• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2004

We consider design factors for a SQUID sensor array to construct a 52-channel magnetocardiogram (MCG) system that can be used to measure tangential components of the cardiac magnetic fields. Nowadays, full-size multichannel MCG systems, which cover the whole signal area of a heart, are developed to improve the clinical analysis with high accuracy and to provide patients with comfort in the course of measurement. To design the full-size MCG system, we have to make a compromise between cost and performance. The cost is involved with the number of sensors, the number of the electronics, the size of a cooling dewar, the consumption of refrigerants for maintenance, and etc. The performance is the capability of covering the whole heart volume at once and of localizing current sources with a small error. In this study, we design the cost-effective arrangement of sensors for MCG by considering an adequate sensor interval and the confidence region of a tolerable localization error, which covers the heart. In order to fit the detector array on the cylindrical dewar economically, we removed the detectors that were located at the corners of the array square. Through simulations using the confidence region method, we verified that our design of the detector array was good enough to obtain whole information from the heart at a time. A result of the simulation also suggested that tangential-component MCG measurement could localize deeper current dipoles than normal-component MCG measurement with the same confidence volume; therefore, we conclude that measurement of the tangential component is more suitable to an MCG system than measurement of the normal component.

• 한국자기학회:학술대회 개요집
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• 한국자기학회 2003년도 somma/kms meeting
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• pp.303-303
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• 2003

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도학회 2003년도 High Temperature Superconductivity Vol.XIII
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• pp.57-57
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• 2003

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권11호
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• pp.680-688
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• 2005

The electrical current generated by heart creates not only electric potential but also a magnetic field. We have observed electrophysiological phenomena of the heart by measuring components of magnetocardiogram(MCG) using 61 channel superconducting quantum interference device(SQUD) system. We have analyzed the possibility and characteristics of MCG parameters for diagnosis of ischemic heart disease. A technique for automatic analysis of MCG signals in time domain was developed. The methods for detecting the position, the interval, the amplitude ratio, and the direction of single current dipole were examined in the MCG wave. The position and interval parameters were obtained by calculating the gradients of a envelope curve which could be formed by the difference between the maximum and minimum envelope of multi-channel MCG signals. We show some differences of the frequency contour map between the normal MCG and the abnormal (ischemic heart disease) MCG. The direction of single current dipole can be defined by rotating the magnetic field according to Biot-Savart's law at each point of MCG signals. In this study, we have examined the direction of single current dipole from searching for the centroids of positive and negative magnetic fields. The amplitude ratio parameters for measuring 57 deviation consisted of A$_{T}$/A$_{R}$ and other ratios. and We developed a new analysis method, which is based on the frequency contour map of electromagnetic field. Using theses parameters, we founded significant differences between normal subjects and ischemic patients in some parameters.

• 센서학회지
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.258-264
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• 1997

$YBa_{2}Cu_{3}O_{7}$ 단일층 박막으로 된 직접결합형 직류 SQUID magnetometer를 설계하여 $SrTiO_{3}$기판위에 제작하였다. 검출코일은 외변 8.5 mm, 선폭은 2.6 mm로 하였으며, 조셉슨 접합의 선폭은 $3\;{\mu}m$, SQUID 인덕턴스는 50pH로 하였다. 제작된 소자의 외부 자속에 대한 전압 변조신호의 크기는 최대 $65\;{\mu}V$, 자장잡음은 1 Hz에서 약0.6 pT/$\sqrt{Hz}$ 이었다. 이 SQUID magnetometer를 사용하여 자기차폐실 내에서 심자도 파형을 측정하여 가산평균하였을 때 매우 양호한 심자도 파형을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권11호
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• pp.2137-2142
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• 2016

심장에서 발생된 전류는 전위 뿐만 아니라 자기장을 생성한다. 본 논문에서는 61 채널 양자 간섭 장치 (SQUID) 시스템을 사용하여 심자도 (MCG)의 신호를 취득하고, 이것으로부터 임상적으로 유의하다고 생각되는 다양한 특징 파라미터를 계산한다. 이를 입력으로 신경회로망 알고리즘을 적용하여 허혈성 심장질환의 분류를 수행하였다. 심자도 신호는 전처리 과정을 통해 파라미터의 추출을 용이하게 하였다. 연구에 사용된 데이터는 정상인 10명과 안정형 협심 증세를 보이는 허혈성 심장질환 환자 10명분의 신호이다. 이들 신호로부터 임상적으로 유의한 특징점, 특징 간격 파라미터 및 진폭비를 추출하였다. 심자도 특징 파라미터를 신경회로망 입력으로 사용하여 허혈성 심장질환의 분류가 가능함을 보였다.

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.121-126
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• 2003

The single layer direct-coupled YBCO SQUID magnetometers have been fabricated and characterized for the purpose of the measurement of weak magnetic signals in unshielded environment. Two types of magnetometers have been designed and fabricated using 10 mm$\times$ 10 mm substrates. We could operate the conventional 3-mm-wide solid pickup loop magnetometers more stably than the 12-parallel-line pickup loop magnetometers in laboratory environment. We developed a first-order electronic gradiometer system using the SQUID sensors with axial displacement of 80 mm without any mechanical alignment of magnetometers. The system with a software filter using calculation of discrete Fourier transform could record clearly weak pulse signal of 100 pT in a magnetically disturbed environment.

• 한국초전도학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국초전도학회 2003년도 High Temperature Superconductivity Vol.XIII
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• pp.47-47
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• 2003

• Progress in Superconductivity
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.124-128
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• 2011

We have developed a high-$T_C$ SQUID magnetometer system to measure magnetocardiograms of laboratory rats. White noise of the measurement system was about 50 fT/$Hz^{1/2}$ when measured in a magnetically shielded box. We optimized the measurement position to obtain clear MCG wave from rat's small heart by using grid measurements. With the optimization, the MCG signal was successfully detected with the peak amplitude of about 50 pT. We could observe well defined P-, QRS-, and T-wave from the rat MCG. The results suggest that the developed system has a strong potential to monitor the progress of heart disease model using laboratory rat.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.549-552
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• 2003

The electrical current generated by heart creates not only electric potential but also a magnetic field. We have observed electrophysiological phenomena of the heart by measuring tangential components of magnetocardiogram(MCG) using 61 channel superconducting quantum interference device(SQUD) system. In this paper, we developed a new analysis method, which is based on the theory of electromagnetic field. We show some differences of the current direction between the normal MCG and the abnormal(ischemic heart disease) MCG.