• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.1169-1176
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• 2014

In this study, water-dispersible ZnS:Mn nanocrystals were synthesized by capping the surface with conventional and simple structured amino acid ligands: $\small{L}$-Glycine and $\small{L}$-Alanine. The ZnS:Mn-Gly and ZnS:Mn-Ala nanocrystal powders were characterized by XRD, HR-TEM, EDXS, ICP-AES, and FT-IR spectroscopy. The optical properties were measured by UV-Visible and photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The PL spectra for the ZnS:Mn-Gly and ZnS:Mn-Ala showed broad emission peaks at 599 nm and 607 nm with PL efficiencies of 6.5% and 7.8%, respectively. The measured average particle size from the HR-TEM images were $6.4{\pm}0.8$ nm (ZnS:Mn-Gly) and $4.1{\pm}0.5$ nm (ZnS:Mn-Ala), which were also supported by Debye-Scherrer calculations. In addition, the degree of aggregation of the nanocrystals in aqueous solutions were measured by a hydrodynamic light scattering method, which showed formation of sub-micrometer size aggregates for both ZnS:Mn-Gly ($273{\pm}94$ nm) and ZnS:Mn-Ala ($233{\pm}34$ nm) in water due to the intermolecular attraction between the capping amino acids molecules. Finally, the cytotoxic effects of ZnS:Mn-Gly and ZnS:Mn-Ala nanocrsystals over the growth of wild type E. coli were investigated. As a result, no toxicity was shown for the ZnS:Mn-Gly nanocrystal in the colloidal concentration region from 1 ${\mu}g/mL$ to 1000 ${\mu}g/mL$, while ZnS:Mn-Ala showed significant toxicity at 100 ${\mu}g/mL$.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.11-16
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• 2023

전임상용 양전자방출단층촬영기기는 관심 시야 외곽에서의 공간분해능 저하현상이 발생한다. 이를 해결하기 위해 감마선과 섬광체가 상호작용한 위치를 측정하는 반응 깊이 측정(depth of interaction, DOI) 검출기가 개발되었다. 여러 층으로 섬광 픽셀 배열을 구성한 방법, 하나의 층의 양단에 광센서를 배치한 방법, 여러 층으로 섬광 픽셀 배열을 구성하고 각 층마다 광센서를 배치한 방법 등이 있다. 본 연구에서는 기존에 개발된 검출기들의 특징을 분석하여 새로운 형태의 DOI 검출기를 설계하였다. 두층으로 구성된 검출기는 각 층마다 서로 다른 크기의 섬광 픽셀을 사용하여, 배열의 크기를 다르게 구성하였다. 이러한 형태로 구성할 경우 층별 섬광 픽셀의 위치는 서로 어긋나게 배열되어 평면 영상에서 서로 다른 위치에 영상화된다. 설계한 검출기의 반응 깊이 측정 가능성을 확인하기위해 DETECT2000 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. 각 섬광 픽셀의 중심에서 발생된 감마선 이벤트로 획득한 빛의 신호로 평면 영상을 재구성하였다. 그 결과 각 층별 모든 섬광 픽셀이 재구성된 평면 영상에서 분리되어 영상화되어, 반응 깊이를 측정할 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 검출기를 전임상용 PET에 적용할 경우 공간분해능의 향상을 이루어 우수한 영상을 획득할 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 천문학회지
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2019

Intensive Monitoring Survey of Nearby Galaxies (IMSNG) is a high cadence observation program monitoring nearby galaxies with high probabilities of hosting supernovae (SNe). IMSNG aims to constrain the SN explosion mechanism by inferring sizes of SN progenitor systems through the detection of the shock-heated emission that lasts less than a few days after the SN explosion. To catch the signal, IMSNG utilizes a network of 0.5-m to 1-m class telescopes around the world and monitors the images of 60 nearby galaxies at distances D < 50 Mpc to a cadence as short as a few hours. The target galaxies are bright in near-ultraviolet (NUV) with $M_{NUV}$ < -18.4 AB mag and have high probabilities of hosting SNe ($0.06SN\;yr^{-1}$ per galaxy). With this strategy, we expect to detect the early light curves of 3.4 SNe per year to a depth of R ~ 19.5 mag, enabling us to detect the shock-heated emission from a progenitor star with a radius as small as $0.1R_{\odot}$. The accumulated data will be also useful for studying faint features around the target galaxies and other science projects. So far, 18 SNe have occurred in our target fields (16 in IMSNG galaxies) over 5 years, confirming our SN rate estimate of $0.06SN\;yr^{-1}$ per galaxy.