• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.43-46
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• 1998

When a patient was irradiated with prosthetic hip, the dose distribution was changed according to inhomogeneous materials. The density, effective atomic number, and the composition of material had influence on absorbed dose distribution. In this study, the influence of inhomogeneous material(Ti) was measured using a polyethylene phantom, which consisted of various diameter of titanium, with film dosimetry. As a result, the backward dose showed 29.5% increas by backscattering, the forward dose showed 28% decreas by absorption, and the side dose showed 7% increas by scattering, when 25 mm diameter Ti was used. In addition forward dose was in inverse proportion to the thickness of prosthetic material. When the prosthetic hip of patient is in an irradiated field, we must carefully study the absorbed dose distribution.

• 반도체디스플레이기술학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

This study describes the electron beam lithography pattern fabrication using the proximity effect correction. When electron beam exposes into electron beam resist, the beam tends to spread inside the substance (forward scattering). And the electron beam reflected from substrate spreads again (back scattering). These two effects influence to distribution of the energy and give rise to a proximity effect while a small pattern is generated. In this article, an electron energy distribution is modeled using Gaussian shaped beam distribution and those parameters in the model are computed to solidify the model. The proximity effect is analyzed through simulations and appropriate corrections to reducing the proximity effect are suggested. It is found that the proximate effect can be reduced by adopting schemes of dose adjustment, and the optimal dose is determined through simulations. The proposed corrected proximity effect correction is proved by experiments.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제9권7호
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• pp.445-448
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• 2015

최근 다색 X-ray 중 저에너지 광자의 비율을 감소시키는 필터에 대한 관심이 대두되고 있으나 X선 경화현상으로 인하여 나타나는 영상 화질에 영향에 대해서는 간과되고 있는 실정이다. 이에 본 연구에서는 필터에 따른 전방산란율의 변화를 평가함으로써 의료영상 품질에 영향을 미치는 산란선량을 정량적으로 고찰하였다. 실험 결과, 필터 두께가 증가함에 따라 최대 13.9%p의 전방산란율이 증가하는 추세가 나타나는 것으로 평가되었다. 이러한 결과를 바탕으로 한국 산업규격에서 권고된 필터 두께를 준수할 경우 환자의 피폭선량을 저감하면서도 약 1%p 이내의 전방산란율 만이 의료영상에 노이즈에 추가적으로 기여할 것으로 사료된다. 그러므로 환자의 피폭선량을 저감화하면서도 의료영상의 품질을 개선하기 위해서는 적절한 필터의 활용이 중요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제10권8호
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• pp.597-602
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• 2016

현 임상에서는 저에너지 광자를 감소시키기 위한 알루미늄 재질의 부가필터를 이용하고 있다. 하지만, 부가필터의 이용은 X-ray 경화현상으로 인하여 발생하는 산란선량이 화질에 악영향을 미칠 수 있다. 또한, 부적절한 필터 두께를 이용은 환자에게 불필요한 노출이 발생하는 선량 크리프 현상이 나타날 수 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 부가필터 사용 시 X선 빔 경화현상으로 인한 평균 에너지 증가에 따른 전방 산란선량 발생이 영상 화질에 미치는 영향을 정량적으로 평가하기 위하여 RMS 및 RSD를 측정하였다. 연구 결과, 부가필터 두께가 증가할수록 전방산란율과 더불어 상대표준편차가 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구에서 상대표준편차는 평균값에 대한 표준편차가 상대적 크기를 의미한다. 평균값을 신호로 표준편차를 노이즈 성분으로 판단할 때 영상의 해상력에 지표인 신호 대 잡음비가 감소하는 것으로 이해할 수 있다. 이러한 연구 결과를 바탕으로 부가필터 사용에 따른 전방산란율과 화질의 상관관계가 있음을 정량적으로 검증하였다. 결과적으로, 북미방사선방호측정위원회에서 70 kVp 이상의 관전압에서 권고하는 2.5 mmAl 두께의 필터 사용 시 사용하지 않았을 때에 비해 14.6%가 증가되었다. 이러한 연구 결과는 영상 품질 개선을 위한 필터 연구 시 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권8호
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• pp.2018-2025
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• 2019

This study systematically compared two hybrid deterministic/Monte Carlo transport codes, ADVANTG/MCNP and MAVRIC, in solving a difficult shielding problem for a real-world spent fuel storage cask. Both hybrid codes were developed based on the consistent adjoint driven importance sampling (CADIS) methodology but with different implementations. The dose rate distributions on the cask surface were of primary interest and their predicted results were compared with each other and with a straightforward MCNP calculation as a baseline case. Forward-Weighted CADIS was applied for optimization toward uniform statistical uncertainties for all tallies on the cask surface. Both ADVANTG/MCNP and MAVRIC achieved substantial improvements in overall computational efficiencies, especially for gamma-ray transport. Compared with the continuous-energy ADVANTG/MCNP calculations, the coarse-group MAVRIC calculations underestimated the neutron dose rates on the cask's side surface by an approximate factor of two and slightly overestimated the dose rates on the cask's top and side surfaces for fuel gamma and hardware gamma sources because of the impact of multigroup approximation. The fine-group MAVRIC calculations improved to a certain extent and the addition of continuous-energy treatment to the Monte Carlo code in the latest MAVRIC sequence greatly reduced these discrepancies. For the two continuous-energy calculations of ADVANTG/MCNP and MAVRIC, a remaining difference of approximately 30% between the neutron dose rates on the cask's side surface resulted from inconsistent use of thermal scattering treatment of hydrogen in concrete.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.11-20
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• 1998

The propagation of light radiation in a turbid medium is an important problem that confronts dosimetry of therapeutic laser delivery and the development of diagnostic spectroscopy. Scattered light is measured as a function of the position(distance r, depth z) between the axis of the incident beam and the detection spot. Turbid sample yields a very forward-directed scattering pattern at short range of position from source to detector, whereas the thicker samples greatly attenuated the on-axis intensity at long range of position. The portions of scattered light reflected from or transmitted throughphantom depend upon internal reflectance and absorption properties of the phantom. Monte Carlo simulation method for modelling light transport in tissue is applied. It uses the photon is moved a distance where it may be scattered, absorbed, propagated, internally reflected, or transmitted out of tissue. The photon is repeatedly moved until it either escape from or is absorbed by the phantom. In order to obtain an optimum therapeutic ratio in phantom material, optimum control the light energy fluence rate is essential. This study is to discuss the physical mechanisms determining the actual light dose in phantom. Permitting a qualitative understanding of the measurements. It may also aid in designing the best model for laser medicine and application of medical engineering.