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손상위험장기에 인접한 불규칙한 모양의 타겟 치료 시, 용적변조회전 방사선치료와 비동일평면상의 빔을 이용한 세기변조 방사선치료의 유용성 평가 및 비교 (Comparison of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy and Non-coplanar Fixed-field Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy for Irregular Target adjacent to Organ At Risk)

  • 김경아;나경수;서석진;이제희
    • 대한방사선치료학회지
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    • 제29권1호
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    • pp.57-68
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    • 2017
  • 목 적: 본 연구는 모양이 불규칙하고 손상위험장기(Organ At Risk, OAR)에 매우 인접한 타겟(Target)의 방사선 치료 시, 비동일평면상(Non-coplanar)의 빔(Beam)을 이용한 Fixed-field 세기변조 방사선치료(Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, IMRT)와 용적변조회전 방사선치료(Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy, VMAT) 치료계획의 유용성을 평가 및 비교해 보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 본원에서 True Beam STX(Varian Medical Systems, USA)를 이용하여 전체 두피(Whole Scalp), 부분적 두피(Partial Scalp), 그리고 전체 뇌실(Whole Ventricle)에 방사선 치료를 받은 환자 중 각 부위별로 2명 씩, 총 6명을 대상으로 하였다. VMAT 치료계획 시, Beamlet에 포함되는 OAR의 용적을 최소화하기 위해 Coplanar 또는 Non-coplanar 빔을 이용하였고, Fixed-field IMRT는 6명 모두 2개 이상의 카우치(Couch) 각도를 이용한 Non-coplanar IMRT(이하 ncIMRT)로 치료계획 하였다. 결 과: 양측 수정체, 양측 시신경, 시신경 교차, 그리고 뇌 줄기의 최대선량과 양측 안구와 해마의 평균선량을 측정하였고, 6명 모두 9개의 OAR 중 6개 이상에서 VMAT 치료계획이 ncIMRT보다 1.1배에서 8.2배가량 높은 선량 값을 나타내었다. 전체 두피와 부분적 두피의 치료 시, 20 Gy가 조사되는 뇌의 용적은 VMAT이 ncIMRT의 2배 이상이었고, 전체 뇌실의 치료 시에는 두 치료계획이 큰 차이를 보이지 않았다. 타겟 Coverage는 두 치료계획 모두 $PTV_{100%}=95%$를 만족시켰고, 타겟 내 최대선량과 치료 시 필요한 총 Monitor Unit(MU)은 ncIMRT가 VMAT보다 높았으며 두 치료계획 모두 임상적용을 위한 Gamma test 시행 결과, 2 mm/2 % 조건을 통과하였다. 결 론: 본 연구 결과, ncIMRT는 VMAT에 비해 치료 시 필요한 MU가 높아 치료시간과 장비의 로딩(Loading)을 증가시키므로 치료의 효율성은 다소 떨어지지만, VMAT과 비슷한 타겟 Coverage를 유지하면서, OAR의 선량은 훨씬 감소시키는 것을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 모양이 불규칙하고 OAR에 매우 인접해 있는 타겟의 방사선 치료 시에는 ncIMRT 치료계획을 고려해 볼 필요가 있다고 사료된다.

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Sinonasal teratocarcinosarcoma treated with surgery followed by volumetric modulated radiotherapy: a case report with review of literature

  • Tandon, Sarthak;Gairola, Munish;Ahlawat, Parveen;Sharma, Kanika;Barik, Soumitra;Sachdeva, Nishtha;Pasricha, Sunil;Shenoy, Apeksha
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • 제36권4호
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    • pp.341-347
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    • 2018
  • Surgical excision along with use of postoperative radiotherapy forms an integral management of sinonasal teratocarcinosarcoma (SNTCS). However, given the rarity of the tumor, no standardised guidelines, dose, technique and target delineation exist especially in the era of modern radiation delivery techniques. This is a case of 55-year-old male diagnosed as SNTCS treated with radical ethmoidectomy followed by volumetric modulated radiotherapy, showing good local control and acceptable toxicity profile.

고압방전램프의 음향공명감소를 위한 주파수변조에 관한 연구 (A Study on Frequency-Modulated Methods for Reducing Acoustic Resonance in HID Lamp)

  • 김기중
    • 대한전기학회논문지:전기물성ㆍ응용부문C
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    • 제50권12호
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    • pp.622-626
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    • 2001
  • HID(high intensity discharge)lamps are high pressure mercury lamp, high pressure sodium lamp and metalhalide lamp. metalhalide lamp among these lamps has considered to be one of the most effective artificial light sources and this lamp has good efficiency, good color rendition and good focusing capability, But the shortcorning of metalhalide lamp is known as acoustic resonance phenomena in the discharge tube when lighted by electronic ballast and then acoustic resonance cause various problems such as the arc instability, light output fluctuations. In this paper, to reduce the acoustic resonence phenomena, the electronic ballast was designed by three methods for high frequency operation wish frequency-modulated sinusodial waves in acoustic resonance frequency band. These frequency-modulated methods are resonance frequency and resonance frequency, resonance frequency and non-resonance frequency non-resonance frequency and non-resonance frequency Experiment results could't show the Presence of acoustic resonance visually and it proved that the resonance-generating conditions can be avoided by continuously changing the two operating frequencies in acoustic resonance band (20.59kHz∼94.2kHz).

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레이저빔을 이용한 펄스변조 적외선탐색기 기만 (Laser-based Jamming of a Pulse Modulated Infrared Seeker)

  • 김성재;정춘식;신용산
    • 한국군사과학기술학회지
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    • 제22권2호
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    • pp.179-188
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    • 2019
  • Laser beam is directional and small in divergence angle so that it is well qualified to deliver high intensity infrared energy into a coming MANPADS threat for aircraft survivability. The threat will be deceived and loose tracking of a target when it is exposed to the laser beam modulated relevant to the track mechanism of the threat. The laser beam goes through scattering inside the seeker of the threat and reach the detector in a stray light form, which is a critical phenomenon enabling jamming of the seeker. The mechanism of the laser beam based jamming against a pulse modulated infrared seeker is shown. Simulations are carried out to support the understanding of how the jam technique works.

Eu(Ⅲ) Luminescence Phase-Modulation Spectroscopy as a Site-Selective Probe of Y Zeolite

  • 황한신;이선배;장두전
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • 제19권4호
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    • pp.471-475
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    • 1998
  • Phase shift spectroscopy is applied to Eu(Ⅲ) luminescence from $Eu^{3+}$-exchanged Y zeolite. The phase shift and intensity modulation of luminescence following intensity-modulated excitation are measured as a function of modulation frequency and they are fitted into a double exponential decay. The fast decay component, compared with the slow one, has narrower spectral bandwidth and is emitted from the $Eu^{3+}$ that has more polar and definite environment with higher symmetry and that interacts more easily with hydrated water molecules. The fast decay component is attributed to $Eu^{3+}$ at site Ⅱ' while the slow one to $Eu^{3+}$ at sites Ⅰ' and Ⅰ.

Adjuvant Radiotherapy after Breast Conserving Treatment for Breast Cancer:A Dosimetric Comparison between Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy and Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy

  • Liu, Zhe-Ming;Ge, Xiao-Lin;Chen, Jia-Yan;Wang, Pei-Pei;Zhang, Chi;Yang, Xi;Zhu, Hong-Cheng;Liu, Jia;Qin, Qin;Xu, Li-Ping;Lu, Jing;Zhan, Liang-Liang;Cheng, Hong-Yan;Sun, Xin-Chen
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • 제16권8호
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    • pp.3257-3265
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    • 2015
  • Background: Radiotherapy is an important treatment of choice for breast cancer patients after breast-conserving surgery, and we compare the feasibility of using dual arc volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT2), single arc volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT1) and Multi-beam Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (M-IMRT) on patients after breast-conserving surgery. Materials and Methods: Thirty patients with breast cancer (half right-sided and half left-sided) treated by conservative lumpectomy and requiring whole breast radiotherapy with tumor bed boost were planned with three different radiotherapy techniques: 1) VMAT1; 2) VMAT2; 3) M-IMRT. The distributions for the planning target volume (PTV) and organs at risk (OARs) were compared. Dosimetries for all the techniques were compared. Results: All three techniques satisfied the dose constraint well. VMAT2 showed no obvious difference in the homogeneity index (HI) and conformity index (CI) of the PTV with respect to M-IMRT and VMAT1. VMAT2 clearly improved the treatment efficiency and can also decrease the mean dose and V5Gy of the contralateral lung. The mean dose and maximum dose of the spinal cord and contralateral breast were lower for VMAT2 than the other two techniques. The very low dose distribution (V1Gy) of the contralateral breast also showed great reduction in VMAT2 compared with the other two techniques. For the ipsilateral lung of right-sided breast cancer, the mean dose was decreased significantly in VMAT2 compared with VMAT1 and M-IMRT. The V20Gy and V30Gy of the ipsilateral lung of the left-sided breast cancer for VMAT2 showed obvious reduction compared with the other two techniques. The heart statistics of VMAT2 also decreased considerably compared to VMAT1 and M-IMRT. Conclusions: Compared to the other two techniques, the dual arc volumetric modulated arc therapy technique reduced radiation dose exposure to the organs at risk and maintained a reasonable target dose distribution.

Intensity-modulated radiotherapy for stage I glottic cancer: a short-term outcomes compared with three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy

  • Cho, Ick Joon;Chung, Woong-Ki;Lee, Joon Kyoo;Lee, Min-Cheol;Paek, Jayeong;Kim, Yong-Hyub;Jeong, Jae-Uk;Yoon, Mee Sun;Song, Ju-Young;Nam, Taek-Keun;Ahn, Sung-Ja;Lee, Dong Hoon;Yoon, Tae Mi;Lim, Sang-Chul
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • 제37권4호
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    • pp.271-278
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    • 2019
  • Purpose: To investigate the differences in treatment outcomes between two radiation techniques, intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT). Materials and Methods: We retrospectively analyzed 160 (IMRT = 23, 3DCRT = 137) patients with stage I glottic cancer treated from January 2005 through December 2016. The IMRT was performed with TomoTherapy (16 patients), volumetric-modulated arc therapy (6 patients), and step-and-shoot technique (1 patient), respectively. The 3DCRT was performed with bilateral parallel opposing fields. The median follow-up duration was 30 months (range, 31 to 42 months) in the IMRT group and 65 months (range, 20 to 143 months) in the 3DCRT group. Results: The 5-year overall survival and 3-year local control rates of the 160 patients were 95.7% and 91.4%, respectively. There was no significant difference in 3-year local control rates between the IMRT and 3DCRT groups (94.4% vs. 91.0%; p = 0.587). Thirteen of 137 patients in the 3DCRT group had recurrences. In the IMRT group, one patient had a recurrence at the true vocal cord. Patients treated with IMRT had less grade 2 skin reaction than the 3DCRT group, but this had no statistical significance (4.3% vs. 21.2%; p = 0.080). Conclusion: IMRT had comparable outcomes with 3DCRT, and a trend of less acute skin reaction in stage I glottic cancer patients.

Dynamics of RNA Bacteriophage MS2 Observed with a Long-Lifetime Metal-Ligand Complex

  • Kang, Jung Sook;Yoon, Ji Hye
    • Journal of Photoscience
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.35-40
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    • 2004
  • [Ru(2,2'-bipyridine)$_2$(4,4'-dicarboxy-2,2'-bipyridine)]$^{2+}$(RuBDc) is a very photostable probe that possesses favorable photophysical properties including long lifetime, high quantum yield, large Stokes' shift, and highly polarized emission. To evaluate the usefulness of this luminophore (RuBDc) for studying macromolecular dynamics, its intensity and anisotropy decays when conjugated to RNA bacteriophage MS2 were examined using frequency-domain fluorometry with a high-intensity, blue light-emitting diode (LED) as the modulated light source. The intensity decays were best fit by a sum of two exponentials, and the mean intensity decay time was 442.2 ns. The anisotropy decay data showed a single rotational correlation time (2334.9 ns), which is typical for a spherical molecule. The use of RuBDc enabled us to measure the rotational correlation time up to several microseconds. These results indicate that RuBDc can be useful for studying rotational diffusion of biological macromolecules.s.

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Properties of Charge Collection in ITO Nanowire-based Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cell

  • 안윤진;김병조;정현석
    • 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국진공학회 2012년도 제43회 하계 정기 학술대회 초록집
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    • pp.196-196
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    • 2012
  • 염료감응 태양전지는 실리콘 태양전지에 비해 단가가 낮고 반투명하며 친환경적 특성으로 차세대 태양전지로 주목을 받았으나 염료의 안정성의 문제와 특정 파장대의 빛만 흡수하는 단점을 가지고 있다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 양자구속 효과에 의해 크기에 따라 밴드갭 조절이 용이하여 다양한 파장대의 빛을 흡수 할 수 있는 양자점 감응태양전지가 많은 관심을 받고 있다. 하지만 양자점 감응 태양 전지의 활성층으로 사용되는 반도체 산화물인 이산화티타늄의 두께는 $13{\sim}18{\mu}m$로 짧은 확산거리로 인해 전하수집의 한계를 가지고 있다. 이를 극복하기 위해 인듐 주석 산화물 나노선을 합성하여 전자가 광전극에 직접유입이 가능하도록 해 빠른 전하이동 및 전하수집을 가능하게 한다. 인듐 주석 산화물 나노선은 증기수송 방법(VTM)을 이용하여 인듐 주석 산화물 유리 기판 위에 $5{\sim}30{\mu}m$ 길이로 합성하였다. 전해질과 전자가 손실되는 것을 방지하기 위해 원자층 증착법(ALD)을 이용하여 이산화 티타늄 차단층을 20 nm 두께로 코팅한 후 화학증착방법(CBD)을 이용하여 인듐 주석 산화물 나노선-이산화 티타늄 코어-쉘 구조를 만든다. 마지막으로 황화카드뮴, 카드늄셀레나이드, 황화아연을 증착시킨 후 다황화물 전해질을 이용하여 양자점 감응 태양전지를 제작하였다. 특성 평가를 위해 전계방사 주사전자현미경, X-선 회절, 고분해능 투과 전자 현미경을 이용하며 intensity modulated photocurrent spectroscopy (IMPS), intensity modulated voltage spectroscopy (IMVS)를 이용하여 전하수집 특성평가를 하였다.

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