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The Effect of Magnetic Field Direction on the EEG and PPG Obtained from Pulsed Magnetic Stimulus at Acupoint PC9

  • Kim, Sun-Wook;Lee, Jin-Yong;Lee, Hyun-Sook
    • Journal of Magnetics
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    • v.16 no.3
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    • pp.259-262
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    • 2011
  • Compared to acupuncture, the pulsed magnetic field (PMF) stimulus is a useful tool for treatment of many physical conditions and health maintenance due to its advantages as a noninvasive and nontoxic medical treatment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of PMF stimulus direction at PC9 on the alpha activity of electroencephalogram (EEG) and vascular aging calculated from photoplethysmograph (PPG). It can be concluded that the direction of PMF stimulus affects the increase of alpha activity of EEG and PPG, indicating the vascular stiffness and the sclerosis level of blood vessels weakly relevant to the direction of PMF stimulus.

Digital Scan Converter Algorithm for Ultrsound Sector Scanner (초음파 섹터 스캐너를 위한 디지털 스캔 변환 기법)

  • 김근호;오정환
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.469-478
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    • 1996
  • In the conventional digital ultrasound scanner, the reflected signal is sampled either in polar coordinates of R-$\theta$ method, or in Cartesian coordinates of uniform ladder algorithm (ULA). The R-$\theta$ scan method necessitates a coordinate transform process which makes hardware complex in comparison with ULA scan mrthoA In spite of this complexity, R-$\theta$ method has a good resolution in ultrasonographic (US) image, since scan direction of the US imaging is a radial direction. In this paper, a new digital scan converter is proposed, which is named the radius uniform ladder algorithm (RULA). The RULA has the rome scan direction as the US scanning in the radial direction and as the display space in the $\theta$ direction. In tllis new approach, sampled points we uniformly distributed in each horizontal line i.n well as in each radial ray so that the data are displayed in the Cartesian coordinates by the 1-D interpolation process. The propped algorithm has an uniform resolution in the periphery and the center field in comparison with equi-angle ULA and equi-interval ULA. To extend the scan angle, concentric square raster sampling (CSRS) is adopted with reduction of discontinuities on the junctions between horizontal scan and vertical scan. The discontinuities are reduced by using the hmction filtering along the $\theta$ direction.

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Analysis of driver behavior related to frontal vehicle collision direction (정면충돌의 충돌방향과 관련된 운전자의 행동분석)

  • Lee, Myung-Lyeol;Kim, Ho-Jung;Lee, Kang-Hyun;Kim, Sang-Chul;Lee, Hyo-Ju;Choi, Hyo-Jueng
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.17 no.5
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    • pp.530-537
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    • 2016
  • This study investigates frontal crashes, analyzes the driver's action related to the change of the collision direction and determines the severity of (bodily injury). This study was conducted from August, 2013, to January, 2014, and the data for the car damage and human body damage were collected by emergency medical teams. In terms of data collection, we collected the accident vehicle, crash direction, body damage, etc., based on the Korea In-depth Accident Study (KIDAS) and Injury Severity Score (ISS). We used Minitab 17 and SPSS 22.0 to do the frequency analysis and ANOVA. In the analysis results, the prevalence of frontal collisions was 55.8% and mostly occurred in the 12 o'clock direction. In the analysis of the frontal crash direction according to age, the average ages for the 11, 12 and 1 o'clock directions were $46.46{\pm}13.47$, $44.43{\pm}13.40$ and $52.46{\pm}12.04$, respectively, so the older age drivers had a high probability of the accident occurring in the 1 o'clock direction. In the analysis of men's frontal collision direction according to age, the average ages in the 11, 12 and 1 o'clock directions were $47.10{\pm}13.88$, $45.24{\pm}13.78$ and $55.73{\pm}13.38$, respectively, so older aged men had a high probability of having collisions in the 1 o'clock direction. However, the statistical analysis of the frontal crash direction according to age in women didn't show any meaningful trend. When comparing the ISS according to age of the men and women in the collision direction, the men were less likely to have a 12 o'clock collision when $ISS{\geq}9$ and more likely to have a 1 o'clock collision when ISS<9. As a result, frontal crashes are more likely to occur in the 12 o'clock direction and the ISS decreases because the likelihood of frontal crashes in the 1 o'clock direction increases with increasing age. Therefore, when men recognize that they are heading for a 12 o'clock direction collision, they try to steer to the left to reduce the body damage.

Trial of Computer Simulation of Image Reconstruction from Incomplete Data for New CT with Reduced Exposure

  • Hayakawa, Yoshinori;Furuya, Toshimitsu;Sakakibara, Norifumi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.382-384
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    • 2002
  • Filtered-Back-Projection technique is used in X-ray CT image reconstruction. This requires X-ray transmission data from all directions. As the transverse cross-section of the body is approximately 50 cm, transmitted X-rays in this direction are strongly attenuated. If X-ray transmission data in this direction is avoided, exposure to the patients seems to be reduced one 20th of usual value. Some alternative method has to be found for clinically sufficient image quality. New methods are under development and tentative results are reported that utilizes the principle of superposition.

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Direction of Healthcare Reform for Sustainability (지속 가능한 보건의료의 혁신 방향)

  • Park, Eun-Cheol
    • Health Policy and Management
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    • v.29 no.4
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    • pp.379-381
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    • 2019
  • Korea's healthcare is in great danger of sustainability. In 2020, the baby boomer will begin to be older, and there is no promise that the total fertility rate of 1.0 or less will rebound, and Korea's economic growth rate is predicted to be less than 2%. Together with these phenomena, Plan for Benefit Expansion in Nation Health Insurance (Moon Jae-in Care) will seriously threaten the sustainability of health insurance finance. In addition, health care in Korea has many problems: excessive medical utilization, rapidly increasing elderly medical costs, concentrating patients into big hospitals, low healthcare personnel but many healthcare facilities and equipment, bad quality of primary and mental care, and fast-growing health expenditure. For sustainability, healthcare of Korea should be reformed. The direction of the reform is people-centered and integrated healthcare in the community which is composed of empowering and engaging people, strengthening governance and accountability, reorienting the model of care, coordinating services, and creating an enabling environment.

Development and Application of Porous Superelastic TiNi Materials for Medical Implants

  • Gjunter, V.E.
    • Proceedings of the Korean Powder Metallurgy Institute Conference
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    • 1998.10b
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    • pp.7-7
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    • 1998
  • Research activities of Russian Medical Engineering Center and Institute of Medical Materials of Shape Memory Alloys and Implants are presented as follows: ${\bullet}$ The direction of elaboration of porous shape memory alloys for medicine. ${\bullet}$ Medical and technical requirements and physical and mechanical criteria of porous shape memory implants elaboration. ${\bullet}$ Basic laws of heat-, stress- and strain-induced changes of mechanical properties, shape memory effect and superelasticity in porous TiNi-based alloys. ${\bullet}$ Methods of regulation of shape memory effect parameters in porous alloys and methods for controlling the regulation-induced changes of physical and mechanical properties. ${\bullet}$ Original technologies of elaboration of porous alloys In various fields of medicine. ${\bullet}$ Arrangement of serial production of shape memory porous implants and examples of their medical use.

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A Study on The Dispute about The Identity of Oriental Medicine - Focused on Oriental Medical Classics (한의학(韓醫學) 정체성 논의에 대한 연구 - 원전학(原典學)을 중심으로)

  • Baik, You-Sang
    • Journal of Korean Medical classics
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.123-132
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, on the assumption that the dispute about the identity of Oriental Medicine(OM) will finally act as an developmental element of Oriental Medicine otherwise total Korean Medicine, at first we think about what are he meaning of identity and it's essential elements, and search how to establish the standard of the identity of Oriental Medicine. From this working, the direction of the research in the Oriental Medical Classics that is one of the detail field in OM will be drawn out. The identity of Oriental Medicine must be decided according to what is the mission or existence value contributing for Korean Society, not to the form of materiality or immateriality. The core of the identity of Oriental Medical Classics is relevant to being a help to other research fields through reinterpreting the Classics. And the most important issue of research are the analysis of thinking pattern In OM, and systematization of OM knowledge and information.

Recent Trends in Oriantal Medical Treatment for Tinnitus (이명(耳鳴)의 한방치료에 대한 최신 연구 동향)

  • Jung, Hyun-A
    • Journal of Haehwa Medicine
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2011
  • Objectives : This study is to research the trend of the oriantal medical treatment for tinnitus and to establish the hereafter direction for the study on oriantal medical treatment for tinnitus. Methods : We reviewed the domestic articles published last eleven years(2000- 2010). Results : We have searched 21 articles in 5 journals of korean oriental medical ophthalmology &dermatology, korean acupuncture & moxibustion, korean oriental medicine, oriental physiology & pathology, sasang constitutional medicine. 1. There were the most research done 2006. They have 5 articles. In other years there were 3 or less articles. 2. The pattern of study was as follow: the consideration of documents were 5, clinical trials were 6, case studies were 8 and the others were 2. the rate of case studies were increased. 3. After mid 2000s, there were more studies of new research method appearing. Conclusions : The oriental medical treatment already effective for tinnitus. But we need more studies about various kind of oriental medical treatment for tinnitus.

Estimation of MCG parameters for the diagnosis of heart diseases (심질환 진단을 위한 심자도 파라메터의 추출)

  • Jeon, Chang-Ik;Huh, Young;Kim, Ki-Uk;Han, Byung-Hee;Jin, Seung-Oh;Chang, Won-Suk;Lee, Hyun-Ho
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2003.11a
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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.

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Security Structure for Protection of Emergency Medical Information System (응급의료정보시스템의 보호를 위한 보안 구조)

  • Shin, Sang Yeol;Yang, Hwan Seok
    • Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.59-65
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    • 2012
  • Emergency medical information center performs role of medical direction about disease consult and pre-hospital emergency handling scheme work to people. Emergency medical information system plays a major role to be decreased mortality and disability of emergency patient by providing information of medical institution especially when emergency patient has appeared. But, various attacks as a hacking have been happened in Emergency medical information system recently. In this paper, we proposed security structure which can protect the system securely by detecting attacks from outside effectively. Intrusion detection was performed using rule based detection technique according to protocol for every packet to detect attack and intrusion was reported to control center if intrusion was detected also. Intrusion detection was performed again using decision tree for packet which intrusion detection was not done. We experimented effectiveness using attacks as TCP-SYN, UDP flooding and ICMP flooding for proposed security structure in this paper.