• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.361-364
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• 1997

Bayesian MAP-EM approaches have been quite useful or tomographic reconstruction in that they can stabilize the instability of well-known ML-EM approaches, and can incorporate a priori information on the underlying emission object. However, MAP reconstruction algorithms with expressive priors often suffer from the optimization problem when their objective unctions are nonquadratic. In our previous work [1], we showed that the use of deterministic annealing method greatly reduces computational burden or optimization and provides a good solution or nonquadratic objective unctions. Here, we further investigate the convergence of the deterministic annealing algorithm; our experimental results show that, while the solutions obtained by a simple quenching algorithm depend on the initial conditions, the estimates converged via deterministic annealing algorithm are consistent under various initial conditions.

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.82-93
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• 1995

Three-dimensional reconstruction of computed tomographic image(3D CT) is a well-established imaging modality which has been investigated in various clinical settings. It is commonly performed in case of congenital or developmental abnormalities, and traumatic fracture of skull and face that requires reconstruction of osseous structure. However reporting the 3D CT in laryngeal or tracheal stenosis is rare and its results are obscure. The authors performed 3D CT in six cases of tracheal stenosis and found diagnostic value of 3D CT. A Comparision of diagnostic information obtained from plain X-ray, 2D CT and 3D CT has performed in total six cases of tracheal stenosis. Surgical treatment of the tracheal stenosis was following in these cases : tracheal end to end anastomosis In 1 case, laryngotracheal end to end anastomosis in 2 cases. 3D CT information was compared with operative finding. In two of six cases, satisfactory information was not obtained from 3D CT in evaluating an exact stenosis of trachea. Future, it will be helped in evaluating of tracheal stenosis by 3D CT.

• 지구물리
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.175-182
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 의료영상의 응용분야로서 방출전산화단증 영상에 사용되는 베이지안 방법을 위한 Gibbs 사전정보의 평활 파라미터를 결정하는 문제를 다룬다. 특히, 광역 하이퍼파라미터(평활 파라미터)가 해외 편향과 분산의 균형을 조절하는 단순 평활사전정보(일명 멤브레인)를 연구 대상으로 한다. 본 논문에서 사용된 방법은 관측된 훈련데이터에 MI. 방법을 적용한 하이퍼파라미터 추정법에 기반을 두며, 이러한 접근방법에 대한 동기에 대하여도 논한다. 멤브레인 사전정보를 위한 평활 파라미터의 경우 단순한 ML 추정법을 적용하여도 파라미터가 쉽게 추정될 수 있음을 보인다.

• 공학논문집
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.47-54
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 의료영상의 응용분야로서 방출전산화단층 영상에 사용되는 베이지안 방법을 위한 Gibbs 사전정보의 평활 파라미터를 결정하는 문제를 다룬다. 특히, 광역 하이퍼파라미터(평활 파라미터)가 해의 편향과 분산의 균형을 조절하는 단순 평활사전정보(일명 멤브레인)를 연구 대상으로 한다. 본 논문에서 사용된 방법은 관측된 훈련데이터에 ML 방법을 적용한 하이퍼파라미터 추정법에 기반을 두며, 이러한 접근방법에 대한 동기에 대하여도 논한다. 멤브레인 사전정보를 위한 평활 파라미터의 경우 단순한 ML 추정법을 적용하여도 파라미터가 쉽게 추정될 수 있음을 보인다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.43.2-43.2
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• 2019

Tomography is a method to reconstruct three-dimensional structure of an optically thin object. We can obtain the three-dimensional information by combining a number of projected images at different angles. Solar rotational tomography (SRT) is the tomographic method to estimate the coronal structures using the solar rotation. There are a few practical difficulties in solar coronal observation. One of the most crucial difficulty is handling the blocking area by the occulter or the Sun itself. So we have to use the iterative reconstruction for the SRT which can resolve that problem by using the forward modeling. In this study, we propose an alternative method to reconstruct the solar coronal structure: the filtered backprojection (FBP) algorithm. The FBP algorithm is based on the simple analytic solution. Thus it is easy to understand, and the computing cost is much cheaper than that of the iterative reconstruction. Recently we found a solution for the FBP algorithm to the problem of the blocking area in the solar EUV observations. We introduce how to apply the FBP algorithm to the SRT, and show the initial results of the performance test.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.247-254
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• 2007

This study was performed to identify the normal anatomic orientation of pulmonary arteries and to obtain the normal baseline parameters and the optimal contrast material delivery methods of computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) on normal beagle dogs. Based on the contrast injection flow rate, the contrast volume, and the administration methods, the experimental groups were divided into 4 groups such as group 1 : 2 ml/s, 3 ml/kg, and monophasic administration; group 2 : 5 ml/s, 3 ml/kg, and monophasic administration; group 3 : 5 ml/s, 4 ml/kg, and monophasic administration; group 4 : 5 ml/s and 2 ml/kg in first phase, 0.3 ml/s and 2 ml/kg in second phase, as biphasic administration. Normal anatomic orientation of pulmonary arteries in CTPA was evaluated through reformatted and 3D images after retro-reconstruction. Normal parameters for great arteries and peripheral pulmonary arteries were obtained on the factor of basement hounsfield unit (HU) values, contrast enhanced HU values, delay time, and peak time. And the optimal contrast delivery methods were evaluated on the factor of contrast enhanced HU values, image quality, and artifact. The monophasic administration with 5 ml/s contrast injection flow rate and 3 ml/kg contrast volume was optimal in canine CTPA.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.1221-1229
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• 2022

In this work, the guided wave de-bonding area-detecting technique was studied for application to containment liner plates in nuclear power plant areas. To apply this technique, an appropriate Lamb wave mode, symmetric and longitudinal dominance, was verified by the frequency shifting technique. The S0 2.7 MHz mm Lamb wave mode was chosen to realize quantitative experimental results and their visualization. Results of the bulk wave, longitudinal wave mode, and comparison experiments indicate that the wave mode was able to distinguish between the de-bonded and bonded areas. Similar to the bulk wave cases, the bonded region could be distinguished from the de-bonded region using the Lamb wave approach. The Lamb wave technique results showed significant correlation to the de-bonding area. As the de-bonding area increased, the Lamb wave energy attenuation effect decreased, which was a prominent factor in the realization of quantitative tomographic visualization. The feasibility of tomographic visualization was studied via the application of Lamb waves. The reconstruction algorithm for the probabilistic inspection of damage (RAPID) technique was applied to the containment liner plate to verify and visualize the de-bonding condition. The results obtained using the tomography image indicated that the Lamb wave-based RAPID algorithm was capable of delineating debonding areas.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.1982-1990
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• 2022

The purpose of this study was to verify the possibility of fuel rod pattern analysis in a fresh fuel assembly using the Yonsei single-photon emission computed tomography (YSECT) system. The YSECT system consisted of three main parts: four trapezoidal-shaped bismuth germanate scintillator-based 64-channel detectors, a semiconductor-based multi-channel data acquisition system, and a rotary stage. In order to assess the performance of the prototype YSECT, tomographic images were obtained for three representative fuel rod patterns in the 6 × 6 array using two representative image-reconstruction algorithms. The fuel-rod patterns were then assessed using an in-house fuel rod pattern analysis algorithm. In the experimental results, the single-directional projection images for those three fuel-rod patterns well discriminated each fuel-rod location, showing a Gaussian-peak-shaped projection for a single 10 mm-diameter fuel rod with 12.1 mm full-width at half maximum. Finally, we successfully verified the possibility of the fuel rod pattern analysis for all three patterns of fresh fuel rods with the tomographic images obtained by the rotational YSECT system.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권1호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2009

Compton imaging is often recognized as a potentially more valuable 3-D technique in nuclear medicine than conventional emission tomography. Due to inherent computational limitations, however, it has been of a difficult problem to reconstruct images with good accuracy. In this work we show that the row-action maximum likelihood algorithm (RAMLA), which have proven useful for conventional tomographic reconstruction, can also be applied to the problem of 3-D reconstruction of cone-beam projections from Compton scattered data. The major advantage of RAMLA is that it converges to a true maximum likelihood solution at an order of magnitude faster than the standard expectation maximiation (EM) algorithm. For our simulations, we first model a Compton camera system consisting of the three pairs of scatterer and absorber detectors placed at x-, y- and z-axes, and generate conical projection data using a software phantom. We then compare the quantitative performance of RAMLA and EM reconstructions in terms of the percentage error. The net conclusion based on our experimental results is that the RAMLA applied to Compton camera reconstruction significantly outperforms the EM algorithm in convergence rate; while computational costs of one iteration of RAMLA and EM are about the same, one iteration of RAMLA performs as well as 128 iterations of EM.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:시스템및이론
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.28-37
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• 2007

단층촬영 영상으로부터 임의의 등밀도 표면을 재구성하기 위한 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 이 분야의 가장 대표적인 알고리즘인 마칭큐브에서와는 달리 단층영상에서 직접 등밀도 표면을 생성하지 않고 등밀도점을 먼저 추출하며, 셀경계 알고리즘을 이용하여 구한 초기메쉬의 각 정점들을 이들 등밀도점 방향으로 표면축소포장(Shrink-wrapping)하는 과정을 반복적으로 적용하여 등밀도 표면을 추출한다. 이렇게 함으로써 마칭큐브에서 나타나는 크랙이나 표면결정의 모호성이 발생하지 않고 안정적인 표면을 재구성 할 수 있다. 또한, 마칭큐브에서 O(1)-인접한 등밀도점만을 사용할 수 있는데 비해, 제안된 방법은 O(2) 및 O(3)-인접한 등밀도점을 표면재구성에 활용할 수 있게 함으로써 이론적으로 마칭큐브 알고리즘보다 더 정밀한 표면을 추출할 수 있도록 하였다. 실험을 통해 제안된 표면 재구성 알고리즘이 단층영상에서부터 등밀도면을 재구성하는데 매우 안정적이고 정확하며 효과적임을 확인할 수 있었다.