• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.115-116
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• 1998

Pulse echo techniques have been used for the conventional medical ultrasound imaging systems. However, their resolution is limited in the transmitted signal power. To overcome this limit, pulse compression method used in the radar systems was proposed. This system transmits a continuous coded signal and then compresses the received signal into the short and high resolution pulse by using correlator. The reflectors can be detected by cross-correlation between the transmitted signal and the received signal with the depth information. In this paper, we will present a comparative study of the performances of the most common sequences(pseudo-chirp, m-sequences, modified Golay code). The best result for improving resolution is obtained with the modified Golay Code.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.2341-2347
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• 2021

Because single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is one of the widely used nuclear medicine imaging systems, it is extremely important to acquire high-quality images for diagnosis. In this study, we designed a super-resolution (SR) technique using dense block-based deep convolutional neural network (CNN) and evaluated the algorithm on real SPECT phantom images. To acquire the phantom images, a real SPECT system using a^99mTc source and two physical phantoms was used. To confirm the image quality, the noise properties and visual quality metric evaluation parameters were calculated. The results demonstrate that our proposed method delivers a more valid SR improvement by using dense block-based deep CNNs as compared to conventional reconstruction techniques. In particular, when the proposed method was used, the quantitative performance was improved from 1.2 to 5.0 times compared to the result of using the conventional iterative reconstruction. Here, we confirmed the effects on the image quality of the resulting SR image, and our proposed technique was shown to be effective for nuclear medicine imaging.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.113-119
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• 2017

The application of compressive sensing (CS) to a radar imaging system based on a frequency-scanned microstrip leaky wave antenna is investigated. First, an analytical model of the system matrix is formulated as the basis for the inversion algorithm. Then, $L_1-norm$ minimization is applied to the inverse problem to generate a range-azimuth image of the scene. Because of the antenna length, the near-field effect is considered in the CS formulation to properly image close-in targets. The resolving capability of the combined frequency-scanned antenna and CS processing is examined and compared to results based on the short-time Fourier transform and the pseudo-inverse. Both simulation and measurement data are tested to show the system performance in terms of image resolution.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.51-58
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• 2001

물질의 X-선 흡수도에 의해 영상을 얻는 일반 X-선 시스템과 달리 방사광 X-선은 위상이 일치하고 평행하며 진동방향이 일치하는 특성들을 이용하면 고 분해능, 고 대조도의 투사영상을 얻을 수 있다. 국내에서는 포항 방사광 가속기 연구소에 최근 건설된 5C1 빔라인에 미세구조 X-선 영상 획득을 위한 영상시스템을 구축하여 여러 기초 생물, 의학연구분야의 고 분해능 영상획득이 가능하게 되었다. 방사광 X-선을 이용하여 얻은 고 해상도 투사영상들 및 단층 재구성 영상들을 일반 X-선을 사용하는 유방찰영시스템, 치아 X-선 찰영시스템, 전신측정용 CT 시스템에서 각각 획득한 동일한 대상의 영상들과 비교하였다. 실험에 사용한 방사광 X-선은 6 ～30 keV 사이의 연속적인 에너지 분포를 가지며, 실험의 대상에 따라서 실리콘웨이퍼 필터들을 사용하여 빔의 세기와 에너지 스펙트럼 분포를 조절하여 사용하였다. 실험 대상 물체를 통과한 방사광 X-선의 투사영상은 형광판 (CdWO$_4$ scintillator)과 반응하여 가시광선으로 바뀐 후, 금도금된 거울을 통해 90$^{\circ}$ 반사되어 CCD 카메라로 획득하며, 이러한 디지털 영상정보는 PC로 전송되어 저장된다. 방사광 X-선의 공간 분해능 특성은 X-선 시험패턴(25 $\mu$m)과 초 고해상도 패턴 (13.5 $\mu$m)을 방사광 X-선 영상획득시스템 과 일반 X-선을 사용하는 유방촬영시스템에서 획득하여 분석하였다. 영상획득 실험대상으로는 일반 구조물로 커패시터, 생체조직으로 성인치아, 유아치아, 생쥐 척추뼈 및 유방암조직을 대상으로 실험하였다. 단층영상은 각각의 샘플을 0.72$^{\circ}$ 간격으로 180$^{\circ}$ 회전시켜 250개의 투과영상들로부터 재구성한 후 컴퓨터 단층촬영기에서 얻은 영상과 비교하였다. 포항 방사광가속기연구소 5C1 빔라인에 간단하고, 경제적인 방사광 X-선 영상획득시스템을 성공적으로 구축할 수 있었고, 획득한 투사 영상과 재구성한 단층영상을 기존 X-선을 사용한 시스템으로 획득한 단층영상들과 분해능, 대조도의 특성들을 비교, 분석하였다. 방사광 X-선을 사용하여 획득한 영상들은 일반 시스템에서 얻은 영상보다 고 해상도의 영상 질을 보여주었고, 기초 의학영상 연구 측면에서 많은 정보를 제공해 주었다. 방사광 X-선을 이용한 영상획득시스템은 고 분해능과 고 대조도로 미세구조의 상세한 의학영상을 얻기 위한 유용한 방법으로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 향후 해부학적, 병리학적 및 임상학적 의료영상 분야에 효과적으로 응용하기 위하여 X-선 선량 정량 분석과 수치적 영상 해석연구가 계속되어야 할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1998년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부 B
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• pp.597-599
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• 1998

The clinical acceptance of magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) system has been more rapid than that of the other medical image diagnosis system(X-ray, CT, etc) with the advantage of nonhazardous nature, high resolution capability, potential for chemically specified imaging. MRI system is composed of super conducting magnet, gradient fields, rf transceiver, system controller and imaging software technology. In this paper, introducing the principle of magnetic resonance imaging, it proposes the implementation of PC-based MRI system.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 1998년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.262-267
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• 1998

In Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) imaging, the echoed data are collected by moving radar's position with respect to the target area, and this operation actually gives effect of synthesizing aperture size, which in turn gives better cross range resolution of reconstructed target scene. Among several inversion scheme for SAR Imaging, we uses an inversion scheme which uses no approximation in wave propagation analysis, and try to verify whether the collected data with synthesized aperture actually gives the same support as that with physical aperture in the same size. To do this, we make a signal subspace comparison of two imaging models with physical and synthesized arrays, respectively. Theoretical comparison and numerical analysis using Gram-Schmidt procedures had been performed. The results showed that the synthesized array data fully span the physical array data with the same system geometry and strongly support the proposed inversion scheme valuable in high resolution radar imaging.

• 한국전기전자재료학회논문지
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• 제16권12S호
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• pp.1261-1267
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• 2003

Since the grating optical low-pass fillet degrades the resolution of images, we developed a hologram optical low-pass filter that show low degradation of the image and studied its characteristics. We designed the hologram that divides input beam into circular shaped 21 beams with a Monte-Carlo based hologram generation program and calculated its MTE characteristics to compare it with that of a grating filter. The hologram was manufactured through the optical lithography process and attached to a digital imaging device (Zoran 732212) for measurement. The moirfiltering is compared with zone plate images and the resolution loss is measured with USAF resolution chart. The hologram optical low-pass filter showed better characteristics in both moly filtering and resolution.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제27권12호
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• pp.15-21
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• 2010

Recently, there is a demand for a thermal imaging microscope in the medical field as well as the semi-conductor industry Although the demand of the advanced thermal imaging microscope has been increased, it is very difficult to obtain the technology of developing a thermal camera, because it is used for defense industry. We developed the ${\times}5$ zoom microscope which has $3\;{\mu}m$ spatial resolution to research the design and fabrication of the IR (Infrared) optical system. The optical system of the IR microscope consists of four spherical lenses and four aspheric lenses. We verified individual sensitivity of each optical parameter as the first order approach to the analysis. And we also performed structure and vibration analysis. The optical elements are fabricated using Freeform 700A. The measurement results of surface roughness and form accuracy using NT 2000 and UA3P are Ra 2.36 nm and P-V $0.13\;{\mu}m$. Finally we ascertained resolution power of $3\;{\mu}m$ using USAF (United State Air Force) 1951 IR resolution test chart.

• 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국의학물리학회 1999년도 Japanese Journal of Medical Physics
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• pp.423-424
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• 1999

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권6호
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• pp.598-603
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• 2017

Traditional three-dimensional (3-D) laser imaging systems are based on real aperture imaging technology, whose resolution decreases as the range increases. In this paper, we develop a novel 3-D imaging technique based on the synthetic aperture technology in which the imaging resolution is significantly improved and does not degrade with the increase of the range. We consider an imaging laser radar (ladar) system using the floodlight transmitting mode and multi-beam receiving mode. High 3-D imaging resolutions are achieved by matched filtering the linear frequency modulated (LFM) signals respectively in range, synthetic aperture along-track, and the real aperture across-track. In this paper, a novel 3-D imaging signal model is given first. Because of the motion during the transmission of a sweep, the Doppler shift induced by the continuous motion is taken into account. And then, a proper algorithm for the 3-D imaging geometry is given. Finally, simulation results validate the effectiveness of the proposed technique.