• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.341-346
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• 2022

The color overlay pattern of thyroid shear wave elastography applied in this study distinguishes benign and malignant nodules based on the optimal cut-off value of 74.2 kPa. From august 2021 to september 2021, thyroid ultrasound and elastography were performed on 57 patients with thyroid lesions using an ultrasound device RS85 prestige (Samsung Medison, Korea) and a 2-14 MHz linear transducer. In addition, the results of classification by K-TIRADS for each thyroid nodule and the results of classification by color overlay pattern according to the kPa value of acoustic ultrasound were compared and analyzed. In the color overlay pattern, the results classified as 40 people from dark blue to light blue and 17 people from green to red were similar to the K-TIRADS category results, which were classified as 42 benign and 15 malignant. Between blue and light blue, benign, and between green and red, malignant. If the shear wave elastography method is applied before the fine-needle aspiration cytology of the thyroid nodule is performed, the differential diagnosis of thyroid tissue from benign and malignant can be predicted in advance, and it will help to reduce unnecessary invasive tests.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제4권4호
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• pp.236-241
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• 2011

높은 기공성을 갖춘 망상골과 고체의 비율이 높은 피질골의 기계적 성질은 초음파 파동 전파 측정법으로 알 수 있다. 초음파의 속도(SOS)는 bulk wave 방정식과 bar wave 방정식을 통해 산출할 수 있다. Bulk wave는 Biot의 이론에서 빠른 파동과 매우 유사함을 이용해, 본 연구에서 뼈의 이방성을 담은 행렬에 의해 bulk wave 속도가 변하는 여부를 측정하였다. 음파의 속도는 뼈가 횡방적인(transversely isotropy) 특성을 갖을 때보다 등방적인 특성을 갖을 때 0.69% 빠르다. 또한 bar wave 방정식을 사용하여 피질골에 대한 속도를 측정하였다. 전의 논문에 의하면 bar wave 속도는 탄성 계수 텐서 혹은 영의 계수의 함수이고 이와 같은 방법으로 bar wave 속도에 의해 등방성과 이방성을 측정하였다.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제21권10호
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• pp.78-85
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• 2004

The particle amount monitoring technique using ultrasound is proposed to determine the proper maintenance time of the filter in the supply process of pure gas in the unit of oxygen plant. There are advantages that it is adaptable in high temperature and high pressure, and it is not disturbed by being exposed in the gas flow, and it can be implemented very economically. The applicability of the ultrasonic technique is pre-studied through the theoretical analysis for the dependency of attenuation of ultrasonic wave on the particles in the gas flow. For the purpose, absorption, scattering and dispersion models are considered, and the attenuation by absorption and the change rate of the propagation speed are calculated fur the specific range of particle size and the ultrasonic wave frequency. It was expected by simulation that the absorptive attenuation by particles was the most sensitive to the change of particle amount. The experimental result showed high correspondence with the theoretical expectation so that this ultrasound attenuation measurement was proved to be highly effective for monitoring the amount of floating particles in the gas flow.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제32권3호
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• pp.264-269
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• 2011

To increase therapeutic efficiency and biological safety, it is important to precision control of acoustic output for therapeutic ultrasound equipment. In this paper, the electro-acoustic radiation conductance, one of electroacoustic characteristics of therapeutic ultrasound equipment, was measured by the radiation force balance method according to IEC 61161 standards and the acoustic output was estimated using the electro-acoustic radiation conductance. The estimation of acoustic output was conducted to continuous wave mode and pulse wave mode of duty cycle between 20% and 80%. The differences between prediction values and measurement results are within 5% of measurement uncertainty, which is a reasonably good agreement. The results show that acoustic output controlled by electro-acoustic radiation conductance was found to be an effective method.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.376-387
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• 2012

비선형 스프링 모델과 섭동법을 기초로 비선형 균열면에 경사 입사된 초음파에 의해 발생되는 2차 고조파 초음파의 크기를 계산하였다. 비선형 균열계면에서 만들어지는 반사파와 굴절파의 기본주파수 성분과 2차 고조파 성분의 크기를 입사각과 균열계면의 계면강성을 변화키면서 조사하였다. 계면강성에 관계없이 균열계면이 초음파 진행 방향과 비슷한 경우 반사와 굴절파 모두에서 2차 고조파의 발생은 거의 없었지만, 그렇지 않은 경우에는 계면 입사각은 물론 계면 강성에 따라 2차 고조파의 크기는 크게 변화하였다. 투과파는 물론 반사파에서도 2차 고조파 성분이 유의성 있게 발생됨을 수치 해석을 통해 확인하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.32-38
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• 2012

Recently, several ultrasound imaging techniques for tissue characterization have been developed. Among them, ultrasound elastography is regarded as the most promising modality and has been rapidly developed. One of ultrasound elastography techniques is shear modulus imaging. Normal and cancerous tissues show big difference of shear moduli and they have good image contrast. However shear wave elastography requires more complicated hardware and more computations for image reconstruction algorithm. Therefore new efficient techniques are being developed. In this paper, we have developed a very flexible ultrasound system for elastography experiments. The developed system has capabilities to acquire ultrasound RF data of all channels and generate arbitrary ultrasound pulse sequences. It has a huge amount of memories for RF data acquisition and a simple and flexible pulse generator. We have verified the performance of the system showing conventional B-mode images and preliminary results of elastography. The developed system will be used to verify our own reconstruction algorithm and to develop more efficient elastography techniques.

• The Journal of Korean Physical Therapy
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.55-62
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of the ultrasound on treatment of chronic sinusitis. 24 persons of men and women with chronic sinusitis divided into three groups of each 8 persons randomly and when were they were treated with the medication, the ultrasound(1MHz continuous wave, 1W/$cm^2$ intensity, three times per a week and once of three minutes circular stroke method) and the medication+ultrasound for 2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks. The results of this study were ad follows. 1. There was not statistical significant differences between the effects of treatment until two weeks(P>.05). 2. There was statistical difference between the effects of treatment after 4 weeks, 6 weeks and 8 weeks(P<.05). There was statistical significant difference between the group with ultrasound treatment and the group with ultrasound+medication treatment and there was statistical significant difference between the group with medication treatment and the group with ultrasound+medication treatment but there was not statistical significant between the group with ultrasound treatment and the group with medication treatment. 3. After 4 weeks, the highest effect for chronic sinusitis was group

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2020

본 연구의 목적은 콘크리트 재료 및 구조물의 균열 특성 평가에 활용되고 있는 확산초음파 기법의 적용 가능성을 검토하는데 있다. 이를 위한 첫 단계로 외부 환경에 따라 변화하는 콘크리트의 수분 함유량 변화를 묘사하여, 확산초음파 파라미터와 콘크리트 수분 함유량 사이의 상관관계 분석을 수행하였다. 실험실 환경에서 완전 건조된 실험체를 수중에서 포화시켜가며 콘크리트 함수율의 차이를 묘사하였으며, 콘크리트 내부에서 초음파의 산란 현상이 충분히 발생하는 500 kHz 주파수 대역대의 신호를 가진 및 분석하여 확산초음파 파라미터인 초음파 확산계수와 초음파 에너지 소산계수를 산정하였다. 콘크리트의 수분 함유량은 확산초음파 실험 시 실험체의 무게 변화를 통해 추정하였으며, 수분 함유량 증가에 따라 실험체에서 무게가 약 2.5 % 가량 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 콘크리트 실험체의 포화정도에 따라 초음파 확산계수는 지속적으로 증가하는 것으로 나타났으나, 변화율은 확산초음파 기법의 계측 오차 범위 내에 있었다. 반면에, 초음파 에너지 소산계수는 완전 포화된 콘크리트에서 완전 건조된 콘크리트 대비 약 120 % 증가하여, 수분함유량에 대해 민감한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서, 추후 확산초음파 기법을 활용하여 콘크리트 재료 및 구조물의 균열 특성 평가 시 함수율에 대한 고려가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.397-401
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• 2000

화력발전 플랜트의 터빈 블레이드(blade) 재료인 12Cr 합금강의 고속 열화 시편에 대한 레일리(Rayleigh) 표면탄성파의 산란과 속도의 주파수 의존특성을 액체/고체 경계 면에서 표면파의 발생기구에 의해 나타나는 후방복사 초음파 세기의 입사각 의존성으로 간접 평가하고 부식피로 특성과 비교 분석하였다. 후방복사 현상이 발생하는 입사각 폭은 부식온도와 반비례하였으며 이는 효과적 부식층의 두께 증가로 설명되었다. 이 프로파일의 폭은 피로시험에서 균열성장 관계식인 파리스(Paris) 법칙의 지수 m과 선형적으로 반비례하여 열화시편의 부식 피로 특성의 비파괴적 평가에 있어 후방복사된 초음파를 이용한 기술이 매우 유용함을 보여 보여주었다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.259-263
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• 2006

The applicability of UPT (Ultrasound Pulse Thermography) for real-time defect detection of the ceramic heating plate is described. The ceramic heating plate with superior insulation and high radiation is used to control the water temperature in underwater environment. The underwater temperature control system can be damaged owing to the short circuit, which resulted from the defect of the ceramic heating plate. A high power ultrasonic energy with pulse duration of 280 ms was injected into the ceramic heating plate in the vertical direction. The ultrasound excited vibration energy sent into the component propagate inside the sample until they were converted to the heat in the vicinity of the defect. Therefore, an injection of the ultrasound pulse wave which results in heat generation, turns the defect into a local thermal wave transmitter. Its local emission is monitored and recorded via the thermal infrared camera at the surface which is processed by image recording system. Measurements were Performed on 4 kinds of samples, composed of 3 intact plates and the defect plate. The observed thermal image revealed two area of crack in the defective ceramic heating plate.