baseline become large. This problem is resolved using NIDGPS(Network IDGPS). As the experimental results are demonstrated, the improvement of position accuracy using IDGPS and NIDGPS is verified.

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Effects of spatial variability of earthquake ground motion in cable-stayed bridges

  • Ferreira, Miguel P.;Negrao, Joao H.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.233-247
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    • 2006
  • Most codes of practice state that for large in-plane structures it is necessary to account for the spatial variability of earthquake ground motion. There are essentially three effects that contribute for this variation: (i) wave passage effect, due to finite propagation velocity; (ii) incoherence effect, due to differences in superposition of waves; and (iii) the local site amplification due to spatial variation in geological conditions. This paper discusses the procedures to be undertaken in the time domain analysis of a cable-stayed bridge under spatial variability of earthquake ground motion. The artificial synthesis of correlated displacements series that simulate the earthquake load is discussed first. Next, it is described the 3D model of the International Guadiana Bridge used for running tests with seismic analysis. A comparison of the effects produced by seismic waves with different apparent propagation velocities and different geological conditions is undertaken. The results in this study show that the differences between the analysis with and without spatial variability of earthquake ground motion can be important for some displacements and internal forces, especially those influenced by symmetric modes.

Universal User Interface Design of ATM Touch Screen Based on the Reaction Time

  • Kim, Yong Hwan;Jeong, Byung Yong;Park, Myoung Hwan
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.35 no.5
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    • pp.403-411
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    • 2016
  • Objective: This study is concerned with the user interface (UI) design of touch screen based on the reaction time of Automated Teller Machine (ATM) user. Background: Adopting the touch screen technology, the ATM service has recently established a new user interface different from the existing button-type interface. Method: Experiments were conducted by simulating ATM touch screen layouts, and layouts were focused on location of menu buttons (left and right, top and bottom), number of menu buttons (8 and 12 buttons). Results: The results show that there are significant differences in correction ratio and reaction time by user groups, types of menu location, and the number of buttons. Conclusion and Applications: The results of this study can be used to provide baseline information for the interface design of ATM touch screen and the age differences in reaction time.

Performance Improvement ofSpeech Recognition Based on SPLICEin Noisy Environments (SPLICE 방법에 기반한 잡음 환경에서의 음성 인식 성능 향상)

  • Kim, Jong-Hyeon;Song, Hwa-Jeon;Lee, Jong-Seok;Kim, Hyung-Soon
    • MALSORI
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    • no.53
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    • pp.103-118
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    • 2005
  • The performance of speech recognition system is degraded by mismatch between training and test environments. Recently, Stereo-based Piecewise LInear Compensation for Environments (SPLICE) was introduced to overcome environmental mismatch using stereo data. In this paper, we propose several methods to improve the conventional SPLICE and evaluate them in the Aurora2 task. We generalize SPLICE to compensate for covariance matrix as well as mean vector in the feature space, and thereby yielding the error rate reduction of 48.93%. We also employ the weighted sum of correction vectors using posterior probabilities of all Gaussians, and the error rate reduction of 48.62% is achieved. With the combination of the above two methods, the error rate is reduced by 49.61% from the Aurora2 baseline system.

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Home Network Control System using SMS Dialog Interface (SMS를 통한 홈네트워크 제어 시스템)

  • Chang, Du-Seong;Kim, Hyun-Jeong;Eun, Ji-Hyun;Kang, Seung-Shik;Koo, Myoung-Wan
    • Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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    • 2007.05a
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    • pp.330-333
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    • 2007
  • This paper presents a dialogue interface using the dialogue management system as a method for controlling home appliances in Home Network Services. In order to realize this type of dialogue interface, we annotated 96,000 utterance pair sized dialogue set and developed an example-based dialogue system. This paper introduces the automatic error correction module for the SMS-styled sentence. With this module we increase the accuracy of NLU(Natural Language Understanding) module. Our NLU module shows an accuracy of 86.2%, which is an improvement of 5.25% over than the baseline. The task completeness of the proposed SMS dialogue interface was 82%.

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An Enhanced Algorithm for the Generation of Artificial Acceleration Time History (인공 가속도 시간이력 작성을 위한 개선된 알고리즘)

  • 김종수
    • Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.304-311
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    • 1998
  • An algorithm to enhance spectra matching of acceleration time history used in the seismic analysis of nuclear power plants(NPP) is proposed. The new scheme provides the solution on the highly fluctuating and over conservatism problems that happened in order to satisfy design spectrum enveloping criteria in the traditional method. To obtain optimized spectrum for a time history, a spectrum matching procedure that adapts a system identification technique is also developed. The algorithm also introduces maximum displacement control, baseline correction, clipping and raising of maximum peak of time history, and power spectral density (PSD) control of time history. It is verified through numerical examples that this new scheme can definitely generate acceleration time history, closely matching the target spectra and satisfying other stipulated requirements.

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