• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.363-367
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• 2015

디지털 방사선촬영 기술은 영상 정보를 획득하는 원리에 따라 광도전체를 이용하는 직접 방식과 형광체를 이용하는 간접 방식으로 구분되지만, 모두 다양한 장단점을 내포하고 있다. 이에 본 연구에서는 X-ray 민감도를 개선하고자 형광체 및 광도전체를 병용한 Hybrid형 검출기의 구조에 대한 기초 연구를 수행하였다. 실험 결과, 조사 시간을 30 ms로 고정하고 관전압을 변화할 경우 전체적으로 직접 방식의 구조에서 우수한 민감도가 나타났으나, 조사 시간이 50 ms 이상에서는 Hybrid 구조의 경우가 더 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 이는 임상에서 다양한 검사를 수행할 경우에 일반적으로 50 ms 이상의 조사시간을 이용한다는 점에서 충분한 연구적 가치를 가질 것으로 사료된다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 센서 박막재료 반도체 세라믹
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• pp.71-74
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• 2003

Photoconductor for direct detection fiat-panel imager present a great materials challenge, since their requirement include high X-ray absorption, ionization and charge collection, low leakage current and large area deposition, CdTe is practical material. We report studies of detector sensitivity, That is an CdTe with $5{\mu}m$ thickness on glass. That is hybrid layer of depositting ZnS:AgCl phosphor with $100{\mu}m$ on CdTe. The leakage current of hybrid is similar to it of a-Se, but photocurrent is larger than a-Se. Both of them have high spatial resolution, but hybrid has higher sensitivity than a-Se at comparable bias voltage.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.15
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• pp.420-423
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• 2002

In recent years, there has been keen interest in developing f1at panel detectors for all modalities of radiology, including gerneral radiology, fluoroscopy(angiography and cardiology), electronic portal imaging, and mammography. In this paper, we report the new hybrid x-ray detector consisted of CsI(Tl) photoemission layer and a-Se photoconductor layer to resolve conventional x-ray detector such as the direct detector using a-Se and the indirect detector using CsI(Tl)/a-Si. To design the structure of CsI(Tl)/a-Se detector, the penetrated energy spectrum and absorption fraction was estimated using MCNP 4C code. Experimental results showed that the absorption fraction of $500{\mu}m-Se$ film and $150{\mu}m-CsI\left(Tl \right)/a-Se\left( 30{\mu}m \right)$ film is 70% at 70 kVp. The absorption energy is 90% at $350{\mu}m-CsI(Tl)$.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.15
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• pp.424-427
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• 2002

In this papaer, there is a basic research for the development of the Hybrid digital radiation detector with a new system, make up for existing digital radiation detector of direct/indirect method with a weak point. for enhance the efficiency characteristics of signal response from X-ray detector using the a-Se, We make sample with various kinds of layer, through the ratio of As(0.l%,0.3%,0.5%,1%,1.5%,5%,10%). We measure net charge with a leakage current and photo current for electric charateristics. Ratio of As in a-Se consist of 7 stage, It made of using the thermal deposition system, In the made of samples, we made multi layer using the EFIRON optical adhesives from phosphor layer consist of Oxybromide$(BrO_2)$. As a result of X-ray measurement, the best result is ; leakage current(0.30nA/cm2), net charge(610.13pC/cm2/mR) when the condition is voltage(9V/um), 0.3% ratio of As in multi layer(BrO2 + a-Se)

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.306-309
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• 2007

PXLM(Phosphor based x-ray light modulator) has a combined structure by phosphor, photoconductor, and liquid crystal and it can realize x-ray image of high resolution in clinical diagnosis area. In this study, we fabricated a photoconductor and investigated electrical and optical properties to confirm application possibility of radiator detector of PXLM structure. As photoconductor, amorphous selenium(a-Se), which is used most in DR(Digital radiography) of direct conversion method, was used and for formation of thin film, it was formed as $20{\mu}m-thick$ by using thermal vacuum evaporation system. For a produced a-Se film, through XRD(X-ray diffraction) and SEM(Scanning electron microscope), we investigated that amorphous structure was uniformly established and through optical measurement, for visible light of 40 $0\sim630nm$, it had absorption efficiency of 95 % and more. After fabricated a-Se film on the top of ITP substrate, hybrid structure was manufactured through forming $Gd_2O_3:Eu$ phosphor of $270{\mu}m-thick$ on the bottom of the substrate. As the result to confirm electrical property of the manufactured hybrid structure, in the case of appling $10V/{\mu}m$, leakage current of $2.5nA/cm^2$ and x-ray sensitivity of $7.31nC/cm^2/mR$ were investigated. Finally, we manufactured PXLM structure combined with hybrid structure and liquid crystal cell of TN(Twisted nematic) mode and then, investigated T-V(Transmission vs. voltage) curve of external light source for induced x-ray energy. PXLM structure showed a similar optical response with T-V curve that common TN mode liquid crystal cell showed according to electric field increase and in appling $50\sim100V$, it showed linear transmission efficiency of $12\sim18%$. This result suggested an application possibility of PXLM structure as radiation detector.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.15
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• pp.436-439
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• 2002

Recently, It has performed that the basic research of the photoconductive material and the development and application of the digital radiograph detector which is divided into the direct and indirect method. The objective of this study investigate the effect of the electric characteristic about changing the composition of Arsenic in hybrid detector system for compensating a defect of conventional. We fabricated samples using the amorphous Selenium and Arsenic alloy with various concentrations of the Arsenic{seven step 0.1%, 0.3%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 3%, 5%). And using EFIRON optical adhesives the formed multi-layer$(Gd_{2}O_{2}S(Eu^{2+}))$ composed phosphor layer. X-ray and light sensitivity was measured to study x-ray response characteritics. As results, highest value was measured as output net charge and SNR were $315.7pC/cm^2/mR$ and 99.4 at 0.3%As doping ratio.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권12호
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• pp.189-194
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• 2014

본 연구에서는 새로운 구조의 X선 영상 검출기로써 광민감 $HgI_2$ 층이 포함된 CsI:Na 형광층의 구조를 설계하였다. 이러한 구조에서 X선은 두꺼운 CsI:Na 층에서 가시광선으로 변환된 후 하부의 얇은 $HgI_2$ 층에서 전하로 변환된다. CsI:Na와 $HgI_2$로 구성된 복합구조의 두께를 최적화하기 각 층의 두께를 변화시켜 X선에 대한 흡수효율을 시뮬레이션 하였다. 현재 상용화된 a-Se 단일층의 검출기는 수십 kV의 고전압이 요구되고, CsI:Na/a-Si 구조의 간접변환 방식은 낮은 변환효율을 가지는 단점이 있다. 본 연구의 결과로 제시된 새로운 형태의 CsI:Na/$HgI_2$ 복층 구조의 x-ray 검출기는 고전압이 필요한 직접 변환방식의 단점과 간접 변환방식의 낮은 효율을 보완할 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집 센서 박막재료 반도체 세라믹
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• pp.79-82
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• 2003

a-Se film is known as promising medical X-ray detector material but a-Se as dopanted Tellurium is not available in X-ray detectors. a-Se thick film was grown by vacuum thermal evaporator to $3{\mu}m$ thickness. The characteristics of thick films were analyzed by XRD, U-V Meter, and SEM measurements. Te composition is 0.1, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7g. This paper is fundmental data for phosphor layer's essential parameter that selenium have absorption wavelength along to various Te concentration rate.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 추계학술대회 논문집 Vol.15
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• pp.440-443
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• 2002

Present1y the X-Ray diagnosis system is a real condition that is changing by digital ways in it's existent analog ways. This digital radiation detector is divided by the direct method and the indirect method. The indirect method of applied voltage has special qualities that the resolution is low than direct method by diffusion effect that happens. The conversion process ( radiation${\rightarrow}$visible ray${\rightarrow}$electrical signal of two times, has shortcomings that the energy conversion efficiency of electrical signal is low. The direct method has shortcomings that need strong electric fie1d to detect electrical signal efficiently. This research achieved to develop digital detector of the Hybrid method that have form that mixes two ways to supplement shortcoming of direct. indirect method. A studied electrical characteristic by Iodine's Mixture ratio change is added to selenium in the detector which has a multi-layer structure (Oxybromide + a-Se). There are 8 kinds of Manufactured compositions to amorphous selenium Iodine each 30ppm, 100ppm, 200 ppm, 300ppm, 400ppm, 500ppm, 600ppm, 700ppm by a doped photoconductor through a vacuum thermal evaporation method. The phosphor layer is consisted of Oxybromide ($BrO_2$) which uses optical adhesives multi-layer structure. The manufactured compositions calculates and compares Net Charge and signal to noise ratio measuring Photocurrent about Darkcurrent and X-ray. When doped Iodine Mixture ratio is 500ppm to the multi-layer structure (Oxybromide + a-Se), applied voltage of $3V/{\mu}m$, leakage current of compositions $2.61nA/cm^2$ and net charge value by 764pC/$cm^2$/mR then the best result appeared.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.102-110
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• 2015

The main source of noise in computed tomography (CT) images is a quantum noise, which results from statistical fluctuations of X-ray quanta reaching the detector. This paper proposes a neural network (NN) based hybrid filter for removing quantum noise. The proposed filter consists of bilateral filters (BFs), a single or multiple neural edge enhancer(s) (NEE), and a neural filter (NF) to combine them. The BFs take into account the difference in value from the neighbors, to preserve edges while smoothing. The NEE is used to clearly enhance the desired edges from noisy images. The NF acts like a fusion operator, and attempts to construct an enhanced output image. Several measurements are used to evaluate the image quality, like the root mean square error (RMSE), the improvement in signal to noise ratio (ISNR), the standard deviation ratio (MSR), and the contrast to noise ratio (CNR). Also, the modulation transfer function (MTF) is used as a means of determining how well the edge structure is preserved. In terms of all those measurements and means, the proposed filter shows better performance than the guided filter, and the nonlocal means (NLM) filter. In addition, there is no severe restriction to select the number of inputs for the fusion operator differently from the neuro-fuzzy system. Therefore, without concerning too much about the filter selection for fusion, one could apply the proposed hybrid filter to various images with different modalities, once the corresponding noise characteristics are explored.