• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.236-246
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• 2004

레이저 형광법을 이용하여 초기 인접면 우식증을 탐지할 수 있는지의 여부와 그 탐지 감도를 평가하여 인접면 우식증의 진단에 활용가능한지의 여부를 규명하기 위하여 사람의 치아를 사용하여 다양한 깊이의 인공우식병소를 유발시키고 이를 가시광선 투과법에 의한 시진, 교익 방사선사진 촬영, 레이저 형광법, 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법 등으로 관찰하여 검사법 간의 일치도, 상관관계, 병소 깊이에 따른 광밀도 등을 분석하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1. 탈회시간과 각 검사법들과 일치도 검사에서 시진의 경우 tau-c 값이 0.08로 탈회시간에 따른 시진의 검사 수치가 일치하지 않았으나 교익 방사선사진, 레이저 형광법, 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법의 tau-c 값은 각각 0.60, 0.48, 0,64로 일치하는 것으로 나타났다. 2. 탈회시간에 따른 병소깊이와 각 검사법 간의 상관관계는 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법$({\gamma}=0.51)$, 레이저 형광 법$({\gamma}=0.43)$, 교익 방사선사진$({\gamma}=0.35)$, 시진$({\gamma}=0.33)$ 순으로 높았으며 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법과 레이저 형광법은 탈회 시간과 상관관계가 있었다(P<0.05). 3. 교익 방사선사진을 기준 검사법으로 한 레이저 형광법과 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법의 진단학적 민감도는 각각 67%, 100%였으며 특이도는 57%, 11%로 민감도에 비해 상대적으로 낮게 나타났다. 4. 병소의 깊이에 따른 병소 표면에서의 건전 치질과 우식 치질 사이의 광밀도의 차이(DFR)는 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법이 레이저 형광법에 비해 크게 나타났으며(P<0.05) 병소 깊이의 변화에 따른 광밀도 변화는 레이저 형광법의 경우 유의한 변화를 보이는데 반해 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법에서는 변화를 보이지 않았다. 이상의 결과를 종합하면 초기 인접면 우식증의 진단에 있어 레이저 형광법과 광활성 염료를 이용한 레이저 형광법은 교익 방사선사진에 뒤지지 않은 진단능을 가지고 있으나 우식 병소의 정성적인 분석뿐 아니라 정량적 분석이 가능한지의 여부는 향후 더 많은 연구가 필요하리라 사료된다.

• 대한치과의사협회지
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• 제49권8호
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• pp.461-471
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• 2011

The detection of carious lesions is a key point to apply appropriate preventive measures or operative treatment of dental caries. A laser fluorescence device DIAGNOdent$^{(R)}$ (KaVo, Biberach, Germany) has also been shown to be of additional clinical value in the detection of initial caries. This report focus on the DIAGNOdent$^{(R)}$ for caries detection. DIAGNOdent$^{(R)}$ irradiate visible red light at a wavelength of 655 nm to elicit near-infrared fluorescence from caries lesion. This device is known as a reproducible method for caries detection, with good sensitivity and specificity especially for caries detection on occlusal and accessible smooth surfaces. DIAGNOdent$^{(R)}$ tended to be more sensitive method of detecting occlusal dentinal caries, however, showed more false-positive diagnoses than the visual inspection. So Clinician should not use the device as a clinician's primary diagnostic method and it is recommended that the device should be used in the decision-making process in relation to the diagnosis of caries as a second opinion in cases of doubt after visual inspection. The trend of modern dentistry would be a preventive approach rather than invasive treatment of the disease. This is possible only with early detection and respective preventive measures, DIAGNOdent$^{(R)}$ can help the changes.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.6-13
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• 2016

Fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy (FLIM) has been considered an effective technique to investigate chemical properties of the specimens, especially of biological samples. Despite of this advantageous trait, researchers in this field have had difficulties applying FLIM to their systems because acquiring an image using FLIM consumes too much time. Although analog mean-delay (AMD) method was introduced to enhance the imaging speed of commonly used FLIM based on time-correlated single photon counting (TCSPC), a real-time image reconstruction using AMD method has not been implemented due to its data processing obstacles. In this paper, we introduce a real-time image restoration of AMD-FLIM through fast parallel data processing by using Threading Building Blocks (TBB; Intel) and octa-core processor (i7-5960x; Intel). Frame rate of 3.8 frames per second was achieved in $1,024{\times}1,024$ resolution with over 4 million lifetime determinations per second and measurement error within 10%. This image acquisition speed is 184 times faster than that of single-channel TCSPC and 9.2 times faster than that of 8-channel TCSPC (state-of-art photon counting rate of 80 million counts per second) with the same lifetime accuracy of 10% and the same pixel resolution.

• Molecules and Cells
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.84-92
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• 2022

To understand the microcircuitry of the brain, the anatomical and functional connectivity among neurons must be resolved. One of the technical hurdles to achieving this goal is that the anatomical connections, or synapses, are often smaller than the diffraction limit of light and thus are difficult to resolve by conventional microscopy, while the microcircuitry of the brain is on the scale of 1 mm or larger. To date, the gold standard method for microcircuit reconstruction has been electron microscopy (EM). However, despite its rapid development, EM has clear shortcomings as a method for microcircuit reconstruction. The greatest weakness of this method is arguably its incompatibility with functional and molecular analysis. Fluorescence microscopy, on the other hand, is readily compatible with numerous physiological and molecular analyses. We believe that recent advances in various fluorescence microscopy techniques offer a new possibility for reliable synapse detection in large volumes of neural circuits. In this minireview, we summarize recent advances in fluorescence-based microcircuit reconstruction. In the same vein as these studies, we introduce our recent efforts to analyze the long-range connectivity among brain areas and the subcellular distribution of synapses of interest in relatively large volumes of cortical tissue with array tomography and superresolution microscopy.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.247-254
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• 1993

A simple and direct method is developed for the determination of light Elements in atmospheric particulates by X-ray fluorescence spectrometry. Calibration standards for the light elements such as Al, Mg, K, Ca, etc are prepared by filtering real atmospheric particulates over variable time and subsequently standardizing them by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry(ICP-MS) or Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry(AAS) analysis. The validity of this calibration method is tested by analyzing more than 100 aerosol samples, collected at urban(Seoul) and rural(Padori) sites over a two year period with this method and then comparing them with those by other accuracy proven methods such as AAS or ICP-MS: for all metals tested the results showed reasonably good agreements (R $\geq$ 0.95).

• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제19권12호
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• pp.2281-2288
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• 2005

Because an injected spray development process consists of impinging and free spray in the diesel engine, it is needed to analyze the impinging spray and free spray, simultaneously, in order to study the diesel spray behavior. To dominate combustion characteristics in diesel engine is interaction between injected fuel and ambient gas, that is, process of mixture formation. Also it is very important to analyze liquid and vapor phases of injected fuel on the investigation of mixing process, respectively and simultaneously. Therefore, in this study, the behavior characteristics of the liquid phase and the vapor phase of diesel spray was studied by using exciplex fluorescence method in high temperature and injection pressure field. Finally, it can be confirmed that the distribution of vapor concentration is more uniform in the case of the high injection than in that of the low injection pressure.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.93-104
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• 1995

Effect of frozen storage(0, 15, 30, 40 days, -18$^{\circ}C$), cooking methods(frying, microwaving) and reheating on lipid oxidation in chicken meats were evaluated by measuring thiobarbituric acid value (TBA value) and by measuring fluorescence value. TBA values were increased by storage days and were higher in leg meats than breast meats. According to cooking method, TBA values were higher in frying chicken meats. The fluorescence values were also increased by storage days and were higher in breast meats than leg meats.

• 한국작물학회지
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• 제61권4호
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• pp.270-276
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• 2016

The objective of this study was to find a rapid determination of the hot air stress in maize (Zea mays L.) leaves using a portable chlorophyll fluorescence imaging instrument. To assess the photosynthetic activity of maize leaves, an imaging analysis of the photochemical responses of maize was performed with chlorophyll fluorescence camera. The observed chlorophyll imaging photos were numerically transformed to the photochemical parameters on the basis of chlorophyll a fluorescence. Chlorophyll a fluorescence imaging (CFI) method showed that a rapid decrease in maximum fluorescence intensity ($F_m$) of leaf occurred under hot air stress. Although no change was observed in the maximum quantum yield ($F_v/F_m$) of the hot air stressed maize leaves, the other photochemical parameters such as maximum fluorescence intensity ($F_m$) and Maximum fluorescence value ($F_p$) were relatively lowered after hot air stress. In hot air stressed maize leaves, an increase was observed in the nonphotoquenching (NPQ) and decrease in the effective quantum yield of photochemical energy conversion in photosystem II (${\Phi}PSII$). Thus, NPQ and ${\Phi}PSII$ were available to be determined non-destructively in maize leaves under hot air stress. Our results clearly indicated that the hot air could be a source of stress in maize leaves. Thus, the CFI analysis along with its related parameters can be used as a rapid indicating technique for the determining hot air stress in plants.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 심포지엄 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.73-76
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• 2007

Photodynamic diagnosis(PDD) is a method to diagnose the possibility of cancer, both by the principle that if a photosensitizer is injected into an organic tissue, it is accumulated in the tissue of a malignant tumor selectively after a specific period, and by a comparison of the intensity of the fluorescence of normal tissue with abnormal tissue after investigating the excitation light of a tissue with accumulated photosensitizer. Since the selection of the wavelength band of excitation light has an interrelation with fluorescence generation according to the selection of a photosencitizer, it plays an important role in POD. This study aims at designing and evaluating light source devices that can stably generate light with various kinds of wavelengths In order to make possible PDD using a photosensitizer and diagnosis using auto-fluorescence. The light source device was a Xenon lamp and filter wheel, composed of an optical output control through Iris and filters with several wavelength bands It also makes the inducement of auto-fluorescence possible because it is designed to generate a wavelength band of 380-400. The transmission part of the light source was, developed to enhance the efficiency of light transmission. To evaluate this light source device, the characteristics of the light output and wavelength band were verified. To validate the capability of this device as PDD the detection of auto-fluorescence using mouse was performed.

• Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering:BBE
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.432-441
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• 2006

2D fluorescence sensors produce a great deal of spectral data during fermentation processes, which can be analyzed using a variety of statistical techniques. Principal component analysis (PCA) and a self-organizing map (SOM) were used to analyze these 2D fluorescence spectra and to extract useful information from them. PCA resulted in scores and loadings that were visualized in the score-loading plots and used to monitor various fermentation processes with recombinant Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The SOM was found to be a useful and interpretative method of classifying the entire gamut of 2D fluorescence spectra and of selecting some significant combinations of excitation and emission wavelengths. The results, including the normalized weights and variances, indicated that the SOM network is capable of being used to interpret the fermentation processes monitored by a 2D fluorescence sensor.