• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.179-182
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• 2004

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of X-ray beam angulation on the fractal dimension of trabecular bone structure of human dry mandible using the tile counting method. Materials and Methods: We divided 5 human dry mandibles into an angle and a molar groups depending on the regions and deciding the region of interest (ROI). When contrasted with the ROI, the inferior cortex was appointed to be low and the lines perpendicular to the buccal cortex were appointed to be the standard angle. Direct digital intraoral radiographs were obtained from 9 different projection angles. We analyzed statistically the fractal dimension using the tile counting method. Results: There was a statistically significant difference in the fractal dimension of the regions and the mandibles, but there was no statistically significant difference in the fractal dimension according to the X-ray beam angulation. Conclusion : There is no statistically significant effect of the angle of the projection on the fractal dimension of trabecular bone structure of a human dry mandible according to the tile counting method.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.175-181
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• 2015

본 연구는 디지털 흉부엑스선 검사에서 화질의 저하 없이 환자선량을 감소시키기 위한 부가필터와 Ion chamber 센서 조합을 알아보고자 하였다. 실험은 관전압 125 kVp, 관전류 320 mA, AEC모드로 하여 부가필터와 Ion chamber의 센서를 네 가지 조합으로 나누어 선량을 측정하고, PCXMC를 이용하여 장기선량을 산출하였다. 또한 MTF로 물리적 화질을 평가하였다. 그 결과 동일 부가필터의 조건하에서 Ion chamber의 좌우 양쪽 센서 모두를 선택했을 때 입사표면 선량과 장기선량이 가장 낮게 나타났으며, 화질평가에서는 좌우 Ion chamber의 선택과 0.1 mmCu 필터를 선택했을 때 공간주파수 값이 2.494 lp/mm로 가장 높게 나타났다. 결론적으로 디지털 흉부촬영 시 Ion chamber의 좌우 양쪽 센서와 0.1 mmCu 필터를 선택하는 것이 우수한 화질의 영상을 획득하고 환자선량 저감에 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.188-200
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• 1995

파장 13nm의 연 X-선을 사용하여 초고밀도 반도체 칩을 네작할 수 있는 고분해능의 투사 결상용 2-반사경계(배율=1)을 설계하였다. 등배율(1:1)의 광학계는 holosymmetric system으로 구성하였을 때 코마와 왜곡수차가 완전히 제거되는 이점을 갖는다. 2-반사경 holosymmetric system에서 추가적으로 구면수차를 제거하기 위해 두 반사경을 동일한 포물면으로 만들고 두 반사경 사이 거리를 조절하여 비점수차와 Petzval 합이 상쇄되게 함으로써 상면만곡 수차를 보정하였다. 이렇게 구한 aplanat flat-field 포물면 2-반사경 holosymmetric system은 크기가 작고 광축회전대칭의 간단한 구조를 가지면 중앙부 차폐가 아주 작다는 특징을 갖고 있다. 이 반사경계에 대해 잔류 수차, spot diagrams, 회절효과가 고려된 NTF의 분석 등을 통해 연 X-선 리소그라피용 투사 광학계로서의 성능이 조사된 결과, $0.25\mum$및. $0.18\mum$의 해상도가 얻어지는 상의 최대 크기가 각각 4.0mm, 2.5mm로 구해졌고 초점심도는 각각 $2.5.\mu$m, $2.4.\mum$로 얻어졌다. 그러므로 이 반사경계는 256Mega DRAM 및 1Giga DRAM의 반도체 칩 제작의 연구에 응용될 수 있다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.155-159
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of posture changes(Anteroposterior projection, Posteroanterior projection) in the plain abdominal examination on breast dose and to examine its clinical usefulness. This study was used a human body phantom and a glass dosimeter. Glass dosimeters were directly inserted from the center and outside of medial and lateral. In this study, the deep dose was measured in the right breast and the surface dose in the left breast. During the abdominal examination, the central X-ray incident point was perpendicularly incident to the image receptor 5 cm above the iliac crest. The exposure parameters were 82 kVp, 320 mA, 50 ms, x-ray field size 14×17 inch The distance between the center X-ray and the detector was fixed at 110 cm, and only the top two AEC chambers were used. As a result of this study, the medial and lateral side doses of the right breast were 535.73±30.68 μGy and 414.46±33.52 μGy for erect AP, and 145.80±18.52 μGy and 148.76±12.92 μGy in erect PA. The superficial breast dose was 754.00±68.36 μGy on the medial side and 674.06±45.58 μGy on the lateral side in the erect AP, 70.66±7.98 μGy on the medial side, and 86.46±15.35 μGy on the lateral side in the erect PA. There was a statistically significant difference in the difference between the mean values of the medial and lateral side doses in the deep and superficial areas of the breast according to the postural change (p <0.01). As a result of this study, If the abdominal radiography was examined in the PA position, the dose reduction effect was 72.78% on the medial side, 64.10% on the lateral side of the deep breast, 90.62% on the medial side, and 87.17% on the lateral side of the superficial breast compared to the AP position.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제14권9호
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• pp.331-339
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• 2016

경제성장과 함께 생활습관 변화로 인한 만성질환이 지속적으로 증가하고 있다. 그 중 심뇌혈관질환은 사망원인의 약 20%를 차지하는 우리나라의 주요 사망원인이다. 심장의 이상을 측정하는 검사는 심전도검사로, 심장의 리듬을 전기적으로 측정하여 평가하는 방법이다. 심전도 검사에서 가장 영향을 미치는 것은 전극의 부착 위치인데, 간호사를 대상으로 연구한 결과에 따르면 모두 정확하게 부착한 것은 2.6%로 나타났다. 따라서 본 연구는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 프로젝션 기반의 증강현실 기술을 사용하여 환자 본인의 Chest X-ray 사진을 흉부에 중첩시켜 투영시킴으로써 정확한 전극 부착위치를 쉽게 알 수 있는 시스템을 개발하였다. 기존의 방법으로 측정한 결과와 개발한 시스템으로 측정한 결과를 비교하였더니 2.6cm의 오차를 보였다. 그에 따른 심전도 결과에서도 V1, V2, V3위치에서 눈에 띄는 파형의 차이가 있었다. 본 시스템으로 정확하게 측정된 심전도는 의료진들의 환자관리 및 임상적 의사결정에 크게 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제9권6호
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• pp.403-408
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• 2015

경엑스선은 물체의 내부구조 관찰에 유용하고 의료 및 산업분야에 광범위하게 사용되고 있다. 전산화단층촬영기법은 수백장의 투영영상을 이용하여 재구성함으로써 물체의 2차원 단면 영상을 얻을 수 있다. 단면 영상의 품질은 투영영상에 크게 의존한다. 투영영상을 얻는 검출기의 픽셀에 따라 링 아티팩트가 나타난다. 본 연구는 visual C++기반으로 한 원형 팬텀에서 검출기의 검출 에러에 따른 링 아티팩트 비를 조사하였다. 평행빔 및 부채살빔에서 링 아티팩트 비는 검출기의 검출 에러에 비례하여 나타났고, 회전 중심에 가까울수록 링 아티팩트는 강하게 나타났다. 전산화단층촬영의 단면 영상에서 링 아티팩트를 줄이기 위해서는 영상재구성 이전에 검출기의 보정이 필요함을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.485-491
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• 2023

As an auxiliary tool for fixing the patient's posture when taking an X-ray, sponges with high radiolucencies are laminated in various thicknesses. This study aimed to evaluate the usefulness of an auxiliary tool for hand oblique projection X-ray by manufacturing it with a uniform thickness by 3D printing and comparing it with existing sponge tools. In the auxiliary tool, radiolucency was measured at the stairs where each finger was located, and pixel information values were compared in the digital imaging and communications in medicine(DICOM) image. Contrast to noise ratio(CNR) and signal to noise ratio(SNR) were compared by shooting the hand phantom and the auxiliary tool together. As the thickness of the sponge tool increased, radiolucency decreased by 15.52% and pixel information value increased by 20.61%. The transmittance of the 3D printing tool increased by 0.82%, and the pixel information value differed by 5.66%. CNR and SNR increased by 20.03% and 22.42% in 3D printing compared to existing sponge tools. while taking hand oblique projection, maintaining the thickness of the auxiliary tool uniformly through 3D printing maintains high radiolucency and minimal impact on medical images, and increases CNR and SNR, making it useful as an auxiliary tool for taking hand oblique projection.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권6호
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• pp.431-435
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• 2008

Quantitative information of a three dimensional(3D) kinematics of joint is very useful in knee joint surgery, understanding how knee kinematics related to joint injury, impairment, surgical treatment, and rehabilitation. In this paper, an automated 2D/3D image matching technique was developed to estimate the 3D in vivo knee kinematics using dual X-ray images. First, a 3D geometric model of the knee was reconstructed from CT scan data. The 3D in vivo position and orientation of femoral and tibial components of the knee joint could be estimated by minimizing the pixel by pixel difference between the projection images from the developed 3D model and the given X-ray images. The accuracy of the developed technique was validated by an experiment with a cubic phantom. The present 2D/3D image matching technique for the estimation of in vivo joint kinematics could be useful for pre-operative planning as well as post-operative evaluation of knee surgery.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권1호
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• pp.36.4-37
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• 2017

Although most of observed properties of giant radio relics detected in the outskirts of galaxy clusters could be explained by relativistic electrons accelerated at merger-driven shocks, a few significant puzzles remain. In some relics the shock Mach number inferred from X-ray observations is smaller than that estimated from radio spectral index. Such a discrepancy could be understood, if either the shock Mach number is nder-estimated in X-ray observation due to projection effects, or if pre-existing electrons with a flat spectrum are re-accelerated by a weak shock, retaining the flat spectral form. In this study, we explore these two scenarios by comparing the results of shock acceleration simulations with observed features of the so-called Toothbrush relic in the merging cluster 1RXS J060303.3. We find that both models could reproduce reasonably well the observed radio flux and spectral index profiles and the integrated radio spectrum. Either way, the broad transverse relic profile requires additional post shock electron acceleration by downstream turbulence.

• Applied Microscopy
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.111-120
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• 1997

Cylinder-like crystals of $Ca^{2+}-ATPase$ provide views parallel to the lamellar plane, from which parameters of lamellar stacking can be directly measured. These parameters were measured using different preparation methods. Assuming that molecular packing is the same, data from lamellar plane could supplement those obtained by tilting large, thin plate-like crystals. However, base on data obtained .by electron microscopy and x-ray powder patterns, the plate-like crystal may have another scheme for stacking the lamellar. The projection map (h, 0, 1) from cylinder-like crystals using cryoelectron microscopy suggest the lamellar spacing can be variable.