• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.273-281
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• 2007

이 논문은 900 MHz대역의 RFID 태그용 다이폴 안테나를 설계하여, 이 안테나가 부착되는 물체에 의한 안테나의 성능이 실험적으로 평가되었다. 전기적 특성이 다른 유전체, 자성체 및 도체에 다이폴 안테나를 부착하였을 때, 부착된 매질의 종류, 크기 및 높이의 변화에 따라 안테나의 반사계수와 방사 패턴이 변화되는 것을 실험적으로 평가하였다 안테나가 유전체의 표면에 부착되었을 때, 측정된 반사계수와 방사 패턴은 비유전율의 영향으로 인해 약 40 MHz의 공진 주파수 편이와 약 $1\sim3dB$ 정도의 감쇠를 보였다. 부착 지판의 크기에 의한 주파수 편이가 관측되었으나, 부착 지판을 가진 다이폴 안테나의 측정된 방사 패턴은 부착 지판이 없는 다이폴 안테나의 방사 패턴과 유사하였다. 부착 지판이 도체나 자성체인 경우, 다이폴 안테나와 부착 지판 사이의 거리에 의한 주파수 편이와 위상차 때문에, 910 MHz에서 약 5 dB 이상의 방사 패턴 진폭의 저하가 관측되었다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.3051-3058
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• 2022

In the present work, untreated Iraqi sand with grain sizes varied between 100 and 200 ㎛ was used to produce a colored glass sample that has shielding features against the low gamma-ray energy. Therefore, a weight of 70-60 wt % sand was mixed with 9-14 wt% B₂O₃, 8-10 wt% Na₂O, 4-6 wt% of CaO, 3-6 wt% Al₂O₃, in addition to 0.3% of Co₂O₃. After melting and annealing the glass sample, the X-ray diffraction spectrometry was applied to affirm the amorphous phase of the fabricated glass samples. Moreover, the X-ray dispersive energy spectrometry was used to measure the chemical composition, and the MH-300A densimeter was applied to measure the fabricated sample's density. The Makishima-Makinzie model was applied to predict the mechanical properties of the fabricated glass. Besides, the Monte Carlo simulation was used to estimate the fabricated glass sample's radiation shielding capacity in the low-energy region between 22.1 and 160.6 keV. Therefore, the simulated linear attenuation coefficient changed between 10.725 and 0.484 cm^-1, raising the gamma-ray energy between 22.1 and 160.6 keV. Also, other shielding parameters such as a half-value layer, pure lead equivalent thickness, and buildup factors were calculated.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제44권3호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2023

CT is a medical device that acquires medical images based on Attenuation coefficient of human organs related to X-rays. In addition, using this theory, it can acquire sagittal and coronal planes and 3D images of the human body. Then, CT is essential device for universal diagnostic test. But Exposure of CT scan is so high that it is regulated and managed with special medical equipment. As the special medical equipment, CT must implement quality control. In detail of quality control, Spatial resolution of existing phantom imaging tests, Contrast resolution and clinical image evaluation are qualitative tests. These tests are not objective, so the reliability of the CT undermine trust. Therefore, by applying an artificial intelligence classification model, we wanted to confirm the possibility of quantitative evaluation of the qualitative evaluation part of the phantom test. We used intelligence classification models (VGG19, DenseNet201, EfficientNet B2, inception_resnet_v2, ResNet50V2, and Xception). And the fine-tuning process used for learning was additionally performed. As a result, in all classification models, the accuracy of spatial resolution was 0.9562 or higher, the precision was 0.9535, the recall was 1, the loss value was 0.1774, and the learning time was from a maximum of 14 minutes to a minimum of 8 minutes and 10 seconds. Through the experimental results, it was concluded that the artificial intelligence model can be applied to CT implements quality control in spatial resolution and contrast resolution.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권5호
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• pp.1734-1741
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• 2023

This work presents the synthesis and preparation of a new glass system described by the equation of (70-x) B₂O₃-5TeO₂ -20SrCO₃-5ZnO -xBi₂O₃, x = 0, 1, 5, 10, and 15 mol. %, using the melt quenching technique at a melting temperature of 1100 ℃. The photon-shielding characteristics mainly the linear attenuation coefficient (LAC) of the prepared glass samples were evaluated using Monte Carlo (MC) simulation N-particle transport code (MCNP-5) at gamma-ray energy extended from 59 keV to 1408 keV emitted by the radioisotopes Am-241, Ba-133, Cs-137, Co-60, Na-22, and Eu-152. Furthermore, we observed that the Bi₂O₃ content of the glasses had a significantly stronger impact on the LAC at 59 and 356 keV. The study of the lead equivalent thickness shows that the performance of fabricated glass sample with 15 mol.% of Bi₂O₃ is four times less than the performance of pure lead at low gamma photon energy while it is enhanced and became two times lower the perforce of pure lead at high energy. Therefore, the fabricated glasses special sample with 15 mol.% of Bi₂O₃ has good shielding properties in low, intermediate, and high energy intervals.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.47-55
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• 2002

유방촬영에 대한 화질과 평균유선조직선량에 대하여 실험한 결과 반가층은 장치마다 큰 차이를 나타내지 않았으며, 자동노출기구를 사용할 경우 정확성에 문제가 있으므로 확인이 필요하다. 유방촬영에 사용되는 자동현상기 또한 꼭 관리가 필요하며, 유방촬영 시 사용되는 증감지/필름에 따라서 팬톰 촬영 식별능에 많은 영향을 받고 있으므로 선택 시 신중을 기해야 한다. 유방두께 4.2 cm에 대한 평균유선조직 선량은 관전압에 따라 달라지며, ACR기준인 3.0 mGy보다 훨씬 적은 $0.26{\sim}1.39\;mGy$로 나타났다. 이상에서 알 수 있듯이 유방촬영에서는 촬영장치의 성능뿐만 아니라 HVL, AEC, 자동현상기 관리, 증감지/필름 등 모두 관리가 되어야 하며, 이로 인해 평균유선조직선량은 더 줄일 수 있을 것이다.