• 핵의학기술
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.72-77
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• 2013

Purpose: Whole-body PET using radiopharmaceutical is one of the imaging study methods for physiological changes of body. High specificity of the PET-CT examination is used to detect an early stages of cancer and metastatic cancer by imaging a physiological changes. During the imaging process, PET image has been characterized by a relatively low image quality due to its low sensitivity and the acquisition of random and scatter coincidences as well as patients figure. Therefore, the image quality as the changes of the acquisition times of patient weight was evaluated in this study. Materials and Methods: Thirty patients who presented to our hospital were enrolled. They were divided to normal, overweight, and obese group using BMI index, respectively. The patients with a liver disease and diabetes were excluded. $^{18}F-FDG$ was administered to the patients as 5.2 MBq per kg. After an hour from an injection, image acquisition was obtained as List mode in a part of liver in 1 bed. SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) of each groups acquisition times were confirmed from the calculated radiation counts and random fractions. The statistical significance of three groups was confirmed through one-way ANOVA test. On the basis of the counts of 2 minutes on normal group, the SNR of overweight group and obese group were compared. Results: The SNR were increased with loger aquisition time in 3 groups. In the condition of same acquisition time, the SNR had a statistical significance (P<0.05). The SNR were decreased to the normal, overweight, and obese, respectively. Liver activity had no significance difference on each group and RF had the significance differences (P<0.05). On the basis of the counts of 2 minutes on normal group, there were no statistical significance in a three minute acquisitions of overweight group and two minute acquisitions of obese group (P=0.150). Conclusion: In this study, the administrated amount of radiation dose did not adjust as the change of the patients weight. Increasing the acquisition time when the administration of the same amount of dose was able to get a good result of SNR. When the Based 2 minute on normal group, if overweight and obese case the increased acquisition time of 3 minute was able to obtain a similar SNR. On the basis of the normal group, the acquisition times of overweight and obese group were increased to 3 minutes per bed and the SNR were similar to the normal group.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.55-56
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• 1998

The 3-D Fast Gradient Echo (Turbo FLASH, Turbo Fast Low Angle Shot) sequence is optimized to achieve a good T1 contrast using variable excitation flip angles. In Turbo FLASH sequence, depending on the contrast preparation scheme, various types of image contrast can be established. While proton density contrast is obtained when using a short repetition time with a short echo time and small flip angles, T1 or T2 weighting can be obtained with proper contrast preparation sequences applied before the above proton density Turbo FLASH sequence. To maximize the contrast to noise ratio while retaining a sharp impulse response (smooth frequency domain response), the excitation flip-angle pattern is optimized through simulation and experiments. The TI (the delay after the preparation sequence which is a 180 degree inversion RF pulse in the IR T1 weighted imaging case), TD (the delay time between the Turbo FLASH sequence and the next preparation), and TR are also optimized fur the best image quality. The proposed 3-D Turbo FLASH provides $1mm\times1mm\times1.5mm$ high resolution images within a reasonable 5-8 minutes of imaging time. The proposed imaging sequence has been implemented in a Medison's Magnum 1.0T system and verified through simulations as well as human volunteer imaging. The experimental results show the utility of the proposed method.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.208-213
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• 2011

본 논문은 안전 서비스를 제공하는 Global Positioning System(GPS) 보호 비(Ratio of Interference to Noise: I/N) 도출을 위해 Ultra Wide Band(UWB)로부터 GPS 간섭 영향을 분석하였다. GPS 측위 오차 2.5 m 이하를 만족하기 위한 UWB 송신기와 GPS 수신기 사이의 최소 보호 거리를 산출하였고, 최소 결합 손실 방법(Minimum Coupling Loss: MCL)을 이용하여 측위 오차를 만족하는 UWB 송신기와 GPS 수신기 사이의 보호 거리 값에 근거하여 GPS 시스템의 보호비(I/N)를 도출하였다. 그 결과, 측위 오차 2.5 m 이하를 만족하기 위한 GPS 보호 거리는 10 m 이상으로 계산되었고, 이를 만족하기 위한 GPS 보호비(I/N)는 -20 dB 이하로 도출되었다. 제안된 GPS 시스템 보호비는 국제전기통신연합(ITU-R)에서 제안한 GPS 시스템 중 안전 서비스에 해당하는 보호비(I/N)를 만족시킴을 확인하였다. 또한, 본 논문을 통해 얻어진 GPS 보호 비의 결과는 안정적인 국내 GPS 시스템 운용을 위한 기준으로 이용될 수 있다.