• 대한정형외과학회지
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• 제54권5호
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• pp.469-473
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• 2019

슬관절 내측 통증은 정형외과 영역에서 흔한 문제이다. 초음파를 통하여 내측측부인대 점액낭염, 내측 반월상 연골 낭종, 내측측부인대 퇴행성 변화, 내측 반월상 연골의 탈출 등을 확인할 수 있다. 증식치료는 무릎의 내측 통증을 주소로 내원한 환자에서 효과적인 치료법이다. 내측측부인대 점액낭염 환자에게 증식치료 시행 후 근골격계 초음파로 추시하여 점액낭염의 호전을 관찰한 증례를 보고하고자 한다.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.221-224
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• 2023

A two-year-old spayed female Maltipoo dog was presented with a two-month duration of glaucoma in the right eye. On the first presentation, menace response and dazzle reflex were absent in the right eye, but it was present in the left eye. Slit-lamp biomicroscopy showed buphthalmia, mild corneal edema, and conjunctival and episcleral hyperemia in the right eye. The intraocular pressures were 70 mmHg and 30 mmHg in the right and left eyes, respectively. On the gonioscopic and high-resolution ultrasound examinations, both the iridocorneal angle and ciliary cleft were completely closed in the right eye. However, gonioscopy revealed an opened iridocorneal angle even with some broader base of pectinate ligament fiber, but high-resolution ultrasound showed a narrowed ciliary cleft and increased contact of the iris base with the limbal cornea in the left eye. Based on these results, a diagnosis of primary angle-closure glaucoma was made in both eyes. This case report highlighted the importance of evaluating the ciliary cleft with high-resolution ultrasound as a critical diagnostic and prognostic role in canine glaucoma.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.217-232
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• 1999

The ability to see the internal organs of the human body in a noninvasive way is a powerful diagnostic tool of modern medicine. Among these imaging modalities such as X-ray, MRI, and ultrasound. MRI and ultrasound are presenting much less risk of undesirable damage of both patient and examiner. In fact, no deleterious effects have been reported as a result of clinical examination by using MRI and ultrasound diagnostic equipment. As a result. their market volume has been rapidly increased. MRI has a good resolution. but there are a few disadvantages such as high price. non-real-time imaging capability. and expensive diagnostic cost. On the other hand, the ultrasound imaging system has inherently poor resolution as compared with X-ray and MRI. In spite of its poor resolution, the ultrasound diagnostic equipment is lower in price and has an ability of real-time imaging as compared with the others. As a result. the ultrasound imaging system has become general and essential modality for imaging the internal organs of human body. In this review various researches and developments to enhance the resolution of the ultrasound images are explained and future trends of the ultrasound imaging technology are described.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2006

This paper proposes an efficient array beamforming method using spatial matched filtering for ultrasound imaging. In the proposed method, ultrasound waves are transmitted from an array subaperture with fixed transmit focus as in conventional array imaging. At receive, radio frequency (RF) echo signals from each receive channel are passed through a spatial matched filter that is constructed based on the system transmit-receive spatial impulse response. The filtered echo signals are then summed. The filter remaps and spatially registers the acoustic energy from each element so that the pulse-echo impulse response of the summed output is focused with acceptably low side lobes. Analytical beam pattern analysis and simulation results using a linear array show that the proposed spatial filtering method can provide more improved spatial resolution and contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) compared with conventional dynamic receive focusing (DRF) method by implementing two-way dynamically focused beam pattern throughout the field.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제36권4호
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• pp.238-246
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• 2017

고주파수, 고해상도 초음파 영상을 획득하기 위해서는 고주파수 초음파 변환기가 가지는 작은 구경에 따른 낮은 민감도와 침투 깊이에 따른 높은 감쇠량을 극복하여야 한다. 이는 고주파수 초음파 변환기의 본질적인 한계점이므로 수신 시스템을 통하여 그 한계점을 극복하여야 한다. 본 논문은 고주파수, 고해상도 초음파 영상을 위하여 고주파수 초음파 변환기의 본질적인 한계인 낮은 민감도와 높은 감쇠량을 극복할 수 있는 저잡음 광대역 수신 시스템 개발과 특성 평가 결과에 관한 것이다. 개발한 저잡음 광대역 수신 시스템은 80 MHz 이상의 동작 주파수 대역에서 최대 73 dB의 증폭 이득과 48 dB의 가변 이득 범위를 만족하며 ${\pm}1dB$의 증폭 이득 평탄도 성능을 가진다. 또한 개발한 수신 시스템은 상용 리시버에 비하여 8.4 dB 이상의 신호대잡음비 성능과 3.7 dB 이상의 대조도 성능이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권5호
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• pp.693-699
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• 2023

초음파는 의료분야에서 비파괴적 및 비침습적인 질병 진단에 널리 활용되고 있다. 진단의료영상의 질병진단 정확도를 향상시키기 위하여 공간 분해능을 향상시키는 것은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 초음파 영상에서의 초고분해능 합성곱 신경망 알고리즘 (super resolution convolutional neural network, SRCNN)을 모델링하여 적용 가능성을 분석하고자 한다. 연구는 Field II 시뮬레이션과 open source로 제공되는 임상 간 혈관종 초음파 영상을 사용한 실험 연구로 수행되었다. 제안하는 SRCNN 알고리즘은 저분해능 (low resolution, LR)에서 고분해능 (high resolution)으로 end-to-end 방식의 학습이 적용될 수 있도록 모델링하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과 Field II 프로그램을 통한 팬텀 영상에서의 반치폭 값은 SRCNN을 사용하였을 때 LR에 비하여 41.01% 향상되는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 최대신호대잡음비 (peak to signal to noise ratio, PSNR)와 구조적 유사도 지표 (structural similarity index, SSIM)) 평가 결과는 시뮬레이션과 실제 간 혈관종 영상에서 SRCNN이 가장 우수한 값으로 도출되었다. 결론적으로 SRCNN의 초음파 영상에서의 적용 가능성을 증명하였고, 나아가 다양한 진단의료분야에서의 사용이 가능할 것으로 기대한다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권2호
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• pp.80-87
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• 1994

Fetal monitoring is a routine procedure to obtain a record of physiologic functions during pregnancy and labor. It is required to determine fetal heart frequency accurately. There are various types of fetal heart rate(FHR) determination and the most frequently applied method is transabdominal Doppler ultrasound. However, in the case of weak or noise corrupted Doppler ultrasound signals, conventional peak detections and the autocorrelation function method have many difficulties to determine FHR precisely. Also the autocorrelation function is effected by threshold level and window size. To solve these problems, the high resolution pitch determination algorinthm is introduced to detect FHR from Doppler ultrasound signals. This scheme digitally processes Doppler ultrasound signal for digital rectification, envelope detection, decimation and correlation calculation of two interconnected segments and then FHR is determined by its maximal value. Even in the case of a greatly smeared noise signal, this algorithm is able to search FHR more accurately than autocorrelation function by means of compensating FHR with a constant correlation threshold. This algorithm is simulated by 386-MATLAB on PC 486/DX and verified that it is superior to the autocorrelation function method.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.622-628
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• 2003

최근 안과 또는 피부과의 의료진단분야에 도입하기 위한 수십 μm 이하의 높은 공간분해능을 갖는 수십 MHz 대역의 초음파 트랜스듀서에 대한 연구가 활발히 수행되고 있다. 본 해설에서는 그 연구의 배경 및 트랜스듀서의 구조와 특성, 그리고 그것을 이용하여 얻은 영상에 대하여 간략하게 소개하였다.

• 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.17-21
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• 2013

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows non-invasive, cross-sectional optical imaging of biological tissue with high spatial resolution and acquisition speed. In principle, it is analogous to ultrasound imaging, but uses near-infrared light instead of ultrasound, measuring the time-delay of back-scattered light from within biological tissue. Compared to ultrasound imaging, it exhibits superior spatial resolution (1~10 um) and high sensitivity. Therefore, OCT has been applied to a wide range of applications such as cellular imaging, ophthalmology and cardiology. Here, we describe a novel application of OCT technology in visualizing microneedles embedded in tissue that is developed to deliver drugs into the dermis without the injection mark in the human skin. Detailed three-dimensional structural images of microneedles and biological tissues were obtained. Examining structural modification of microneedles and tissues during insertion process would enable to evaluate performance of various types of microneedles in situ.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.115-116
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• 1998

Pulse echo techniques have been used for the conventional medical ultrasound imaging systems. However, their resolution is limited in the transmitted signal power. To overcome this limit, pulse compression method used in the radar systems was proposed. This system transmits a continuous coded signal and then compresses the received signal into the short and high resolution pulse by using correlator. The reflectors can be detected by cross-correlation between the transmitted signal and the received signal with the depth information. In this paper, we will present a comparative study of the performances of the most common sequences(pseudo-chirp, m-sequences, modified Golay code). The best result for improving resolution is obtained with the modified Golay Code.