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Evaluation of Spatial Dose Rate in Working Environment during Non-Destructive Testing using Radioactive Isotopes (방사성동위원소를 이용한 비파괴 검사 시 작업환경 내 공간선량률 평가)

  • Cho, Yong-In;Kim, Jung-Hoon;Bae, Sang-Il
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.373-379
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    • 2022
  • The radiation source used for non-destructive testing have permeability and cause a scattered radiation through collisions of surrounding materials, which causes changes in the surrounding spatial dose. Therefore, this study attempted to evaluate and analyze the distribution of spatial dose by source in the working environment during the non-destructive test using monte carlo simulation. In this study, Using FLUKA, a simulation code, simulates 60Co, 192Ir, and 75Se source used in non-destructive testing, The reliability of the source term was secured by comparing the calculated dose rate with the data of the Health and Physics Association. After that, a non-destructive test in the radiation safety facility(RT-room) was designed to evaluate the spatial dose according to the distance from the source. As a result of the spatial dose evaluation, 75Se source showed the lowest dose distribution in the frontal position and 60Co source showed a dose rate of about 15 times higher than that of 75Se and about 2 times higher than that of 192Ir. In addition, the spatial dose according to the distance tends to decrease according to the distance inverse square law as the distance from the source increases. Exceptionally, 60Co, 192Ir, and 75Se sources confirmed a slight increase within 2 m of position. Based on the results of this study, it is believed that it will be used as supplementary data for safety management of workers in radiation safety facilities during non-destructive testing using radioactive isotopes.

Evaluation of luminance performance of scintillating film for monitoring the position of a radioactive source in an NDT apparatus (비파괴검사 장치 내 방사선원 위치감시용 섬광필름의 발광성능 평가)

  • Lee, Kyung-Jin;Yun, Jeong-Ick;Park, Byung-Gi;Kim, Sin;Lee, Bong-Soo
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.13-17
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    • 2005
  • In domestic nondestructive testing(NDT) field, there have recently been radiation exposure accidents due to a disregard for confirmation of the position of radioisotope during the test. In order to prevent these kinds of accidents, a scintillating film has been developed. The scintillating film that can convert gamma-ray to visible light has a function of the position detection of radioisotope in a opaque guide tube of an NDT apparatus. The aim of this study is to enhance the visibility performance of the scintillating film and find out the best configuration of the scintillating film. In order to find appropriate materials for the scintillating film, various inorganic scintillating materials were evaluated in this work. An absolute luminance of the scintillating films was measured by luminance meter for evaluation of visibility performance. Ir-192 gamma projector was used for NDT apparatus. The experiment shows that the scintillating film with reflective layer was the more effective performance for visibility. The higher mixing ratio of scintillating material to binding material, the higher luminance was measured. $Gd_2O_2S(Tb)$ inorganic powder as the scintillating materials had the best performance for visibility of the scintillating film. The developed scintillating film helps to ensure safer environment to the operators.

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Performance Evaluation of Lead (II) Oxide Dosimeter for Digital Quality Assurance in Brachytherapy (방사선 근접치료의 디지털 정도관리를 위한 Lead (II) Oxide 선량계 성능 평가)

  • Han, Moo-Jae;Yang, Seung-Woo;Park, Sung-Kwang
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.429-435
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    • 2021
  • In intracavitary radiotherapy, incorrect location of the source can cause excessive dose to normal tissue, so it is essential to evaluate the location accuracy of the source. In this study, basic research was performed on digital line dosimeter based on lead (II) oxide (PbO) to improve analog verification method. Therefore, a polycrystalline PbO unit cell dosimeter was manufactured and the measurement performance for Ir-192 sources was evaluated. As a result, the reproducibility satisfies the evaluation criteria of 1.5% with a relative standard deviation of 0.85%. Linearity showed excellent results with a linear coefficient of R2 of 0.9998. In the case of distance dependence evaluation, the power function R2 showed 0.9855 for PbO and 0.9974 for diode, and the overall average difference was 1.66% for PbO and 2.18% for diode. This study presents the basic detection performance of the polycrystalline PbO dosimeter for the Ir-192 source and can provide basic data in the field of radiation measurement.

Comparison of Treatment Planning on Dosimetric Differences Between 192Ir Sources for High-Dose Rate Brachytherapy (고선량률 근접치료에서 이리듐-192 선원의 선량특성 차이에 관한 치료계획 비교)

  • Yang, Oh-Nam;Shin, Seong Soo;Ahn, Woo Sang;Kim, Dae-Yong;Kwon, Kyung-Tae;Lim, Cheong-Hwan;Lee, Sang Ho;Choi, Wonsik
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.163-170
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    • 2016
  • To evaluate whether the difference in geometrical characteristics between high-dose-rate (HDR) $^{192}Ir$ sources would influence the dose distributions of intracavitary brachytherapy. Two types of microSelectron HDR $^{192}Ir$ sources (classic and new models) were selected in this study. Two-dimensional (2D) treatment plans for classic and new sources were generated by using PLATO treatment planning system. We compared the point A, point B, and bladder and rectum reference points based on ICRU 38 recommendation. The radial dose function of the new source agrees with that of the classic source except difference of up to 2.6% at the nearest radial distance. The differences of anisotropy functions agree within 2% for r=1, 3, and 5 cm and $20^{\circ}$ < ${\theta}$ < $165^{\circ}$. The largest discrepancies of anisotropy functions reached up to 27% for ${\theta}$ < $20^{\circ}$ at r=0.25 cm and were up to 13%, 10%, and 7% at r=1, 3, and 5 cm for ${\theta}$ > $170^{\circ}$, respectively. There were no significant differences in doses of point A, point B, and bladder point for the treatment plans between the new and classic sources. For the ICRU rectum point, the percent dose difference was on average 0.65% and up to 1.0%. The dose discrepancies between two treatment plans are mainly affected due to the geometrical difference of the source and the sealed capsule.

REALM for Open-domain Question Answering of Korean (REALM을 이용한 한국어 오픈도메인 질의 응답)

  • Kan, Dong-Chan;Na, Seung-Hoon;Choi, Yun-Su;Lee, Hye-Woo;Chang, Du-Seong
    • Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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    • 2020.10a
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    • pp.192-196
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    • 2020
  • 최근 딥러닝 기술의 발전에 힘입어 오픈 도메인 QA 시스템의 발전은 가속화되고 있다. 특히 IR 시스템(Information Retrieval)과 추출 기반의 기계 독해 모델을 결합한 접근 방식(IRQA)의 경우, 문서와 질문 각각을 연속 벡터로 인코딩하는 IR 시스템(Dense Retrieval)의 연구가 진행되면서 검색 성능이 전통적인 키워드 기반 IR 시스템에 비해 큰 폭으로 상승하였고, 이를 기반으로 오픈 도메인 질의응답의 성능 또한 개선 되었다. 본 논문에서는 경량화 된 BERT 모델을 기반으로 하여 Dense Retrieval 모델 ORQA와 REALM을 사전 학습하고, 한국어 오픈 도메인 QA에서 QA 성능과 검색 성능을 도출한다. 실험 결과, 키워드 기반 IR 시스템 BM25를 기반으로 했던 이전 IRQA 실험결과와 비교하여 더 적은 문서로 더 나은 QA 성능을 보였으며, 검색 결과의 경우, BM25의 성능을 뛰어넘는 결과를 보였다.

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Piscidenone and Piscidinol G, Two New Protolimonoids from Walsura piscidia

  • Balakrishna, K.;Sukumar, E.;Connolly, J.D.
    • Natural Product Sciences
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    • v.9 no.3
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    • pp.192-194
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    • 2003
  • Two new protolimonoids, piscidenone (1) and piscidinol G (2) were isolated from the leaves of the plant Walsura piscidia together with piscidinol A and C. The structurers were assigned based on spectral evidences $(IR,\;^1HNMR,\;^{13}CNMR\;and\;MS)$.

Monitoring of Rotational Movements of Two Piston Rings in a Cylinder Using Radioisotopes

  • Jung, Sunghee;Jin, Joonha
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.31 no.4
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    • pp.423-431
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    • 1999
  • A radiotracer technique has been developed to monitor the rotational movement of two piston rings in one cylinder during engine operation. The rings were labeled with two different kinds of radioisotopes, i.e. $^{60}$ Co and $^{192}$ Ir, for identification of the top ring from the second ring. The radiotracers were implanted in a small hole bored on the inner side of each piston ring. The rings were installed in a single cylinder hydrogen engine and three Nal scintillation detectors were mounted around the engine block to measure the gamma radiation. The angle of ring-gap orientation was determined from the radiation counts measured with the three detectors during engine operation. Two windows (upper window for $^{60}$ Co and lower window for $^{192}$ Ir) were set on each ratemeter to count radiation from the two isotopes separately. Procedure to convert the radiation counts to the position of the ring gap was established. With the software programmed with MS-Visualbasic, radiation counts were compared with the reference responses that were measured at angular intervals of 10$^{\circ}$for each piston ring in advance of the experiment. The result was used for the evaluation of the relationship between the orientation of ring-gaps and oil consumption. It was found that an increase in the oil consumption rate of a specific operation condition was closely related to the relative phase angle of the two piston rings.

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