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Bicyclic Derivatives of Aziridine - Materials for New Indicators of Radiation

  • Chebanov, V.A.;Zbruyev, A.I.;Desenko, S.M.;Doroshenko, A.O.;Vaschenko, V.V.
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.31-34
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    • 2005
  • The article is devoted to the study of some hi-and tricyclic derivatives of aziridine as materials lot newindicators of ionizing radiation. To create high sensitive materials some aspects of photo induced ring opening processes in aziridine derivatives in ethanol solutions and in polymeric matrix were studied and two steps character of the processes investigated was established. Two types of radioindicators were suggested and preliminary tested. The new way of synthesis of radiochromic derivatives of aziridine was developed and series of target compounds synthesized.

Design of Small-sized Scintillation Pixel Detector with a Light Guide made of the Same Material as the Scintillation Pixel (섬광 픽셀과 동일한 물질로 광가이드를 적용한 매우 작은 섬광 픽셀 검출기 설계)

  • Seung-Jae Lee;Byungdu Jo
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.17 no.4
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    • pp.523-529
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    • 2023
  • In order to achieve excellent spatial resolution, very small scintillation pixels are used in detectors of positron emission tomography for small animals. However, by using these very small scintillation pixels, scintillation pixels at the edge of the array may overlap in a flood image. To solve this problem, a light guide capable of changing the distribution of light was used. Depending on the material of the light guide, the light spreading tendency is different, and accordingly, the presence or absence of overlapping is different depending on the material of the light guide used. In this study, instead of the conventional glass light guide, a detector using the same material as the scintillation pixel was designed. A scintillator light guide has a higher refractive index than a glass light guide, so the light spread is different. Flood images were acquired to evaluate the degree of separation of the scintillation pixels at the edge of the detector using the two light guides. The degree of separation was evaluated by calculating the distance between the center and the spatial resolution of the image of two scintillation pixels at the edge of the obtained flood image. As a result, when the scintillator light guide was used, better spatial resolution was shown, and the distance between centers of scintillation pixels was wider. When a detector is constructed using a scintillator light guide instead of a conventional glass light guide, it is possible to use a smaller scintillation pixel, thereby securing better spatial resolution.

Deep Learning Applied Method for Acquisition of Digital Position Signal of PET Detector (PET 검출기의 디지털 위치 신호 측정을 위한 딥러닝 적용 방법)

  • Byungdu, Jo;Seung-Jae, Lee
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.16 no.6
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    • pp.697-702
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    • 2022
  • For imaging in positron emission tomography(PET), it is necessary to measure the position of the scintillation pixel interacting with the gamma rays incident on the detector. To this end, in the conventional system, a flood image of the scintillation pixel is obtained, the imaged area of each scintillation pixel is separated, and the position of the scintillation pixel is specified and acquired as a digital signal. In this study, a deep learning method was applied based on the signal formed by the photosensor of the detector, and a method was developed to directly acquire a digital signal without going through various procedures. DETECT2000 simulation was performed to verify this and evaluate the accuracy of position measurement. A detector was constructed using a 6 × 6 scintillation pixel array and a 4 × 4 photosensor, and a gamma ray event was generated at the center of the scintillation pixel and summed into four channels of signals through the Anger equation. After training the deep learning model using the acquired signal, the positions of gamma-ray events that occurred in different depth directions of the scintillation pixel were measured. The results showed accurate results at every scintillation pixel and position. When the method developed in this study is applied to the PET detector, it will be possible to measure the position of the scintillation pixel with a digital signal more conveniently.

Prediction of Tropospheric Amplitude Scintillation on Earth-Space Paths with High-Elevation Angle

  • Potilar, W.;Nakasuwan, J.;Griwan, J.;Sangaroon, O.;Janchitrapongvej, K.
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2078-2081
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents the studies on prediction models of tropospheric scintillation. The prediction scintillation models are Karasawa and ITU-R , which can be improved for different locations and circumstances. In this paper, the investigation of average time between variance ${\sigma}_n\;^2$ and the wet part of refractivity $N_{wet}$ under various conditions of meteorological parameters have been carried out at King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Lankrabang , Bangkok , Thailand , in the range of Ku-band (12.260 GHz) on high elevation angle from Thaicom2 satellite. From the studies results shows that average period of time of 30 days are best suitable for find out the relation between average time variance ${\sigma}_n\;^2$ and the wet part of refractivity $N_{wet}$ according to Karasawa model, the average time variance is express as ${\sigma}_n\;^2=(0.003N_{wet}-0.1313)^2$ , the appropriation model for occurrence of scintillation has been analyzed and experimental results are carried out.

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Performance Evaluation of CT Using Visible Scintillation Light

  • Kodama, Kiyoyuki;Hashimoto, Masatoshi;Hanada, Takashi;Suzuki, Tamotsu;Ide, Tatsuya;Maruyama, Koichi
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.464-467
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    • 2002
  • We propose the use of visible scintillation light for monitoring the X-ray CT in the gantry of a diagnostic CT for its performance test and maintenance works. We placed a disk of bare plastic scintillator disk in the gantry opening area of a helical X-ray CT. When we operated the CT, we could observe the emission of blue scintillation light from the scintillator in a dark room. Visible light was identified under all scanning conditions of diagnostic uses. As a result, we observed the direction and the spread of the incident X-ray in the scintillator. We also observed the change of the part of the scintillator where visible light was generated, and the move that took place associating with the rotation of the X-ray tube during one CT scan. On the basis of the observation, we examined the usefulness of the visible scintillation light as a convenient performance-evaluating tool as well as a maintenance tool of the CT.

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Spatial resolution and natural image quality assessment evaluation of gamma camera image using pinhole collimator in lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate scintillation detector

  • Kyuseok Kim;Youngjin Lee
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.55 no.7
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    • pp.2567-2571
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    • 2023
  • Scintillator materials are widely used in the medical and industrial fields for imaging systems using gamma cameras. In this study, image evaluation is performed by modeling a gamma camera system based on a lutetium-yttrium oxyorthosilicate (LYSO) scintillation detector using a pinhole collimator that can improve the spatial resolution. A LYSO detector-based gamma camera system is modeled using a Monte Carlo simulation tool. The geometric concept of the pinhole collimator is designed using various magnification factors, and the spatial resolution is measured using the acquired source image. To evaluate the resolution, the full width at half maximum (FWHM) and natural image quality assessment (NIQE), a no-reference-based parameter, are used. We confirm that the FWHM and NIQE values decrease simultaneously when the diameter of the pinhole collimator increases. Additionally, we confirm that the spatial resolution improves as the magnification factor increases under the same pinhole diameter condition. Particularly, a 0.57 mm FWHM value is obtained using the modeled gamma camera system with a LYSO scintillation detector. In conclusion, our results demonstrate that a pinhole collimator with a LYSO scintillation detector is a promising gamma camera imaging system.

A New Prediction Method for Scintillation Expression

  • Chutchavong, Vanvisa;Nakasuwan, Jintana;Sangaroon, Ornlarp;Jenchitrapongvej, Kanok
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.2082-2086
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    • 2003
  • This paper presents the analysis of satellite received signal by focus on the new prediction method for amplitude scintillation expression. A predict method based in the relationship of standard deviation values and the peak to peak values of amplitude scintillation in various of time period and various of sampling rate of signal variation. The principal techniques finding, the proper sampling rate and time interval, for the best expression method. The experiment has been performed in Bangkok of Thailand, at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Ladkrabang, data collected in C-Band and Ku-Band on high elevation angles. The result of analysis shows the relationship between two methods is given by ${\sigma}_x={\alpha}(P-P)+{\beta}$. The value of ${\alpha}$ depends on sampling rate by closely with three-minute maximum time interval.

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Scintillation Proximity Assay (섬광근접측정법)

  • Choi, Chang-Woon
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.33 no.6
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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.

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Mechanism analysis of Scintillation in Rear Projection TVs

  • KAGOTANI, Akihito;KAIZUKA, Tomoyoshi;IWATA, Satoshi;SHIMIZU, Yuichiro;MORONAGA, Kohei;TAKAHASHI, Susumu;MASUTOMI, Osamu
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2006.08a
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    • pp.1239-1242
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    • 2006
  • Scintillation that is grainy patterns appeared on a screen has been one of a biggest issues in a rear projection TVs. In this paper, with focusing on the average size of random particle, it was proved that the particle size of calculated speckle and the one of measured scintillation are almost the equal. This result shows speckle phenomenon is an important factor of scintillation.

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