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Interference Issuses of Radio Frequency Identification Devices in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems and Computed Tomography Scan

  • Periyasamy, M.;Dhanasekaran, R.
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.295-301
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    • 2015
  • We evaluated certain issues related to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) coupled with the use of active 2.5 GHz radio frequency identification (RFID) tags for patient identification using low field (0.3 T) MRI and computed tomography (CT) scans. We also investigated the performance of the RFID reader located outside the MRI room by considering several factors. A total of ten active RFID tags were exposed to several MRI sequences and X-rays of CT scan. We found that only card type active RFID tags are suitable for patient identification purpose in MRI environment and both wristbands as well as card tags were suitable for the same in CT environment. Severe artifacts were found in the captured MRI and CT images when the area of the imaging was in proximity to the tags. No external factors affected the performance of active RFID reader stationed outside the MRI scan room.

APPLICATIONS OF ASYMMETRIC HYSTERESIS LOOPS IN AMORPHOUS ALLOYS

  • Jr., C.D. Graham;Shin, K-H.;Zhou, Peter Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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    • v.5 no.5
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    • pp.579-582
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    • 1995
  • The use of amorphous magnetic alloys as tags or targets in electronic article surveillance systems such as antishoplifting desvices is briefly reviewed. Improved tags became possible with the discovery in 1988 of asymmetric magnetization reversal (AMR) in certain amorphous alloys annealed in applied field approximately equal to the earth's field. These asymmetric hysteresis loops are highly unusual, if not unique, and so greatly diminish the probability of false alarms in a detection system. furthermore, the jump field Hj, which is the coercive field in negative applied fields, can be controlled over a useful range by controlling the field applied to the sample during annealing. By applying several tags to an object, each with a different jump field, it is possible to identify the object with a numeric code that can be remotely read by nonoptical means.

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Multi-hop RFID Reader and Tag Communication Architecture for Port Logistics (항만 물류용 RFID 리더-태그 간 다중 홉 통신 구조)

  • Yoo, Young-Hwan;Kim, Jin-Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.34 no.5B
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    • pp.532-541
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    • 2009
  • The RFID technology has attracted much attention these days due to the far better efficiency than the bar-code and magnetic card system. As an important usage, the 433 MHz active RFID tag was already adopted to the container ports in the United States and Europe for container loading/unloading automation and equipment location. However, there is one problem to be solved for the complete automation. RFID readers support only the direct communication with tags within their RF communication range. Then there are a lot of containers and equipments such as crane, yard tractor, and forklift in ports; and because they are made of metal, they interfere the RF communication, resulting in the occurrence of the dead-zone. In the dead-zone, RFID tags cannot receive any signal from readers. There may be several solutions to resolve the dead-zone problem. Among them, this paper suggests the most economical solution where RFID tags in the dead-zone can communicate with readers via neighbor tags in the multi-hop manner The new RFID communication architecture should be carefully designed in order to maintain the compatibility with the previous standard. Our experiment shows that the proposed architecture works well even in the case where some tags are out of the RF range of reader.

A Universal Smart-phone APP for Processing One-shot Tasks (일회성 작업 처리를 위한 통함 스마트폰 앱)

  • Cha, Shin;So, Sun Sup;Jung, Jinman;Yoon, Young-Sun;Eun, Seongbae
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.562-570
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    • 2017
  • One shot tasks like a MERSC handling policy, a cinema poster, and so on are too small, diverse, and sporadic to make them as apps or web applications. They are usually shared as the form of notes attached in the field or messages in smart phones. In order to support inter-operability with internet web sites, QR/NFC tags are attached to them. What matters in the web technology is that HTML5 standard does not supply the accessability of smart phones' resources like a camera, an audio, magnetic sensors, and etc. In this paper, we propose a universal smart phone application for handling various one-shot tasks in the same UI/UX. One-shot tasks are described with HTML5 web documents, and the URL for the web documents are stored in QR/NFC tags. A smart phone scans a tag, and then the web document is retrieved and presented finally. QR tags can be delivered to other smart phones through messages or SNS. We solve the problem of HTML5 standard supplying a resource access library with javascrippts. We suggested the whole architecture and the internal structure of QR/NFC tags. We show that our scheme is applicable to make variable one-shot tasks.

Design of Wireless Rechargeable RTLS Tag (무선 충전 가능한 RTLS 태그 설계)

  • Kim, Tae Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2015.10a
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    • pp.59-60
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    • 2015
  • Wireless power transfer is a technique that supplies the necessary power to the various electronic devices over the air without wires. The technology is classified as near-field wireless power transfer technology using inductive coupling and far-field wireless power transfer technology using antenna. In this paper, RTLS tag for high-precision positioning and wireless power transfer module was designed in order to solve the power supply problem for facility management. was designed for high-precision positioning is possible RTLS tags and wireless charging. The wireless charging pad provides the capability to charge up to four devices using he magnetic resonance system.

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A study on how to discriminate the polarities of stator windings for 3 phase induction motors by using induced voltages based on residual magnetism (잔류자기 유도 기전력을 이용한 3상유도전동기 권선의 극성 판별법에 관한 연구)

  • Choi, Soon-Man
    • Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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    • v.38 no.9
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    • pp.1146-1149
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    • 2014
  • To discriminate polarities of stator windings for 3 phase induction motors terminal tags of which are not readable, it is possible to utilize the residual magnetic flux present at their rotors as well as to use the way based on external exciting current. The induced voltages are basically decided by parameters such as the quantity of residual flux, the rotator speed by hand force and the phase properties between stator windings. To adopt induced voltages by residual flux for polarity discrimination at sites, the measured voltages by multi-testers need to be readable in magnitude enough to discriminate winding condition with reasonable phase characteristics. This study focuses on the analysis of various connection cases in the expectation that the summing voltages induced by residual flux shall show zero in case of normal connections while the sum becomes greater indication if the connection is in wrong condition. The proposed method is applied to actual motors to disclose how effective it is for polarity discrimination at sites through comparison of output signals between normal and fault connections.

Brain Mapping: From Anatomics to Informatics

  • Sun, Woong
    • Applied Microscopy
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    • v.46 no.4
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    • pp.184-187
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    • 2016
  • Neuronal connectivity determines brain function. Therefore, understanding the full map of brain connectivity with functional annotations is one of the most desirable but challenging tasks in science. Current methods to achieve this goal are limited by the resolution of imaging tools and the field of view. Macroscale imaging tools (e.g., magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion tensor images, and positron emission tomography) are suitable for large-volume analysis, and the resolution of these methodologies is being improved by developing hardware and software systems. Microscale tools (e.g., serial electron microscopy and array tomography), on the other hand, are evolving to efficiently stack small volumes to expand the dimension of analysis. The advent of mesoscale tools (e.g., tissue clearing and single plane ilumination microscopy super-resolution imaging) has greatly contributed to filling in the gaps between macroscale and microscale data. To achieve anatomical maps with gene expression and neural connection tags as multimodal information hubs, much work on information analysis and processing is yet required. Once images are obtained, digitized, and cumulated, these large amounts of information should be analyzed with information processing tools. With this in mind, post-imaging processing with the aid of many advanced information processing tools (e.g., artificial intelligence-based image processing) is set to explode in the near future, and with that, anatomic problems will be transformed into informatics problems.