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A Study on Image Change according to Grid Ratio in Digital Radiography (디지털 방사선에서 격자 비에 따른 영상변화에 관한 연구)

  • Sung-Hun Jeong
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.46 no.2
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    • pp.89-97
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    • 2023
  • With the introduction of the D.R system, the grid with high removal rate of scattered radiation is selected and used without considering the grid performance evaluation. Despite the high removal rate of scattered radiation belonging to high grid ratio, it is also possible to see the cut-off phenomenon in which the primary ray involved in the formation of image could be removed as well. Thus, the purpose of this study is to provide the basic data for researches on the usefulness of using the grid by presenting the appropriate grid ratio in the D.R system through the measurement of image in grid such as non-grid, 6:1, 8:1, 10:1, 12:1. The equipments used for this study were radiation generator with grid in 12:1, 10:1, 8:1, 6:1, indirect-type detector, and acryl phantom. As the study for image evaluation, this study measured the SNR, PSNR, MSE, and Entropy. In the results of this study, the PSNR was the highest in 6:1 and the lowest in 8:1. The SNR was high in 6:1 and 8:1, and the lowest in 12:1. In case of Entropy, it was high in 8:1 and 10:1, and the lowest in 12:1. Therefore, when the grid is used, it would be more proper to choose the grid in 8:1 or 10:1 with less loss in information content of primary ray rather than the high grid ratio showing the increased patient exposure dose.

Performance Evaluation of Various PLL Techniques for Single Phase Grids (단상 계통연계 운전을 위한 다양한 PLL 기법의 성능 평가)

  • Das, Partha Sarati;Kim, Kyeong-Hwa
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2013.07a
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    • pp.47-48
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    • 2013
  • In order to evaluate the response of the grid-connected systems, Phase lock technology is widely used in power electronic devices to obtain the phase angle, amplitude, and frequency of the grid voltage because phase locked loop (PLL) algorithms are very important for grid synchronization and monitoring in the grid connected power electronic devices. This paper presents a performance evaluation in tracking grid angular frequency through single phase synchronization techniques which are an enhanced PLL (EPLL), second-order generalized integrator-PLL (SOGI-PLL), and second-order generalized integrator-frequency locked loop (SOGI-FLL). These techniques are properly analyzed through several steps to get the best technique which can track the frequency accurately and smoothly.

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Entrance Skin Dose and Image Quality Evaluation According to Use Grid Radiography for the Extremity in FPD System (FPD System에서 상.하지 촬영 시 격자에 따른 환자 선량 및 화질 평가)

  • Lee, In-Ja;Yeo, Young-Bok;Lee, Tae-Sung
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.341-348
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    • 2010
  • By accessing the current status of FPD system use in the hospitals located in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province as well as the entrance skin dose and the image quality evaluation realized by C-D Phantom, and the image assessment by the medical professionals regarding the radiography for the extremity, the following results were derived. 1. According to the evaluation made in the actual use of FPD system (12 machines), the grid ratio varied from 8:1 to 13:1, and 6 machines used the grid ratio with 12:1, realizing the largest number. Among the machines, there were 8 machines that allowed a removable grid while 3 machines did use a removable grid (25.0%). 2. When it came to the equipments used for the experiment, it showed that the amount of the entrance skin dose increased from 4.13 times up to 4.79 times with the grid use. 3. The difference in the entrance skin dose depending on the changes in the exposure condition(0.5times or 2.0times) was not significantly different regardless of the patients' thickness. 4. In terms of the image quality depending on C-D Phantom, the grid use was distinguished well. However, the images were well distinguishable as the exposure condition got increased. 5. In the clinical assessment, the grid use was less effective for the Hand PA, which was considered to shoot a thin body part. It was evaluated that the grid use was preferred for the Knee AP, which was shooting for a relatively thick body part. Nonetheless, 3 out of 5 people said that they would not use the grid if the entrance skin dose to reduced.

Information Security Management System Evaluation Criteria with availability for Korean Smart Grid (한국형 스마트 그리드의 가용성을 고려한 정보보호 관리체계 평가 기준 제안)

  • Heo, Ok;Kim, Seungjoo
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.547-560
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    • 2014
  • Smart Grid, which maximize the efficiency of energic utilization by applying Information and Communication Technology to Power Grid, requires high availability. Attacks, such as DDoS, which cause suspension of service and lead to social disruptions have recently been increasing so that systematic management over availability becomes more important. In this paper, we presents a new evaluation criteria of Korean Smart Grid by comparing availability assessment items of international standards specified in management system and then overcome the limitations of availability evaluation of existing information security management system.

Numerical Study on Human Model's Shape and Grid Dependency for Indoor Thermal Comfort Evaluation (실내 온열쾌적성 평가를 위한 인체 모델링 및 격자특성에 대한 수치해석적 연구)

  • Park, J.H.;Seo, J.W.;Choi, Y.H.
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2011.05a
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    • pp.210-217
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    • 2011
  • Recently, research on evaluating thermal comfort by using CFD has been vigorously active. This research evaluates not only distribution of temperature and air flow analysing but also thermal comfort in indoor space by applying human model. But research of human model's shape, Grid characteristic and turbulence model has not yet been studied. In this paper, human model's shape, physical characteristic of variable Grid, and change of turbulence model has been studies by CFD. In this study. FLUENT is used for analysis and PMV(predicted Mean Vote), PPD(Predicted Percentage Dissatisfied) and EHT(Equivalent Homogeneous Temperature} are used for evaluation and comparison of thermal comfort. As a result, it shows that shape of CSP and lattice features does not affect on global flow field or evaluation on PMV, PPD. However, it demonstrates more precise result from evaluation of thermal comfort by equivalent temperature when it used detailed human model considering prism grid.

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The Quantitative Evaluation of Aging State of Field Composite Insulators Based on Trap Characteristics and Volume Resistivity-Temperature Characteristics

  • Liang, Ying;Gao, Li-Juan;Dong, Ping-Ping;Gao, Ting
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.3
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    • pp.1355-1362
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    • 2018
  • In order to obtain a better understanding of the ageing process of the field composite insulators, it is necessary to explore a quantitative-valuation method for the aging state evaluation. And the linear relationship between volume resistivity and temperature is proposed. In this paper, the composite insulators with different lengths of operating lives from two manufacturers were tested. The relationship between trap characteristics and volume resistivity-temperature characteristics were analyzed based on Thermal Stimulated Current (TSC), volume resistivity-temperature test, Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Furthermore, the application of trap characteristics in the quantitative evaluation of aging state of composite insulators was discussed. The results showed that there was a general negative correlation between the relative variation ratio of trap charges and the volume resistivity-temperature characteristics. Meanwhile, the physicochemical properties would change with the aging time, which would result in the increasing of electron traps. Combined with the TSC and volume resistivity test results, the trap characteristic thresholds which indicated the serious age of the composite insulators had been proposed.

Design and Evaluation of PMU Performance Measurement and GPS Monitoring System for Power Grid Stabilization

  • Yang, Sung-Hoon;Lee, Chang Bok;Lee, Young Kyu;Lee, Jong Koo
    • Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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    • v.4 no.2
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    • pp.67-72
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    • 2015
  • Power grid techniques are distributed over general power systems ranging from power stations to power transmission, power distribution, and users. To monitor and control the elements and performance of a power system in real time in the extensive area of power generation, power transmission, wide-area monitoring (WAM) and control techniques are required (Sattinger et al. 2007). Also, to efficiently operate a power grid, integrated techniques of information and communication technology are required for the application of communication network and relevant equipment, computing, and system control software. WAM should make a precise power grid measurement of more than once per cycle by time synchronization using GPS. By collecting the measurement values of a power grid from substations located at faraway regions through remote communication, the current status of the entire power grid system can be examined. However, for GPS that is used in general national industries, unexpected dangerous situations have occurred due to its deterioration and jamming. Currently, the power grid is based on a synchronization system using GPS. Thus, interruption of the time synchronization system of the power system due to the failure or abnormal condition of GPS would have enormous effects on each field such as economy, security, and the lives of the public due to the destruction of the synchronization system of the national power grid. Developed countries have an emergency substitute system in preparation for this abnormal situation of GPS. Therefore, in Korea, a system that is used to prepare for the interruption of GPS reception should also be established on a long-term basis; but prior to this, it is required that an evaluation technique for the time synchronization performance of a GPS receiver using an atomic clock within the power grid. In this study, a monitoring system of time synchronization based on GPS at a power grid was implemented, and the results were presented.

A Study on Dose Reduction in Infant Skull Radiography (유아 두개골 방사선촬영에서 피폭선량 감쇄에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Byoung-Ju
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.387-392
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    • 2017
  • When an infant has visited a hospital due to skull fracture, the rupture of a blood vessel, or skin wounds on the head resulted from an incident, accident, traffic accident, or disease, he/she becomes to undergo anterior/posterior and lateral skull imaging, which is a head test at the department of radiology. In the head test, if the adult skull imaging grid is applied to the imaging, the secondary radiation will be removed to enhance the contrast of the image. However, among the radiation exposure conditions, the tube voltage should be enhanced by 8~10 kVp leading to an increase in the patient exposure. The present study was conducted under assumption that if the same images can be obtained from infant skull imaging without using the skull imaging grid, the exposure dose will be reduced and the artifacts due to grid cut off can be prevented. The researcher measured the radiation dosage using a radiation meter and conducted the subjective evaluation (ROC, receiver operating characteristic) among medical image evaluation methods. Based on the results, when the images were taken without using the grid, the exposure dose was reduced by 0.019 mGy in the anterior/posterior imaging and by 0.02 mGy in the lateral imaging and the image evaluation score was higher by 4 points. In conclusion, if the images of the skulls of infants that visited the hospital are taken with out using the grid, the exposure dose can be reduced, the image artifacts due to grid cut off can be prevented, and the lifespan of the X-ray tube will be extended.

Mobile Resource Reliability-based Job Scheduling for Mobile Grid

  • Jang, Sung-Ho;Lee, Jong-Sik
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.83-104
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    • 2011
  • Mobile grid is a combination of grid computing and mobile computing to build grid systems in a wireless mobile environment. The development of network technology is assisting in realizing mobile grid. Mobile grid based on established grid infrastructures needs effective resource management and reliable job scheduling because mobile grid utilizes not only static grid resources but also dynamic grid resources with mobility. However, mobile devices are considered as unavailable resources in traditional grids. Mobile resources should be integrated into existing grid sites. Therefore, this paper presents a mobile grid middleware interconnecting existing grid infrastructures with mobile resources and a mobile service agent installed on the mobile resources. This paper also proposes a mobile resource reliability-based job scheduling model in order to overcome the unreliability of wireless mobile devices and guarantee stable and reliable job processing. In the proposed job scheduling model, the mobile service agent calculates the mobile resource reliability of each resource by using diverse reliability metrics and predicts it. The mobile grid middleware allocated jobs to mobile resources by predicted mobile resource reliability. We implemented a simulation model that simplifies various functions of the proposed job scheduling model by using the DEVS (Discrete Event System Specification) which is the formalism for modeling and analyzing a general system. We also conducted diverse experiments for performance evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed model can assist in improving the performance of mobile grid in comparison with existing job scheduling models.

A Study on the Performance Evaluation and Use Status of Grid (격자의 성능평가와 이용실태에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Who-Min;Kim, Hak-Sung;Lee, Sang-Suk;Oh, Hyun-Joo;Kim, Young-Il;Lim, Han-Young;Kim, Heung-Tae;Lee, In-Ja;Huh, Joon
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.55-63
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    • 1994
  • We have conducted on experiment with a purpose to evaluate the performance of grids being used at hospitals in Seoul and adjacent cities of Seoul. The results are as follows; Reality of the grids use 1. The focused grids were 105 and the parallel grids were 6 among 111 grids subject to experimenting. 2. The grid interspace material was aluminium of 94 and the remains were wood and bakelite. 3. The umber of Korean products from five companies was 33 and the one of the foreign products was 34 from companies. The physical properties have been examined by the notice of Department of Health and Social Affairs. 4. The intensity of secondary radiation was the highest in 5 : 1 grid ratio. 5. The Bucky factor increased with the increase of grid ratio. The selectivity, the grid improvement factor of grids also increased with increase of the grid ratio. However, with 6 : 1 grid ratio those factors were decreased exceptionally. In measurement of grid density with screen determiners and the beam alignment. 6. In evaluation the results were satifisfied within, 20%. 7. The value of the scale and the value of measurement were within the range of standard deviation, but the value of 103 lines were outranged from the standard deviation with all grid ratio except of 6 : 1 grid ratio.

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