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Analysis of Beam Hardening of Modulation Layers for Dual Energy Cone-beam CT (에너지 변조 필터로 구현한 이중 에너지 콘빔 CT의 에너지 스펙트럼 평가 연구)

  • Ahn, Sohyun;Cho, Sam Ju;Keum, Ki Chang;Choi, Sang Gyu;Lee, Rena
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.27 no.1
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2016
  • Dual energy cone-beam CT can distinguish two materials with different atomic compositions. The principle of dual energy cone-beam CT based on modulation layer is that higher energy spectrum can be acquired at blocked x-ray window. To evaluate the possibility of modulation layer based dual energy cone-beam CT, we analyzed x-ray spectrum for various thicknesses of modulation layers by Monte Carlo simulation. To compare with the results of simulation, the experiment was performed on prototype cone-beam CT for 50~100 kVp with CdTe XR-100T detector. As the result of comparing, the mean energy of energy spectrum for 80 kVp are well matched with that of simulation. The mean energy of energy spectrum for 80 and 120 kVp were increased as 1.67 and 1.52 times by 2.0 mm modulation layer, respectively. We realized that the virtual dual energy x-ray source can be generated by modulation layer.

Cooling Performance Evaluation study of Dual-Source Heat Pump System (2중열원 히트펌프시스템의 냉방성능예측에 관한 연구)

  • Noh, Kwan-Jong;Kim, Ji-Young;Kang, Eun-Chul;Park, Hye-Moon;Lee, Euy-Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.1-9
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    • 2007
  • A steady-state simulation model for Dual-Source Heat Pump(DSHP) of 8RT was presented. A Dual-Source Heat Pump(DSHP) has been designed to make up for the conventional air source heat pumps. The performance evaluation has been conducted under internal standard test conditions such as ISO-13256-1 and KS C 9306. However, as test conditions such as entering water, indoor and outdoor air conditions could not be controlled to satisfy the standard test conditions in outdoor tests, a series of experiments have been conducted with the actual test conditions. Then, computer models for DSHP could be used for the standard condition have developed using EES program. The model was developed from basic thermodynamic principles and heat transfer relations. Most of the parameters were obtained with EES from the actual catalog data. The simulation results were in good agreement with the experiments.

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Separated Dual-layering Routing Scheme (SDRS) for Hierarchical Wireless Sensor Networks (계층형 무선센서네트워크를 위한 분리된 이중화 라우팅)

  • Choi, Hae-Won;Kim, Kyung-Jun;Kim, Hyun-Sung
    • Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.551-558
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    • 2009
  • Most of clustering schemes focusing on the energy efficiency have only a cluster head in each cluster, thus the energy consumption of cluster head in a cluster can rapidly increase. To reduce the energy consumption, recently, the dual-layered clustering which is separated a cluster ranges into two parts, i.e., data aggregation layer and data transmission layer, based on a sensor equipped with geographical positioning system (GPS), was proposed. However, the logical regions existing within the dual-layered clustering range can not distinguish efficiently. This scheme leads to many messages collision and transmission delay among member nodes. In this paper, to solve these problems, we propose a separated dual-layered routing scheme using the position information and the cluster radius. Proposed scheme clearly distinguish the dual-layered clustering range and gets the balanced number of member nodes in each cluster. Therefore, the proposed routing scheme could prolong the overall network life time about 10% compared to the previous two layered clustering scheme and LEACH.

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A Study on the Material Decomposition of Dual-Energy Iodine Image by Using the Multilayer X-ray Detector (다층구조 엑스선 검출기를 이용한 이중에너지 조영제 영상의 물질 구분에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jun-Woo
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.465-471
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    • 2021
  • Dual-energy X-ray imaging (DEI) techniques can provide X-ray images that a certain material is suppressed or emphasized by combining two X-ray images obtained from two different x-ray spectrum. In this paper, a single-shot DEI, which uses stacked two detectors (i.e., multilayer detector), is proposed to reduce the patient dose and increase throughput in angiography. The polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and aluminum (Al) were selected as two basis materials for material decomposition, and material-specific images are reconstructed as a vector combination of these two materials. We investigate the contrast and noise performance of material-decomposed images using iodine phantoms with various concentrations and diameters. The single-shot DEI shows comparable performances to the conventional dual-shot DEI. In particular, the single-shot DEI shows edge enhancement in material-decomposed images due to the different spatial-resolution characteristics of upper and lower detectors. This study could be useful for designing the multilayer detector including scintillators and energy-separation filter for angiography purposes.

The study on dynamic fracture toughness of friction-welded M.E.F. dual phase steel (복합조직강의 마찰용접부에 대한 동적파괴특성)

  • 오세욱;유재환;이경봉
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 1989
  • Both the SS41 steel and the M.E.F(martensite encapsulated islands of frrite) dual phase steel made of SS41 steel by heat treatment were welded by friction welding, and then manufactured machinemade Vnotch standard Charpy impact specimens and precracked with a fatigue system at BM(base metal), HAZ(heat affected zone) and WZ(weld interface Zone). The impact test of them was performed with an instrumented impact test machine at a number of temperatures in constant loading velocity and the dynamic fracture characteristics were studied on bases of the absorbed energy, dynamic fracture toughness and fractography from the test. The results obtained are as follows; At the room temperature, the absorbed energy is HAZ.geq.WZ.geq.BM in case of the M.E.F. dual phase steel: BM.geq.HAZ.geq.WZ in case of the SS41 steel, HAZ.geq.BM.geq.WZ at the low temperature. The absorbed energy is decreased markedly with the temperature lowering; it is highly dependent on the temperature. The dynamic fracture toughness of the M.E.F. dual phase steel is HAZ.geq.WZ.geq.BM at the room temperature; BM.geq.WZ.geq.HAZ below-60.deg. C. Therefore the reliability of friction welding is uncertain at the low temperature(below-60.deg. C). The dynamic fracture toughness of the SS41 steel; HZA.geq.WZ.geq.BM at overall temperature region. The flaw formed by rotational upsetting pressure was shown y SEM; in this region. The absorbed energy per unit area and dynamic fracture toughness were low relative to other region.

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Heating Performance of Heat Pump System Using Dual Heat Source and Its Operation Characteristics (이중 열원 히트펌프 시스템의 난방 성능과 운전 특성)

  • Lim, Hyojae;Sohn, Byonghu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Geothermal and Hydrothermal Energy
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.30-41
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    • 2021
  • This paper presents the heating performance analysis results of a heat pump system using a dual heat source. In this paper, a dual heat source refers to the ground-coupled heat exchanger using both a surface water heat exchanger (SWHE) and a vertical ground heat exchanger (VGHE). In order to evaluate the system performance, we installed a monitoring system to measure the temperature and power consumption of a heat pump and then collected operation data with 4 different load burdened ratios of the dual heat source heat exchanger. During the whole measurement period, the average heating capacity of a water-to-water heat pump unit was 37.3 kW. In addition, the compressor of the heat pump consumed 9.4 kW of power, while the circulating pump of the dual heat source heat exchanger used 6.7 kW of power. Therefore the average heating coefficient of performance (COP) for the heat pump unit was 4.0, while the entire system including the circulating pump was 2.7. Finally, the parallel use of SWHE and VGHE was beneficial to the system performance; however, further researches are needed to optimize the design data for various load ratios of the dual heat source heat exchanger.

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS FOR THE SELF-DUAL CHERN-SIMONS CP(1) MODEL

  • HAN, JONG-MIN;NAM, HEE-SEOK
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.579-588
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    • 2005
  • In this paper we study the asymptotics for the energy density in the self-dual Chern-Simons CP(1) model. When the sequence of corresponding multivortex solutions converges to the topological limit, we show that the field configurations saturating the energy bound converges to the limit function. Also, we show that the energy density tends to be concentrated at the vortices and antivortices as the Chern-Simons coupling constant $\kappa$ goes to zero.

Effect of Ferrite Grain Size on Impact Energy of Dual Phase Steel (複合組織鋼의 衝擊에너지에 미치는 母相粒徑에 영향)

  • 김정규;유승원;박영조
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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    • v.7 no.4
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    • pp.398-403
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    • 1983
  • In this investigation, the effect of microstructural factors on the impact energy was studied, using dual phase steels with soft phase of ferrite encapsulated by hard phase of martensite. It was found that the effect of the ferrite grain size on the impact energy decreases as the strength ratio increases, these results are due to the micro-brittlefracture facet by the difficulty of cleavage crack formation in the ferrite grain.