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A Study of Tissue-equivalent Compensator for 10MV X-ray and Co-60 Gamma-ray (고에너지 방사선치료용 조직등가보상체에 관한 고찰)

  • CHOI Tae Jin;HONG Young Rak;LIM Charn Soo;JEUNG Ho Yong
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.47-51
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    • 1985
  • Authors describe some useful data when constructing tissue-equivalent compensators which would compensate tissue deficit in the treatment field of high energy electromagnetic radiation Tissue equivalent compensator is made of lucite. The ratio of compensator thickness to the thickness of tissue deficit depends on radiation energy, field size and the distance from the compensator to patient skin. When the compensator is separated from skin surface, the thickness ratio is always smaller than 1.0. This means that the larger the separation, the contribution to the total dose by means of scattered radiation from a tissue equivalent compensator is smaller. Authors propose that the thickness of lucite as tissue equivalent compensator is 0.57 times tissue deficit and the separation between compensator and skin is at least 15m for Co-60 gamma ray and 25cm for 10MV X-ray.

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Numerical Analysis of Offshore Installation Using a Floating Crane with Heave Compensator in Waves (Heave Compensator를 고려한 파랑 중 해상 크레인 설치작업 수치해석)

  • Nam, Bo-Woo;Hong, Sa-Young;Kim, Jong-Wook;Lee, Dong-Yeop
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.70-77
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    • 2012
  • In this study, a numerical analysis of offshore installation using a floating crane with heave compensator is carried out in time domain. The motion analysis of crane vessels is based on floating body dynamics using convolution integral and the crane wire is treated as simple spring. The lifted structure is assumed as a rigid body with 3 degree-of-freedom translational motion. The heave compensator is numerically modelled by the generalized spring-damper system. Firstly, forced motion simulations of crane wire system are carried out to figure out the basic principle of heave compensator. The transfer function of crane wire system is obtained and effective wave period of heave compensator are found. Then, coupled analysis of crane vessel, crane wire, and lifted structure are performed in regular and irregular sea conditions. Two different crane vessels and two lifted structures (suction pile and manifold) are considered in this study. Through a series of numerical calculations, the effective zone of heave compensator is investigated with respect to wave period and crane wire length.

Correction of Dose Distribution at Total Body Irradiation using Compensator

  • Kim Jong Sik;Cho Hyun Sang;Kim Young Kon;Cho Jung Keun;Ju Sang Kyu;Park Young Hwan
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.87-93
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    • 1997
  • The using of compensator is required to adjust the irregular dose distribution due to irregular thickness of the body in Total Body Irradiation. Aluminuim, copper or lead is generally used as compensator. In our study, we would like to introduce a result of the attenuation and compensation effect of radiation use compensator made by duralumin and its clinical use. The thickness of compensator was calculated by the attenustion of radiation, which was measured by polystyrene phantom and ionization chamber(farmer). The compensation effect of radiation was measured by diode detector. All of conditions were set as in real treatment, and the distanc from source to detector was 446 cm. We also made fixation of device to easily attach the compensator to LINAC. Beam spoiler was menufactured and placed on the patient to irradiate sufficient dose to the skin. diode detector were placed on head, neck, chest, umbilicus. pelvis and knee with each their entranced exit points, and datas of dose distribution were evaluated and compared in each points for eleven patients(Feb. 96-Feb. 97). The attenuation rate of irradiation by duralumin compensator was measured as $1.4\%$ in 2mm thickness. The mean attenuation rate was $1.3\%$ per 2mm as increasing the thickness gradually to 50 mm. By using duralunim compensator, dose distribution in each points of body was measured with ${\pm}2.8\%$ by diode detectior. We could easily calculate the thickness of compensator by measuring the attenuation rate of radiation, remarkably reduce the irragularity of dose distribution duo to the thickness of body and magnify the effect of radiation therapy.

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Practical Virtual Compensator Design with Dynamic Multi-Leaf Collimator(dMLC) from Iso-Dose Distribution

  • Song, Ju-Young;Suh, Tae-Suk;Lee, Hyung-Koo;Choe, Bo-Young;Ahn, Seung-Do;Park, Eun-Kyung;Kim, Jong-Hoon;Lee, Sang-Wook;Yi, Byong-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.129-132
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    • 2002
  • The practical virtual compensator, which uses a dynamic multi-leaf collimator (dMLC) and three-dimensional radiation therapy planning (3D RTP) system, was designed. And the feasibility study of the virtual compensator was done to verify that the virtual compensator acts a role as the replacement of the physical compensator. Design procedure consists of three steps. The first step is to generate the isodose distributions from the 3D RTP system (Render Plan, Elekta). Then isodose line pattern was used as the compensator pattern. Pre-determined compensating ratio was applied to generate the fluence map for the compensator design. The second step is to generate the leaf sequence file with Ma's algorithm in the respect of optimum MU-efficiency. All the procedure was done with home-made software. The last step is the QA procedure which performs the comparison of the dose distributions which are produced from the irradiation with the virtual compensator and from the calculation by 3D RTP. In this study, a phantom was fabricated for the verification of properness of the designed compensator. It is consisted of the styrofoam part which mimics irregular shaped contour or the missing tissues and the mini water phantom. Inhomogeneous dose distribution due to the styrofoam missing tissue could be calculated with the RTP system. The film dosimetry in the phantom with and without the compensator showed significant improvement of the dose distributions. The virtual compensator designed in this study was proved to be a replacement of the physical compensator in the practical point of view.

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New Voltage Sag/Swell Compensator Using Direct Power Conversion Method (직접전력변환 방식을 이용한 새로운 전압 sag/swell 보상기)

  • Cha, Han-Ju;Lee, Dae-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.04b
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    • pp.267-269
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a new single phase voltage sag/swell compensator using direct power conversion is introduced. A new compensator consists of input/output filter, series transformer and direct ac-ac converter, which is a single-phase back-to-back PWM converter without dc-link capacitors. Advantages of the proposed compensator include: simple power circuit by eliminating dc-link electrolytic capacitors and thereby, improved reliability and increased life time of the entire compensator; simple PWM strategy to compensate voltage sag/swell at the same time and reduced switching losses in the ac-ac converter. Further, the proposed scheme is able to adopt simple switch commutation method without requiring complex four-step commutation method commonly required in the direct power conversion. Simulation results are shown to demonstrate the advantages of the new compensator and PWM strategy.

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A Study on the Over-Current Protection Method of A Series Active Compensator (직렬 능동 보상기의 과전류 보호방법에 관한 연구)

  • Chae, Beom-Seok;Lee, U-Cheol;Lee, Taek-Gi;Hyeon, Dong-Seok
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers B
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    • v.51 no.6
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    • pp.321-329
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    • 2002
  • A protection scheme for series active compensator is presented and analyzed in this paper. The proposed series active compensator operated as a high impedance K($\Omega$) to the fundamentals when short-circuit faults occur in the power distribution system, and two control strategies are proposed in this paper The first is the method by detecting the fundamental source current through the p-q theory, the second is the method by detecting the fundamental component of load current in Synchronous Reference Frame(SRF). When the short-circuit faults occur in the power distribution system, the proposed scheme can protect the series active compensator without additional protection circuits. The validity of the Proposed Protection scheme was investigated through experimental results.

Improvement of Transient Step Response Using Feedforward Compensator in Nonminimum Phase Systems

  • Kwon, Byung-Moon;Ryu, Hee-Seob;Kwon, Oh-Kyu
    • Transactions on Control, Automation and Systems Engineering
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    • v.3 no.3
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    • pp.152-158
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    • 2001
  • This paper proposes a simple feedforward compensator in order to decrease the amount of undershoots and overshoots on the step response in nonminimum phase systems. The compensator makes the step type input be a ramp input with saturation for 0$\leq$t<${\alpha}$. It is shown in this paper that the compensated system has small amount of undershoot and overshoot at the price of rise time compared to the system without compensator. Also, provided the system is properly stable, the influence of the design parameter ${\alpha}$ on the step response of the nonminimum phase system is investigated in the case of Type A, and Type B undershoot, which gives a guideline for the compensator design.

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Implementation of Voltage Sag/Swell Compensator Using Direct Power Conversion Method (직접전력변환 방식을 이용한 전압 sag/swell 보상기의 구현)

  • Cha, Han-Ju;Lee, Dae-Dong
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2006.07b
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    • pp.1014-1015
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, a new single phase voltage sag/swell compensator using direct power conversion is introduced. A new compensator consists of input/output filter, series transformer and direct at-ac converter, which is a single-phase back-to-back PWM converter without dc-link capacitors. Advantages of the proposed compensator include: simple power circuit by eliminating dc-link electrolytic capacitors and thereby, improved reliability and increased life time of the entire compensator; simple PWM strategy to compensate voltage sag/swell at the same time and reduced switching losses in the ac-ac converter. Further, the proposed scheme is able to adopt simple switch commutation method without requiring complex four-step commutation method commonly required in the direct power conversion. Simulation results are shown to demonstrate the advantages of the new compensator and PWM strategy.

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A Study on Performance Improvement to Use Dummy Elements on A Monopole Array-assisted Doppler Spread Compensator for A Digital Terrestrial Television Broadcasting Receiver

  • Yu, Young-Cheol
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37 no.6A
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    • pp.426-437
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    • 2012
  • This paper proposes an array antenna assisted Doppler spread compensator with dummy elements which are placed on either end of a monopole array for a digital terrestrial television broadcasting (DTTB) receiver. An array antenna assisted Doppler spread compensator, proposed previously, has a major drawback in performance degradation owing to mutual coupling effect among array elements. In order to solve the mutual coupling problem, dummy elements, placed on both sides of the monopole array mitigate performance degradation of a Doppler spread compensator arising from the mutual coupling among monopole array elements. Computer simulation results show that the dummy elements can reduce this performance degradation as well as expand the operating bandwidth of a Doppler spread compensator.

Speed Control of DC Motor by a Nonlinear Compensator Describing the CDIDF (CDIDF로기전된 비선형신형기에 의한 직유전동기의 속도제어)

  • Hyoung-Ki Lee;Hong-Gon Ha;Byung-Do Yoon
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.37 no.2
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    • pp.130-137
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    • 1988
  • The technique of dual-input describing function's synthesis is introduced and the construction of a nonlinear compensator, based on this technique, is proposed. A nonlinear compensator, describing a complex DIDF depending upon amplitude of the second sinusoidal input signal only, is also proposed, where the second sinusoidal input signal is supplied to the nonlinear compensator by external generator. This compensator, connected in a closed loop of the PI speed control of DC motor, can improve the speed response in view instability limit cycle, low speed response and disturbance of the dynamic shift of the Nyquist's critical point -1 + j O. It is verified theoretically that the improvement of speed response of DC motor using the proposed compensator is achieved by means of the dynamic shift of the Nyquist's critical point on the complex plane, and the speed characterstics of DC motor is to be tested through experiment for its performance.