• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.145-152
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• 2008

Nuclear medicine imaging has an unique advantage of absolute quantitation of radioactivity concentration in body. Tracer kinetic analysis has been known as an useful investigation methods in quantitative study of in-vivo physiological function. The use of nuclear medicine imaging and kinetic analysis together can provide more useful and powerful intuition in understanding biochemical and molecular phenomena in body. There have been many development and improvement in kinetic analysis methodologies, but the conventional basic concept of kinetic analysis is still essential and required for further advanced study using new radiopharmaceuticals and hybrid molecular imaging techniques. In this paper, the basic theory of kinetic analysis and imaging techniques for suppressing noise were summarized.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.7-14
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• 1997

Grain boundary diffusion plays a significant role in fission gas release, which is one of the crucial processes dominating nuclear fuel performance. Gaseous fission produce such as Xe and Kr generated during nuclear fission have to diffuse in the grain lattice and the boundary inside fuel pellets before they reach the open spaces in a fuel rod. These processes can be studied by 'tracer diffusion' techniques, by which grain boundary diffusivity can be estimated and directly used for low burn-up fission gas release analysis. However, only a few models accounting for the both processes are available and mostly handle them numerically due to mathematical complexity. Also the numerical solution has limitations in a practical use. In this paper, an approximate analytical solution in case of stationary grain boundary in a polycrystalline solid is developed for the tracer diffusion techniques. This closed-form solution is compared to available exact and numerical solutions and it turns out that it makes computation not only greatly easier but also more accurate than previous models. It can be applied to theoretical modelings for low bum-up fission gas release phenomena and experimental analyses as well, especially for PIE (post irradiation examination).

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.155-161
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• 2008

A hydraulic scale model was constructed to investigate the characteristics of flows and pollutant transport in laboratory. The distorted hydraulic scale model by assuming Froude similarity was adopted to represent hydrodynamics and dispersion in a river system. The scale model was composed of water reservoir, slope control part, booster pump, distributing plate and main channel. A constructed scale model will be used to present the overall concentration profiles of tracer and a research will be performed to convert the measured values using a hydraulic scale model to real field scale.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.391-395
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• 2010

The characteristics for pollutant transport in tidal influenced area was investigated using tidal wave hydraulic scale model. Hydraulic scale model was composed of the tidal generator, attenuation area and channel. Also, wave height, current meter and conductivity meter were used with the measured instruments in hydraulic scale model. NaCl with a tracer was used to evaluate the advection phenomena under the different velocity profiles. The arrival time of the maximum concentration in the condition of the relatively fast velocity was measured about 30 seconds faster than ones in the conditions of low velocity. The measured concentrations of the tracer were shown in the detection points of the flow direction consecutively.

• Journal of Korean Society for Atmospheric Environment
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• 제10권E호
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• pp.357-370
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• 1994

지역 규모 대기 모형과 결합된 오일러 장거리수송 모형이 제시되었다. 이 모형을 Cross-Appalachian Tracer Experiment (CAPITX)의 2개 사례에 나타난 추적물 농도 분포 모사에 적용하였다. 기상장은 CSU RAMS에 4차원 자료 동화 기법을 도입하여 도출하였고, 추적물 수송은 오일러 확산 모형으로 계산된다. 4차원 자료 동화 기법을 포함한 대기 모형은 관측과 잘 일치하는 기상장을 도출하였으며, 장거리 수송 예측에 이용될 다양한 기상 자료의 도출을 위한 매우 적절한 도구가 될 수 있음을 보였다. 이 연구에서 개발된 수송 모형은 관측 농도 분포가 복잡한 구조를 보인 사례에 대해서는 부분적인 성공을 거두었으나, 대체로 관측된 추적물 수송을 유사하게 모사하였다. Bott's 2nd-order scheme을 사용한 결과는 Bott's 4th-order scheme을 사용하고 명시적인 수평 확산을 증가시킨 경우와 유사한 수행 능력을 보였다. 이 대기 모형과 수송 모형은 상세한 구름 및 화학 과정들을 고려한 산성 침적 모형의 훌륭한 기본 틀이 될 수 있을 것으로 생각된다.

• 분석과학
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.14-18
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• 2012

신속한 유류오염 조사를 위해 자연 방사성 동위원소인 Rn-222를 추적자로 활용하였다. 디젤유로 오염된 화강암 토양시료중의 Rn-222를 액체섬광계수기를 사용하여 분석한 결과 라돈 농도는 유류의 함량에 비례하여 감소하였으며 13%까지 오염시킨 경우 Rn-222의 함량은 30% 까지 감소하였다. TCE로 오염된 지하수의 오염범위를 알기위해 Rn-222를 물과 유류간의 분배계수차이를 활용한 추적자로 사용하였다. 원주의TCE 오염 지하수에 대한 오염범위를 예측하기 위해 Rn-222 분석을 수행하였다.

• 한국환경농학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.6-11
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• 2005

A prototype surface flow constructed wetland was built in the upstream area of reclaimed tidal lands to improve the water quality of Lake Sihwa by treating severely polluted stream water. In this study, a tracer test using rhodamine-WT was performed to investigate the flow characteristics and to quantify the observed hydraulic residence time (HRT) for a high-lying cell in the Banwol wetland of the Sihwa constructed wetland. The tracer test indicated that even if flow was mainly observed in the open water area of the Banwol wetland, water flowed continuously in the vegetative area and there was no dead zone. The calculated HRT (51.3 hrs), calculated by dividing the wetland volume by the wetland inflow, exceeded the observed HRT (38.7 hrs), since the short-circuiting of flux resulting from irregular topography and vegetation was not reflected in the calculated HRT. The exit tracer concentration curves were reproduced well by both the plug flow with dispersion and tanks-in-series models, indicating that the performance of the Banwol wetland can be estimated accurately using these models.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제2권3호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2008

A field tracer experiment using radioisotope was carried out to investigate the characteristics of a pollutant transport and a determination of the dispersion coefficients in a river system. The dispersion coefficients in the longitudinal and transverse directions were determined by using the measured concentration of a radioisotope. The two-dimensional numerical models were applied to calculate the flow and concentration fields at the experimental site. Several numerical simulations were performed to investigate the effects of the numerical results according to variations of the dispersion coefficients. The calculated concentrations agreed well with the measured ones.

• 한국대기환경학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.547-556
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• 2007

The release, sampling and analytical methods have been developed and tested for perfluorocarbons (PFCs) atmospheric tracers in order to gain insight into the atmospheric transport and dispersion over the urban conditions of Seoul, Korea. Although PFCs tracer experiments provide unique opportunities to test local and urban scale of transport and dispersion, no previous experiment with PFCs has been conducted in Korea. PMCH and PDCH were chosen as targeted tracers in our study due to their extreme low ambient concentrations and great sensitivities among various PFCs. For PFCs release system, a set of micro-metering pump, electronic balance, vaporizing furnace and high speed blower was constructed for precise and accurate release of tracers. The precision of released rate by this system was estimated to be 1%. Samplings of PFCs were carried out by fabricated portable air samplers with micro pumps and rotameters into glass tubes packed with 150 mg of Carboxen-569. The uncertainty of these sampling system was maintained below 14%. PMCH and PDCH were quantified in GC/ECD with preconditioned injection system to eliminate the interference compounds using traps and subsequent catalytic conversion system prior to column separation. Three intensive field test were undertaken during the springtime of 2002 to 2004 in eastern part of Seoul. Daily background samples were collected to characterize the background levels of PMCH and PDCH prior to their release. The observed background concentrations of PMCH ranged from 3.5 to 10.1 fL/L and varied randomly in location and time in this study. Its mean and standard variation of background concentration ($6.8{\pm}1.9\;fL/L$) are higher than those ($3.2{\sim}5.8\;fL/L$) of other historic tracer studies. Identified uncertainty for background PMCH was $1.7{\sim}2.0\;fL/L$ using this analytical system. Combined relative uncertainty in determining the tracer's concentrations was estimated as 17%. However, its background concentrations and uncertainty in concentration determination were found to be low and stable enough for tracer study.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제38권4호
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• pp.208-213
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• 2013

원전의 안전성분석보고서에는 운영기간중 만일의 사고에 따른 방사선안전성 확보를 위해 부지의 적합성 평가가 요구된다. 부지 적합성은 극히 보수적인 가정을 적용하여 제한구역경계에서 방사선 피폭영향을 평가하여 판단하게 된다. 이들 평가는 방사선영향평가 모델을 보수적인 기상조건 등에 적용하여 수행된다. 본 연구에서는 보수적인 평가 결과의 타당성 검증을 목적으로 확산에 양호하지 못한 악기상 조건에서 추적자확산실험을 실시하였다. 원전부지 실험에 앞서 대전시 인근 유성구 학하리 평지에서 추적자 확산실험을 실시하였다. 확산실험의 분석결과 기존의 확산조건이 좋은 경우의 실험결과와 비교할 때 크게 두 가지 큰 차이를 발견할 수 있었다. 하나는 풍속이 매우 낮고 풍향의 변화가 심해 주 풍하 방향에서 나타나는 최대 농도를 찾기 어렵다는 것이고, 다른 하나는 대기가 매우 안정하여 지상 10 m 낮은 높이에서의 방출임에도 불구하고 방출점에서 수 백 m 떨어진 지점에서 처음으로 상대적으로 높은 농도 분포가 나타나는 경우가 있다는 것이다.