• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.44 no.5
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• pp.465-471
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• 2021

Dual-energy X-ray imaging (DEI) techniques can provide X-ray images that a certain material is suppressed or emphasized by combining two X-ray images obtained from two different x-ray spectrum. In this paper, a single-shot DEI, which uses stacked two detectors (i.e., multilayer detector), is proposed to reduce the patient dose and increase throughput in angiography. The polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) and aluminum (Al) were selected as two basis materials for material decomposition, and material-specific images are reconstructed as a vector combination of these two materials. We investigate the contrast and noise performance of material-decomposed images using iodine phantoms with various concentrations and diameters. The single-shot DEI shows comparable performances to the conventional dual-shot DEI. In particular, the single-shot DEI shows edge enhancement in material-decomposed images due to the different spatial-resolution characteristics of upper and lower detectors. This study could be useful for designing the multilayer detector including scintillators and energy-separation filter for angiography purposes.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.297-304
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• 2015

A multilayer gaseous detector has been developed for fast dose-verification measurements of raster-scan-mode therapeutic beams in particle therapy. The detector, which was constructed with eight thin parallel-plate ionization chambers (PPICs) and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) absorber plates, is closely tissue-equivalent in a beam's eye view. The gas-electron signals, collected on the strips and pad arrays of each PPIC, were amplified and processed with a continuous charge.integration mode. The detector was tested with 190-MeV raster-scan-mode beams that were provided by the Proton Therapy Facility at Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea. The detector responses of the PPICs for a 190-MeV raster-scan-mode proton beam agreed well with the dose data, measured using a 2D ionization chamber array (Octavius model, PTW). Furthermore, in this study it was confirmed that the detector simultaneously tracked the doses induced at the PPICs by the fast-oscillating beam, with a scanning speed of 2 m s-1. Thus, it is anticipated that the present detector, composed of thin PPICs and operating in charge.integration mode, will allow medical scientists to perform reliable fast dose-verification measurements for typical dynamic mode therapeutic beams.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetics Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.470-473
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• 1995

We have constructed an apparatus for in sity measurement of stress of the film prepared by sputtering using an optical noncontact displacement detector. A Change of the gap distance between the detector and the substrate, caused by stress of a deposited film, was detected by a corresponding change of the reflectivity. The sensitivity of the displacement detector was $5.9\;{\mu}V/{\AA}$ and thus, it was turned out to be good enough to detect stress caused by deposition of a monoatomic layer. The apparatus was applied to in situ stress measurements of Co/X(X=Pd or Pt) multilayer thin films prepared on the glass substrates by dc magnetron sputtering. At the very beginning of the deposition, both Co and X sublayers have subjected to their own intrinsic stresses. However, when the film was thicker than about $100{\AA}$, constant tensile stress in the Co sublayer and compressive stress in the X sublayer were observed, which is believed to be related to a lattice mismatch between the matching planes of Co and X.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.151-155
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• 2002

In situ stress changes at interfaces of ultrathin magnetic films were measured by means of a non-contact optical fiber bundle displacement detector. A bending of the substrate due to stress of a deposited film was detected in cantilever geometry. The highest sensitivity of 134 mV/$\mu$m for the displacement detector was realized with a help of computer simulation. The detector was applied to in situ stress measurements of Co/Pt and Ni/Pd magnetic multilayer films prepared on the glass substrates by dc magnetron sputtering. The detector turned out to have a submonolayer sensitivity that enables to observe coherent-to-incoherent transition in these mismatched multilayers and even detect the stress changes within the monoatomic coverage. This highly sensitive detector paves new way to probe the stress relaxation at an interface in ultrathin films.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.05b
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• pp.31-34
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• 2002

In this paper, the electric properties of amophous selenium multilayer samples has been investigated. In order to develop the hybrid flat-panel digital· X-ray image detector, we measured and analyzed their performance parameters such as the X -ray sensitivity and dark-current for a amophous selenium multilayers X-ray detector with a phosphor layer, The hybrid digital X-ray image detector can be constructed by integrating a phosphor layer (or a scintillative layer) that convert X-ray to a light on a-Se photoconduction mulilayers that convert a light to electrical signal. As results, the dielectric materials such as parylene between the phosphor layer and the top electrode may reduce the dark-current of the samples. Amorphous selenium multilayers having dielectric layer(parylene) has characteristics of low dark-current, high X-ray sensitivity. So we can acquired a enhanced signal to noise ratio. In this paper offer the method can reduce the dark-current in the hybrid X-ray detector.

• Journal of Radiation Industry
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.137-141
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• 2015

A single-shot dual-energy x-ray imaging technique has been developed using a sandwich detector by stacking two detectors, in which the front and rear detectors respectively produce relatively lower and higher x-ray energy images. Each detector layer is composed of a phosphor screen coupled with a photodiode array. The front detector layer employs a thinner phosphor screen, whereas the rear detector layer employs a thicker phosphor screen considering the quantum efficiency for x-ray photons with higher energies. We have applied the proposed method into the inspection of printed circuit boards, and obtained dual-energy images with background clutter suppressed. In addition, the single-shot dual-energy method provides sharper-edge images than the conventional radiography because of the unsharp masking effect resulting from the use of different thickness phosphors between the two detector layers. It is promising to use the single-shot dual-energy x-ray imaging for high-resolution nondestructive testing. For the reliable use of the developed method, however, more quantitative analysis is further required in comparisons with the conventional method for various types of printed circuit boards.

• Proceedings of the Korean Operations and Management Science Society Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.639-644
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• 2002

Password typing is the most wifely ued identity verification method in computer security domain. However, due to its simplicity, it is vulnerable to imposter attacks Keystroke dynamics adds a shield to password. Discriminating imposters from owners is a novelty detection problem. Auto-Associative Multilayer Perceptron (AaMLP) has teen proved to be a good novelty detector. However, the wifely used 2-layer AaMLP cannot identify nonlinear boundaries, which can result in serious problems in computer security. In this paper, a nonlinear model, i.e. 4-layer AaMLP, is proposed to serve as the novelty detector, which can remedy the limitations of 2-layer AaMLP.

• Fire Science and Engineering
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• v.19 no.2 s.58
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• pp.75-80
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• 2005

This dissertation is about the development of PTC(Positive Temperature Coefficient) thermistor by composition method. A multilayer-type PTC samples were fabricated under optimal conditions after setting the experimental composition equation as $(0.90Ba+0.05Sr+0.05Ca)TiO_3+0.01TiO_3+0.01SiO_2+0.0008MnO_2+0.0018Nb_2O_5$ and their testing results were analyzed. The fabrication method of SMD(Surface Mounted Device) multilayer -type sample based on the composition ratio has the advantages in lowering its resistivity at room temperature, considerably, and increasing maximum current level, as needed. Although there is a disadvantage of peak resistivity drop by the multilayer, causing the increasement of thermal capacity. and thereby, increasing the switching delay time, a high applying voltage can increase the peak resistivity and shorten the switching delay time. The voltage-current characteristic showed that the more multilayers increased the initial maximum current and the transition voltage that increased the resistivity abruptly according to the curie point. The element it could be applied with the sensor for the fire detector.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.54 no.2
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• pp.617-626
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• 2022

To effectively monitor the variety of distributions of neutron flux, fuel power or temperatures in the reactor core, usually the ex-core and in-core neutron detectors are employed. The thermocouples for temperature measurement are installed in the coolant inlet or outlet of the respective fuel assemblies. It is necessary to reconstruct the measurement information of the whole reactor position. However, the reading of different types of detector in the core reflects different aspects of the 3D power distribution. The feasibility of reconstruction the core three-dimension power distribution by using different combinations of in-core, ex-core and thermocouples detectors is analyzed in this paper to synthesize the useful information of various detectors. A comparison of multilayer perceptron (MLP) network and radial basis function (RBF) network is performed. RBF results are more extreme precision but also more sensitivity to detector failure and uncertainty, compare to MLP networks. This is because that localized neural network could offer conservative regression in RBF. Adding random disturbance in training dataset is helpful to reduce the influence of detector failure and uncertainty. Some convolution neural networks seem to be helpful to get more accurate results by use more spatial layout information, though relative researches are still under way.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.842-850
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• 2018

In this paper, the design and fabrication of a frequency-locked-loop(FLL) 5-GHz oscillator with a single resonator is presented. The proposed oscillator is the simplified version of the previous FLL oscillator with two separate resonators in the VCO and frequency detector. The resonator is commonly used in the VCO and frequency detector of the proposed oscillator configuration. The 5-GHz oscillator is implemented on the hetero-multilayer substrate composed of a Rogers' RO4350B laminate, which has excellent high-frequency performance, and the commercial FR4 three-layer substrate. The frequency locking occurs at approximately 5 GHz and has an output power of 3.8 dBm. The phase noise has a free-run VCO phase noise at frequencies above 1 kHz, and an FLL background noise at frequencies below 1 kHz. For this loop-filter, the phase noise showed an improvement of approximately 12 dB at the offset-frequency of 100 Hz.