• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.176-189
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• 2019

This paper presents a feasibility study for producing the medical isotope $^{99m}Tc$ using the hazardous and currently wasted radioisotope $^{99}Tc$. This can be achieved with the nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) phenomenon, which has recently been made applicable due to high-intensity laser Compton scattering (LCS) photons. In this work, 21 NRF energy states of $^{99}Tc$ have been identified as potential contributors to the photo-production of $^{99m}Tc$ and their NRF cross-sections are evaluated by using the single particle estimate model and the ENSDF data library. The evaluated cross sections are scaled using known measurement data for improved accuracy. The maximum LCS photon energy is adjusted in a way to cover all the significant excited states that may contribute to $^{99m}Tc$ generation. An energy recovery LINAC system is considered as the LCS photon source and the LCS gamma spectrum is optimized by adjusting the electron energy to maximize $^{99m}Tc$ photo-production. The NRF reaction rate for $^{99m}Tc$ is first optimized without considering the photon attenuations such as photo-atomic interactions and self-shielding due to the NRF resonance itself. The change in energy spectrum and intensity due to the photo-atomic reactions has been quantified using the MCNP6 code and then the NRF self-shielding effect was considered to obtain the spectrums that include all the attenuation factors. Simulations show that when a $^{99}Tc$ target is irradiated at an intensity of the order $10^{17}{\gamma}/s$ for 30 h, 2.01 Ci of $^{99m}Tc$ can be produced.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.29-39
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• 1993

고에너지 전자선은 방사선치료에서 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있으나 전하를 갖인 입자로서 인체조직과 상호작용이 복잡하여 조직내 전자선량분포를 정확히 표현하기에는 매우 어렵다. 전자선분포를 계산하는 데는 심부율과 평면분포율등 여러방법이 제시되고 있었으나 수학적 모형을 이용하는 것이 가장 신속하고 다양한 계산을 수행할수 있는 수단으로 알려져 왔으며 컴퓨터의 발달과 병행하여 실요화 되고 있다. 저자들은 연령확산방정식을 기초로한 수식적 모델을 도입하고 연세암센터에 설치된 선형가속기에서 측정된 전자선의 분포를 이용하여 실험식의 상수인자를 결정 삽입하므로서 조직내 어떤 깊이 어느 지점에서도 정확한 선량이 계산될 수 있는 실험식을 완성하였다. 사용자는 연령확산 실험식에서 전자선의 에너지와 조사면 그리고 선원간의 거리만 입력하면 조직내 전자선의 심부율과 등선량곡선을 정확히 예측할 수가 있고 고선량부위에서는 위축되고 저선량부위에서는 확산되는 등선량곡선의 모양을 정확히 기술할 수 있으며 컴퓨터에 의한 선량계획은 어떤 입상상태에서도 간단하고 신속하게 표시할 수 있었다. 전자선의 에너지 6-20MeV 에서 심부율의 정확도는 섬부율 50%이상일 때는 2% 이내이며 낮은 심부율 부위에서는 5%의 오차를 가졌고 조사면 6$\times$6$cm^2$에서 25$\times$25$cm^2$에 대한 심부율 오차는 3% 이내이며 확산오차는 3mm 이하로서 정확성이 비교적 높았다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2015년도 제49회 하계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.70.1-70.1
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• 2015

The facility for RAON superconducting heavy-ion accelerator at a beam power of up to 400 kW will be produced rare isotopes with two electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion sources. Highly charged ions generated by the ECR ion source will be injected to a superconducting LINAC to accelerate them up to 200 MeV/u. During the acceleration of the heavy ions, a good vacuum system is required to avoid beam loss due to interaction with residual gases. Therefore ultra-high vacuum (UHV) is required to (i) limit beam losses, (ii) keep the radiation induced within safe levels, and (iii) prevent contamination of superconducting cavities by residual gas. In this work, a RAON vacuum design for all the accelerator system will be presented along with Monte Carlo simulation of vacuum levels in order to validate the vacuum hardware configuration, which is needed to meet the baseline requirements.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권10호
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• pp.1448-1453
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• 2012

In this study, we carried out transient radiation test for identify failure situation by a transient radiation effect on operational amplifier devices. This experiments were carried out using a 60 MeV electron beam pulse of the LINAC(Linear Accelerator) facility in the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory. In this test, we has found that a serious failure as a burn-out effect due to overcurrent on the partial electronic devices.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1992년도 하계학술대회 논문집 B
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• pp.588-592
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• 1992

The electrons, which are accelerated to nearly light speed from LINAC(Linear Accelerator), put into Storage Ring. And this electrons circulate in an ultra high vacuum chamber and their orbit is controlled by the electromagnets such as DIPOLE, QUADRUPOLE, SEXTUPOLE & CORRECTION MAGNET. Among them, the dipole magnet is to bend the electron and to produce Synchrotron Radiation(S.R). This paper describes the key point during manufacturing of this magnet, and introduce the field measurement results of the HEECO's successful prototype.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.62-66
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• 2015

The cryostat is designed for the superconducting quadrupole magnets to be used in a heavy-ion accelerator facility. The main accelerator is superconducting linac, which can accelerate a $^{238}U$ beam to 200 MeV/u (Mega electron voltage per nucleon). The cryostat for the magnet employs an innovative design primarily driven by the requirement of the compactness, user-friendliness and reliability. Also, several ancillary requirements such as background field, space restriction due to the beam line and cryostat structure need technical attentions. The development of the cryostat for three quadrupole magnets in the in-flight fragmentation separator is presented in the paper. The concept of cryogenic design is reported and the amount of cryogenic load is estimated by a relevant analysis. The structure of the cryostat to endure the heavy iron yoke including three quadrupole magnets is presented. In addition, the design as well as the performance test of the support link for the cold mass is described.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2013년도 제44회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.239-239
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• 2013

The peak klystron power for the PAL (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory) XFEL (X-ray Free Electron Laser) is up to 80 MW which is higher than that of PLS-II LINAC. To prevent the RF breakdown such a high power operation, some of RF components need to be redesigned to reduce the surface electric field gradient to be less than the breakdown gradient at the vacuum-metal surface. For instances, the redesign of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Energy Doubler (SLED) system, the directional coupler and 3dB power splitter using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) simulation will be presented.

• 전력전자학회:학술대회논문집
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• 전력전자학회 2019년도 전력전자학술대회
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• pp.307-308
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• 2019

The Pohang Light Source (PLS) - II is a 3 GeV third-generation synchrotron radiation facility. To inject electron beam from LINAC, a kicker modulator system and kicker magnets are installed in the PLS-II storage ring tunnel. The injected beam then falls into the storage ring beam dynamic aperture. This paper describes the design and implementation of the solid-state kicker modulator for PLS-II. The solid-state kicker modulator is consisted of high voltage solid state switch stacks. the technical considerations of the solid-state switch stacking for kicker modulator is discussed. The achieved capability of the solid-state kicker modulator demonstrates that is fulfills the design requirement of providing half-sine pulsed current of 10kA (peak), 6us (Base-width), with jitter < 2ns (Standard deviation). simulation and experimental results are presented to demonstrate the performance of the solid-state kicker modulator.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권17호
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• pp.7795-7801
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• 2015

The aim of the present research was to establish primary characteristics of electron beams for a Varian 2100C/D linear accelerator with recently developed PRIMO Monte Carlo software and to verify relations between electron energy and dose distribution. To maintain conformity of simulated and measured dose curves within 1%/1mm, mean energy, Full Width at Half Maximum (FWHM) of energy and focal spot FWHM of initial beam were changed iteratively. Mean and most probable energies were extracted from validated phase spaces and compared with related empirical equation results. To explain the importance of correct estimation of primary energy on a clinical case, computed tomography images of a thorax phantom were imported in PRIMO. Dose distributions and dose volume histogram (DVH) curves were compared between validated and artificial cases with overestimated energy. Initial mean energies were obtained of 6.68, 9.73, 13.2 and 16.4 MeV for 6, 9, 12 and 15 nominal energies, respectively. Energy FWHM reduced with increase in energy. Three mm focal spot FWHM for 9 MeV and 4 mm for other energies made proper matches of simulated and measured profiles. In addition, the maximum difference of calculated mean electrons energy at the phantom surface with empirical equation was 2.2 percent. Finally, clear differences in DVH curves of validated and artificial energy were observed as heterogeneity indexes were 0.15 for 7.21 MeV and 0.25 for 6.68 MeV. The Monte Carlo model presented in PRIMO for Varian 2100 CD was precisely validated. IAEA polynomial equations estimated mean energy more accurately than a known linear one. Small displacement of R50 changed DVH curves and homogeneity indexes. PRIMO is a user-friendly software which has suitable capabilities to calculate dose distribution in water phantoms or computerized tomographic volumes accurately.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.312-316
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 유기 섬광체와 플라스틱 광섬유를 이용하여 치료용 전자선의 계측을 위한 광섬유 방사선 센서를 제작하였다. 또한, 선형가속기에서 발생되는 고 에너지 전자선에 의해 광섬유 방사선 센서를 이용한 전자선 계측에 있어 방해요소로 존재하는 체렌코프 빛을 감법 및 광학 필터링을 이용하여 제거하였고 두 가지방법들을 비교, 분석하였다.