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Feasibility of Two Dimensional Ion Chamber Array for a Linac Periodic Quality Assurance (선형가속기의 품질관리를 위한 2차원이온전리함배열의 유용성)

  • Lee, Jeong-Woo;Hong, Se-Mie;Park, Byung-Moon;Kang, Min-Young;Kim, You-Hyun;Suh, Tae-Suk
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.31 no.2
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    • pp.183-188
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    • 2008
  • Aim of this study is to investigate the feasibility of 2D ion chamber array as a substitute of the water phantom system in a periodic Linac QA. For the feasibility study, a commercial ion chamber matrix was used as a substitute of the water phantom in the measurement for a routine QA beam properties. The device used in this study was the I'm RT MatriXX (Wellhofer Dosimetrie, Germany). The MatriXX consists of a 1,020 vented ion chamber array, arranged in $24{\times}24\;cm^2$ matrix. Each ion chamber has a volume of $0.08\;cm^3$, spacing of 0.762 cm. We investigated dosimetric parameters such as dose symmetry, energy ($TPR_{20,10}$), and absolute dose for comparing with the water phantom data with a Farmer-type ionization chamber (FC65G, Wellhofer Dosimetrie, Germany). For the MatriXX measurements, we used the white polystyrene phantom (${\rho}:\;1.18\;g/cm^3$) and also considered the intrinsic layer (${\rho}:\;1.06\;g/cm^3$, t: 0.36 cm) of MatriXX to be equivalent to water depth. In the preliminary study of geometrical QA using MatriXX, the rotation axis of collimator and half beam junction test were included and compared with film measurements. Regarding the dosimetrical QA, the MatriXX has shown good agreements within ${\pm}1%$ compared to the water phantom measurements. In the geometrical test, the data from MatriXX were comparable with those from the films. In conclusion, the MatriXX is a good substitute for water phantom system and film measurements. In addition, the results indicate that the MatriXX as a cost-effective novel QA tool to reduce time and personnel power.

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Concept-based Question Answering System

  • Kang Yu-Hwan;Shin Seung-Eun;Ahn Young-Min;Seo Young-Hoon
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.17-21
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, we describe a concept-based question-answering system in which concept rather than keyword itself makes an important role on both question analysis and answer extraction. Our idea is that concepts occurred in same type of questions are similar, and if a question is analyzed according to those concepts then we can extract more accurate answer because we know the semantic role of each word or phrase in question. Concept frame is defined for each type of question, and it is composed of important concepts in that question type. Currently the number of question type is 79 including 34 types for person, 14 types for location, and so on. We experiment this concept-based approach about questions which require person s name as their answer. Experimental results show that our system has high accuracy in answer extraction. Also, this concept-based approach can be used in combination with conventional approaches.

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Evaluation of the Performance Characteristic for Mammography by Using Edge device (유방영상에서 엣지를 이용한 물리적 영상 평가)

  • Kim, Ki-Won;Choi, Kwan-Woo;Jeong, Hoi-Woun;Jang, Seo-Goo;Lee, Eul-Kyu;Son, Soon-Yong;Son, Jin-Hyun;Min, Jung-Whan
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.39 no.3
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    • pp.415-420
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    • 2016
  • The purpose of this study was to evaluation of the performance characteristic for mammography by using edge device that mammography equipment improves essential in the correct diagnosis for the maintenance. We measured the modulation transfer function (MTF), the noise power spectrum (NPS), and the detective quantum efficiency (DQE) using the 61267 RQA-M2 based on commission standard international electro-technical commission (IEC). As a results, spatial resolution of elenia demensions tomo and lorad selenia mammography were maintained at $10mm^{-1}$ and NPS and DQE including the low nyquist frequency indicated to $6.0mm^{-1}$. Therefore, regulary QA of mammography system should be necessary. This study can be contribute to evaluate QA for performance characteristic of mammography of DDR system.

The Study of Effectiveness/Problems for Quality Management of Domestic Enterprise on International Quality Assurance System (국제품질보증 시스템 인증이 국내 기업의 품질경영에 미치는 영향 및 문제점에 관한 연구)

  • 장태영;김원중
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.22 no.49
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    • pp.169-182
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    • 1999
  • Nowadays most companies are required to acquire the quality assurance system for their survival. It is essential to improvement company's competitive power that Certification of Quality Assurance System but there are many problems. To analysis the effects of ISO 9000 series/QS-9000 QA systems to the Domestic Company Quality Improvement as well as quality consciousness, data has been surveyed form quality assurance engineers who have work on certification activities. The data is analyzed using relevant tabulations of five scale or paired t test method in order to compare level of quality management of pre-certification with that of post-certification. It is analyzed in two parts which are qualitative effects and quality maturity grid. Also, to analysis for the bottlenecks and problems the data is analyzed using frequency analysis method.

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Development of Stereotactic Surgery system with CT, MR Imaging, and Angiography (컴퓨터 단층촬영, 자기공명영상, 뇌혈관촬영을 이용한 정위적 수술시스템의 개발)

  • Kim, S.H.;Suh, T.S.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1998 no.11
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    • pp.117-118
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    • 1998
  • The aim of this work is to develop 3-D stereotactic localization system in order to determine the precise shape, size and location of the lesion in the brain in the field of Stereotactic Radiosurgery(SRS) and neurosurgery using CT/MRI/angiography and multi-purpose QA phantom. The algorithms to obtain a 3-D stereotactic coordinates of the target have been developed, and targets on each CT image were superimposed each other on MR/angiography images without distortion corretion. This system was implented in Visual C++ as a PC-based application program.

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Embodiment of Firewall Block for Safety in the Cave (동굴 공간의 안전과 방재차단벽)

  • Kim, Bo-Su;Kim, Kang-Won;Kim, Tae-Hwan;Park, Jung-Ho;Lee, Yung-Jae;Soh, Dea-Wha
    • Journal of the Speleological Society of Korea
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    • no.87
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    • pp.8-13
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    • 2008
  • The automatic firewall block and fire alarm system was embodied by using gas circuit and wireless communication equipment, using a smoke sensor (ST-QA1A) and RF Module. OR-CAD was also used for testing circuit system and experiment circuit after assembling circuit. As a result in experiment, the gas sensor detected well an imaginary smoke and worked reliably for driving action of firewall block motor and wireless warning alarm. Through the smoke sensitive perception from the fire, the warning alarm and the preventing fire propagation from the specific closed region were verified reliably. The gas sensor and RF module for firewall and fire alarm system were actually available.

Survey of Temporal Information Extraction

  • Lim, Chae-Gyun;Jeong, Young-Seob;Choi, Ho-Jin
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.15 no.4
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    • pp.931-956
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    • 2019
  • Documents contain information that can be used for various applications, such as question answering (QA) system, information retrieval (IR) system, and recommendation system. To use the information, it is necessary to develop a method of extracting such information from the documents written in a form of natural language. There are several kinds of the information (e.g., temporal information, spatial information, semantic role information), where different kinds of information will be extracted with different methods. In this paper, the existing studies about the methods of extracting the temporal information are reported and several related issues are discussed. The issues are about the task boundary of the temporal information extraction, the history of the annotation languages and shared tasks, the research issues, the applications using the temporal information, and evaluation metrics. Although the history of the tasks of temporal information extraction is not long, there have been many studies that tried various methods. This paper gives which approach is known to be the better way of extracting a particular part of the temporal information, and also provides a future research direction.

Evaluation of Fabricated Semiconductor Sensor for Verification of γ-ray Distribution in Brachytherapy (근접치료용 방사성 동위원소의 선량분포 확인을 위한 디지털 반도체 센서의 제작 및 평가)

  • Park, Jeong-Eun;Kim, Kyo-Tae;Choi, Won-Hoon;Lee, Ho;Cho, Sam-Joo;Ahn, So-Hyun;Kim, Jin-Young;Song, Yong-Keun;Kim, Keum-bae;Huh, Hyun-Do;Park, Sung-Kwang
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.280-285
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    • 2015
  • In radiation therapy fields, a brachytherapy is a treatment that kills lesion of cells by inserting a radioisotope that keeps emitting radiation into the body. We currently verify the consistency of radiation treatment plan and dose distribution through film/screen system (F/S system), provide therapy after checking dose. When we check dose distribution, F/S systems have radiation signal distortion because there is low resolution by penumbra depending on the condition of film developed. In this study, We fabricated a $HgI_2$ Semiconductor radiation sensor for base study in order that we verify the real dose distribution weather it's same as plans or not in brachytherapy. Also, we attempt to evaluate the feasibility of QA system by utilizing and evaluating the sensor to brachytherapy source. As shown in the result of detected signal with various source-to-detector distance (SDD), we quantitatively verified the real range of treatment which is also equivalent to treatment plans because only the low signal estimated as scatters was measured beyond the range of treatment. And the result of experiment that we access reproducibility on the same condition of ${\gamma}$-ray, we have made sure that the CV (coefficient of variation) is within 1.5 percent so we consider that the $HgI_2$ sensor is available at QA of brachytherapy based on the result.

The Patient Specific QA of IMRT and VMAT Through the AAPM Task Group Report 119 (AAPM TG-119 보고서를 통한 세기조절방사선치료(IMRT)와 부피적세기조절회전치료(VMAT)의 치료 전 환자별 정도관리)

  • Kang, Dong-Jin;Jung, Jae-Yong;Kim, Jong-Ha;Park, Seung;Lee, Keun-Sub;Sohn, Seung-Chang;Shin, Young-Joo;Kim, Yon-Lae
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.255-263
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    • 2012
  • The aim of this study was to evaluate the patient specific quality assurance (QA) results of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) through the AAPM Task Group Report 119. Using the treatment planning system, both IMRT and VMAT treatment plans were established. The absolute dose and relative dose for the target and OAR were measured by using an ion chamber and the bi-planar diode array, respectively. The plan evaluation was used by the Dose volume histogram (DVH) and the dose verification was implemented by compare the measured value with the calculated value. For the evaluation of plan, in case of prostate, both IMRT and VMAT were closed the goal of target and OARs. In case of H&N and Multi-target, IMRT was not reached the goal of target, but VMAT was reached the goal of target and OARs. In case of C-shape(easy), both were reached the goal of target and OARs. In case of C-shape(hard), both were reached the goal of target but not reached the goal of OARs. For the evaluation of absolute dose, in case of IMRT, the mean of relative error (%) between measured and calculated value was $1.24{\pm}2.06%$ and $1.4{\pm}2.9%$ for target and OAR, respectively. The confidence limits were 3.65% and 4.39% for target and OAR, respectively. In case of VMAT the mean of relative error was $2.06{\pm}0.64%$ and $2.21{\pm}0.74%$ for target and OAR, respectively. The confidence limits were 4.09% and 3.04% for target and OAR, respectively. For the evaluation of relative dose, in case of IMRT, the average percentage of passing gamma criteria (3mm/3%) were $98.3{\pm}1.5%$ and the confidence limits were 3.78%. In case of VMAT, the average percentage were $98.2{\pm}1.1%$ and the confidence limits were 3.95%. We performed IMRT and VMAT patient specific QA using TG-119 based procedure, all analyzed results were satisfied with acceptance criteria based on TG-119. So, the IMRT and VMAT of our institution was confirmed the accuracy.