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The Determination of Optimum Beam Position and Size in Radiation Treatment (방사선치료시 최적의 빔 위치와 크기 결정)

  • 박정훈;서태석;최보영;이형구;신경섭
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.49-57
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    • 2000
  • New method about the dose optimization problem in radiation treatment was researched. Since all conditions are more complex and there are more relevant variables, the solution of three-dimensional treatment planning is much more complicate than that of current two-dimensional one. There(ore, in this study, as a method to solve three-dimensional dose optimization problem, the considered variables was minized and researched by reducing the domain that solutions can exist and pre-determining the important beam parameters. First, the dangerous beam range that passes critical organ was found by coordinate transformation between linear accelerator coordinate and patient coordinate. And the beam size and rotation angle for rectangular collimator that conform tumor at arbitrary beam position was also determined. As a result, the available beam position could be reduced and the dependency on beam size and rotation angle, that is very important parameter in treatment planning, totally removed. Therefore, the resultant combinations of relevant variables could be greatly reduced and the dose optimization by objective function can be done with minimum variables. From the above results, the dose optimization problem was solved for the two-dimensional radiation treatment planning useful in clinic. The objective function was made by combination of dose gradient, critical organ dose and dose homogeniety. And the optimum variables were determined by applying step search method to objective function. From the dose distributions by optimum variables, the merit of new dose optimization method was verified and it can be implemented on commercial radiation treatment planning system with further research.

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Organotitanium Chemistry II. Solvolytic Reaction of Dichlorodiacetatotitanium (IV) with Various Alcohols (유기-티탄화학 (제2보). Dichlorodiacetatotitanium (IV) 여러 알콜과의 가용매반응)

  • Hoo Sung Lee;Young Sun Un;Sohn Youn Soo;Choi Q. Won
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.17 no.3
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    • pp.174-181
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    • 1973
  • Dichlorodiacetatotitanium(IV) dissolves in alcohols with chemical reaction. Such solvolytic reaction of $TiCl_2(OAc)_2$with various alcohols has been studied by means of solution NMR spectroscopy and chemical analysis of the isolated products. The reaction of $TiCl_2(OAc)_2$ with primary alcohols has shown to be a quantitative two-step ligand substitution process as shown in the following: $TiCl_2(OAc)_2+ROH{\to}TiCl_2(OAc)_2(OR)+AcOH$ $TiCl_2(OAc)_2(OR)+ROH{\to}TiCl_2(OAc)_2+AcOH$The molecular form initially soluble in organic solvents has been found to be the monosubstituted species $TiCl_2(OAc)(OR)$. Alcoholysis with t-butyl alcohol has shown remarkable differences. When the mole ratio of t-butyl alcohol to $TiCl_2(OAc)_2$ is less than 1/2, the following reaction is dominant. $TiCl_2(OAc)_2+t-ButOH{\to}TiCl_2(OAc)_2+t-ButCl$However, at higher mole ratio another substitution process resembling the first step reaction with primary alcohols is competitively accompanied. The reaction with t-butyl alcohol also differs from that with primary alcohols in that only one either of the two chloro-or acetato-ligands in $TiCl_2(OAc)_2$ is subjected to substitution.

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Influence of Bacterial Attachment on Arsenic Bioleaching from Mine Tailings: Dependency on the Ratio of Bacteria-Solid Substrate (광물찌꺼기 내 비소의 미생물 침출 시 박테리아 흡착 영향: 박테리아와 고체 기질 비율에 관한 연구)

  • Park, Jeonghyun;Silva, Rene A.;Choi, Sowon;Ilyas, Sadia;Kim, Hyunjung
    • Resources Recycling
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    • v.30 no.3
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    • pp.30-40
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    • 2021
  • The present study investigates the bioleaching efficiencies of arsenic via contact and non-contact mechanisms. The attachment of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans was restricted by a partition system comprising a semi-permeable membrane with a molecular weight cutoff of 12-14 kDa. The results were compared for two arsenic concentrations in the system (1.0% and 0.5% w/v) to maintain a homogeneous system. The overall bacterial performance was monitored by comparing total arsenic and iron concentrations, Fe ion speciation, pH, and solution redox potentials in flask bioleaching experiments over a period of 10 d. Our results indicated that bacterial attachment could increase arsenic extraction efficiency from 20.0% to 44.9% at 1.0 % solid concentrations. These findings suggest that the bacterial contact mechanism greatly influences arsenic bioleaching from mine tailings. Therefore, systems involving two-step or non-contact bioleaching are less effective than those involving one-step or contact bioleaching for the efficient extraction of arsenic from mine tailings.

Vacuum Assisted Wound Closure Appliance and Continuous Irrigation on Infected Chronic Wound (감염된 만성창상에서 국소음압세척치료의 이용)

  • Jeong, Jin-Wook;Kim, Jun-Hyung;Jung, Yung-Jin;Park, Mu-Sik;Son, Dae-Gu;Han, Ki-Hwan
    • Archives of Plastic Surgery
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    • v.37 no.3
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    • pp.227-232
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    • 2010
  • Purpose: Continuous irrigation method is an important step in managing wound infection. V.A.C. devices have been used in intractable wounds for reducing discharge, improving local blood flow, and promoting healthy granulation tissue. We expect synergistic effects of reduced infection and more satisfactory, accelerated wound healing when using both methods simultaneously. This study evaluated continuous irrigation combined with V.A.C. appliance for treatment of infected chronic wounds. Methods: We reviewed data from 17 patients with infected intractable chronic wounds. V.A.C. device (Group A) was used in 9 patients, and V.A.C. with antibiotics irrigation (Group B) was used in 8 patients. We placed Mepitel$^{(R)}$ on the surface of wound and placed an irrigation and aspiration tube on each side. A sponge was placed on the Mepitel$^{(R)}$ and covered with film dressing. The wound was irrigated continuously with mixed antibiotics solution at the speed of 200 cc/hr and aspirated through the wall suction at the pressure of -125 mmHg. V.A.C. applied time, wound culture and wound size were compared between the two groups. Results: No complication were seen in two groups. Compared with Group A, in the Group B, V.A.C. applied time was shortened from 32.7 days to 25.6 days and showed efficacy in the reduction rate of wound size. No statistical differences were shown in bacterial reversion. Conclusion: V.A.C. appliance with continuous irrigation is an effective new method of managing infected chronic wounds and useful to reduce treatment duration and decrease wound size. Moreover it could be applied more widely to infected wound.

Double-layered Polymer Electrolyte Membrane based on Sulfonated Poly(aryl ether sulfone)s for Direct Methanol Fuel Cells (직접 메탄올 연료전지용 술폰화 폴리아릴에테르술폰 이중층 고분자 전해질 막의 제조 및 특성)

  • Hong, Young-Taik;Ko, Ha-Na;Park, Ji-Young;Choi, Jun-Kyu;Kim, Sang-Un;Kim, Hyung-Joong
    • Membrane Journal
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.291-301
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    • 2009
  • Double-layered polymer electrolyte membranes were prepared from two different sulfonated poly(aryl ether sulfone) copolymers by the two-step solution casting method for direct methanol fuel cells (DMFC). Sulfonation degrees were adjusted 10% (SPAES-10) and 50% (SPAES-50) by controlling monomer ratios, and the weight ratios of SPAES-10 copolymer were varied in the range of 5~20% to investigate the effect of thickness of coating layers on the membranes. Proton conducting layers were fabricated from SPAES-50 solutions of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) by a solution casting technique, and coating layers formed on the semiliquid surface of the conducting layer by pouring of SPAES-10-NMP solutions onto. It was found that double-layered polymer electrolyte membrane could significantly reduce the methanol crossover through the membrane and maintain high proton conductivities being comparable to single-layered SPAES-50 membrane. The maximum power density of membrane-electrolyte assembly (MEA) at the condition of $60^{\circ}C$ and 2 M methanol-air was $134.01\;mW/cm^2$ for the membrane prepared in the 5 wt-% of SPAES-10 copolymer, and it was corresponding to the 105.5% of the performance of the commercial Nafion 115 membrane.

Survival and In Vitro Development of Immature Bovine Oocytes Cryopreserved by Vitrification

  • Yang, Byoung-Chul;Im, Gi-Sun;Chang, Won-Kyong;Lee, Yun-Keun;Oh, Sung-Jong;Jin, Dong-Il;Im, Kyong-Sun;Lee, Chang-Kyu
    • Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.23-28
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    • 2003
  • The present study was undertaken to investigate the effects of PVP concentration and exposure temperature to vitrification solution on the post-thaw survival, in vitro maturation and development of immature bovine oocytes (germinal vesicle stage). The vitrification solution (VS) consisted of 40% ethylene glycol (EG)+0.5 M sucrose (S)+10% FBS. PVP was added to VS: 0%, 5% or 10%. The cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) were diluted in VS as one step, after 2 min the COCs were loaded in straw and vitrified by direct immersion into liquid nitrogen. For thawing, the straws were plunged into $30^{\circ}C$ water bath for 10s. After thawing, the oocytes were diluted in 0.5 M (in DPBS with 10% FBS) sucrose solution for 5 min. The survival rate (FDA-test and trypan blue) of immature bovine oocytes was measured. The survival rate was higher in 5% PVP (91.5%) than in 0% (64.2%) or in 10% PVP (79.7%). The proportion of metaphase II formation was 69.35% in control (no vitrified COCs), 9.3% in 40% EG+0.5 M S+0% PVP and 21.05% in 40% EG+0.5 M S+5% PVP (p<0.05). The effect of room temperature ($25^{\circ}C$ for 10 min) and cold temperature ($4^{\circ}C$ for 10 min) on COCs were determined in this study. After IVF, the cleavage and blastocysts rate of oocytes exposed to room temperature and cold temperature in VS+5% PVP was significantly different (2 cell: 63.20% vs 37.97%, blastocysts: 18.40% vs 2.53%). The cleavage rates of frozen-thawed oocytes were 20.53% with PVP and 22.13% without PVP (p>0.05). Two out of 151 oocytes (1.32%) developed to blastocyst stage after frozen-thawed with 5% PVP (p>0.05). Development of oocytes after frozen-thawing to the 2 cell were not significantly affected with or without PVP following IVF. However, the vitrification of immature bovine oocytes with PVP maintained the ability to develop to the blastocyst stage after IVM-IVF and IVC, while no blastocysts were obtained from oocytes vitrified without PVP. These results suggested that PVP has a protective role for vitrification of immature bovine oocytes as far as survival is concerned, however, the protection was not sufficient enough to support blastocyst formation.

Analytical and Numerical Model Study to Predict the Temperature Distribution Around an Underground Food Cold Storage Pilot Cavern (냉동저장 공동 주변의 온도분포 예측을 위한 해석해 및 수치모델 적용에 관한 연구)

  • 이대혁;김호영
    • Tunnel and Underground Space
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.142-151
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    • 2002
  • Claesson(2001)'s analytical solution, and two numerical models with Dirichlet and Neuman interior boundary condition respectively were investigated to estimate the transient temperature distribution with distances from the Taejon underground food cold storage pilot cavern. Claesson's solution, which is based on constant temperature boundary condition at the rock wall during a temperature decline step, showed relatively good agreement with temperature measurements in the rock mass in order of average error difference, 0.89$\^{C}$ without any adjustments on laboratory thermal properties to represent the rock mass. For the numerical model with heat flux through the rock wall, a boundary condition setting technique was newly proposed to overcome the difficulty of prescribing variable convective heat tranfer coefficient and far-field air temperature inside the cavern as they may be certainly changed according to the cooling-down time. The results showed also good agreement with measurements in order of average error difference, 1.58$\^{C}$, and were compared to those of the numerical model with fixed temperature at the rock wall. Finally, the most proper procedure to precisely predict the temperature profile around a cavern was proposed as a series of analysis steps including an analytical exact solution and numerical models.

A Fast and Simple Synthesizing Method of $^{18}F$-Flumazenil as Derivative Benzodiazepine Receptor for Epilepsy PET Imaging (간질 PET영상을 위한 플루마제닐(벤조디아제핀 수용체)유도체의 신속하고 간단한 합성방법 소개)

  • Cho, Yong-Hyun;Kim, Hyung-Woo;Hwang, Ki-Young;Lim, Jin-Koon;Lee, Hong-Jae;Woo, Jae-Ryong;Kim, Hyun-Ju
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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    • v.12 no.3
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    • pp.176-180
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    • 2008
  • Department of Nuclear Medicine in Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) had developed $^{18}F$-Flumazenil as Benzodiazepine receptor imaging agent for PET diagnosis of Epilepsy. But production Activity of $^{18}F$-Flumazenil is decreased owing to this method has difficult synthesis procedures and pretty long synthesis time. In this study, we can modify synthesizing method to have more simple procedure and less spend time and help to increase production Activity. Old method: Radioactivity was produced by cyclotron was captured by QMA cartridge that was activated. Captured radioactivity was eluted into the reaction vial by using kryptofix solution and delivered. After evaporation of eluent, the azeotrophic drying step repeated two times. tosylflumazenil in anhydrous Acetonitrile was added to a reaction vial while bubbling. The reaction mixture was evaporated until the mixture volume was 0.5 mL. Reaction vial washed with 20 % Acetonitrile and that solution went into the reaction vial. The reaction mixture was loaded to the HPLC loop by hand and purified $^{18}F$-Flumazenil by HPLC column. New method: We used $TBAHCO_3$ solution as a eluent. After the eluent was evaporated, tosylflumazenil in anhydrous acetonitrile was added to a reaction vial and the reaction mixture was bubbled for 15 minutes. It was evaporated until the mixture volume became 0.5 mL. It was loaded to the HPLC loop. In old method, $^{18}F$-Flumazenil was synthesized via 6 steps synthesis procedures in 105 minutes with 30~35% synthesizing yield (non-decay correction) and specific activity was about $0.5{\sim}2{\times}10^5$ Ci/mole. In new method, It had 3 steps synthesis procedures in 53 minutes with 40~45% synthesizing yield and specific activity was about $3{\sim}8{\times}10^5$ Ci/mole. This method leads to improve of minimizing synthesis time, increasing synthesis yield and specific activity. While we can load reaction mixture to the HPLC loop, we can expose high radiation field thanks to used by hand.

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Cryopreservation of Mouse IVF Zygotes by Vitrification (체외수정된 생쥐 1-세포기 배의 초자화 동결)

  • 김묘경;이현숙;엄상준;김은영;윤산현;박세필;정길생;임진호
    • Korean Journal of Animal Reproduction
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    • v.20 no.2
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 1996
  • This study was carried out to determine the optimal condition for successful and efficient c cryopreservation of zygotes, 1-cell embryos, using EFS40 which was 40% (v/v) ethylene glycol diluted in DPBS medium containing 30% Fic-oll (w/v) and 0.3 M sucrose. After mouse zygote produced by IVF was vitrified by two freezing methods, the post-warming survival rates of 1-cell zygotes were assessed as cleavage to the 2-cell stage and development into the hatching blastocysts at 5 day. In the one-step method, when embryos were directly exposed to the vitrification solution at 25$^{\circ}C$ for 1 min., survival and development rates of zygotes were 85.5% and 31.9% In the two-step method, embryos were equilibrated with a dilute 20% EG for 1, 3, 5 min. before 1 min. exposure to EFS40, re-spectively. However, the rates of development (17.7, 3.3, 0%) were lower than that of one-step method. The highest survival rate (95.9%) was obtained by one-step method which exposes embryos in EFS40 for 30 sec. In this condition, 63. 8% of cleaved 2-cell developed into hatching blastocysts. In the cell number of Total and ICM using differential labelling technique, there are no significant differences in the cell number of Total and ICM between blastocysts devel oped in vitrified-thawed embryos (63.2${\pm}$16.9, 1 13.5${\pm}$4.0) and control balstocysts (54.0${\pm}$15.2, 1 12.3${\pm}$4.6). Therefore, these results show that mouse zygotes can be successfully cryopreserved by a simple vitrification method although developmental rates of vitrified embryos were reduced. In conclusion, this proposed vitrifi cation procedures can be useful in the cryopreservation of mouse IVF zygotes.

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A Time Series Graph based Convolutional Neural Network Model for Effective Input Variable Pattern Learning : Application to the Prediction of Stock Market (효과적인 입력변수 패턴 학습을 위한 시계열 그래프 기반 합성곱 신경망 모형: 주식시장 예측에의 응용)

  • Lee, Mo-Se;Ahn, Hyunchul
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.167-181
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    • 2018
  • Over the past decade, deep learning has been in spotlight among various machine learning algorithms. In particular, CNN(Convolutional Neural Network), which is known as the effective solution for recognizing and classifying images or voices, has been popularly applied to classification and prediction problems. In this study, we investigate the way to apply CNN in business problem solving. Specifically, this study propose to apply CNN to stock market prediction, one of the most challenging tasks in the machine learning research. As mentioned, CNN has strength in interpreting images. Thus, the model proposed in this study adopts CNN as the binary classifier that predicts stock market direction (upward or downward) by using time series graphs as its inputs. That is, our proposal is to build a machine learning algorithm that mimics an experts called 'technical analysts' who examine the graph of past price movement, and predict future financial price movements. Our proposed model named 'CNN-FG(Convolutional Neural Network using Fluctuation Graph)' consists of five steps. In the first step, it divides the dataset into the intervals of 5 days. And then, it creates time series graphs for the divided dataset in step 2. The size of the image in which the graph is drawn is $40(pixels){\times}40(pixels)$, and the graph of each independent variable was drawn using different colors. In step 3, the model converts the images into the matrices. Each image is converted into the combination of three matrices in order to express the value of the color using R(red), G(green), and B(blue) scale. In the next step, it splits the dataset of the graph images into training and validation datasets. We used 80% of the total dataset as the training dataset, and the remaining 20% as the validation dataset. And then, CNN classifiers are trained using the images of training dataset in the final step. Regarding the parameters of CNN-FG, we adopted two convolution filters ($5{\times}5{\times}6$ and $5{\times}5{\times}9$) in the convolution layer. In the pooling layer, $2{\times}2$ max pooling filter was used. The numbers of the nodes in two hidden layers were set to, respectively, 900 and 32, and the number of the nodes in the output layer was set to 2(one is for the prediction of upward trend, and the other one is for downward trend). Activation functions for the convolution layer and the hidden layer were set to ReLU(Rectified Linear Unit), and one for the output layer set to Softmax function. To validate our model - CNN-FG, we applied it to the prediction of KOSPI200 for 2,026 days in eight years (from 2009 to 2016). To match the proportions of the two groups in the independent variable (i.e. tomorrow's stock market movement), we selected 1,950 samples by applying random sampling. Finally, we built the training dataset using 80% of the total dataset (1,560 samples), and the validation dataset using 20% (390 samples). The dependent variables of the experimental dataset included twelve technical indicators popularly been used in the previous studies. They include Stochastic %K, Stochastic %D, Momentum, ROC(rate of change), LW %R(Larry William's %R), A/D oscillator(accumulation/distribution oscillator), OSCP(price oscillator), CCI(commodity channel index), and so on. To confirm the superiority of CNN-FG, we compared its prediction accuracy with the ones of other classification models. Experimental results showed that CNN-FG outperforms LOGIT(logistic regression), ANN(artificial neural network), and SVM(support vector machine) with the statistical significance. These empirical results imply that converting time series business data into graphs and building CNN-based classification models using these graphs can be effective from the perspective of prediction accuracy. Thus, this paper sheds a light on how to apply deep learning techniques to the domain of business problem solving.