• 한국원자력학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국원자력학회 1998년도 춘계학술발표회논문집(2)
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• pp.464-469
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• 1998

A coincidence gamma-ray spectroscopy method was applied to reduce the background radioactivity for measuring the activity of radioisotopes in a sample in the presence of environmental natural radioactivity. A HPGe detector was used for the coincident spectrum as a main detector and a NaI(Tl) scintillation detector for gating purposes as an associated detector. For coincidence spectroscopy the whole energy spectrum of associated detector was used instead of gate signals. The coincident events obtained from the gating spectrum was evaluated by a coincidence computer program in this study instead of timing circuit. In this work, the background of detection environment was reduced to factor 100 and peaks to be determined was reduced to factor 30 using the coincidence gamma-ray spectroscopy.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제33권6호
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• pp.461-465
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• 1999

Scintillation proximity assay (SPA) is a unique type of radioimmunoassay and makes it possible to use radioisotopes for monitoring binding reactions continuously without separation procedure. Microbeads containing a fluorophor are covalently linked to antibody or receptor. When a radiolabeled antigen or ligand is added it binds to the beads and the emitted short range electrons, excite the fluorophor in the beads. The light emitted can be measured in a scintillation counter. $^3H$ or $^{125}I$ has been used for SPA. The sensitivities achieved with SPA are comparable to the sensitivities of other procedures. SPA is applicable to immunology, receptor binding, monitoring interactions of biomolecules and study for the kinetics of interaction between receptors and ligands.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2007

This review discusses the production of alpha-particle-emitting radionuclides in radioimmunotherapy. Radioimmunotherapy labeled with alpha-particle is expected to be very useful for the treatment of monocellular cancer (e.g. leukemia) and micrometastasis at an early stage, residual tumor remained in tissues after chemotherapy and tumor resection, due to the high linear energy transfer (LET) and the short path length in biological tissue of alpha particle. Despite of the expected effectiveness of alpha-particle in radioimmunotherapy, its clinical research has not been activated by the several reasons, shortage of a suitable a-particle development and a reliable radionuclide production and supply system, appropriate antibody and chelator development. Among them, the establishment of radionuclide development and supply system is a key factor to make an alpha-immunotherapy more popular in clinical trial. Alpha-emitter can be produced by several methods, natural radionuclides, reactor irradiation, cyclotron irradiation, generator system and elution. Due to the sharply increasing demand of $^{213}Bi$, which is a most promising radionuclide in radioimmunotherapy and now has been produced with reactor, the cyclotron production system should be developed urgently to meet the demand.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.229-240
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• 1972

Radioisotopes and their related techniques have recently been applied for scientific conservation works of cultural property and resulted many excellent findings or conservation data which could never be achieved by means of other techniques. Radiocarbon dating have widely been applied for dating the antique of organic origin, whereas the determination of radioactive contents in metal, ceramics, environmental soil, and classical objects could be able to afford many useful informations on the age, genuiness, and archeological significances as it had been produced. Trace quantity of contents of each antique have successfully been analyzed by means of radioactivation analysis or radio active tracer techniques, which could afford important technical data and results for tile conservation of each object. Radiography have also been applied for detecting the internal defects of metal objects and furthermore $\beta$-and ${\gamma}$-ray radiography were proved to be effective for such thin material as textile, painting, and fibres. In this article the detailed principle and procedures of each technique were presented so that the society could be able to make efforts to familiarize all concerns with these modern trends of the conservation techniques of cultural property.

• Mycobiology
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.110-114
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• 2004

Mycobiota including Alternaria alternata, Fusarium verticillioides and Aspergillus pulverulents were tested for their ability to uptake radiocobalt(Co-60) and radiocesium(Cs-137) from radionuclide containing medium. A. alternata was the most efficient fungal species for uptake of radioisotopes, followed by A. pulverulents, whereas F. verticilliodies came in the last rank. The conditions of radioisotope uptake were optimized such as the form of the fungal organism either spores or mycelium, inoculum age and pH of growing medium. Furthermore the total pigments of the tested fungi were extracted and tested for their ability to bind with radioisotope, where melanin of A. alternata produced about 60% for radioisotope uptake out of total added radioisotope radioactivity. Moreover, transmission electron microscopic examination of radioisotope exposed spores showed high precipitation of melanin granules in the spore wall and within the cell as comparing to untreated spores.

• 대한방사성의약품학회지
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.11-21
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• 2021

Radiopharmaceuticals are constantly being studied in the field of tumor diagnosis and therapy. As a result, many patents have been registered related to the development of radiopharmaceutical therapy. In this study, effective patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine filed during the past 10 years were collected from various countries like Korea, United States, Japan, Europe etc., and the application trends and growth stages were analyzed through statistical analysis. From the analysis results of 47,991 patents related to radiology and nuclear medicine, only 6,268 registered patents were found valid, and 80% of those were related to radiopharmaceutical development. In addition, we analyzed the patent of major competitors and used them to analyze the trends in radioisotopes and medicinal research. Among these, all the top 10 major applicants have found to be concentrating on radiopharmaceutical development.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권7호
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• pp.2366-2372
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• 2023

Are borate and silicate glasses suitable for working as shieling materials against fast neutrons? To correctly answer the above question, some silicate, and borate-based glasses were fabricated and irradiated with various doses of fast neutrons varied between 1.73 and 12.10 MGy. The color and hardness of the fabricated glasses were affected by the fast neutron fluence where the transparent glasses turned colored as well as the hardness of the fabricated glasses was decreased. The gamma-ray spectrometric analysis shows a high activity concentration produced in the barium borate glasses due to the formation of radioisotopes Ba-131 and Ba-133 reaches to 5.92E+05 Bq and 4.25E+03 Bq, respectively for sample Cd-5 Batch 3. Additionally, the gamma-ray spectrometric analysis for the sodium silicate glasses shows low activity concentrations emitted from isotopes formed due to the activation of Y₂O₃-associated impurities. These activities are low compared to that emitted by barium borate-based glasses.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4659-4663
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• 2023

The use of iodine S values derived using the International Commission Radiological Protection (ICRP) phantoms may introduce significant bias in internal dosimetry for Koreans due to anatomical variability. In the current study, we produced an extensive dataset of Korean S values for selected five iodine radioisotopes (I-125, I-129, I131, I-133, and I-134) for use in radiation protection. To calculate S values, we implemented Monte Carlo simulations using the Mesh-type Reference Korean Phantoms (MRKPs), developed in a high-quality/fidelity mesh format. Noticeable differences were observed in S value comparisons between the Korean and ICRP reference phantoms with ratios (Korean/ICRP) widely ranging from 0.16 to 6.2. The majority of S value ratios were lower than the unity in Korean phantoms (interquartile range = 0.47-1.28; mean = 0.96; median = 0.69). The S values provided in the current study will be extensively utilized in iodine internal dosimetry for Koreans.

• The Korean Journal of Physiology
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.218-224
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• 1986

사람의 적혈구에서 여러 가지 음이온들의 등삼투성 암모늄 염으로 된 용액속에서의 용혈성을 이용하여 이들 음이온들이 $HCO_3\;^-$ 혹은 $OH^-$와 교환되어 이동되는 정도와 몇 가지 억제 물질의 영향, pH 및 온도 변화의 효과를 관찰하여 그 결과를 지금까지 방사성동위원소를 이용한 실험에서 보고된 성적들과 비교하였다. $SITS.\;H_2DIDS$, furosemide등은 농도에 비례하여 등삼투성 $NH_4Cl$ 용액에서의 용혈 시간을 연장시켰으며 $t_{1/2}$를 두배로 연장시킨 농도는 각각 $ 2.3{\times}10^{-7}M,\;3{\times}10^{-7}M,\;2.5{\times}10^{-5}M$이었다. Acetazolamide도 농도에 비례하여 적혈구 용혈 시간을 연장시켰으며 $t_{1/2}$을 2배로 연장시킨 농도는 $2.4{\times}10^{-5}M$이었다. 온도를 $2^{\circ}C$에서 $37^{\circ}C$까지 변화시키며 적혈구 용혈시간을 관찰했을 때 높은 온도 의존성을 보였으며 $1/t_{1/2}$을 Arrhenius plot하였을 때 $20^{\circ}C$에서 회절점을 보였고 activation energy는 $20^{\circ}C{\sim}37^{\circ}C$범위에서 11.2kcal/mol이었다. 여러 가지 무기 음이온의 투과도를 $t_{1/2}$을 기준으로 비교했을 때 $Cl^->NO_3\;^->SCN^->SO_4\;^{2-}>SSO_3\;^{2-}>HPO_4\;^{2-}$의 순이었으며 유기 음이온 중 oxalate는 $Cl^-$보다 높은 투과도를 succinate는 낮은 투과도를 보였다. 이상의 결과를 종합하면 등삼투성 암모늄염 용액에서의 적혈구 용혈성을 이용하여 음이온 이동에 대하여 관찰한 결과들이 지금까지의 동위원소를 이용한 실험 성적들과 유사한 결과를 보여주고 있으며 특히 이동률이 빠르거나, 높은 온도범위에서의 음이온의 이동을 관찰하는데는 동위원소를 이용한 실험의 단점을 보완할 수 있는 장점도 있어 이 방법의 적혈구 막을 통한 음이온의 이동 기전과 이에 영향을 미치는 인자들을 연구하는데 간편하고 유용하게 이용될 수 있을 것으로 사료된다.

• 청정기술
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.122-131
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• 2016

세슘 동위원소, ¹³⁴Cs와 ¹³⁷Cs는 대기 핵실험 및 원자력발전소의 배출물로부터 기인하는 인공방사성 핵종 연구에 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 최소검출방사능(minimum detection activity, MDA)을 낮추기 위해 ¹³⁷Cs 및 화학적, 환경적 거동이 동일한 ¹³⁴Cs를 이용하여 환경측정실험실 절차서에 따른 일반적인 환경방사능 분석을 수행하였다. 원자력발전소 주변 고산지대 환경토양을 채취하였고, 세슘 동위원소를 화학적으로 추출·농축하기 위한 방법으로 세슘동위원소와 흡착특성이 높은 Ammonium Molybdophosphate (AMP) 공침법을 토양 전처리 과정에 도입하였다. 방사능 농도는 감마선 분광광도법을 이용하여 분석하였다. 감마 에너지 스펙트럼에서 ⁴⁰K 방사능 농도가 증가함에 따라 ¹³⁴Cs 및 ¹³⁷Cs의 MDA가 증가하였다. 따라서 토양으로부터 자연방사성 핵종이 제거된다면 세슘의 MDA가 줄어들 것이고, 환경토양에서 ¹³⁷Cs의 농도를 효과적으로 측정할 수 있다. 한국원자력안전기술원의 표준 토양 실험에서는 ⁴⁰K의 방사능 농도가 평균 84% 이상 제거되었고, ¹³⁴Cs의 MDA는 2배 줄어들었다. ¹³⁷Cs의 방사능 농도는 82% 이상 회수되었다. 한편 환경토양을 이용한 시료에서는 AMP 공침법이 직접법에 비해 ⁴⁰K는 최대 180배 제거되었고, 또한 ¹³⁴Cs의 MDA는 5배 감소하였다. ¹³⁷Cs의 회수율은 54.54%에서 70.26%를 나타내었다. MDA와 회수율을 고려할 때 AMP 공침법은 매우 낮은 농도의 세슘분석에 효과적이다.