• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.426-431
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• 2008

In this paper, an improved AE system for digital still camera is proposed. AE system is auto exposure system to maintain optimized brightness of output image. But there is limitation for mobile devices to get high quality image with the conventional AE algorithm, because of organizational restriction of system. The conventional research has been studied only electronic shutter and AGC on the AE algorithm. In this paper, we suggest new AE algorithm included target setting, frame delay, Gamma Correction as well as electronic shutter and AGC to get high quality image. The proposed algorithm show improved result at control speed and ability of luminance expression.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권9호
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• pp.3422-3428
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• 2022

The prompt gamma imaging (PGI) technique is considered as one of the most promising approaches to estimate the range of proton beam in the patient and unlock the full potential of proton therapy. In the PGI technique, a dedicated algorithm is required to estimate the range of the proton beam from the prompt gamma (PG) distribution acquired by a PGI system. In the present study, a new range estimation algorithm was developed for a multi-slit prompt-gamma camera, one of PGI systems, to estimate the range of proton beam with high accuracy. The performance of the developed algorithm was evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations for various beam/phantom combinations. Our results generally show that the developed algorithm is very robust, showing very high accuracy and precision for all the cases considered in the present study. The range estimation accuracy of the developed algorithm was 0.5-1.7 mm, which is approximately 1% of beam range, for 1×10⁹ protons. Even for the typical number of protons for a spot (1×10⁸), the range estimation accuracy of the developed algorithm was 2.1-4.6 mm and smaller than the range uncertainties and typical safety margin, while that of the existing algorithm was 2.5-9.6 mm.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.201-206
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• 2023

감마카메라의 공간분해능을 향상시키기 위해서는 콜리메이터의 구멍 크기를 작게 만들어야 하므로 민감도는 저하된다. 민감도를 향상시키기 위해서는 구멍 크기를 크게 해야 하므로 공간분해능은 저하된다. 즉, 공간분해능과 민감도는 서로 상반된 특성을 보인다. 본 연구에서는 공간분해능과 민감도를 모두 향상시키는 감마카메라를 설계하였다. 동일한 공간분해능을 보이는 감마카메라에서 보다 높은 민감도를 획득하기 위해 섬광체의 구조를 기존시스템과 다르게 설계하였다. 섬광 픽셀을 사용하고, 섬광 픽셀 사이에는 격벽을 위치시켜 입사한 감마선이 다른 섬광 픽셀로 투과되어 상호작용하는 것을 방지하였다. 설계한 감마카메라의 성능을 평가하기 위해 Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 동일한 공간분해능을 획득하는 조건의 콜리메이터를 각각 사용하여 기존 감마카메라와 설계한 감마카메라의 민감도를 획득한 결과 각각 0.0026%, 0.0042%로 설계한 감마카메라의 민감도가 61.54% 향상된 결과를 나타내었다. 본 연구에서 설계한 감마카메라를 사용하면 우수한 공간분해능을 확보하면서 민감도를 기존 시스템보다 향상시킬 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.37-43
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• 2002

방사선원과 감마카메라 사이에 위치한 산란매질의 종류, 두께 그리고 조준기 종류가 감마카메라 영상에 미치는 영향을 고찰하기 위하여 실험과 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 감마카메라는 조준기, NaI(T1) 섬광결정(60$\times$60$\times$6 ㎣), 위치민감형 광전자증배관(PSPMT), NIMs, 제어용 컴퓨터를 사용하여 개발하였다. 시뮬레이션은 산란매질(아크릴매질/공기)의 두께 변화(0～8 cm)와 조준기의 종류(평행구멍형조준기/확산형조준기) 변화에 따라 계산하였으며 실험 역시 시뮬레이션과 같은 조건으로 수행하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 보면, 매질의 두께가 0 cmn에서 8 cm로 증가하면, 계수율은 평행구멍형조준기의 경우 17%(공기), 60%(아크릴) 감소하였으며 확산형 조준기의 경우 감소율이 더 심하여 각각 86%(공기), 98%(아크릴)의 계수율 감소를 보였다. 실제 실험 결과도 시뮬레이션 결과와 비슷하게 매질의 두께가 0 cm에서 8 cm로 증가하면 평행구멍형조준기의 경우 계수율은 10%(공기), 54%(아크릴) 감소하였으며 확산형조준기의 경우 36%(공기), 63%(아크릴)의 계수율 감소를 보였다. 영상의 공간분해능 역시 매질의 두께가 증가할수록 저하되었다. 연구결과 소형 감마카메라를 임상적으로 사용하고자 할 때 감마카메라를 질환 부위에 최대한 밀착시키고 산란매질 두께를 최소화해야 고효율, 고분해능 영상을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.3140-3149
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• 2023

In theory, the sharp dose falloff at the distal end of a proton beam allows for high conformal dose to the target. However, conformity has not been fully achieved in practice, primarily due to beam range uncertainty, which is approximately 4% and varies slightly across institutions. To address this issue, we developed a new range verification system prototype: a multi-slit prompt-gamma camera (MSPGC). This system features high prompt-gamma detection sensitivity, an advanced range estimation algorithm, and a precise camera positioning system. We evaluated the range measurement precision of the prototype for single spot beams with varying energies, proton quantities, and positions, as well as for spot-scanning proton beams in a simulated SSPT treatment using a phantom. Our results demonstrated high accuracy (<0.4 mm) in range measurement for the tested beam energies and positions. Measurement precision increased significantly with the number of protons, achieving 1% precision with 5 × 10⁸ protons. For spot-scanning proton beams, the prototype ensured more than 5 × 10⁸ protons per spot with a 7 mm or larger spot aggregation, achieving 1% range measurement precision. Based on these findings, we anticipate that the clinical application of the new prototype will reduce range uncertainty (currently approximately 4%) to 1% or less.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.303-304
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• 1998

We investigated the effects of scintillation crystal surface treatment on gamma camera imaging. The NaI(Tl) and CsI(Tl) (20 mm (dia.) $\times10mm$ (thick) plate) scintillators were chosen for this study. Two different surface treatments, white and black reflectors, were applied to NaI(Tl) and CsI(Tl). The optical properties of generated scintillation light were evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation and postion sensitive photo multiplier tube (PSPMT). We measured sensitivity, energy resolution and spatial resolution of a gamma camera system with the scintillators coupled to a PSPMT. Based on the results, we concluded that the careful consideration of surface treatments of the scintillator was necessary in order to develop the gamma camera having good sensitivity and spatial resolution.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.197-203
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• 2015

전 세계적으로 전력생산을 위해 원전 증설이 지속적으로 증가하고 있으며 이에 따라 노후 원전에 대한 해체 및 원전사고에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 원전 사고 시 발생되는 감마선원의 누출은 신속하고 정확한 탐지해야 그 피해를 최소화 시킬 수 있다. 기 개발된 장비는 선원에 대한 방향정보만을 나타내고 있어 정확한 공간상의 분포를 알 수 없다. 본 논문에서 개발한 스테레오 감마선탐지장치는 누출된 감마선원에 대한 분포를 측정할 수 있도록 구현하고 거리탐지를 위한 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 거리탐지를 위하여 스테레오 보정을 LED광과 보정패턴을 사용하여 진행하였고, LED 광원과 감마선원을 대상으로 성능시험을 진행하였다. 성능시험 결과 두 실험에서 5%이하의 오차를 갖게 됨을 확인하였다. 본 논문의 결과는 향후 고속 경량화 된 감마선 영상화 장치 개발을 위한 자료로 활용될 것이다.

• Biomedical Engineering Letters
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• 제8권4호
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• pp.383-392
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• 2018

For prompt gamma ray imaging for biomedical applications and environmental radiation monitoring, we propose herein a multiple-scattering Compton camera (MSCC). MSCC consists of three or more semiconductor layers with good energy resolution, and has potential for simultaneous detection and differentiation of multiple radio-isotopes based on the measured energies, as well as three-dimensional (3D) imaging of the radio-isotope distribution. In this study, we developed an analytic simulator and a 3D image generator for a MSCC, including the physical models of the radiation source emission and detection processes that can be utilized for geometry and performance prediction prior to the construction of a real system. The analytic simulator for a MSCC records coincidence detections of successive interactions in multiple detector layers. In the successive interaction processes, the emission direction of the incident gamma ray, the scattering angle, and the changed traveling path after the Compton scattering interaction in each detector, were determined by a conical surface uniform random number generator (RNG), and by a Klein-Nishina RNG. The 3D image generator has two functions: the recovery of the initial source energy spectrum and the 3D spatial distribution of the source. We evaluated the analytic simulator and image generator with two different energetic point radiation sources (Cs-137 and Co-60) and with an MSCC comprising three detector layers. The recovered initial energies of the incident radiations were well differentiated from the generated MSCC events. Correspondingly, we could obtain a multi-tracer image that combined the two differentiated images. The developed analytic simulator in this study emulated the randomness of the detection process of a multiple-scattering Compton camera, including the inherent degradation factors of the detectors, such as the limited spatial and energy resolutions. The Doppler-broadening effect owing to the momentum distribution of electrons in Compton scattering was not considered in the detection process because most interested isotopes for biomedical and environmental applications have high energies that are less sensitive to Doppler broadening. The analytic simulator and image generator for MSCC can be utilized to determine the optimal geometrical parameters, such as the distances between detectors and detector size, thus affecting the imaging performance of the Compton camera prior to the development of a real system.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.43-50
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• 2013

The narrow dynamic range of most smart phone cameras is severely limited. It usually is narrower than the dynamic range of most scenes. So we proposes a illuminance dynamic range expansion using multi-point knee for smart phone camera. Such as logarithmic functions the proposed method compress the image sensor output signal. Additionally, the proposed method was merged into the gamma that is essential circuit for any cameras. To justifying multi-point knee effectiveness, we configure the control and quality evaluation system for smart phone camera module. Experimental results show that the lost information by cut off and saturated affectively reconstructed in darker and in brighter areas. Finally this methods have advantage to implement without any changing hardware for conventional smart phones.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.147-156
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• 2009

As the result of the rapid development of IT technology, an on-line diagnostic system using the field bus communication network coupled with a smart sensor module will be widely used at the nuclear power plant in the near future. The smart sensor system is very useful for the prompt understanding of abnormal state of the key equipments installed in the nuclear power plant. In this paper, it is assumed that a smart sensor system based on the fieldbus communication network for the surveillance and diagnostics of safety-critical equipments will be installed in the harsh-environment of the nuclear power plant. It means that the key components of fieldbus communication system including microprocessor, FPGA, and ASIC devices, are to be installed in the RPV (reactor pressure vessel) and the RCS (reactor coolant system) area, which is the area of a high dose-rate gamma irradiation fields. Gamma radiation constraints for the DBA (design basis accident) qualification of the RTD sensor installed in the harsh environment of nuclear power plant, are typically on the order of 4 kGy/h. In order to use a field bus communication network as an ad-hoc diagnostics sensor network in the vicinity of the RCS pump area of the nuclear power plant, the robust survivability of IT-based micro-electronic components in such intense gamma-radiation fields therefore should be verified. An intelligent CCD camera system, which are composed of advanced micro-electronics devices based on IT technology, have been gamma irradiated at the dose rate of about 4.2kGy/h during an hour UP to a total dose of 4kGy. The degradation performance of the gamma irradiated CCD camera system is explained.