• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.393-399
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• 2009

본 연구에서는 전리함을 이용하여 엑스선 촬영실 내에서 공간산란선량을 측정하고 산란선의 발생원과 조사 조건에 대한 산란율 의존성을 조사하였다. 아크릴 팬톰의 산란선 발생 인자를 조사하기 위해 관전압(40~140 kV)과 조사면($10{\times}10\;cm^2$, $20{\times}20\;cm^2$, $35{\times}35\;cm^2$)에 대한 산란율 변화를 측정하였다. 조사면이 $35{\times}35\;cm^2$일 때 측방산란율은 3.11~4.5%로 측정되었다. 촬영실 내에서 팬톰, 콜리메이터, 엑스선관, 벽면에서 발생하는 산란선량의 영향을 측정하였는데 전체 관전압에 대해 팬톰의 산란선 발생률은 95.4% 이상이었으며 콜리메이터, 엑스선관, 벽면의 산란선 발생률은 각각 2.6%, 1.3%, 0.7% 이하로 나타났다. 관전압 100 kV, 40 mAs 조사 조건에서 촬영실 내 팬톰으로부터 1 m 거리에서 측정한 공간선량은 최대 2 mR 정도로 나타나 조사조건의 최적화 등의 산란선 경감조치가 필요할 것으로 생각된다.

• Yonsei Medical Journal
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• 제63권5호
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• pp.405-412
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• 2022

Purpose We evaluated the safety, feasibility, and early treatment outcomes of intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) using a low-energy X-ray source. Materials and Methods Patients with resectable pancreatic cancer were enrolled in this single-institution, prospective, single-arm, phase II trial. Patients underwent surgery and IORT with 10 Gy prescribed at a 5-mm depth from the tumor bed using a 50 kV X-ray source (Intrabeam, Carl Zeiss). Six cycles of adjuvant gemcitabine-based chemotherapy were administered 8-12 weeks after surgery. Results A total of 41 patients were included. Thirty-one patients (75.6%) underwent wide R0 resection, while 5 (12.2%) underwent R1 resection and 5 (12.2%) underwent narrow R0 resection (retroperitoneal margin <1 mm). Grade 3 postoperative complications were reported in only one patient (4.9%) who needed additional surgery due to ulcer perforation. At a median follow-up of 9 months, four patients showed local-only recurrence, nine had distant metastases, and two showed both local and distant recurrence. The 1-year local control rate was 76.4%. Conclusion Our preliminary report suggests that IORT is well-tolerated and feasible in patients with resectable pancreatic cancer. Further follow-up is needed to confirm the clinical benefits of IORT in terms of local control and overall survival. Trial Registration: Clinical trial registration No. (NCT03273374).

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2016년도 제50회 동계 정기학술대회 초록집
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• pp.433-433
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• 2016

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) emitter has widely become an attractive mechanism that draws growing interests for cold cathode field emission. CNT yarns have demonstrated its potential as excellent field emitters. It was demonstrated that a small focal spot size was achieved by manipulating some electrical parameters, such as applied bias voltage at the mesh gate, and electrostatic focal lenses, geometrical parameters, such as axial distances of the anode, and the electrostatic focal lens from the cathode assembly, and the dimension of the opening of the electrostatic lens. Electrical-optics software was used to systematically investigate the behavior of the electron beam trajectory when the aforementioned variables were manipulated. The results of the experiment agree with the theoretical simulation results. Each variable has an individual effect on the electron beam focal spot size impinging on the target anode. An optimum condition of the parameters was obtained producing good quality of X-ray images. Also, MWCNT yarn was investigated for field emission characteristics and its contribution in the X-ray generation. The dry spinning method was used to fabricate MWCNT yarn from super MWCNTs, which was fabricated by MW-PECVD. The MWCNT yarn has a significant field emission capability in both diode and the triode X-ray generation structure compared to a MWCNT. The low-voltage-field emission of the MWCNT yarn can be attributed to the field enhancing effect of the yarn due to its shape and the contribution of the high-aspect-ratio nanotubes that protrude from the sides of the yarn. Observations of the use of filters on the development of X-ray images were also demonstrated. The amount of exposure time of the samples to the X-ray was also manipulated. The MWCNT yarn can be a good candidate for use in the low voltage field emission application of X-ray imaging.

• 천문학논총
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• 제32권1호
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• pp.185-187
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• 2017

Combining the AKARI Point Source Catalog and the 37-month Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image (MAXI) catalog, the infrared and X-ray properties of nearby active galactic nuclei were investigated. The 37-month MAXI catalog tabulates 100 nearby Seyfert galaxies, 73 of which are categorized into Seyfert I galaxies. Among these Seyfert galaxies, 69 ones were found to have an AKARI infrared counterpart. For the Seyfert I galaxies in this sample, a well-known correlation was found between the infrared and X-ray luminosities. However, the observed X-ray luminosity of the Seyfert II galaxies tends to be lower for the infrared luminosity than the Seyfert I galaxies. This suggests that the X-ray absorption is significant in the Seyfert II galaxies. The Seyfert II galaxies seem to have a bimodal distribution of the IR color between $18{\mu}m$ and $90{\mu}m$. Especially, a large fraction of the Seyfert II galaxies exhibits a redder IR color than the Seyfert I galaxies. A possible origin of the redder IR color is briefly discussed, in relation to the star formation activity in the host galaxy, and to the X-ray absorption.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.117-123
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• 2011

방사광 영상은 내부가 보이지 않는 생물학적 검체의 구조를 관찰하는데 사용될 수 있으며, 조직의 고정이나 염색없이 비침습적으로 조직의 미세 구조를 관찰하는데 유용하다. 본 연구에서는 포항방사광가속기의 1B2 빔라인에서 개발한 경엑스선(hard X-ray) 현미경을 이용하여 11.1 KeV의 에너지에서 인간 유방 조직의 현미경적 영상을 얻고자 하였으며, 고해상도의 영상을 얻기 위해 동심원 회전판(zone plate)과 위상차 영상기법을 사용하였다. 실험 결과 경 엑스선 현미경을 이용하여 유방 섬유낭성변화와 유방암 조직의 방사광 미세 영상을 얻었으며, 이들 영상의 공간 해상도는 60 nm로 각각의 유방 조직의 미세 구조를 관찰하기에 충분하였다. 또한 방사광 미세 영상과 기존의 유방촬영 영상을 비교하였을 때, 방사광 미세 영상에서 각 조직의 특징적인 형태학적 변화가 더 뚜렷하게 나타나는 것을 관찰할 수 있었다. 결론적으로, 경엑스선 위상차 현미경을 이용한 방사광 영상은 유방 질환의 진단에 많은 도움을 줄 수 있을 것으로 생각되며, 임상적으로나 여러 연구 목적으로 유용하게 사용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.153-159
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• 2015

Reliability of printed circuit board (PCB), which is based on high integrated circuit technology, is having been important because of development of electric and self-driving car. In order to answer these demand, automated X-ray inspection (AXI) is best solution for PCB non-destructive test. PCB is consist of plastic, copper, and, lead, which have low to high Z-number materials. By using dual energy X-ray imaging, these materials can be inspected accurately and efficiently. Dual energy X-ray imaging, that have the advantage of separating materials, however, need some solution such as energy separation method and enhancing efficiency because PCB has materials that has wide range of Z-number. In this work, we found out several things by analysis of X-ray energy spectrum. Separating between lead and combination of plastic and copper is only possible with energy range not dose. On the other hand, separating between plastic and copper is only with dose not energy range. Moreover the copper filter of high energy part of dual X-ray imaging and 50 kVp of low energy part of dual X-ray imaging is best for efficiency.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.3026-3034
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• 2021

Multi-target X-ray tube is a new type X-ray source, and can be applied in many fields such as sensitive X-ray fluorescence analysis and medical imaging. In this work, we report an electric field modulation multi-target X-ray tube, which contains four targets (Cr, Ni, Au, Mo) coated on a Beryllium (Be) window. A four-valve electric field deflector was developed to deflect the electron beam to bombard the corresponding targets. Particle dynamics analysis software was employed to simulate the particle tracking of electron beam. The results show that the 30 keV electron beam could get a 6.7 mm displacement on the target plane by 10⁵ V/m electric field. The focus areas are about 2 mm × 5 mm and 4 mm × 2.5 mm after deflection in two directions. Thermal behavior calculated by ANSYS shows that the designed target assembly could withstand a 10 W continuous power. The optimum target thicknesses and emission spectra were obtained by Geant4 when the thickness of Be window was 300 mm and the electron beam incident angle was 0.141 rad. The results indicate that this multi-target X-ray tube could provide different X-ray sources effectively.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제15권1호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2021

엑스선 영상을 획득하는 경우에 연속 엑스선을 사용할 경우, 다양한 엑스선 에너지로 인해 같은 물질이라도 두께에 따라 영상에서 정확하게 표현되지 않을 수 있다. 이를 해결하기 위해 엑스선 에너지스펙트럼을 변경하여 영상의 질을 향상 시킬 수 있도록 하였다. SPEKTR v3.0을 사용하여 부가 필터를 추가한 엑스선 에너지스펙트럼과 고유 필터만을 사용한 일반 엑스선 에너지스펙트럼을 획득하였다. 획득한 엑스선 에너지스펙트럼을 Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission(GATE)의 방사선원으로 사용하여 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다. GATE 데이터를 사용하여 부가 필터가 사용된 엑스선 영상과 부가 필터를 사용하지 않은 엑스선 영상을 재구성한 영상을 74 keV의 단일 에너지 영상을 통해서 비교 분석하였다. 부가 필터를 사용하지 않은 엑스선 에너지스펙트럼을 사용한 경우 같은 물질이라도 두께에 따라 투과한 엑스선의 양이 물질 두께에 따라 감소되는 양과는 상이한 양상을 보인 반면, 부가 필터를 사용한 경우 두께에 따라 투과된 엑스선의 양이 물질 두께에 따라 감소되는 양과 유사한 결과가 나왔다. 즉, 감소되는 선량이 단일 에너지를 사용했을 때와 비슷한 결과가 나왔다. 부가 필터를 사용하여 엑스선 에너지스펙트럼을 변경하여 엑스선 영상을 획득할 경우 엑스선의 투과에 대한 보다 정확한 결과의 값을 획득할 수 있다. 영상의학검사에서 부가 필터의 적절한 사용이 영상의 질을 높이는데 크게 작용한다는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국진공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국진공학회 2010년도 제39회 하계학술대회 초록집
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• pp.61-61
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• 2010

By using high resolution x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, we show that inelastic scattering of photoelectron at low temperature (30K~50K) generates two kinds of oxygen species on Pt (111) surface. Intense synchrotron radiation source dissociates oxygen molecules into chemisorbed atomic oxygen and induces the formation of PtO on surface. Estimated coverage of dissociated atomic oxygen is 0.5 ML, suggesting possible formation of p($2{\times}1$) surface structure, while PtO coverage shows saturation coverage of 0.5 ML. Molecular oxygen dosed at 30 K undergoes thermally activated transition from physisorbed to chemisorbed state at around 40K.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2003년도 하계학술대회 논문집 Vol.4 No.1
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• pp.208-211
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• 2003

The dielectric carbon nitride thin films were deposited onto Si(100) using a pulsed laser ablation of pure graphite target combined with a high voltage discharge plasma in nitrogen gas atmosphere. We can be calculated dielectric constant, ${\varepsilon}_s$, with a capacitance Sobering bridge method. We reported to investigate the influence of the laser ablation of graphite target and DC high voltage source for the plasma. The properties of the deposited carbon nitride thin films were influenced by the high voltage source during the film growth. Deposition rate of carbon nitride films were found to increase drastically with the increase of high voltage source. Infrared absorption clearly shows the existence of C=N bonds and $C{\equiv}N$ bonds. The carbon nitride thin films were observed crystalline phase, as confirmed by x-ray diffraction data.