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Feasibility Study on Development of a Fiber-Optic Dual Detector to Measure Beta- and Gamma-rays Simultaneously (베타/감마 동시 측정용 광섬유 이중 검출기의 개발을 위한 기초연구)

  • Hong, Seunghan;Shin, Sang Hun;Sim, Hyeok In;Kim, Seon Geun;Jeon, Hyesu;Jang, Jaeseok;Kim, Jaeseok;Kwon, Guwon;Jang, Kyoung Won;Yoo, Wook Jae;Lee, Bongsoo
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.63 no.2
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    • pp.284-290
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    • 2014
  • A fiber-optic beta/gamma dual detector system with two types of sensing probes was fabricated to detect the beta- and gamma-rays simultaneously. As scintillators of the sensing probe type 1, two different inorganic scintillators, $CaF_2(Eu)$ and LYSO(Ce) crystals, were used to obtain the each scintillating efficiency with respect to beta-and gamma-rays and the inherent energy spectra of radioactive isotopes. In the case of the sensing probe type 2, which is composed of two identical inorganic scintillators and a beta shielding material based on the lead, it could discriminate beta- and gamma-rays using a subtraction method. In conclusion, we demonstrated that the proposed fiber-optic beta/gamma dual detector could measure and discriminate beta- and gamma-rays using both energy spectroscopy and subtraction method.

A Digital Hearing Aid with 8-band Curvilinear Loudness Fitting (8대역 비선형 라우드니스 교정 디지털 보청기)

  • Park, Y.C.;Kim, D.W.;Kim, W.K.;Park, S.I.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1997 no.11
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    • pp.79-82
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    • 1997
  • In this paper, a body-worn type digital hearing aid (DHA) based on a dedicated DSP chip is developed. A fitting software running on a PC supported by the Win95 OS is also developed. The fitting protocol is based on the NAL-R procedure applied to eight frequency bands, but it is designed to support a curvilinear fitting to cope with the nonlinear perception of hearing-impaired listeners. Preliminary subjective tests regarding the speech intelligibility and perceived quality revealed that the new DHA could be of benefit to hearing aid users.

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A assessment of multiscale-based peak detection algorithm using MIT/BIH Arrhythmia Database (MIT/BIH 부정맥 데이터베이스를 이용한 다중스케일 기반 피크검출 알고리즘의 검증)

  • Park, Hee-Jung;Lee, Young-Jae;Lee, Jae-Ho;Lim, Min-Gyu;Kim, Kyung-Nam;Kang, Seung-Jin;Lee, Jeong-Whan
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.63 no.10
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    • pp.1441-1447
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    • 2014
  • A robust new algorithm for R wave detection named for Multiscale-based Peak Detection(MSPD) is assessed in this paper using MIT/BIH Arrhythmia Database. MSPD algorithm is based on a matrix composed of local maximum and find R peaks using result of standard deviation in the matrix. Furthermore, By reducing needless procedure of proposed algorithm, improve algorithm ability to detect R peak efficiently. And algorithm performance is assessed according to detection rates about various arrhythmia database.