• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.217-223
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• 2008

Background: Lumbar transforaminal epidural injections (LTEIs) have been utilized in the treatment of radicular pain, and LTEIs have the advantage of target-specificity. However, there have not been enough studies on the contrast patterns in LTEIs with using fluoroscopy. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the spreading epidural contrast patterns that are seen during real-time fluoroscopic guided LTEIs. Methods: A total of 131 patients who underwent fluoroscopic guided LTEIs were studied. The inclusion criteria were those patients with low back pain and/or lower extremity pain that was caused by a herniated nucleus pulposus, lumbar spinal stenosis, failed back surgery syndrome, and herpes zoster-associated pain. We classified the contrast patterns in regard to the contrast flow spreading to the nerve root and/or the unilateral, bilateral or cylinderic type of epidural spreading on the AP view of the fluoroscopy and the ventral or dorsal epidural filling on the lateral view. In addition to the pattern analysis, we evaluated the range of contrast spreading from the cranial to the caudal epidural filling and the incidence of an intravascular flow pattern. Results: Epidural spreading was seen in 126 cases (96.2%) of the total patients through the nerve root. Ventral spreading occurred in 120 cases (95.2%). On the AP view, a nerve root with unilateral, bilateral and cylinderic epidural filling was noted for 108 (85.7%), 9 (7.1%) and 9 (7.1%) cases, respectively. The contrast spreading to vertebral segments was smaller for the patients with lumbar spinal stenosis and failed back surgery syndrome than for the other groups (P < 0.0083). The incidence of intravascular injection was 11.1% (14/126). Conclusions: LTEIs using fluoroscopic visualization provided excellent assessment of the ventral epidural filling as well as nerve root filling. However, unilateral epidural spreading was prominent for the LTEIs.

• 인지과학
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.1-24
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• 2010

운동자극에 오랫동안 노출된 이후 해당 자극이 제시된 망막상의 영역에 제시된 정지 자극은 운동 자극의 방향과는 반대방향으로 움직이는 것으로 지각되는 운동 잔여효과(motion aftereffect: MAE)가 발생한다. 본 연구에서는 운동순응에 의해 발생된 운동 잔여효과가 인접 비순응 영역에까지 번져나가는 현상이 양안 시차에 의해 깊이가 다른 표면에서도 발생하는지를 살펴보았다. 동심원의 고리부분에만 운동순응을 시킨 후, 실험 1에서는 양안 시차에 의한 경사 표면을 중앙 비순응 영역에 제시했고 실험 2에서는 양안시차에 의해 깊이가 다른 정면평행 표면(fronto parallel plane)을 중앙 비순응 영역에 제시하였다. 경사 표면인 경우 주변 순응영역과 깊이가 동일한 비경사조건에서의 MAE지속시간과 유사한 반면, 깊이가 다른 정면 평행 표면에서는 동일 깊이 조건보다 MAE 지속시간은 줄어들었지만 완전히 사라지지는 않았다. 이러한 결과는 MAE의 번짐 현상이 깊이 불연속 정보에 의해 영향 받는다는 것을 보여줄 뿐만 아니라 양안정보가 합치된 이후에도 발생될 수 있음을 시사한다.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.175-180
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• 2006

Background: A transforaminal epidural steroid injection has been used for the treatment of radicular arm or leg pain, which has the advantage of ventral epidural spreading compared to either an interlaminar or caudal approach. However, several factors are known to affect the epidural spread pattern of contrast dye; therefore, the injected medication can not be delivered to the target site. The objective of our study was to observe any differences in the contrast flow patterns according to several factors. Methods: A total of 34 epidurographies in 29 patients, who underwent fluoroscopically guided transforaminal epidural steroid injections, were evaluated. After confirming the location of the needle tip within the anterior superior aspect of the neural foramen in the lateral view, and at the 6 o'clock position to the pedicle in the anteroposterior view, 2 ml of contrast dye was injected. The contrast flow patterns of ventral, ventral and dorsal, and dorsal epidural filling were analyzed, according to age, gender, magnetic resonance imaging finding and history of previous back surgery. Results: Ventral contrast flow occurred in 30 out of the 34 epidurographies (88%). Both ventral and dorsal contrast flow patterns were observed 13 out of 16 (81%) patients in the older age group. Also, both ventral and dorsal contrast flow patterns were observed in 16 out of 18 (88%) patients with spinal stenosis. Conclusions: Transforaminal epidural steroid injections, performed uner fluoroscopy, provide excellent nerve root filling and ventral epidural spreading. Patients with spinal stenosis or an old age have both ventral and dorsal epidural spreading patterns.

• The Korean Journal of Pain
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.52-57
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• 2009

Background: Transforaminal epidural injection (TEI) may be useful to treat unilateral pain that has a dermatomal distribution. In this approach, the needle tip can be placed closer to the dorsal root ganglion and ventral aspect of the nerve root. However many studies have reported that serious complications following TEI occurred more frequently when it was conducted at the cervical level. One of the presumptive mechanisms of the complication is intravascular injection. Therefore this study was conducted to identify the incidence of complications in response to intravascular injections at cervical segments. Methods: This study included all patients, who visited our pain clinic and had radicular symptoms or herpes zoster associated pain. All procedures were conducted under fluoroscopic guidance with contrast enhancement by one of the authors. After the ideal needle position was confirmed by biplanar fluoroscopy, the blood aspiration through the needle hub was evaluated, and a 3 ml mixture of nonionic contrast (2 ml) with normal saline (1 ml) was injected at a rate of 0.3-0.5 ml/sec continuously under real time fluoroscopic visualization. We then classified the contrast spreading pattern as neural, simultaneous neural and vascular, or vascular. Results: A total 71 cervical TEIs were performed. In 26 cases (36.6%), the contrast only spread to the nerve sheath. However, 45 cases (63.4%) showed an intravascular spreading pattern, 37 (52.1%) of which showed a neural and vascular pattern and 8 (11.3%) of which showed only a vascular pattern. Conclusions: Approximately two thirds of the cases of cervical TEI were found to lead to intravascular spreading, which is much higher than the incidence reported in previous studies.

• Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.183-186
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• 2015

This research investigates the impact of charge spreading on the data retention of three-dimensional (3D) silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon (SONOS) flash memory where the charge trapping layer is shared along the cell string. In order to do so, this study conducts an electrical analysis of the planar SONOS test pattern where the silicon nitride charge storage layer is not isolated but extends beyond the gate electrode. Experimental results from the test pattern show larger retention loss in the devices with extended storage layers compared to isolated devices. This retention degradation is thought to be the result of an additional charge spreading through the extended silicon nitride layer along the width of the memory cell, which should be improved for the successful 3-D application of SONOS flash devices.

• Ocean and Polar Research
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.87-98
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• 2018

It is widely known that infragravity waves can exert significant influence on wave run-up over beaches. Large run-ups can lead to overwash, flooding and severe coastal erosion. In spite of the importance of infragravity waves in relation to wave run-up and coastal erosion, few studies have been carried out with regard to the impact of infragravity waves on nearshore morphodynamics with respect to eastern beaches in Korea. The purpose of this study is to investigate the importance of infragravity waves in nearshore numerical modelling. For the study, XBeach model was set up to analyze morphodynamics in December 2016, in Ilsan beach which is located in Ilsan-dong, Ulsan Metropolitan City. After validation of the XBeach model, numerical experiments were conducted by using various directional spreading coefficients. As the directional spreading coefficients are increased, the effect of infragravity waves is also enhanced by narrowband frequency. With the increasing effect of infragravity waves, the amount of sediment transport is also increased and an erosion dominant pattern is found in the south part of Ilsan beach and a deposition pattern in the north part of the beach mainly due to the wave incident direction of NNE.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권6B호
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• pp.569-578
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• 2002

This paper proposes a new multicarrier code division multiple access (CDMA) system. The proposed multicarrier CDMA system provides the advantages that the transmission bandwidth is more efficiently utilized by using divided spreading sequence, time and frequency diversity is achieved in frequency selective nultipath (acting channel, and inter-carrier interference (ICI) can be minimized by using specific data and code pattern. In this system, transmitted data bits are serial-to-parallel converted to some parallel branches. On each branch each bit is direct-sequence spread-spectrum modulated by divided spreading sequences and transmitted using orthogonal carriers. The receiver providers a Rake for each carrier, and the outputs of Rakes are combined to get time and frequency diversity. This multicarrier CDMA system allows additional flexibility in the choice of system parameters. Upon varying system parameters, bit error rate (BER) performance is examined for the proposed multicarrier CDMA system. Simulation results show that the proposed multicarrier CDMA scheme can achieve better performance than the other types of conventional multicarrier CDMA systems.

• 인지과학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-27
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• 2005

움직이는 패턴을 오랫동안 본 후에 정지된 패턴을 보면. 정지된 패턴이 운동 패턴의 반대 방향으로 움직이는 것으로 지각되는 운동 잔여 효과(motion aftereffect: MAE)가 발생된다. 이 현상에 대한 고전적인 설명과는 달리 복잡운동의 MAE는 운동 순응이 발생되지 않은 영역에까지 확산된다. 본 연구에서는 시각 정보 처리 과정에서 MAE의 확산 현상이 발생되는 신경기제의 상대적인 위치를 알아보기 위해서 하모닉 나선형 패턴을 운동 순응 자극으로 사용하여 고리모양의 창에 제시한 후, 순응이 발생된 고리영역과 순응이 발생되지 않은 안쪽 영역 모두에서 MAE를 측정하였다. 순응자극과 동일한 영상과 거울상을 각각 검사자극으로 사용하여 MAE를 측정하고 두 조건에서 발견된 MAE를 비교하였다. 하모닉 나선형 자극의 특징은 동일 영역에 제시된 원영상과 거울상의 윤곽 방위의 차이가 90도라는 점이다. 이러한 특징에 의해 거울상의 경우 국소 운동 정보를 추출하는 탐지기 수준에서는 순응효과를 기대하기 어렵다. 실험 결과 순응된 영역에서의 MAE 지속시간은 동일상 조건이 거울상 조건보다 더 길게 나타났지만, 운동 순응이 없었던 영역(운동 잔여효과의 확산 영역)에서는 두 조건간 유의한 차이가 발생되지 않았다. 이러한 결과는 복잡운동(complex motion)의 MAE 화산은 국소 운동 정보가 추출되는 V1과 같은 초기 단계에 있는 신경세포의 순응이 아니라 복잡 운동이 처리되는 MSTd 에 있는 신경세포들의 순응에 의해서 발생됨을 시사한다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권10A호
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• pp.1123-1130
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 OVSF 코드의 단일 코드 인덱싱 기법과 이를 기반으로 하는 다단 확산 방식을 이용한 효율적인 코드 생성 기법을 제안한다. 기존의 코드 트리 구조(code-tree structure) 기반의 인덱싱 방식에서는 확산 계수와 코드 번호라는 두 개의 인덱스를 이용하여 하나의 코드워드(codeword)를 표시한 반면에 단일 코드 인덱싱 기법에 서는 하나의 코드 인덱스만을 사용하여 각 층의 코드워드의 확산 계수와 코드 번호를 모두 표시할 수 있다. 단일 코드 인덱스의 이진 표현은 코드워드의 패턴을 나타내 주어 코드워드를 코드 인덱스로부터 직접 생성할 수 있게 할 뿐만 아니라, 두 개의 다른 코드워드의 직교 여부를 코드 인덱스의 비교로 결정할 수 있게 한다. 본 논문에서는 긴 코드의 확산을 여러 단계의 짧은 코드의 확산으로 나누어 실행하도록 하는 다단 확산 방식을 코드 생성에 적용하여 3GPP UMTS 시스템을 위한 빠르고 효율적인 코드 생성기를 설계하고 검증하였다.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.95-105
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• 2009

A method was proposed which employed control of the drop location of fertilizer particles on a spinner disc to optimize the spread pattern uniformity. The system contained an optical sensor as a feedback mechanism, which measured discharge velocity and location, as well as particle diameters to predict a spread pattern of a single disc. Simulations showed that the feed gate adaptation algorithm produced high quality patterns for any given application rate in the dual disc spreader. The performance of the feed gate control method was assessed using data collected from a Sulky spinner disc spreader. The results showed that it was always possible to find a spread pattern with an acceptable CV lower than 15%, even though the spread pattern was obtained from a rudimentary flat disc with straight radial vanes. A mathematical optimization method was used to find the initial parameter settings for a specially designed experimental spreading arrangement, which included the feed gate control system, for a given flow rate and swath width. Several experiments were carried out to investigate the relationship between the gate opening and flow rate, disc speed and particle velocity, as well as disc speed and predicted landing location of fertilizer particles. All relationships found were highly linear ($r^2$ > 0.96), which showed that the time-of-flight sensor was well suited as a feedback sensor in the rate and uniformity controlled spreading system.