• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.9-14
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• 2002

두부 프레임을 지지하는 방식으로 pedestal mounting system과 couch mounting system의 장점을 수용한, 새로운 형태의 분할 정위방사선 치료 시스템을 개발하였다. 두부 고정을 위한 프레임은 두랄루민으로 제작하였고, 카우치에 부착되게 하였다. 프레임 내에서 환자의 두부를 고정하기 위해 치아 고정장치와 3.2 mm 열프라스틱으로 전두부와 후두부에 마스크를 제작할 수 있다. 정위 좌표 구현을 위한 전산화 단층촬영 localizer는 각 병원에서 많이 사용하고 있는 Brown-Roberts-Walls(B.R.W) 시스템을 사용할 수 있게 하여, 개발된 시스템의 신뢰성을 높이고 제작 단가도 낮추고자 하였다. 프레임 mounting system은 pedestal mounting system을 수정, 보완한 형태로 개발하였다. 시스템은 카우치를 지지하는 바닥 면에 고정되어 카우치에 부착된 프레임과 결합할 수 있고, 시스템과 카우치의 잠금 장치를 푼 채 자유롭게 x, y축으로 유동할 수 있다. 프레임 mounting system의 중심축은 상, 하 방향으로 이동 가능한 포인터 형태로 제작하여, 치료기의 구동 정확성을 검증하는 정도 관리에 응용 가능하다. 개발된 시스템의 재현성과 정확도 검증을 위해 아크릴 팬텀과 포인터를 제작하였고, 전산화 단층촬영 영상에서 획득한 팬텀 내 목표점의 정위 좌표를 dial-gauge와 E.C.L 필름으로 검증하였다. 실험의 결과 x축 방향의 재현성 오차는 0.71$\pm$0.19 mm, y축 방향은 0.45$\pm$0.15 mm, z축 방향 재현성 오차는 0.63$\pm$0.18 mm로 나타났고, 최대 1.3 mm 이내의 우수한 재현성을 보였다. 연구 결과로 개발된 분할 정위방사선 치료 시스템은 재현성이 우수하고, 전체 중량이 가벼워 사용하기 쉽게 제작되었다. 특히 수정된 pedestal frame mounting system으로 설계되어 후두부 방사선 조사가 가능한 장점이 있다.

• BMB Reports
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• 제45권10호
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• pp.571-576
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• 2012

Radiotherapy is considered to cause detrimental effects on bone tissue eventually increasing bone loss and fracture risk. However, there is a great controversy on the real effects of irradiation itself on osteoblasts, and the mechanisms by which irradiation affects osteoblast differentiation and mineralization are not completely understood. We explored how X-ray radiation influences differentiation and bone-specific gene expression in mouse calvarial osteoblasts. Irradiation at 2 Gy not only increased differentiation and mineralization of the cells, but also upregulated the expression of alkaline phosphatase, type I collagen, osteopontin, and osteocalcin at early stages of differentiation. However, irradiation at higher doses (>2 Gy) did not stimulate osteoblast differentiation, rather it suppressed DNA synthesis by the cells without a toxic effect. Additional experiments suggested that transforming growth factor-beta 1 and runt-transcription factor 2 play important roles in irradiation- stimulated bone differentiation by acting as upstream regulators of bone-specific markers.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.455-461
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• 1993

Experimental measurements of dose characteristics with pentagonal applicator at nominal energy of 4, 6, 9, 12 and 15 MeV electron beam were performed for intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) in ML-15MDX linear accelerator. This paper presents the percent depth dose, surface dose, beam flatness and output factors of using the IORT applicator in different electron beam energy. The output factor showed as a 24 percent higher in IORT applicator than that of reference $10{\times}10cm^2$ applicator. The surface dose of using the IORT applicator showed 7.7 and 2.7 percent higher than that of reference field in 4 and 15 MeV electron beam, respectively. In our experiments, the variation of percent depth dose was very small but the output factor and flatnees at 0.5 cm depth have showed a large value in IORT applicator.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.3417-3422
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• 2023

Recently, as the clinically positive biological effects of ultra-high dose rate (UHDR) radiation beams have been revealed, interest in flash radiation therapy has increased. Generally, FLASH preclinical experiments are performed using UHDR electron beams generated by linear accelerators. Real-time monitoring of UHDR beams is required to deliver the correct dose to a sample. However, it is difficult to use typical transmission-type ionization chambers for primary beam monitoring because there is no suitable electrometer capable of reading high pulsed currents, and collection efficiency is drastically reduced in pulsed radiation beams with ultra-high doses. In this study, a monitoring method using bremsstrahlung photons generated by irradiation devices and a water phantom was proposed. Charges collected in an ionization chamber located at the back of a water phantom were analyzed using the bremsstrahlung tail on electron depth dose curves obtained using radiochromic films. The dose conversion factor for converting a monitored charge into a delivered dose was determined analytically for the Advanced Markus® chamber and compared with experimentally determined values. It is anticipated that the method proposed in this study can be useful for monitoring sample doses in UHDR electron beam irradiation.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 3차원 입체조형 방사선 치료 계획에 고밀도 인공 물체를 삽입하는 불확실성을 보정하기 위해 반복적 재구성(IR)의 유용성을 평가하는 것이다. 쇠구슬 팬텀과 티타늄이 삽입된 대상자의 CT Simulation 영상에서 IR을 적용한 영상과 IR을 적용하지 않은 영상을 얻었으며 선량 평가 인자인 HI, MU와 체적 평가 인자인 Volume과 PCI를 비교하였다. 쇠구슬과 티타늄 팬텀 실험 결과 IR을 적용할 때 고밀도 인공물질의 부피가 각각 4.850%, 11.456% 줄었으며 MU는 0.924%, 1.181% 감소하였다. HI는 0.106%, 0.272% 감소하였고 PCI는 0.358%, 0.867% 감소하였다. IR을 척추 성형술, 대퇴부 정렬핀, 손목 정렬핀 등 대상자의 CT 영상에 적용했을 때 인공물의 부피는 47.76%, 23.841%, 49.339% 감소하였다. MU도 0.924%, 0.294%, 1.675%, HI는 1.232%, 0.412%, 1.695% 감소하였으며 PCI는 4.022%, 0.512%, 13.472% 감소하였다. 결론적으로 3차원 입체조형 방사선 치료 계획시 IR을 적용했을 때 고밀도 인공물이 삽입된 팬텀과 대상자 케이스에서 선량과 체적이 모두 감소되었다는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Toxicological Research
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.133-141
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• 2018

Anti-cancer drugs such as cisplatin and doxorubicin are effectively used more than radiotherapy. Cisplatin is a chemotherapeutic drug, used for treatment of various forms of cancer. However, it has side effects such as ototoxicity and nephrotoxicity. Cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity increases tubular damage and renal dysfunction. Consequently, we investigated the beneficial effect of cynaroside on cisplatin-induced kidney injury using HK-2 cell (human proximal tubule cell line) and an animal model. Results indicated that $10{\mu}M$ cynaroside diminished cisplatin-induced apoptosis, mitochondrial dysfunction and caspase-3 activation, cisplatin-induced upregulation of caspase-3/MST-1 pathway decreased by treatment of cynaroside in HK-2 cells. To confirm the effect of cynaroside on cisplatin-induced kidney injury in vivo, we used cisplatin exposure animal model (20 mg/kg, balb/c mice, i.p., once a day for 3 days). Renal dysfunction, tubular damage and neutrophilia induced by cisplatin injection were decreased by cynaroside (10 mg/kg, i.p., once a day for 3 days). Results indicated that cynaroside decreased cisplatin-induced kidney injury in vitro and in vivo, and it could be used for improving cisplatin-induced side effects. However, further experiments are required regarding toxicity by high dose cynaroside and caspase-3/MST-1-linked signal transduction in the animal model.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.53-62
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• 1992

최근 두개부 종양의 방사성물질의 자입과 방사선입체조사에 의한 뇌수술이 개발되어 의료계 에 많은 관심을 끌고 있다. 또한 방사선수술등은 비관혈적인 체외조사이므로 뇌정위수술용 좌표계의 전산화단층촬영을 이용한 표적중심결정이 매우 중요하다. 현재 알려진 방법은 뇌정위수술용좌표계의 전산화단층찰영에 대한 직교성하에서 비교적 정확하게 표적의 위치를 결정하게 되나, 임상현장에서 직교성유지는 실제 어려운 실정이다. 이에 필자들은 임의의 비직교성 스켄하에서 정확한 표적좌표를 얻기위한 알고리즘을 사용하였으며, 표적오차는 평균 0.02$\pm$0.3mm를 보였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제47권4호
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• pp.472-478
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• 2015

The patient dose incurred from diagnostic procedures during advanced radiotherapy has become an important issue. Many researchers in medical physics are using computational simulations to calculate complex parameters in experiments. However, extended computation times make it difficult for personal computers to run the conventional Monte Carlo method to simulate radiological images with high-flux photons such as images produced by computed tomography (CT). To minimize the computation time without degrading imaging quality, we applied a deterministic adaptation to the Monte Carlo calculation and verified its effectiveness by simulating CT image reconstruction for an image evaluation phantom (Catphan; Phantom Laboratory, New York NY, USA) and a human-like voxel phantom (KTMAN-2) (Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA). For the deterministic adaptation, the relationship between iteration numbers and the simulations was estimated and the option to simulate scattered radiation was evaluated. The processing times of simulations using the adaptive method were at least 500 times faster than those using a conventional statistical process. In addition, compared with the conventional statistical method, the adaptive method provided images that were more similar to the experimental images, which proved that the adaptive method was highly effective for a simulation that requires a large number of iterations-assuming no radiation scattering in the vicinity of detectors minimized artifacts in the reconstructed image.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제41권3호
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• pp.222-228
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• 2016

Background: We are developing a small size dosimeter for dose estimation in particle therapies. The developed dosimeter is an optical fiber based dosimeter mounting an radiation induced luminescence material, such as an OSL or a scintillator, at a tip. These materials generally suffer from the quenching effect under high LET particle irradiation. Materials and Methods: We fabricated two types of the small size dosimeters. They used an OSL material Eu:BaFBr and a BGO scintillator. Carbon ions were irradiated into the fabricated dosimeters at Heavy Ion Medical Accelerator in Chiba (HIMAC). The small size dosimeters were set behind the water equivalent acrylic phantom. Bragg peak was observed by changing the phantom thickness. An ion chamber was also placed near the small size dosimeters as a reference. Results and Discussion: Eu:BaFBr and BGO dosimeters showed a Bragg peak at the same thickness as the ion chamber. Under high LET particle irradiation, the response of the luminescence-based small size dosimeters deteriorated compared with that of the ion chamber due to the quenching effect. We confirmed the luminescence efficiency of Eu:BaFBr and BGO decrease with the LET. The reduction coefficient of luminescence efficiency was different between the BGO and the Eu:BaFBr. The LET can be determined from the luminescence ratio between Eu:BaFBr and BGO, and the dosimeter response can be corrected. Conclusion: We evaluated the LET dependence of the luminescence efficiency of the BGO and Eu:BaFBr as the quenching effect. We propose and discuss the correction of the quenching effect using the signal intensity ratio of the both materials. Although the correction precision is not sufficient, feasibility of the proposed correction method is proved through basic experiments.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.256-262
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• 2019

Extensive tumor resection accompanied by radiotherapy and chemotherapy is the standard of care for malignant gliomas. However, there is a significant obstacle to the complete resection of the tumor due to the difficulty of distinguishing tumor and normal brain tissue with a conventional surgical microscope. Recently, multiple studies have shown the possibility of fluorescence-guided surgery in malignant gliomas. The most used fluorescence dyes for brain tumor surgery are 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) and indocyanine green (ICG). In this paper, a new fluorescence guided operation system, which can detect both 5-ALA and ICG fluorescent images simultaneously, is presented. This operation system consists of light emitting diodes (LEDs) which emits 410 nm and 740 nm wavelengths. We have performed experiments on rats in order to verify the operation of the newly developed operation system. Oral administration and imaging were performed to observe the fluorescence of 5-ALA and ICG fluorescence in rats. When LEDs at wavelengths of 410 nm and 740 nm were irradiated on rats, 628 nm wavelength with a violet fluorescence color and 825 nm wavelength with a red fluorescence color were expressed in 5-ALA and ICG fluorescent material, respectively, thus we were able to distinguish the tumor tissues easily. Previously, due to the poor resolution of the conventional surgical microscope and the fact that the color of the vein is similar to that of the tumor, the tumor resection margin was not easy to observe, thus increasing the likelihood for cancer recurrence. However, when the tumor is observed through the fluorescence guided operation system, it is possible to easily distinguish the color with the naked eye and it can be completely removed. Therefore, it is expected that surgical removal of cancerous tumors will be possible and surgical applications and surgical microscopes for cancer tumor removal surgery will be promising in the future.