• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.337-341
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• 2005

Blood pulsation has been reported to have an advantageous effect on extracorporeal blood circulation. However, the study of pulsatile blood flow in renal replacement therapy is very limited. The in-vitro experimental results of pulsatile blood flow on ultrafiltration, when compared with the conventional roller pump, are described in this paper. Methods: Blood flow rate (QB) and transmembrane pressure (TMP) were considered as regulating factors that have an influence on ultrafiltration. Experiments were performed under the condition of equal TMP and OB in both pulsatile and roller pump groups, Several kinds of hollow fiber dialyzers were tested using distilled water containing chemicals as a blood substitute. Mean TMP (mTMP) varied from 10 to 90mmHg while the QB was 200ml/min. Results: Ultrafiltration rate (QUF) was found to be linearly proportional to TMP, whereas QB had little influence on QUF. In addition, QUF was higher in the pulsatile group than the roller pump group at the identical TMP. Conclusion: In the controlled test, QUF increased solely as a consequence of blood pulsation, which implies that the pulse frequency represents an additional and important clinical variable during renal replacement therapy.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.33-38
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• 2002

심실보조장치(ventricular assist device, VAD)는 그 특성상 손상된 자연심장의 기능을 보조하기 위해서 사용된다. 따라서, 심실보조장치의 제어 알고리즘을 고려할 때에는 가능한 한 자연심장에 걸리는 부하를 최소한으로 줄여주는 것이 중요하다. 이처럼 자연심장에 걸리는 부하를 줄여주기 위해 가장 일반적으로 사용되는 제어 방식이 바로 자연심장과 심실보조장치 상호간의 동시 박출을 방지하는 counterpulsation 제어 방식이다. 실제로 Nanas[1][2] 등은 동물실험을 통해 좌심실이 손상된 상황에서 counterpulsation 장cl가 혈류역학적으로 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 연구하였다 본 연구에서는, 현재 서울대학교 인공심장연구실과 (주)바이오메드랩에서 공동으로 개발 중인 이동작동기형 심실보조장치 (AnyHeart/ sup TM/)에 사용할 수 있는 counterpulsation 제어 알고리즘을 개발하고. 개발된 알고리즘을 실제 동물 실험에 적용하기에 앞서 모의순환장치를 이용하여 개발된 알고리즘의 효용성을 검증하여 보았다. 자연심장의 박출 상태를 실시간으로 파악하기 위해 심전도(electrocardiogram, ECG) 신호를 입력으로 받아들여 제어를 수행하는 방식을 채택하였으며, 모의순환장치에서의 실험 결과 심실보조장치와 자연심장 간의 동시 박출 방지 효과가 정상적으로 일어남을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.455-460
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• 2007

Flow mismatch between blood and dialysate is invariably encountered during conventional hemodialysis, and this deteriorates diffusive mass transfer. A modification of a conventional dialyzer was conceived to prevent this mismatch. The modified dialyzer includes two independent blood flow regions (central and peripheral regions), which were achieved by redesigning the dialyzer cap. Resultantly, the blood stream was divided into two concentric dialyzer regions. Solutes clearances obtained using the modified dialyzers were compared with those of conventional dialyzers. Solutes clearances by conventional dialyzers were uniform, but solutes clearances by modified dialyzers were found to be dependent on the simulated blood split into dialyzer central and peripheral regions. Maximal clearances using the modified dialyzer were improved by up to approximately 7.6% for urea and 7.3% for creatinine, as compared with those of conventional dialyzers. More optimizations are required for clinical applications, but the finding that blood flowrates through central and peripheral fiber bundles can be easily regulated is encouraging.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제57권3호
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• pp.152-158
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• 2015

Objective : The purpose of this study to develop new deep-brain stimulation system for long-term use in animals, in order to develop a variety of neural prostheses. Methods : Our system has two distinguished features, which are the fully implanted system having wearable wireless power transfer and ability to change the parameter of stimulus parameter. It is useful for obtaining a variety of data from a long-term experiment. Results : To validate our system, we performed pre-clinical test in Parkinson's disease-rat models for 4 weeks. Through the in vivo test, we observed the possibility of not only long-term implantation and stability, but also free movement of animals. We confirmed that the electrical stimulation neither caused any side effect nor damaged the electrodes. Conclusion : We proved possibility of our system to conduct the long-term pre-clinical test in variety of parameter, which is available for development of neural prostheses.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.420-423
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• 1997

The oxygen saturation of blood can be measured by sensing the difference absorption in optical spectra of Hb and $HbO_2$, as the well known previous study. [1] In this study we developed the noninvasive tissue reflectance oximeter(TRO) using three kinds of LEDs which produce a peak spectral emission at a wavelength of 565, 660 and 940nm. And we tested the unction of the TR oximeter by comparing the output signals measured on normal tissue to measured on low oxygenated tissue. The results showed that oxygen saturation of blood and biological tissue can be monitored from the separation arrangement light source and detector.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.201-202
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• 1998

In this paper we suggested an automated method for detecting and counting rapid eye movement(REM) using EOG during sleep. This method is formulated by two step fuzzy logic. At first step, the velocity and the distance of single channel eye movement are used for the fuzzy input to get the possibility of being REM at each EOG. At second step, the two possibility values of both EOG from the first step and the correlation coefficient of both eye movements are used for the fuzzy logic input, and the output is the final possibility of being Rapid Eye Movement. We applied this algorithm to the normal and narcoleptic sleep data and compared the difference. We found the possibility that the count of REM can be a parameter that has significant physiological meanings.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.287-288
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• 1998

The virtual surgery of Artificial Heart has focused on the simple fitting trial. But, as the processes of heart surgery being complex and detail, the requests of virtual surgery become more complex. One of the complex requests is volume editing. It may contain various editing functions: 3-dimensional cutting, registration, merging, splitting, inserting, deleting, translation and deformation. We have designed and implemented 3-dimensional volume editor that can be operated in Windows NT platform. With the results of this research, we can get convenient tools for the total virtual surgery system.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.387-391
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• 2007

An oxygenator is a very important artificial organ and widely used for patients with lung failure or during open heart surgery. Although an oxygenator has been widely studied worldwide to enhance its efficiency, studies on oxygenators, in particular when using a pulsatile blood flow, are domestically limited. Therefore, a new oxygenator was developed in the lab and animal experimental results are described in the paper. The oxygenator is composed of polycarbonate housing and polypropylene hollow fibers. It has a total length of 400 mm and a surface area of $1.7 m^2$. The animal experiment lasted for 4 hours. The blood flow rate was set to 2 L/min and a pulsatile blood pump, T-PLS (Twin-Pulse Life Support), was used. Samples were drawn at the oxygenator's inlet and outlet. The total hemoglobin (Hb), saturation oxygen ($sO_2$), and partial oxygen pressure ($pO_2$), partial $CO_2$ pressure ($pCO_2$), and plasma bicarbonate ion concentration ($HCO_3^-$) were measured. The oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer rates were also calculated based on the experimental data in order to estimate the oxygenator's gas transfer efficiency. The oxygen and carbon dioxide transfer rates were $16.4{\pm}1.58$ and $165.7{\pm}10.96 mL/min$, respectively. The results showed a higher carbon dioxide transfer rate was achieved with the oxygenator. Also, the mean inlet and outlet blood pressures were 162.79 and 137.92 mmHg, respectively. The oxygenator has a low pressure drop between its inlet and outlet. The aim of own preliminary study was to make a new oxygenator and review its performance when applying a pulsatile blood pump thus, confirming the possibility of a new oxygenator suitable for pulsatile flow.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.244-247
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 고속 이동환경에서 강건성을 향상시킬 수 있는 OTFS(orthogonal time frequency space) 시스템에서 주파수 및 시간영역에서의 선형 MMSE(minimum mean squared error) 필터를 이용한 디코딩 알고리즘과 강화된 Gauss-Seidel 알고리즘을 이용한 디코딩 알고리즘의 성능을 비교한다. 강화된 Gauss-Seidel 알고리즘은 잡음 증폭을 억제함으로써 비트 오류율 성능을 개선할 수 있다. 전산 실험 결과를 통해 주파수 영역에서 MMSE 필터를 이용한 디코딩 알고리즘은 수신기의 이동 속도가 높아짐에 따라 성능 열화가 발생하는 것을 확인할 수 있고, 강화된 Gauss-Seidel 알고리즘을 이용한 디코딩 방법은 120km/h 속도와 500km/h 속도를 가지는 채널 환경에 대해 주파수 영역 및 시간 영역에서의 MMSE 필터 디코딩 알고리즘에 비해 우수한 성능을 나타내는 것을 확인할 수 있다.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.49-63
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• 2013

This work identifies the key factors influencing the success of multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and trans-disciplinary R&D projects in transition economies by integrating knowledge management, organizational, inter/intra-collaboration (open-innovation), and leadership perspectives, while also addressing the perspective of the science of team science, which is an integrative approach to R&D. This is followed by providing the major sub-constructs of team science and policy implications to better facilitate multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary R&D projects in knowledge-based transition economies.