• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2014

초음파(Ultrasound) 시스템은 진단의학분야, 수중통신, 센서네트워크 등 현대산업분야에 광범위하게 사용되는 복잡한 무선 신호처리 시스템 중 하나이다. 최근에는 초음파 시스템의 소형화가 본격화 되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 소형화되고, 모바일화 되는 진단 초음파시스템에 적합한 혼성 저잡음증폭기(Low Noise Amplifier, LNA)를 개발 하였다. 제안된 LNA는 5dB이하의 낮은 잡음특성을 가지고, 다양한 초음파 변환기(Transducer)의 임피던스매칭을 위해 피드백 저항값들을 전기적으로 조정할 수 있도록 설계하였다. 주파수는 10kHz에서 150MHz까지 초음파주파수 전 대역을 지원할 수 있고, 슬립모드를 지원한다. 시스템의 특성에 맞춰 각각의 변환기를 통해 -17.8dB-29.5dB의 이득을 갖는다. 기존의 LNA와 비교해서 비슷한 성능에 소모전력은 최대 90%를 줄일 수 있었다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.263-267
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 술자의 주관적인 판단에 의존하고 있는 질환 여부의 판정을 객관적이고 과학적인 방법으로 판정하기 위한 방안을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 간세포암 환자를 추적관찰 한 초음파영상을 MSE(Mean Squared Error : 평균제곱오차)를 구한 후 PSNR(Peak Signal to Noise Ratio)분석을 하였다. 분석한 결과 시간이 지남에 따라 MSE값과 PSNR값이 변화함을 알 수 있었다. 이러한 이유는 간세포암이 진행됨에 따라 초음파 에코의 증가로 초음파영상의 변화에 기인하는 것이다. 본 논문의 결과는 술자의 주관적인 판단에 의하여 행해지고 있는 초음파 검사를 과학적이고 객관적인 판정을 할 수 있는 방법으로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.15-20
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• 2018

For the measurement of biophysical properties related with cardiovascular diseases (CVD), various microfluidic devices were proposed. However, many devices were monitored by optical equipment. Ultrasound measurement to quantify the biophysical properties can provide new insights to understand the cardiovascular diseases. This study aims to check feasibility of microfluidic device for ultrasound image analysis based on 3D printer. To facilitate acoustic transmission, agarose solution is poured around 3D mold connected with holes of the acrylic box. By applying speckle image velocimetry(SIV) technique, flow information in the bifurcated channel was estimated. Considering that ultrasound signal amplitude is determined by red blood cell (RBC) aggregation, RBC aggregation in the bifurcated channel can be estimated through the analysis of ultrasound signal. As examples of microfluidic device which mimic the CVD model, velocity fields in microfluidic devices with stenosis and aneurysm were introduced.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.959-966
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• 2010

정량적 초음파 분석(Quantitative Ultrasound Analysis)은 반향된 초음파 신호의 짧은 시간 간격의 주파수 성분을 추출하여 개별 초음파 지수의 값을 예측한다. 따라서 반향 신호의 정확한 주파수 특성 추출은 분석의 정확도와 정밀도 향상에 기본이 된다. 본 논문에서는 초음파 지수의 정량적인 예측 및 분석에 이용할 수 있는, 짧은 시간 간격의 반향 신호의 주파수 특성 추출 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리듬은 인접한 반향 초음파 신호간의 위상 차이를 보상하고, 동일 반향 깊이를 가지는 작은 영역의 신호를 가중치 평균함으로써 보다 정확한 주파수 특성을 추출한다. 컴퓨터 모의 실험을 통한 수치 분석 결과, 제안된 알고리듬은 일반적인 주파수 추출 알고리듬보다 정확한 예측 결과를 보였으며, 예측 결과의 정밀도도 10% 이상 향상되었다.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제31B권2호
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• pp.80-87
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• 1994

Fetal monitoring is a routine procedure to obtain a record of physiologic functions during pregnancy and labor. It is required to determine fetal heart frequency accurately. There are various types of fetal heart rate(FHR) determination and the most frequently applied method is transabdominal Doppler ultrasound. However, in the case of weak or noise corrupted Doppler ultrasound signals, conventional peak detections and the autocorrelation function method have many difficulties to determine FHR precisely. Also the autocorrelation function is effected by threshold level and window size. To solve these problems, the high resolution pitch determination algorinthm is introduced to detect FHR from Doppler ultrasound signals. This scheme digitally processes Doppler ultrasound signal for digital rectification, envelope detection, decimation and correlation calculation of two interconnected segments and then FHR is determined by its maximal value. Even in the case of a greatly smeared noise signal, this algorithm is able to search FHR more accurately than autocorrelation function by means of compensating FHR with a constant correlation threshold. This algorithm is simulated by 386-MATLAB on PC 486/DX and verified that it is superior to the autocorrelation function method.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.161-167
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• 2012

It is known that big brown bats can distinguish echo of a prey at various angles. In this paper, we suggest a new object localization strategy using ultrasonic echolocation. We calculate the relative energy ratio between a high frequency component of ultrasound signal and a low frequency component of ultrasound signal for a target object. We found the measure depends on bearing angle of the object in space. We also tested energy ratio of echoed FM ultrasound signals depending on frequency, based on cross-correlation. It can determine the relative angular position of objects even though the reflected signals are congested form each object.

• 센서학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.374-379
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• 2018

The piezocomposite transducer is widely used because it is highly efficient in transforming electric energy into mechanical energy, and its frequency range is broader than that of other types of ultrasound transducers. A general piezocomposite transducer is composed of an acoustic lens, impedance matching layers, piezoelectric materials, and backing layers. When an input voltage is applied to a piezoelectric material as an active material, it generates sound waves while vibrating. At that time, an impedance matching layer helps the sound waves to propagate forward while reducing the impedance mismatch that may occur at the interface between the active material and its front material. The impedance mismatch has a negative effect on the signal of an ultrasound transducer; thus, it is important to design a matching layer to overcome the issue. In this study, an optimized feature of a matching layer with gradient properties is studied. An objective function is defined to minimize both the average and the deviation of the reflection coefficients that are functions of the frequencies. As a result, an improvement in the signal characteristics with respect to the sensitivity and bandwidth is reported.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.745-753
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• 2002

It is required to evaluate nondestructively the crack depth of surface-breaking cracks for the assurance of safety of structure. Optical generation of ultrasound produces well defined pulses with a repeatable frequency content, that are free of any mechanical resonances; they are broad band and are ideal for the measurement of attenuation and scattering over a wide frequency range. Self-calibrating surface signal transmission measurement is very sensitive and practical tool for surface-breaking crack depth. In this paper, the self-calibrating technique by laser-based ultrasound is used to evaluate the depth of surface-breaking crack of material. It is suggested that the relationship between the signal transmission and crack depth can be used as a practical model for predicting the surface-breaking crack depths from the signal transmission measured in structure.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제28권9호
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• pp.1103-1109
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• 2011

This research quantitatively confirmed an acoustical anisotropy that exists in a pure titanium plate from the signal of ultrasonic flow detection and suggested a new way to evaluate the acoustical anisotropy by inputting acquired characteristic of ultrasound signal into the neutral network. Using the fact with the suggested method that the characteristic of ultrasound signal is shown differently depending on the pure titanium plate's rolling direction, the neural network was constructed by extracting the characteristic that can decide each direction of $0^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, and $90^{\circ}$ with waveform analysis program. As a result of inputting the characteristic of ultrasound signal acquired from a random rolling direction into the neural network that was built like this, it showed a pattern recognition rate higher than 95% on directions of $0^{\circ}$, $45^{\circ}$, $90^{\circ}$.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.115-116
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• 1998

Pulse echo techniques have been used for the conventional medical ultrasound imaging systems. However, their resolution is limited in the transmitted signal power. To overcome this limit, pulse compression method used in the radar systems was proposed. This system transmits a continuous coded signal and then compresses the received signal into the short and high resolution pulse by using correlator. The reflectors can be detected by cross-correlation between the transmitted signal and the received signal with the depth information. In this paper, we will present a comparative study of the performances of the most common sequences(pseudo-chirp, m-sequences, modified Golay code). The best result for improving resolution is obtained with the modified Golay Code.