• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.228-229
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• 1999

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.275-283
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• 2013

The patient radiation dose is different depending on selection of Ion chamber when taking Chest PA which using AEC. In this paper, we studied acquiring the best diagnostic images according to selection of Ion chamber on AEC mode as well as minimizing patient radiation dose. Experimental methods were selection of Ion chamber and change of sensitivity under the same conditions as Chest PA projection. At AEC mode, two upper ion chambers sensors and one lower ion chamber sensor were divided into 7 cases according to selection of on/off. after measuring five times respectively, we obtained average value and calculated exposure dose. Image assessment was done with measured Modulation Transfer Function, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Root Mean Square, Signal to Noise Ratio, Contrast to Noise Ratio, Mean to Standard deviation Ratio respectively. In exposure assessment results, selection of two upper chambers was the lowest. In resolution assessment results, image of two upper chambers had the second high spatial frequency at sensitivity at 625(High) was 1.343 lp/mm. RMS value of image selecting two upper chambers was low secondly. SNR, CNR, MSR were the high value secondly. As the sensitivity was increased, radiation dose was decreased but better image could be obtained on image quality. In order to obtain the best medical images while minimizing the dose, usage of two upper ion chambers is considered to be clinically useful at sensitivity 625(High).

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.226-233
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• 2003

The discharge characteristics of a prototype ion source was investigated, which was developed and upgraded for the NBI (Neutral Beam Injection) heating system of KSTAR (Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research). The ion source was designed for the arc discharge of magnetic bucket chamber with multi-pole cusp fields. The ion source was discharged by the emission-limited mode with the control of filament heating voltage. The maximum ion density was 4 times larger than the previous discharge controlled by a space-charge-limited mode with fully heated filament. The plasma (ion) density and arc current were proportional to the filament voltage, but the discharge efficiency was inversely proportional to the operating pressure of hydrogen gas. The maximum ion density and arc current were obtained with constant arc voltage ($80{\sim}100V$), as $8{\times}10^{11}cm^{-3}$ and 1200 A, respectively. The estimated maximum beam current was about 35 A, extracted by the accelerating voltage of 80kV.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.1633-1639
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• 1993

In spark ignition engine, EGR of lean mixture operation has advantage in emission, but disadvantages in power output and combustion flame propagation. Fast burn system is known to be a useful method to solve these disadvantages. This paper presents the characteristics of in-cylinder flow for different combustion chamber geometries, and the correlation between the in-cylinder flow and the combustion flame speed using an ion current method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
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• 1998.02a
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• pp.27-27
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• 1998

진공기술의 응용과 진공환경의 이용은 더 이상 논하지 않더라도 산업 전반에 그 충요성이 점점 더 커가고 있다. 이러한 여건에도 불구하고 진공율 이용하는 system 개밟의 국산화는 수 입하는 system으$\mid$ 수에 비하여 절대적으로 부족하며, 또한 개발하는 system의 자동화는 거의 이 루어지지 않고 있으며, 자동화된 진공판련 system은 거의 대부분 수입에 의흔하고 있다. 실험 실 규모에서부터 System올 하나하나 개밭하고, 이톨 자동화하는 노력과 일이 진행됨다면 산업 응용에 있어서도 자연스럽게 자동화된 system으$\mid$ 개발이 이루어 질 것이다 .. system 자동화는 상 품수명의 단축과 이에 따른 다품종 소량을 요구하는 시장수요에 대응하고, 인력절감과 고풀짙 화로 생산성 향상의 요구에 대응하기 위하여 필요하다. 본 연 구에 서 는 e-beam evaporator로 evaporation하면 서 ion beam으로 assist하여 thin film율 제 작하는 IBAD vacuum system율 싫 계 및 제 작하고[1,2], PLC[3,떼톨 이 용하여 system 자동화톨 하였다 .. thin film 제작 process는 먼저 기본 진공상태로 만뚫고 난 뒤, e-beam evaporator로 e evaporation하면서 ion beam source로 assist하여 substrate 011 thin film율 제조한다 226;. thin film올 제 조하면서 thickness monitor로 sample의 thickness rate톨 control 하고, sample의 균얼성과 밀착 성을 고려하여 substrate톨 rotation 및 heating 할 수 있도록 싫계, 제작하였다. 양질의 박막올 제조하기 위해서 진공환경이 좋은 상태로 제공되어야 한다. 이톨 위하여 oil free operation 0 I 가 능한 dry pump와 turbo molecular pump로 고진공 배기 하였다. 진공도의 흑점은 thermal effect 툴 고려하여 cold cathode ion gauge률 사용하였고, intro chamber와 main chamber 사이에는 g gate valve톨 설치하여 벌도로 운용되도록 하였다. 이러한 process를 박막의 두께, 진공도, 시 간, 온도, 공정 동의 조건올 기훈으로 자동화한 것이다. 또한 정전과 단수에 대한 interlock 기능 도 고려하였다.하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.54 no.12
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• pp.4644-4651
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• 2022

Due to its short half-life, thoron gas has been assumed to have negligible health hazards on humans compared to radon. But, one of the decay products with a long half-life can make it to be transported to a long distance and to cause a severe internal dose through respiration. Since most commercial radon detectors can not discriminate thoron signals from radon signals, it is very common to overestimate radon doses which in turn result in biased estimation of lung cancer risk in epidemiological studies. Though some methods had been suggested to measure thoron and radon separately, they could not be used for real-time measurement because of CR-39 or LR-115. In this study, an effective method was suggested to measure radon and thoron separately from the free air. It was observed that the activity of thoron decreases exponentially due to delay time caused by a long pipe between two chambers. Therefore from two ion chambers apart in time, it was demonstrated that thoron and radon could be measured separately and simultaneously. We also developed a collimated alpha source and with this source and an SBD, we could convert the ion chamber reading to count rate in cps.

• Proceedings of the Korean Radioactive Waste Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.371-372
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• 2008

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.222-228
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• 2016

Background: We are developing a small size dosimeter for dose estimation in particle therapies. The developed dosimeter is an optical fiber based dosimeter mounting an radiation induced luminescence material, such as an OSL or a scintillator, at a tip. These materials generally suffer from the quenching effect under high LET particle irradiation. Materials and Methods: We fabricated two types of the small size dosimeters. They used an OSL material Eu:BaFBr and a BGO scintillator. Carbon ions were irradiated into the fabricated dosimeters at Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). The small size dosimeters were set behind the water equivalent acrylic phantom. Bragg peak was observed by changing the phantom thickness. An ion chamber was also placed near the small size dosimeters as a reference. Results and Discussion: Eu:BaFBr and BGO dosimeters showed a Bragg peak at the same thickness as the ion chamber. Under high LET particle irradiation, the response of the luminescence-based small size dosimeters deteriorated compared with that of the ion chamber due to the quenching effect. We confirmed the luminescence efficiency of Eu:BaFBr and BGO decrease with the LET. The reduction coefficient of luminescence efficiency was different between the BGO and the Eu:BaFBr. The LET can be determined from the luminescence ratio between Eu:BaFBr and BGO, and the dosimeter response can be corrected. Conclusion: We evaluated the LET dependence of the luminescence efficiency of the BGO and Eu:BaFBr as the quenching effect. We propose and discuss the correction of the quenching effect using the signal intensity ratio of the both materials. Although the correction precision is not sufficient, feasibility of the proposed correction method is proved through basic experiments.

• Applied Science and Convergence Technology
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.84-89
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• 2015

The base pressure and outgassing rate of a mild steel chamber were measured and compared to those of a stainless steel chamber. A combined sputter-ion and non-evaporable getter pump with a nominal pumping speed of 490 l/s generated the base pressure of $2.7{\times}10^{-11}$ mbar in the mild steel chamber and $1.2{\times}10^{-10}$ mbar in the stainless steel chamber. The rate-of-rise measurements show that the mild steel has an extremely low outgassing rate of $2.6{\times}10^{-13}$ mbar $ls^{-1}cm^{-2}$, which is about one-order of magnitude smaller than the outgassing rate of the stainless steels. Vacuum annealing of the mild steel at $850^{\circ}C$ reduced the outgassing rate further to $8.8{\times}10^{-14}$ mbar $ls^{-1}cm^{-2}$, which was comparable to the outgassing rate of a heat treated stainless steel for extreme-high vacuum use.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.366-370
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• 2015

New ion beam etcher (IBE) using a magnetized inductively coupled plasma (M-ICP) has been developed. The magnetic flux density distributions inside the upper chamber, where the plasma is generated by inductive coupling, were successfully optimized by arranging a pair of circular coils very carefully. More importantly, the proposed M-ICP IBE exhibits higher etch rate than ICP.