• 한국광학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.241-245
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• 2007

본 연구에서는 유기 섬광체와 플라스틱 광섬유를 이용하여 치료용 광자선의 계측을 위한 2차원 광섬유 방사선 센서를 제작하였다. 제작된 센서를 사용하여 광자선 조사야(Field size)와 에너지에 따른 선형가속기의 빔 분포도를 2차원적으로 측정하였으며 polymethylmethacrylate(PMMA)팬텀 내에서 깊이에 따른 섬광체의 광량을 측정하여 깊이선량 분포(Percent Depth Dose, PDD) 또한 2차원으로 측정하였다. 본 연구를 통하여 개발된 2차원 광섬유 방사선 센서는 고 분해능, 실시간 측정, 쉬운 보정 등 많은 장점을 가지고 있다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.7-12
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• 2001

최근 개발된 방사선량 측정용 LiF:Mg,Cu,Na,Si TL 소자의 글로우 곡선, 방출스펙트럼, 광자에 대한 선량의존성, 에너지의존성 및 페이팅 등과 같은 물리적 및 선량계적 특성들을 연구하였다. LiF:Mg,Cu,Na,Si TL 소자는 LiF:Mg,Cu,Na,Si TL 분말에 압력을 가한 후 소결하는 방법으로 제조되었다. 방사선에 대한 특성을 알아보기 위하여 광자선 조사는 한국원자력연구소의 X선 발생 장치 및 $^{137}Cs$ ${\gamma}$선 원격조사장치를 이용하였으며, 사용된 광자선 에너지 범위는 20-662keV, 선량 범위는 $10^{-6}-10^{-2}\;Gy$이었다. 글로우 곡선은 수동형의 TLD 판독장치 (System 310, Teledyne)로 질소를 흘리면서 선형적인 가열률로 측정하였으며, TL 강도는 글로우 곡선을 전체 적분한 면적으로 평가하였다. $5^{\circ}C\;s^{-1}$의 선형적인 가열률로 측정한 글로우 곡선은 5개의 피크들로 분리되었으며, $234^{\circ}C$에 나타나는 주피크의 활성화에너지는 2.34 eV, 진동수인자는 $1.00{\times}10^{23}$이고, 방출스펙트럼은 410nm를 중심으로한 단일한 분포로 나타났다. 선량의존성은 100Gy 이상까지 선형성을 나타내었으며, $^{137}Cs$에 대한 저에너지 광자의 상대적인 에너지 반응값은 20% 범위 이내였다. 또한 실온에서 1년간 보관하였을 때, 시간경과에 따른 TL 감도의 감소가 거의 없는 좋은 페이딩 특성을 보였다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.255-262
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• 1996

이 논문은 최근 한국원자력연구소(KAERI)와 미국 패시픽노스웨스트 국립연구소(일명, 바텔연구소, PNNL)이 개인선량계의 성능검사를 위한 미국 ANSI N13.11 기준에 근거하여 KAERI 방사선 측정/교정실험실에서 수행한 KAERI 기준 광자 및 베타 방사선장의 국제 상호비교 측정결과를 설명하고 있다. 두 기관이 각각 자국의 일차 표준에 소급성을 갖는 방사선 검출기와 방사선 측정장치를 사용하여 자유공기중에서 광자의 조사선량(율), 공기커마(율)와 베타선의 절대 흡수선량(율)을 측정한 결과, 광자선장에 대해서는 ${\pm}2.0%$을 베타선장에 대해서는${\pm}1.0%$의 오차범위 내에서 잘 일치하였다. 따라서 KAERI의 기준 광자 및 베타 방사선장은 국제표준에 잘 만족되고 있음이 입증되었으며 장차 방사선 도시메트리 연구개발의 국가 기술기반으로 활용될 수 있음이 확인되었다

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.97-103
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 몬테칼로 계산(MCNPX 2.4.0)을 이용하여 24MV 의료용 선형가속기에서 발생하는 이차중성자의 에너지분포와 선량계산을 수행하였다. 먼저 선형가속기 두부(head)에서 방출되는 광자와 중성자의 에너지분포를 계산하였으며, 이를 이용하여 물팬텀에서 광자와 중성자의 흡수선량을 계산하였다. 몬테칼로 계산결과 물표면에서 5cm까지 중성자의 흡수선량은 $0.66\~0.35mGy/photon\;Gy$로 나타났으며, 상호작용 자료를 이용한 근사적 계산결과는 전자평형 깊이에서 0.52mGy/photon Gy로 나타났다. 다른 연구결과들과 비교를 통하여 본 연구가 고에너지 선형가속기에서 발생되는 중성 자의 선량평가에 응용될 수 있음을 제시하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.176-189
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• 2019

This paper presents a feasibility study for producing the medical isotope $^{99m}Tc$ using the hazardous and currently wasted radioisotope $^{99}Tc$. This can be achieved with the nuclear resonance fluorescence (NRF) phenomenon, which has recently been made applicable due to high-intensity laser Compton scattering (LCS) photons. In this work, 21 NRF energy states of $^{99}Tc$ have been identified as potential contributors to the photo-production of $^{99m}Tc$ and their NRF cross-sections are evaluated by using the single particle estimate model and the ENSDF data library. The evaluated cross sections are scaled using known measurement data for improved accuracy. The maximum LCS photon energy is adjusted in a way to cover all the significant excited states that may contribute to $^{99m}Tc$ generation. An energy recovery LINAC system is considered as the LCS photon source and the LCS gamma spectrum is optimized by adjusting the electron energy to maximize $^{99m}Tc$ photo-production. The NRF reaction rate for $^{99m}Tc$ is first optimized without considering the photon attenuations such as photo-atomic interactions and self-shielding due to the NRF resonance itself. The change in energy spectrum and intensity due to the photo-atomic reactions has been quantified using the MCNP6 code and then the NRF self-shielding effect was considered to obtain the spectrums that include all the attenuation factors. Simulations show that when a $^{99}Tc$ target is irradiated at an intensity of the order $10^{17}{\gamma}/s$ for 30 h, 2.01 Ci of $^{99m}Tc$ can be produced.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2014년도 제46회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.297.2-297.2
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• 2014

Strong exciton-photon coupling in microcavities have generated an intense research effort since quasiparticles called exciton polaritons are produced and shows interesting phenomena. Most of studies have been done with GaAs based microcavities at cryogenic temperature. Recently, GaN material which has large exciton binding energy and oscillator strength has much attention because strong coupling between photon and exciton could be realized at room temperature. However, fabrication of high quality microcavity using GaN is challengeable due to the large mismatch between the lattice and the thermal expansion coefficient in GaN based distributed Bragg mirror. Here, we observed strong coupling regime of exciton-photon in GaN micro-rods which were grown by metalorganic vapour phase epitaxy (MOCVD) on Si substrate. Owing to the hexagonal cross-section of micro-rod, whispering gallery modes of photon are naturally formed and could be coupled with exciton in GaN. Using angle-resolved micro-photoluminescence measurement, exciton polariton dispersion curves were directly observed from GaN micro-rod. We expect room temperature exciton polariton condensation could be realized in high quality GaN micro-rod.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.3044-3050
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• 2021

This study offers a Monte Carlo alternative for computing mass energy absorption coefficients of any material through calculation of photon energy deposited per mass of the sample and the energy flux obtained inside a sample volume. This approach is applied in this study to evaluate mass energy absorption coefficients of some amino acids found in human body at twenty-eight different photon energies between 10 keV and 20 MeV. The simulations involved a pencil beam source modeled to emit a parallel beam of mono-energetic photons toward a 1 mean free path thick sample of rectangular parallelepiped geometry. All the components in the problem geometry were surrounded by a 100 cm vacuum sphere to avoid any interactions in materials other than the absorber itself. The results computed using the Monte Carlo radiation transport packages MCNP6.2 and GAMOS5.1 were checked against the theoretical values available from the tables of XMUDAT database. These comparisons indicate very good agreement and support the conclusion that Monte Carlo technique utilized in this fashion may be used as a computational tool for determining the mass energy absorption coefficients of any material whose data are not available in the literature.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.286-290
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• 2002

Hydrogen atom production channels from photodissociation of benzene, phenylacetylene, and benzaldehyde at 243 nm have been investigated by detecting H atoms using two photon absorption at 243.2 nm and induced fluorescence at 121.6 nm. Translational energies of the H atoms were measured by Doppler broadened H atom spectra. By absorption of two photons at 243 nm, the H atoms are statistically produced from benzene and phenylacetylene whereas the H atoms from the aldehyde group in benzaldehyde are produced from different pathways. The possible dissociation mechanisms are discussed from the measured translational energy releases.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.65.4-65.4
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• 2017

The laboratory astrophysics is a new emerging field of basic sciences, and has tremendous discovery potentials. The laboratory astrophysics investigates the basic physical phenomena in the astrophysical objects in controlled and reproducible manners, which has become possible only recently due to the newly-established intense photon and ion beam facilities worldwide. In this presentation, we will introduce several promising ideas for laboratory astrophysics programs that might be readily incorporated in the Pohang Accelerator Laboratory X-ray Free Electron Laser (PAL-XFEL). For example, precise spectroscopic measurements using Electron Beam Ion Trap (EBIT) and intense X-ray photons from the PAL-XFEL can be performed to explore the fundamental processes in high energy X-ray phenomena in the visible universe. Besides, in many violent astrophysical events, the energy density of matter becomes so high that the traditional plasma physics description becomes inapplicable. Generation of such high-energy density states can be also be achieved by using the intense photon beams available from the PAL-XFEL.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.179-183
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• 2002

Resonance-enhanced multiphoton ionization with time-of-flight product imaging of the $N(^2D)$ atoms has been used to study the $N_2O$ photodissociation at 118.2 nm and the two-photon dissociation at 268.9 nm. These imaging experiments allowed the determination of the total kinetic energy distribution of the $NO(X^2{\prod})$ and $N(^2D_{5/2})$ products. The $NO(X^2{\prod})$ fragments resulting from the photodissociation processes are produced in highly vibrationally excited states. The two-photon photodissociation process yields a broad $NO(X^2{\prod})$ vibrational energy distribution, while the 118.2 nm dissociation appears to produce a vibrational distribution sharply peaked at $NO(X^2{\prod},\;{\nu}=14)$.