• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제44권5호
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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.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.160-169
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• 2021

Background: Dual-energy X-ray images (DEI) can distinguish or improve materials of interest in a two-dimensional radiographic image, by combining two images obtained from separate low and high energies. The concepts of DEI performance describing the performance of double-exposure DEI systems in the Fourier domain been previously introduced, however, the performance of double-exposure DEI itself in terms of various parameters, has not been reported. Materials and Methods: To investigate the DEI performance, signal-difference-to-noise ratio, modulation transfer function, noise power spectrum, and noise equivalent quanta were used. Low- and high-energy were 60 and 130 kVp with 0.01-0.09 mGy, respectively. The energy-separation filter material and its thicknesses were tin (Sn) and 0.0-1.0 mm, respectively. Noise-reduction (NR) filtering used the Gaussian-filter NR, median-filter NR, and anti-correlated NR. Results and Discussion: DEI performance was affected by Sn-filter thickness, weighting factor, and dose allocation. All NR filtering successfully reduced noise, when compared with the dual-energy (DE) images without any NR filtering. Conclusion: The results indicated the significance of investigating, and evaluating suitable DEI performance, for DE images in chest radiography applications. Additionally, all the NR filtering methods were effective at reducing noise in the resultant DE images.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.35-38
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• 1997

Scintigraphic measurement of gastric emptying time has been reported to be influenced by the variation in depth of radionuclide within the stomach. This study was designed to clarify whether a part of the variability in gastric emptying could be ascribed to a relationship between anterior image, the total anteroposterior Image and the tissue attenuation correction(geometric mean). A dual-head scintillation camera(ADAC, USA) was used to investigate effect of such changes. We were performed 16 normal subject gastric emptying studies with $^{99m}TC$ labelled scramble egg, milk and solid meal(610 Kcal, 300 g) The results are as follows; On anterior Image, $T_{1/2}$ emptying time was delayed by 5 min, 6.5%(range $3{\sim}18\;min,\;5{\sim}31.4%$) compared with the geometric mean. But there was no different gastric emptying time between the total anteroposterior image and geometric mean. Therefore, if will be useful to use the method of geometric mean or the total anteroposterior image to evaluate the gastric emptying time accurately.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.57-62
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• 2009

목적 : 기존의 fan-beam을 이용한 triple detector system에서 parallel collimator를 이용한 dual detector system으로 변화에 있어 acquisition과 processing 부분에서 발생할 수 있는 여러 가지의 변수를 phantom과 volunteer test를 통하여 실험해 보았다. 1 day protocol brain spect를 위하여 parallel collimator에서만 적용되는 OSEM2D와 OSEM3D의 비교 분석을 중점으로 하였고, 모든 연구는 동등한 검사시간으로 fan-beam을 사용하였던 Triple gamma camera보다 parallel을 사용한 dual camera에서 보다 우수한 영상을 구현하고자 하는 목표를 지향하였다. 실험재료 및 방법 : Normal time scan과 short time scan을 실시하였고, collimator 변화에 따른 영상의 변화도 알아보았다. Jaczack performance phantom과 Body IEC phantom을 이용하여 SNR과 contrast를 평가해보았고 Hoffman 3D phantom의 실험을 거쳐 volunteer test를 실시하였다. 결과 : Normal time과 short time의 비교에서는 FLASH3D를 제외한 OSEM2D와 FBP는 분석방법으로 부적합하였다. LEAP는 resolution과 sharpness 등 전체적인 영상의 질이 기존의 fan-beam을 이용한 영상과 유사하였고, LEUHR은 감도의 저하로 1 day protocol을 적용하기 위한 scan time에는 부적합하였다. 재구성법의 비교에서는 Flash-3D를 이용한 결과들이 기존의 FBP와 OSEM-2D보다 월등히 정확함을 정성적으로 확인하였다. 결론 : OSEM3D 재구성법으로 Dual detector system에서의 1 day protocol brain SPECT 시 Fan-beam보다 sensitivity가 떨어지는 parallel collimator의 단점을 보완하면서 영상의 질 또한 de-noising과 scatter correction, resolution recovery 등의 효과를 얻을 수 있으므로 1 day protocol brain SPECT의 검사의 적용에 유용할 것으로 사료된다. 그러나 이러한 half-time method라 제공되는 다양한 프로그램의 임상적용에 대한 광범 위한 연구가 현실적으로 필요하며 향후 계속적인 연구가 기대되는 바이다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.25-36
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• 2014

수종 간의 유사한 분광특성 때문에 기존의 다중분광영상을 이용한 수종분류는 한계가 있다. 본 연구에서는 경기도 광릉수목원에 분포하는 다섯 종류의 침엽수림을 분류하기 위하여 초분광영상과 다중분광 영상의 적합성을 비교 분석하였다. 연구지역을 대상으로 두 종류의 항공 초분광영상(AISA, CASI)을 촬영하였으며, 비교 목적으로 초분광영상을 이용하여 모의 제작된 ETM+ 다중분광영상을 사용하였다. 영상분류에 사용된 영상은 초분광영상의 모든 밴드를 포함한 영상, PCA 및 MNF 기법으로 차원 축소된 영상, 그리고 분류등급의 분광분리도를 이용하여 소수의 밴드만을 추출한 영상이다. 또한 감독분류 과정에서 MLC, SAM, SVM 등 세 종류의 분류기를 적용하였다. 전체적으로 침엽수종의 분류에 있어서 초분광영상이 다중분광영상보다 높은 분류정확도를 제공하고 있다. 특히 중적외선 파장영역을 포함한 AISA-dual영상이 가장 좋은 분류결과를 보여주었다. 또한 많은 분광밴드를 가진 초분광영상을 MNF기법으로 차원 축소한 영상을 사용했을 때, 다른 영상보다 높은 분류결과가 나왔다. 감독 분류과정에서는 최대우도법(MLC)을 적용했을 때, 가장 높은 분류정확도를 얻었다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.443-451
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• 2017

유방촬영술은 유방암의 조기검진을 위해 시행되는 대표적인 검사이다. 하지만 유방 구성물질의 물리적 특성에 의존하는 유방촬영상은 병변의 악성 또는 양성 여부에 대한 정보 제공이 불가능하다. 이중에너지 영상 감산법을 시행하는 경우 유방촬영상에서 특정 물질에 대한 정보를 추출할 수 있지만 피폭선량을 증가시킬 뿐만 아니라 물질분리의 정확도를 감소시키는 단점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 물질의 선감약계수를 적용한 유방팬텀을 모사하여 광자계수검출기 기반 이중에너지 유방촬영에서 특정 물질에 대한 가중함수를 적용하여 분리의 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있는 기술을 제안하였다. 그리고 유방팬텀영상으로부터 물질분리의 정확도를 평가하기 위해 대조도 및 잡음 특성을 분석하였다. 분석 결과 이중에너지 가중 영상 감산법의 악성종양에 대한 대조도는 일반적인 유방촬영과 이중에너지 영상 감산법에 비해 각각 0.98, 1.06배로 큰 차이가 없다. 그렇지만 이중에너지 가중 영상 감산법 적용 시 양성종양에 대한 대조도가 0에 근사하기 때문에 양성종양에 대한 악성종양의 상대적인 대조도가 13.54배로 크게 향상된 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제안하는 이중에너지 가중 영상 감산법은 유방촬영 진단의 정확도 향상에 기여할 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국의학물리학회 2003년도 제27회 추계학술대회
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• pp.44-44
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• 2003

As a basic measurement tool in the areas of animal models of human disease, gene expression and therapy, and drug discovery and development, small animal PET imaging is being used increasingly. An ideal small animal PET should have high sensitivity and high and uniform resolution across the field of view to achieve high image quality. However, the combination of long narrow pixellated crystal array and small ring diameter of small animal PET leads to the degradation of spatial resolution for the source located at off center. This degradation of resolution can be improved by determining the depth of interaction (DOI) in the crystal and by taking into account the information in sorting the coincident events. Among a number of 001 identification schemes, dual layer phsowich detector has been widely investigated by many research groups due to its practicability and effectiveness on extracting DOI information. However, the effects of each crystal length composing dual layer phoswich detector on DOI measurements and image qualities were not fully characterized. In order to minimize the DOI effect, the length of each layer of phoswich detector should be optimized. The aim of this study was to perform simulations using a simulation tool, GATE to design the optimum lengths of crystals composing a dual layer phoswich detector. The simulated small PET system employed LSO front layer LuYAP back layer phoswich detector modules and the module consisted of 8${\times}$8 arrays of dual layer crystals with 2 mm ${\times}$ 2 mm sensitive area coupled to a Hamamatsu R7600 00 M64 PSPMT. Sensitivities and variation of radial resolutions were simulated by varying the length of LSO front layer from 0 to 10 mm while the total length (LSO + LuYAP) was fixed to 20 mm for 10 cm diameter ring scanner. The radial resolution uniformity was markedly improved by using DOI information. There existed the optimal lengths of crystal layers to minimize the variation of radial resolutions. In 10 cm ring scanner configuration, the radial resolution was kept below 3.4 mm over 8 cm FOV while the sensitivity was higher than 7.4% for LSO 5 mm : LuYAP 15 mm phoswich detector. In this study, the optimal length of dual layer phoswich detector was derived to achieve high and uniform radial resolution.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제84권1호
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• pp.170-184
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• 2023

목적 Twin beam dual-energy CT (이하 tbDECT)와 dual source DECT (이하 dsDECT)를 통해 얻은 true non-contrast image (이하 TNC)와 virtual non-contrast image (이하 VNC)의 attenuation values 차이를 평가해 보고자 한다. 대상과 방법 간 DECT를 촬영한 62명의 환자를 대상으로 하였다(tbDECT, 32명; dsDECT, 30명). TNC와 재구성한 arterial VNC (이하 AVNC), portal VNC (이하 PVNC), delayed VNC (이하 DVNC)에서 복부내 11개 장기에 대해 attenuation values를 측정하여 비교하였다. 또한 TNC와 VNC attenuation values의 절대오차가 10 Hounsfield units (이하 HU) 이하인 비율을 구하였다. 결과 TNC와 VNC의 평균 attenuation values 비교에서 각 DECT별 33개의 항목(3시기 VNC, 11개 장기) 중 tbDECT는 17개, dsDECT 19개 항목에서 유의한 차이를 보였다(Bonferroni correction p < 0.0167). 절대오차 10 HU이하인 비율은 tbDECT의 AVNC, PVNC, DVNC에서 각각 56.7%, 69.2%, 78.6%, dsDECT는 각각 70.5%, 78%, 78%이었고, 두 DECT모두 AVNC에서 가장 낮았다. 결론 두 DECT의 VNC는 적지 않은 attenuation values 차이로 TNC를 대체하기에는 충분하지 않다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.241-249
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• 2018

We report a midinfrared dual-field-of-view (FOV) optical system design for an airborne electro-optical targeting system. To achieve miniaturization and weight reduction of the system, it has a common aperture and fore-optics for three different spectral wavelength bands: an electro-optic (EO) band ($0.6{\sim}0.9{\mu}m$), a midinfrared (IR) band ($3.6{\sim}4.9{\mu}m$), and a designation laser wavelength ($1.064{\mu}m$). It is free to steer the line of sight by rotating the pitch and roll axes. Our design co-aligns the roll axis, and the line of sight therefore has a fixed entrance pupil position for all optical paths, unlike previously reported dual-FOV designs, which dispenses with image coregistration that is otherwise required. The fore-optics is essentially an achromatized, collimated beam reducer for all bands. Following the fore-optics, the bands are split into the dual-FOV IR path and the EO/laser path by a beam splitter. The subsequent dual-FOV IR path design consists of a zoom lens group and a relay lens group. The IR path with the fore-optics provides two stepwise FOVs ($1.50^{\circ}{\times}1.20^{\circ}$ to $5.40^{\circ}{\times}4.32^{\circ}$), due to the insertion of two Si lenses into the zoom lens group. The IR optical system is designed in such a way that the location and f-number (f/5.3) of the cold stop internally provided by the IR detector are maintained when changing the zoom. The design also satisfies several important performance requirements, including an on-axis modulation transfer function (MTF) that exceeds 10% at the Nyquist frequency of the IR detector pitch, with distortion of less than 2%.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.165-171
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• 2021

Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of collimator width on effective atomic number (EAN), relative electron density (RED), and stopping power ratio (SPR) measured by dual-layer dual-energy computed tomography (DL-DECT). Methods: CIRS electron density calibration phantoms with two different arrangements of material plugs were scanned by DL-DECT with two different collimator widths. The first phantom included two dense bone plugs, while the second excluded dense bone plugs. The collimator widths selected were 64 mm×0.625 mm for wider collimators and 16 mm×0.625 mm for narrow collimators. The scanning parameters were 120 kVp, 0.33 second gantry rotation, 3 mm slice thickness, B reconstruction filter, and spectral level 4. An image analysis portal system provided by a computed tomography (CT) manufacturer was used to derive the EAN and RED of the phantoms from the combination of low energy and high energy CT images. The EAN and RED were compared between the images scanned using the two different collimation widths. Results: The CT images with the wider collimation width generated more severe artifacts, particularly with high-density material (i.e., dense bone). RED and EAN for tissues (excluding lung and bones) with the wider collimation width showed significant relative differences compared to the theoretical value (4.5% for RED and 20.6% for EAN), while those with the narrow collimation width were closer to the theoretical value of each material (2.2% for EAN and 2.3% for RED). Scanning with narrow collimation width increased the accuracy of SPR estimation even with high-density bone plugs in the phantom. Conclusions: The effect of CT collimation width on EAN, RED, and SPR measured by DL-DECT was evaluated. In order to improve the accuracy of the measured EAN, RED, and SPR by DL-DECT, CT scanning should be performed using narrow collimation widths.