• Proceedings of the Materials Research Society of Korea Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.239.2-239.2
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• 2011

치과재료의 개발은 치과 치료 기술에 있어서 가장 중요한 요소이며, 현재 일반화되고 있는 치과 치료 기술 중 하나가 임플란트 시술이다. 임플란트의 기술 개발은 주로 임플란트 나사의 표면개질을 통한 기능개선에 초점을 ��추어 진행되어지고 있다. 본 연구에서는 Ti 임플란트 표면상에 양극산화법을 적용하여 다양한 지름 및 기공 크기를 갖는 $TiO_2$ 나노튜브를 제조하여 전자빔 조사를 통한 표면개질시 그 특성에 관한 연구를 수행하였다. 특히 전자빔 조사가 Ti/$TiO_2$ 나노튜브 표면상에 존재 가능한 조골세포의 성장 특성에 미치는 영향을 연구하였다. 양극산화법을 이용한 Ti/$TiO_2$ 나노튜브는 전해질로서 HF와 $NH_4F$를 사용하였으며, 20-80 V의 인가 전압하에서 내경 약 80 nm, 외경 약 124 nm 및 길이 약 280 nm-14 ${\mu}m$의 비교적 균질한 지름 및 분포를 갖는 Ti/$TiO_2$ 나노튜브를 제조하였다. 전자빔 조사는 EB-Tech (대전, 한국)의 electron-beam accelerator(Model ELV-4)를 이용하였으며, 1.0 MeV의 빔 에너지로 총 흡수선량이 50 kGy, 500 kGy 및 5,000 kGy로 조사하였다. 전자빔을 조사하기 전 후 Ti/$TiO_2$ 나노튜브 표면상에 조골세포주(Osteoblast cell)의 배양시간의 변화에 따른 효과를 연구한 결과 배양 전 후 전자빔 조사선량의 증가에 따라 조골세포의 흡착률이 증가함을 확인할 수 있었다. 특히 HF전해질을 이용한 $TiO_2$ 나노튜브의 경우 5,000 kGy 조사선량의 전자빔을 조사한 후 조골세포 흡착률이 약 160% 증가하는 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 전자빔 조사 전 후 조골세포 흡착률의 변화원인은 전자빔 조사 유무에 따른 $Ti^{3+}$와 $Ti^{4+}$의 변화에 기인함을 규명하였다. 이러한 결과는 향후 임플란트용 Ti/$TiO_2$ 나노튜브의 표면 개질시 전자빔의 유용성을 제시한다고 할 수 있다.

• Progress in Superconductivity and Cryogenics
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.36-40
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• 2015

Electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source is an essential component of heavy-ion accelerator. For a given design, the intensities of the highly charged ion beams extracted from the source can be increased by enlarging the physical volume of ECR zone [1]. Several models for ECR ion source were and will be constructed depending on their operating conditions [2-4]. In this paper three simulation models with 3, 4 and 6 solenoid system were built, but it's not considered anything else except the number of coils. Two groups of optimization analysis are presented, and the evolution strategy (ES) is adopted as an optimization tool which is a technique based on the ideas of mutation, adaptation and annealing [5]. In this research, the volume of ECR zone was calculated approximately, and optimized designs for ECR solenoid magnet system were presented. Firstly it is better to make the volume of ECR zone large to increase the intensity of ion beam under the specific confinement field conditions. At the same time the total volume of superconducting solenoids must be decreased to save material. By considering the volume of ECR zone and the total length of solenoids in each model with different number of coils, the 6 solenoid system represented the highest coil performance. By the way, a certain case, ECR zone volume itself can be essential than the cost. So the maximum ECR zone volume for each solenoid magnet system was calculated respectively with the same size of the plasma chamber and the total magnet space. By comparing the volume of ECR zone, the 6 solenoid system can be also made with the maximum ECR zone volume.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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• 2002.09a
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• pp.432-435
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• 2002

We have developed and proposed the heavy ion CT system which consists of fluorescent screen and CCD camera equipped with image intensifier. In our system, we have measured the residual range of particles that passed a phantom and reconstructed the CT image for the distribution of relative stopping power by filtered back projection method with Shepp '||'&'||' Logan filter. The heavy ion $\^$12/C accelerated up to 400 MeV/u by HIMAC (Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba) was used. Intensity of the beam output changes like macro pulse, the period being 3.3 sec and the width being 2 sec. The series of data was acquired in synchronizing with the pulse, leading to the improvement of S/N in the CT image. The fundamental performance was experimentally evaluated in the proposed system. The spatial resolution was estimated to be about 1 mm and the density resolution (electron density referred to water) to be about 0.01.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.133-139
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• 2005

The neutron capture cross section of $^{99}Tc$ has been measured relative to the $^{10}B(n,\gamma)$ standard cross section by the neutron time-of-flight(TOF) method in the energy range of 0.007 eV to 47 keV using a 46-MeV electron linear accelerator(linac) at the Research Reactor. Institute, Kyoto University(KURRI). In order to experimentally prove the result obtained, the supplementary cross section measurement has been made from 0.3 eV to 1 keV using the Kyoto University Lead stowing-down spectrometer (KULS) coupling to the linac. The relative measurement by the TOF method has been normalized to the reference value(20.01 b) at 0.0253 eV and the KULS measurement to that by the TOF method. The existing experimental data and the evaluated capture cross sections in ENDF/B-VI, JENDL-3.2, and JEF-2.2 have been compared with the current measurements by the linac TOF and the KULS experiments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2016.11a
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• pp.139-139
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• 2016

반도체 다마신배선용 도금용 구리도금첨가제는 대표적으로 accelerator, suppressor 및 leveler 첨가제를 사용하여 다마신 패턴을 채우고 평탄화를 시킬 수 있다. Si 반도체 공정기술에 기반한 정확한 구조분석을 통해 각각의 첨가제의 기능이 비교적 체계적으로 연구되었으며, 최근에는 유속영향을 많이 받는 것으로 알려진 leveler 첨가제에 대한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 연구는 대표적 leveler 첨가제의 하나인 Janus Green B(JGB, $C_{30}H_{31}ClN_6$)를 0 ~ 1 mM을 첨가하여 Si 기판위에 증착된 Cu 씨드층 상의 도금후 표면상태 및 불순물의 농도를 분석하고, 이 박막층들의 결정립 성장 경향성을 electron backscattered diffraction(EBSD) 분석을 통해 진행하였다. C, H, N 등의 불순물이 JGB 농도와 선형적 관계를 가지고 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었으며, S와 O의 불순물도 JGB 농도 증가에 따라 증가하는 것을 알 수 있었다. 또한 0.1 mM 첨가한 경우에 60% 정도 결정립 성장이 진행된 것을 알 수 있었으며, 0.2 mM을 넣은 경우에는 결정립 성장이 일어나지 않은 것을 알 수 있었다. 흥미로운 점은 4 point probe를 통한 면저항 측정을 통해 EBSD를 통한 결정립성장이 관찰되지 않은 0.2 mM JGB를 첨가한 경우에 대해서도 면저항의 감소가 관찰되며, 오히려 JGB 농도가 높을수록 이러한 면저항의 감소가 빠르게 시작되는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 이는 JGB 농도 증가에 따라 박막층의 불순물의 농도가 증가하고 막내에 존재하는 불순물의 농도가 증가하면 내부응력장이 커짐으로 인해 더욱 빠른 속도로 불순물의 재배치가 일어난 것으로 보인다. 이러한 불순물이 결정립계면에 편석되는 경우에 pinning을 통해 결정립계면의 이동을 저하시킬 수 있으므로 결정립의 성장 억제가 가능해진 것으로 판단된다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.50 no.6
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• pp.937-943
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• 2018

Background: This work presents the performance of a novel electronic brachytherapy (EBT) device and radiotherapy (RT) experiments on both skin cancer cells and animals using the device. Methods and materials: The performance of the EBT device was evaluated by measuring and analyzing the dosimetric characteristics of X-rays generated from the device. The apoptosis of skin cancer cells was analyzed using B16F10 melanoma cancer cells. Animal experiments were performed using C57BL/6 mice. Results: The X-ray characteristics of the EBT device satisfied the accepted tolerance level for RT. The results of the RT experiments on the skin cancer cells show that a significant apoptosis induction occurred after irradiation with 50 kVp X-rays generated from the EBT device. Furthermore, the results of the animal RT experiments demonstrate that the superficial X-rays significantly delay the tumor growth and that the tumor growth delay induced by irradiation with low-energy X-rays was almost the same as that induced by irradiation with a high-energy electron beam. Conclusions: The developed new EBT device has almost the same therapeutic effect on the skin cancer with a conventional linear accelerator. Consequently, the EBT device can be practically used for human skin cancer treatment in the near future.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.157-164
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to analyze the dose distribution when wedge filter is used in the various tissue electron density materials. The dose distribution was assessed that the enhanced dynamic wedge filter and physical wedge filter were used in the solid water phantom, cork phantom, and air cavity. The film dosimetry was suitable simple to measure 2D dose distribution. Therefore, the radiochromic films (Gafchromic EBT2, ISP, NJ, USA) were selected to measure and to analyze the dose distributions. A linear accelerator using 6 MV photon were irradiated to field size of $10{\times}10cm^2$ with 400 MUs. The dose distributions of EBT2 films were analyzed the in-field area and penumbra regions by using dose analysis program. In the dose distributions of wedge field, the dose from a physical wedge was higher than that from a dynamic wedge at the same electron density materials. A dose distributions of wedge type in the solid water phantom and the cork phantom were in agreements with 2%. However, the dose distribution in air cavity showed the large difference with those in the solid water phantom or cork phantom dose distributions. Dose distribution of wedge field in air cavity was not shown the wedge effect. The penumbra width, out of the field of thick and thin, was observed larger from 1 cm to 2 cm at the thick end. The penumbra of physical wedge filter was much larger average 6% than the dynamic wedge filter. If the physical wedge filter is used, the dose was increased to effect the scatter that interacted with photon and physical wedge. In the case of difference in electron like the soft tissue, lung, and air, the transmission, absorption, and scattering were changed in the medium at high energy photon. Therefore, the treatment at the difference electron density should be inhomogeneity correction in treatment planning system.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.31-42
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• 1990

The finding of long lived free radicals produced by ionizing radiation in organic crystals and the quantification of this effect by electron spin resonance(ESR) spactroscopy has proven excellent dosimetric applicability. The tissue equivalent alanine dosimeter also appear appropriate for radiation therapy level dosimetry. The dose measurement was performed in a Rando phantom using high energy photons as produced by high energy medical linear accelerator and cobalt-60 teletherapy unit. The absorbed dose range of the ESR/alanine dosimetry system could be extended down to 0.1 Gy. The response of the alanine dosimeters was determined for photons at different therapeutic dose levels from less than 0.1 Gy to 100 Gy and the depth dose measurements were carried out for photon energies of 1.25MeV, 6 and 10 MV with alanine dosimeters in Rando phantom. Comparisons between ESR/alanine in a Rando phantom and ion chamber in a water phantom were made performing depth dose measurements to examine the agreement of both methods under field conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Electrochemical Society
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.153-158
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• 2002

The effects of leveler on the copper trench filling were investigated during damascene plating process. To investigate the trench filling effect with the addition of a leveler, a cross-section images of the electroplated trenches with the width of$0.37{\mu}m,\;and\;0.18{\mu}m$ were observed by field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM). Polyethylene glycol(PEG), 3-mercapto-1-propanesulfonic acid and Janus Green B were used as a carrier, an accelerator and a leveler. $0.37{\mu}m$ trenches were superfilled without voids, but there was voids formation in $0.18{\mu}m$ trenches when the leveler was not added into the electrolyte. On the other hand $0.18{\mu}m$ trenches were superfilled without voids with the addition of the leveler due to the reduction growth rate of copper at protrusions and edges, which yield smooth final deposit surface. The leverer effect becomes more significant as the width of trenches becomes smaller when trenches are filed.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.150-157
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• 2022

Purpose: Elekta synergy^® was commissioned in the Seoul National University Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital. Recently, Chung-Ang University Gwang Myeong Hospital commissioned Elekta Versa HD^TM. The beam characteristics of both machines are similar because of the same Agility^TM MLC Model. We compared measured beam data calculated using the Elekta treatment planning system, Monaco^®, for each institute. Methods: Beam of the commissioning Elekta linear accelerator were measured in two independent institutes. After installing the beam model based on the measured beam data into the Monaco^®, Monte Carlo (MC) simulation data were generated, mimicking the beam data in a virtual water phantom. Measured beam data were compared with the calculated data, and their similarity was quantitatively evaluated by the gamma analysis. Results: We compared the percent depth dose (PDD) and off-axis profiles of 6 MV photon and 6 MeV electron beams with MC calculation. With a 3%/3 mm gamma criterion, the photon PDD and profiles showed 100% gamma passing rates except for one inplane profile at 10 cm depth from VMTH. Gamma analysis of the measured photon beam off-axis profiles between the two institutes showed 100% agreement. The electron beams also indicated 100% agreement in PDD distributions. However, the gamma passing rates of the off-axis profiles were 91%-100% with a 3%/3 mm gamma criterion. Conclusions: The beam and their comparison with MC calculation for each institute showed good performance. Although the measuring tools were orthogonal, no significant difference was found.