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Dosimetry according to the Object Thickness (피사체(被射體)두께에 따른 선량분포(線量分布))

  • Lee, Sang-Suk;Park, Sung-Ock
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.85-88
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    • 1979
  • When X-radiation passes through the human body; some is transmitted some is truly absorbed, and some is scattered. In diagnostic radiography, scattered radiation can reach the film if no protective measures are taken. This scattered ray increased density which not necessary for image formation. We studied about absorbtion, scattered ray and the way of get rid of scatter ray according to the x-ray tube kilovoltage and obtained results as follow; 1. Absorbtion ray increased proportion to KVP. 2. Scattered ray increased at high KVP and thick object. 3. Secondary radiation of the primary increased at high KVP and thick object. 4. Remove .ate of scattered ray decreased at thick object and increase at low KVP make use of 6:1 grid ratio

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Three dimensional Dose reconstruction based on transit dose measurement and Monte Carlo calculation (조사문 선량 분포와 Monte Carlo 계산을 이용한 삼차원 선량 재구성에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Dal;Yeo, In-Hwan;Kim, Dae-Yong;An, Yong-Chan;Heo, Seung-Jae
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.91-99
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    • 2000
  • This is a preliminary study for developing the method of the dose reconstruction in the patients, irradiated by mega-voltage photon beams from the linear accelerator, using the transit dose distributions. In this study we present the method of three-dimensional dose reconstruction and evaluate the method by computer simulation. To acquire the dose distributions in the patients (or phantoms) we first calculate the differences between the doses at the arbitrary points in the patients and the doses at the corresponding points where the transit doses are measured. Then, we can get the dose in the patients from the measured transit dose and the calculated value of the difference. The dose differences are calculated by applying the inverse square law and using the linear attenuation coefficient. The scatter to primary dose ratios, which are calculated by the Monte Carlo program using the CT data of the patient (or phantoms), are also used in the calculations. For the evaluation of this method we used various kinds of homogeneous and inhomogeneous phantoms and calculated the transit dose distributions with the Monte Carlo program. From the distributions we reconstructed the dose distributions in the phantom. We used mono-energy Photon beam of 1.5MeV and Monte Carlo program EGS4. The comparison between the dose distributions reconstructed using the method and the distributions calculated by the Monte Carlo program was done. They agreed within errors of -4%∼+2%. This method can be used to predict the dose distributions in the patient

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Phytoplankton and Bacterioplankton in the Intertidal and Subtidal Waters in the Vicinity of Kunsan (군산부근 조간대 및 조하대역에서의 식물플랑크톤과 Bacterioplankton)

  • Lee, Won Ho;Lee, Gean Hyoung;Choi, Moon Sul;Lee, Da Mi
    • 한국해양학회지
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.157-164
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    • 1989
  • Quantitative species distribution and primary productivity of phytoplankton were studied monthly from August, 1987 to July, 1988 along with the quantitative distribution of total heterotrophic bacterioplankton and three groups of physiologically chracteristic bacterioplankton in the intertidal and subtidal waters off Kum River Estuary, Yellow Sea. A total of 121 phytoplankton taxa including 102 diatoms occurred, and cell concentration ranged from 15 to 5451 (cells/ml). The great spatio-temporal variations of the number of phytoplankton species and cell concentration well reflected the environmental differences between the intertidal and subtidal waters. Primary productivity (in Piopt, mgC/$m^3$/hr) ranged from 0.6 to 27.3. Just after the phytoplankton bloom (March) Piopt was very low in April at station 1, where amylolytic bacterioplankton also showed quite low population density. The peaks of primary productivity were not always coincided with those of phytoplankton standing crop. The ratio of Piopt's between samples well indicated the environmental differences between the intertidal and subtidal waters. Little characteristic trend was found in the scatter diagrams of phytoplankton standing crop along the population densities of total heterotrophic bacterioplankton and the three groups of physiologically characteristic bacterioplankton. In summer the phytoplankton standing crop was minimum in contrast with the high population density of bacterioplankton, which implies the influx of much allochthonous orgainc matter from Kum River. The scatter diagrams of Piopt along bacterioplankton population density revealed some phenomena there. Piopt had highly positive correlation with the population density of amylolytie bacterioplankton($R^2$=0.84) and that of lipolytic bacterioplankton($R^2$=0.70) while total heterotrophic bacterioplankton and proteolytic bacterioplankton had lesser correlations with Piopt. From the regression lines the increase of unit Piopt (mgC/$m^3$/hr) in the study area was calculated to mean the increase of $9.0{\times}10$ cells/ml and $8.0{\times}10$ cells/ml of amylolytic bacterioplankton and lipolytic bacterioplankton, respectively.

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