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Shielding Effect according to the Direction of Control Room Door Opening during Radiography (방사선촬영 중 제어실 문의 열린 방향에 따른 차폐효과)

  • Choi, Weon-Keun;Kim, Jung-Hoon;Kang, Bo-Sun;Bae, Seok-Hwan;Lim, Chang-Seon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.11 no.9
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    • pp.3347-3352
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    • 2010
  • It is recommended that the door of control room is closed during radiography to protect a radiologic technologist. However, for those patients such as of emergency or pediatrics, the door must be kept open unavoidably to apply immediate medical administration and treatment on the potential case of emergency which could be happened through the course of radiography. In addition, it could be efficient by reducing patients waiting time when the door is open for a general case. This study was conducted to evaluate practical exposure rate to a radiologic technologist when the door is open during the radiography, and to find out the ways to minimize radiation exposure and to increase the efficiency simultaneously. Measuring practical exposure rate was fulfilled with glass dosimeter, and it was 2.02 mGy/week at the location of radiologic technologist under the condition that the door is open during the radiography, which was about 2.3 times higher than the 100 mR/week. It means that the considerable amount of scattered rays through the door opening, and increase exposure rate at the radiologic technologist. Hence we confirmed that a radiologic technologist probably overexposed if the door is open during the radiography. It was also confirmed by the Monte Carlo simulation that the exposure rate could be reduced up to approximately 1/100 by change only the door opening direction. In conclusion, since the proper door opening direction provides same shielding effect whether it is open or close, the door opening direction need to be considered when it is installed at radiography facilities.

The Analysis for Welfare Satisfaction Factor of Clinic's Radiological Technologist (의원 방사선사의 복지만족요인 분석)

  • Jeong, Bong-Jae;Choi, Il-Hong;Song, Jae-Heung;Noh, Si-Cheol
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.11 no.6
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    • pp.517-523
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    • 2017
  • As the research for evaluating the welfare satisfaction factor of radiological technologist who works in the clinic, this study was conducted to analysis the satisfaction factor, satisfaction level, and the improvements. During July 14, 2014 to March 31, 2015, after we sent out a total of 150 questionnaires for the survey to radiological technologists working at the clinic located in Gyoungsangnam province, 130 questionnaires suitable for research were analysis by using SPSS 18.0 statistical analysis software. As the welfare factors, working environment, financial support, educational opportunity, medical support, working culture, etc. were used. And as the sociodemographic characteristics, the gender, marriage, level of education, age, and working period were used. As a result of analysis of satisfaction level by welfare factors, working environment was $2.74{\pm}0.65$, financial support was $2.42{\pm}0.74$, educational opportunity was $2.24{\pm}0.72$, medical support was $2.68{\pm}0.69$, and working culture was $2.27{\pm}0.64$. Consequentially, the satisfaction level of welfare factor ($2.45{\pm}0.59$) was confirmed as below average. On the nature of the clinic, the management's lack of awareness of welfare is a realistic limit. In order to improve the satisfaction level of clinic's radiological technologist, it thought that there should be the proactive changes of the managements and the change of the medical staff 's perception. Moreover, it is important to provide selective welfare effectively by the investigation of employees' desire for welfare.

A Study on Design and Implementation of CAI System for Mammography Education in Radiological Technologist (방사선 유방촬영 교육을 위한 CAI 시스템의 설계 및 구현에 관한 연구)

  • Park Byung-Rae
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.5 no.4
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    • pp.78-84
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    • 2005
  • The education system that based on objective data is needed for the beginning technologists in the department of radiology, development of the CAI system based on breast images is needed mammography field. So, in this study, we implemented CAI system based on mammography images for medical radiological technologists under Web using multimedia toolbook. This system is implemented under Web, more and more beginning technologists can have a remote-education beyond time and space, can save human power and time that needed due to hold in common of educational information, and cannot team mistaken breast images because of learning execution based on objective data. Also, implemented system brings a higher interest and a learning effect to medical radiological technologies because of hyper-media method that offered from toolbook. In the future, it will be needed a continuous acceptance of changing knowledge and it will be useful system for technologist in case of applying various examinations based mammography method of this study.

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A Study on the Development of Academic Classification System for Biomedical Laboratory Science (임상병리검사학의 학문분류체계 개발을 위한 연구)

  • Koo, Bon-Kyeong
    • Korean Journal of Clinical Laboratory Science
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    • v.49 no.4
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    • pp.477-488
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    • 2017
  • This study presents a discussion on the biomedical laboratory science (formally clinical laboratory science or medical laboratory science) with the identity of biomedical laboratory science, as well as the academic classification system for systematic approach. The field of biomedical laboratory science is not registered in the academic research area classification system of the National Research Foundation of Korea. Since the inception of the first department of biomedical laboratory science in 1963, about 52 departments were since established. Despite the scientific identity, biomedical laboratory science have not been acknowledged professionally in most institutions. Observing the academic research area classification, the physical therapy, occupational therapy, and dental hygiene science are systematically classified and approved the identities by the authorities. This study is freshly academic area classification system of the biomedical laboratory science. The contents of this study are summarized as follows. The medical laboratory technologist's discipline is considered within the medical and science category, clinical pathology in class, and biomedical laboratory science in division. Sections of biomedical laboratory science include hematology, transfusionology, immunology, biochemistry, microbiology, parasitology, science, molecular biology, histology, cytology, cardiopulmonary physiology, and neurophysiology.

Effect of Radiation Resistance by Chitosan through Micronuclei Test after X-ray Irradiation (키토산의 방사선 저항 효과에 관한 연구)

  • Kim Jung-Sam
    • Journal of The Korean Radiological Technologist Association
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    • v.28 no.1
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    • pp.34-38
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    • 2002
  • As the radiation is widely used in atomic power generation and medical parts. If it was not very carefully treated, Especially, to consideration of the perspicacity ability of radiation or radionuclide will be caused cytogenetic damages. To evaluation of

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Implementation of Education System on PACS Administorusing e-Learning (e-Learning을 이용한 PACS 영상관리사 교육시스템 구현)

  • Park, Byung-Rae;Kang, Se-Sik;Ko, Seong-Jin;Kim, Hwa-Gon
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.61-66
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    • 2004
  • In order to improve an efficiency of education and acquisition of PACS administor in Radiological technologist, we implement an e-Learing databank system providing more efficiently provide medical questions set for the integrated education and PACS administor without the limitation of time and space based on XML that is the standard of exchange and transmission of Web documents via Internet. The proposed system is composed of administration module and user module. The former supports some functions: a creation, classification, and management of Radiological question set. Our system can elevate ability of learning and interchange of information among Radiological technologist making preparation of PACS administor for Radiological technologist examination. Finally, our system can maximize an effectiveness of education by evaluating and training users individually with various level according to the user's ability of learning and realization.

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Web Information of General Radiography an Cervical Vertebrae Fracture in Patients (경추골절 환자에서 방사선촬영 영상의 웹 정보화)

  • Park, Byung-Rae
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.28 no.2
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    • pp.123-128
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    • 2005
  • It is necessary to obtain images of high diagnosis worth based on ability and skill of radiological technologist in case of acquisition of medical radiologaphy information. In addition, we need the various kinds of education considering individual radiological technologist variation and the organization of clinical education according to the large amount of learning and more expensive knowledge of radiology. In this paper, we implement CAI system for cervical vertebrae fracture radiograph with multimedia authoring tools on web environments. The CAI system can train a new radiological technologist and study a lot of radiological technologist on the cervical vertebrae fracture radiography acquisition based on more objective and systematical data in radiography room. The proposed CAI system is also expected as a useful program which can help to cure patients based on accurate diagnosis as well as obtain radiography more quickly using a technology of radiography acquisition for cervical vertebrae fracture.

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A Research on State Infection Control for Medical Technician in Small and Medium-sized Hospitals (중소병원 의료기사의 감염관리 실태에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Su-Man;Kim, Chul-Ho;Kim, Pan-Gil
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.17 no.12
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    • pp.127-137
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    • 2017
  • This study aims to identify the awareness and performance level of hospital infection control in medical technicians working in small and medium-sized hospitals. The experiment was conducted in 235 medical technicians (medical laboratory technologist, radiological technologist, and physical therapist), and for statistical processing, SPSS Ver.23.0 was used to conduct mean and standard deviation, analysis of variance, and regression analysis. As a result, it was found that the major cause of improper infection control was lack of experts ($3.17{\pm}1.18$) and performance level was statistically significantly lower than awareness of infection control. "I took no measures after infection accident" was responded the highest at 40.0%(94 persons), and in "I reported to the head of department after disinfection, examination, and/or vaccination," the standardized regression coefficient ${\beta}$ was -0.265, p=0.025, which suggested that there was a significant negative (-) impact. Infection control level showed a significant positive correlation with training and infection control instructions. Therefore, it was found that medical technicians in small and medium-sized hospitals required high skilled manpower in infection control, training, infection control instructions, etc. Through this study, more effective infection control is considered to be possible.