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Development and evaluation of modified lead gloves to reduce hand radiation dose during interventional radiological procedures

  • Hyun-Jun Park;Byungdu Jo;Seung-Jae Lee
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.56 no.7
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    • pp.2781-2789
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    • 2024
  • We developed lead gloves that minimize radiation dose to the operator's hands during interventional radiological procedures and that do not impede the operator's surgical capabilities. Existing lead gloves can protect the operator's hands by shielding radiation, but use of such gloves may impair preception sensitivity, resulting in a reduction in the operator's surgical ability. Accordingly, in this study, we developed modified lead gloves that can reduce radiation dose while maintaining operator sensitivity during procedures by modifying the operator's main surgical finger area in existing lead gloves. To evaluate the performance of developed modified lead gloves, radiation was applied in surgical conditions without gloves and with surgical gloves, lead gloves, and modified lead gloves. The radiation dose was evaluated for each condition. When the modified lead gloves were worn, the degree of shielding was similar to when conventional lead gloves were worn. Based on these results, if the operator wears modified lead gloves during interventional radiological procedures, they will protect the hands from radiation while maintaining physical sensitivity in the hands.

A Wearable Glove System for Rehabilitation of Finger Injured Patients (손가락 부상 환자의 재활을 위한 장갑형 웨어러블 시스템)

  • Ji-Hun Seong;Hyun-Jin Choi
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.379-386
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    • 2023
  • When patients suffer from finger injuries, their finger joints can become stiff and inflexible due to decreased ability to exercise the finger tendons. This can lead to a loss of strength and difficulty using their hands. To address this, it is important to provide patients with consistent rehabilitation treatment that can help restore finger flexibility and strength simultaneously. In this study, we propose wearable gloves that use FSRs (force sensitive resistors) for finger strength training. The glove is designed to be adjustable using rubber bands and a custom PCB is designed for signal acquisition. For the evaluation of finger strength training, the result was analyzed in four cases. We suggest a vector that represents the center of five finger forces, and the result shows that the vector can indicate the level of force balance.

A study on the improvement of rubber glove work to prevent the work accident (작업재해 예방을 위한 직접활선 작업방법 개선방안에 관한 연구)

  • Moon, Soo-Deog;Lee, Jung-Gwan
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2000.07a
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    • pp.492-494
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    • 2000
  • The rapid increase of electric power demand and the strong requirements for interuptiom-free made most distribution works being done by interruptiom-free work techniques. These trends lead to increase of accident by electric shock. It goes to prove that more than 80% of electric accident is due to the hot line works. Therefore, the countermeasures are very urgent. This paper suggests the improvement to prevent the work accident by interruption-free work through the examination of the present situation of interruption-free work techniques as well as analysing the problems in terms of live-line works and working procedures. These improvement will contribute to reduce the work accident in live-line work and enhance the construction quality by training and managing workers effectively.

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