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Comparison of dose-variation in skin due to Set-up error in case of radiation therapy for left breast using Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy(VMAT) (좌측 유방에 대한 용적 변조 회전 방사선 치료 시 자세 오차로 인한 피부 선량)

  • Kwon, Yongjae;Park, Ryeunghwang;Kim, Seyoung;Jung, Dongmin;Baek, Jonggeol;Cho, Jeonghee
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.33
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This study aims to contribute to the reduction of complications of breast cancer radiation therapy by analyzing skin dose differences due to Set-up error. Materials and Method: Pseudo breast was produced using a 3D printer, applied to the phantom, and images were acquired through CT. Treatment plan was carried out that the PTV, which contains 95% of the prescription dose, could be more than 95% of the volume, so that Dmax did not exceed 107% of the prescription dose. The Set-up error was evaluated by applying ±1mm/±3mm/±5mm to the X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis. Results: The dose-variation in skin due to Set-up error was approximately 106% to 123% compared to prescription dose, and the highest dose in skin was 49.24 Gy at 5mm Set-up error in the lateral direction of the X-axis. More than 107% of the prescription dose was the widest at 6.87 cc in skin lateral. Conclusions: If a Set-up error occurs during left breast cancer VMAT, a great difference in skin dose was shown in the lateral direction of the X-axis. If more effort is made to align the X-axis of the breast treated during CBCT registration, the dose-variation of skin will be reduced.

Selective Mapping of Partial Tones (SMOPT) Scheme for PAR Reduction in OFDM Systems (OFDM 시스템에서 PAR을 줄이는 SMOPT 기법)

  • Yoo Seung soo;Yoon Seok ho;Kim Sun yong;Song Iick ho
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.30 no.4C
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    • pp.230-238
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    • 2005
  • An orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system consists of a number of independently modulated subcarriers and, thus, a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAR) can occur when the subcarriers are added coherently. The high PAR brings such disadvantages as an increased complexity of the analog-to-digital (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) converters and a reduced efficiency of the radio frequency (RF) power amplifier. In this paper, we propose a novel PAR reduction scheme called selective mapping of partial tones (SMOPT). The SMOPT scheme has a reduced complexity, lower sensitivity to peak reduction tones (PRT) positions, and a shorter processing time as compared with the conventional tone reservation (TR) scheme. The performance of the SMOPT scheme is analyzed based on the IEEE 802.1la wireless local area network(WLAM) physical layer model. Numerical results show that the SMOPT scheme outperforms the TR scheme under various scenarios.

Frequency Response Analysis of Array-Type MEMS Resonators by Model Order Reduction Using Krylov Subspace Method (크리로프 부공간법에 근거한 모델차수축소기법을 통한 배열형 MEMS 공진기의 주파수응답해석)

  • Han, Jeong-Sam;Ko, Jin-Hwan
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.33 no.9
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    • pp.878-885
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    • 2009
  • One of important factors in designing MEMS resonators for RF filters is obtaining a desired frequency response function (FRF) within a specific frequency range of interest. Because various array-type MEMS resonators have been recently introduced to improve the filter characteristics such as bandwidth, pass-band, and shape factor, the degrees of freedom (DOF) of finite elements for their FRF calculation dramatically increases and therefore raises computational difficulties. In this paper the Krylov subspace-based model order reduction using moment-matching with non-zero expansion points is represented as a numerical solution to perform the frequency response analyses of those array-type MEMS resonators in an efficient way. By matching moments at a frequency around the specific operation range of the array-type resonators, the required FRF can be efficiently calculated regardless of their operating frequency from significantly reduced systems. In addition, because of the characteristics of the moment-matching method, a minimal order of reduced system with a prearranged accuracy can be determined through an error indicator using successive reduced models, which is very useful to automate the order reduction process and FRF calculation for structural optimization iterations. We also found out that the presented method could obtain the FRF of a $6\times6$ array-type resonator within a seventieth of the computational time necessary for the direct method and in addition FRF calculation by the mode superposition method could not even be completed because of a data overflow with a half after calculation of 9,722 eigenmodes.

Reduction of magnetic anomaly observations from helicopter surveys at varying elevations (고도가 변화하는 헬리콥터 탐사에서 얻어지는 자력이상의 변환)

  • Nakatsuka, Tadashi;Okuma, Shigeo
    • Geophysics and Geophysical Exploration
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.121-128
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    • 2006
  • Magnetic survey flights by helicopters are usually parallel to the topographic surface, with a nominal clearance, but especially in high-resolution surveys the altitudes at which observations are made may be too variable to be regarded as a smooth surface. We have developed a reduction procedure for such data using the method of equivalent sources, where surrounding sources are included to control edge effects, and data from points distributed randomly in three dimensions are directly modelled. Although the problem is generally underdetermined, the method of conjugate gradients can be used to find a minimum-norm solution. There is freedom to select the harmonic function that relates the magnetic anomaly with the source. When the upward continuation function operator is selected, the equivalent source is the magnetic anomaly itself. If we select as source a distribution of magnetic dipoles in the direction of the ambient magnetic field, we can easily derive reduction-to-pole anomalies by rotating the direction of the magnetic dipoles to vertical.

Performance Evaluation and Analysis of Zero Reduction Codes for Effective Dimming Control in Optical Wireless Communications using LED Lightings (LED조명을 이용한 광 무선 융합 통신 시스템에서 디밍제어를 위한 zero Reduction Code 성능 분석 및 고찰)

  • Kim, Kyun-Tak;Lee, Kyu-Jin
    • Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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    • v.7 no.3
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    • pp.97-103
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we aim to investigate the generalization of ZRC codes by performing performance analysis on various coding rates and channel conditions of Zero Reduction Code (ZRC) for dimming control in VLC system. Simulation results show that the ZRC codes with relatively high coding rate achieve the enhanced BER performance as the RMS (Root Mean Square) delay spread value increases in the NLOS channelse. Therefore, it is expected that the designing of the dimming control technology using ZRC in the future visible light communication system will help to determine the coding rate according to the channel state through the analysis result in this study.

Development of a Method to Estimate the Seasonal Heating Load for Plastic Greenhouses (플라스틱 온실의 기간난방부하 산정 방법 개발)

  • Nam, Sang Woon;Shin, Hyun Ho
    • Journal of The Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers
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    • v.57 no.5
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    • pp.37-42
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    • 2015
  • In order to provide fundamental data for the creation of environmental design criteria for horticultural facilities, we developed a method to easily calculate the seasonal heating load applying heating degree-hour while taking into account heating load reductions due to solar radiation in the daytime, and reviewed through greenhouse heating experiments. Heating experiments and measuring meteorological environments were carried out in three greenhouses located at Buyeo, Cheonan, and Buan, and we derived reduction factors of seasonal heating load according to hours of sunshine. Daily mean hours of sunshine during the experiment period in each of the greenhouse was 4.0 to 8.3 hours, and the reduction factor of seasonal heating load was 0.64 to 0.85, has been shown to decrease linearly with the increase in hours of sunshine. A method to estimate the seasonal heating load for greenhouses was developed using the reduction factor of seasonal heating load derived from the greenhouse heating experiment, including the adjustment factor of seasonal heating load according to hours of sunshine. The developed method was validated through heating experiments in a greenhouse located at Cheonan. Greenhouse seasonal heating loads calculated by the method developed in this study were analyzed to show the estimate error of 1.2 to 5.0%. It showed that the accuracy increased 2.3 times more than when using the heating load reduction factor of 0.75 applied uniformly in previous studies. Thus, the calculation method of seasonal heating load for greenhouses considering hours of sunshine developed in this study could be utilized for energy estimation, management planning, and economic evaluation in greenhouse design.

The Analysis on the Effects of the Failure Reduction Strategies of the Railway Facilities (도시철도 시설물 장애감소 전략과 효과 분석- 서울도시철도공사를 중심으로 -)

  • Yun, Seong-Chan;Park, Jong-Hun;Kim, Sung-Chun;Eum, Sung-Jik
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Railway
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.608-616
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    • 2010
  • Seoul Metropolitan Rapid Transit Corporation, managing the line number 5,6,7 and 8 has inspected and maintained for the maintenance of the facilities spread in the extended 152km and 148 stations. Despite the thorough inspection for prevention of the facility failure, the failure has continuously occurred, due to the environmental factors of the underground, mechanical worn-out caused by frequent use, aging facilities, system error, negligence on use, etc. We have achieved a 53.4% reduction in the number of failure by the end of June, 2010 by breaking the conventional way of inspections and maintenance and by adopting quantitative goal management and new way of work. In this paper, we will analyze the problems of inspections and maintenance of the railway facilities, the failure reduction strategy and the performance of each strategy.

Analysis of detected anomalies in VOC reduction facilities using deep learning

  • Min-Ji Son;Myung Ho Kim
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.28 no.4
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    • pp.13-20
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    • 2023
  • In this paper, the actual data of VOC reduction facilities was analyzed through a model that detects and predicts data anomalies. Using the USAD model, which shows stable performance in the field of anomaly detection, anomalies in real-time data are detected and sensors that cause anomalies are searched. In addition, we propose a method of predicting and warning, when abnormalities that time will occur by predicting future outliers with an auto-regressive model. The experiment was conducted with the actual data of the VOC reduction facility, and the anomaly detection test results showed high detection rates with precision, recall, and F1-score of 98.54%, 89.08%, and 93.57%, respectively. As a result, averaging of the precision, recall, and F1-score for 8 sensors of detection rates were 99.64%, 99.37%, and 99.63%. In addition, the Hamming loss obtained to confirm the validity of the detection experiment for each sensor was 0.0058, showing stable performance. And the abnormal prediction test result showed stable performance with an average absolute error of 0.0902.

A Residual Echo and Noise Reduction Scheme with Linear Prediction for Hands-Free Telephony (핸즈프리 전화기를 위한 선형 예측기를 이용한 잔여반향 및 잡음 제거 구조)

  • Hwang, Kyung-Rok;Son, Kyung-Sik;Kim, Hyun-Tae
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.28 no.5
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    • pp.454-460
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, we propose a residual echo and noise reduction scheme by using linear predictor for hands-free telephony applications. The proposed scheme whitens residual echo by the linear prediction during the non double-talk. But whitened residual echo signal still has speech characteristics. In this scheme, the whitened residual echo signal is more whitened by using the power of the linear prediction error signal and the linear predicted signal. After whitening process, near-end speech and ambient noise is present during double-talk but white noise will appear during non double-talk situation. By linearly predicting again the combined signal of the near-end speech and the whitened signal, the ambient noise is removed. Through computer simulation, it is shown that the proposed method performs well at the side of AIC (acoustic interference cancellation).

Taxonomy of Performance Shaping Factors for Human Error Analysis of Railway Accidents (철도사고의 인적오류 분석을 위한 수행도 영향인자 분류)

  • Baek, Dong-Hyun;Koo, Lock-Jo;Lee, Kyung-Sun;Kim, Dong-San;Shin, Min-Ju;Yoon, Wan-Chul;Jung, Myung-Chul
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.31 no.1
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    • pp.41-48
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    • 2008
  • Enhanced machine reliability has dramatically reduced the rate and number of railway accidents but for further reduction human error should be considered together that accounts for about 20% of the accidents. Therefore, the objective of this study was to suggest a new taxonomy of performance shaping factors (PSFs) that could be utilized to identify the causes of a human error associated with railway accidents. Four categories of human factor, task factor, environment factor, and organization factor and 14 sub-categories of physical state, psychological state, knowledge/experience/ability, information/communication, regulation/procedure, specific character of task, infrastructure, device/MMI, working environment, external environment, education, direction/management, system/atmosphere, and welfare/opportunity along with 131 specific factors was suggested by carefully reviewing 8 representative published taxonomy of Casualty Analysis Methodology for Maritime Operations (CASMET), Cognitive Reliability and Error Analysis Method (CREAM), Human Factors Analysis and Classification System (HFACS), Integrated Safety Investigation Methodology (ISIM), Korea-Human Performance Enhancement System (K-HPES), Rail safety and Standards Board (RSSB), $TapRoot^{(R)}$, and Technique for Retrospective and Predictive Analysis of Cognitive Errors (TRACEr). Then these were applied to the case of the railway accident occurred between Komo and Kyungsan stations in 2003 for verification. Both cause decision chart and why-because tree were developed and modified to aid the analyst to find causal factors from the suggested taxonomy. The taxonomy was well suited so that eight causes were found to explain the driver's error in the accident. The taxonomy of PSFs suggested in this study could cover from latent factors to direct causes of human errors related with railway accidents with systematic categorization.