• Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.1-7
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• 2014

This study is to increase the accuracy of the diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia by presenting a method that can accurately measure the residual urine amount of the bladder by using an ultrasound image. Agar powder, Propanol and distilled water were used as materials for making a phantom. In order to measure the volume, a $10m{\ell}$ cylinder, syringe and beaker were used. The image was obtained by scanning phantoms produced into six shapes. Each constant value was obtained by using the expression designed to measure the residual urine amount of the bladder and was compared and analyzed. The measuring method of Bladder volume was presented and a constant value for each shape was obtained and five observers measured it five times. According to the results of clinical application, the errors of Ellipse-beanbag, Shield-shield were 11.0%, 18.2%, respectively. Constant values depending on the shape of each phantom were presented in order to accurately measure the volume of the bladder in measuring the amount of residual urine for the diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia. The accuracy of the volume using this was verified statistically(p > 0.05). Therefore, it is considered to be useful in diagnosing benign prostatic hyperplasia by using the ultrasound imaging measuring method presented.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.483-488
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• 2016

Ultrasound imaging by using piezoelectric materials, such as lead zirconium titanate (PZT) has been one of the most preferred modes of imaging in the medical field due to its simple, low cost and non-ionizing radiation in comparison to other imaging techniques. Recently, the market demand for portable ultrasound is becoming larger with applications in developing countries, disaster area, military, and emergency purposes. However, most of ultrasound probes used is bulky and high power consumable, so unsuitable for such applications. In this study, the 3 layered ceramic specimen consisted of 128 pitches of $420{\mu}m$ in width and $450{\mu}m$ in thickness were prepared by using the Ti-rich PZT compositions co-fired at $1,050^{\circ}C$. Their electrical and ultrasound pulse-echo properties were investigated and compared to the single layer specimen. The 3 layered ultrasound probe showed 1.584 V of Vp-p, which is 3.2 times higher than single layered one, implying that it would allow effectively such a portable ultrasound probe system. The result were discussed in terms of higher capacitance, lower impedance and higher dielectric coefficient of the 3 layered ultrasound probe.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.95-102
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• 2005

There are many tube and pipeline in nuclear power plant under high temperature and high pressure. Erosion and corrosion defects were expected on these tube and pipe-line by environmental and mechanical factors. These erosion and corrosion defects ran be evaluated by ultrasonic technique. In these study, Scanning Laser Source(SLS) technique was applied to detect defect and construct image. This technique also makes detection possible on rough and curved surfaces such as tube and pipe-line by scanning. Conventional ultrasonic scanning technique requires immersion of specimen or water jet for transferring ultrasonic wave between transducer and specimen. However, this SLS technique does not need contacting and couplant to generate surface wave and to get flaw images. Therefore, this SLS technique has several advantages, for complicated production inspection, non-contact, remote from specimen, and high resolution. In this study, SLS images were obtained with various conditions of generation laser ultrasound and receiving in order to enhance detectability of flaws on the tube. Stress corrosion cracks were produced on tube and images of stress corrosion cracks were constructed by using SLS technique.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1451-1457
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• 2004

Bone density parameters of children, unlike that of adult, might reflect growth effect along longitudinal direction as well as bone mass. The clinical test was performed for 859 male/female children with age 6-16 years. Ultrasonic imaging system was used to measure bone density, and relationship of bone density to age was evaluated. The bone quality index appeared to be highly correlated with age for male/female children. It was found that bone quality index rose rapidly in the first growth period. The bone quality index was then kept almost unchanged in the period of puberty, and slowly rose after puberty. It was also found that growth of female stopped earlier than that of male. Also, if more clinical examinations are performed by applying various sizes of region of interest, relationship between bone density and age is expected to be more reliable.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.351-352
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 초음파 영상 진단기용 선형어레이 변환기를 장착할 수 있는 수조 와 128 채널의 스위칭 회로를 제작하여 변환기의 각 채널별 음향파워를 측정하였다. 실험은 128 채널 중 하나의 채널이 불량인 어레이 프로브를 대상으로 수행되었다. 측정 결과, 불량 채널의 음향 파워가 다른 채널에 비해 현저히 작게 나타남을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.349-350
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• 2004

매질 내부로 전파하는 초음파는 점성손실(viscous loss), 열전도 손실(heat conduction loss) 둥 다양한 상호작용을 통해 흡수되어 열에너지로 변환되기 때문에 매질 내의 온도 변화를 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서는 RTV 고무 내부에 47 개의 열전대를 장착하여 초음파 영상 진단기로부터 발생되는 초음파 음장에 따른 각 열전대의 채널별 온도변화의 측정결과를 제시하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.43-51
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• 1991

본 논문에서는 초음파 의료 진단기용 선형 배열 변환기의 설계 및 제작을 수행하였다. 설계시에 는 펄스 인가시의 경우 유용한 등가회로인 KLM 모델을 이용한 전산기의 모의실험을 행하였다. 설계된 변환기는 동작 주파수 3.5MHz, 길이 120mm인 변환기이며 폭은 13mm이며 8개의 부소자로 이루어진 64 개의 소자를 갖는 변환기이다. 설계, 제작된 변환기는 효율적인 에너지 전달과 광대역 특성을 갖도록 하 기 위하여 2개의 음향 정합창을 갖도록 하였으며 압전 물질의 형태에 의해 집속되도록 하였다. 제작된 변환기의 성능 비교를 위해 제작된 변환기와 상용의 변환기의 성능을 동일한 조건에서 측정하였다. 측 정결과, 제작된 변환기는 우수한 성능을 갖는 것을 확인하였으며 실제 초음파 영상진단기에 사용할 경 우 좋은 상을 얻을 수 있다.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.302-306
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• 2008

Plastic hardener and softener based ultrasound phantoms were made in various constitutions and their acoustic properties were measured. Speed of sound is approximately $1.4\;mm/{\mu}sec$ in all the phantoms, which is about 7% less than that of in soft tissue. Attenuation coefficient is strongly dependent on the ratio between hardener and softener. In order to achieve the tissue level attenuation (0.5 dB/cm/MHz), 60% of hardener or less is required. The synthesized phantoms can be preserved for more than 6 months without structural degradation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.34S no.11
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• pp.138-147
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• 1997

The ultrasonic images are corrupted by the granular pattern noise - a speckle noise. The speckle exist in the type of coherent imaging systems, and the speckle is the signal independent and multiplicative noise. In this paepr, we derive two filters using the gradient and symmetry. One is a noise suppression filter which removes noise while preserves the edges. It is named the ASRF-GS (Adaptive Speckle Removal Filer - Gradient and Symmetry). And the other is a edge detection filter which obtains the thin edge map, called the EDUGS(Edge Detection Using Gradient and Symmetry). The performance of the proposed noise suppression filter is evaluated by the IMPV(SNR improvement) and the Speckle Index(SI), and the perforamnce of the edge detection is evaluated by the edge detection error rate. According to the evaluated method, The SI reduced about 0.035, The IMPV improved about 1.265(dB), and the edge detection error rate is about 17.5%.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.19-23
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• 2018

Ultrasonography has increasingly moved from being a modality confined to the radiology department to an active diagnostic and therapeutic aid available to the head and neck at the point of patient care. However, the application of ultrasonography to the laryngeal disorder is very rare due to progressive age-related ossification of laryngeal cartilage and the presence of air in the lumen, which contribute to difficult conditions for transmission of the ultrasonic waves. The observation about the movements of larynx or surrounding structures is important to understand the physiology of phonation or swallowing and to diagnose the disease. Ultrasonography is a noninvasive and safe imaging technique that can be used to investigate the anatomic structures of the head and neck. Recently, the development of high-frequency ultrasonography makes it possible to apply the ultrasound in the evaluation of larynx.