• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1998년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.213-214
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• 1998

The important role of the ultrasonic Doppler system in the modem clinical medicine is to provide the clinical information of the vascular system. The ultrasonic pulsed wave(PW) Doppler system, a kind of the ultrasound Doppler system, is more available than the ultrasonic continuous wave(CW) Doppler system because it can evaluate the velocity and the direction of blood flow as well as the depth of vessel. However, the ultrasonic PW Doppler system has the disadvantage that the range of evaluating velocity of blood flow is limited(Nyquist limit). In order to solve this limit, we propose the algorithm for eliminating this aliasing in this paper. In addition, we propose the efficient signal processing algorithm.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.297-300
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• 1988

The ultrasound Doppler effect is used for measuring the velocity of the bloodflow in an artry. Because of the range information, the pulsed doppler system is most commonly used. In this paper, we propose a new pulsed doppler system which uses a quadrature sampling method in R.F. range in order to detect the bloodflow direction and to simplify the compexity of hardware. The pulsed doppler system using quadrature sampling method in R.F. range eliminates In-phase, Quadrature phase channel balancing problem at demodulator. In addition, the improved pulsed Doppler system shows the possibility of serial processing.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.705-708
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• 1988

Ultrasound Doppler Diagnostic System utilizes the Doppler effect for measurement of blood velocity. The sign of the Doppler frequency shift represents blood flow direction. Pulsed Doppler System uses Phase detector and zerocrossing method to produce simultaneous independent audio and velocity signals for forward and reverse blood flow direction in the time domain, had been fabricated. But time-domain analyzing such as audio evaluation and zerocrossing detection for instantaneous and mean frequency measurement doesn't, provide both an accurate and quantitative result. Therefore, it is necessary to adopt frequency domain technique to improve system performance. In this paper, we describe a unit which is composed of Pulsed Doppler System and real-time spectrum analyzer (installed TMS 32010 DSP Chip). This unit shows time-dependent spectrum variation and mean velocity of blood Signal.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.139-146
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• 1986

본 논문은 tms 32010이라는 디지탈 신호 처리용소자를 사용하여 초음하 펄스 도플러 장치를 구현한 것이다. 도플러 장피란 초음파 신호의 송수신 과정에서 발생하는 도플러 효과를 이용하여 혈류의 속도를 측정하는 장치이다. 한 점에서의 속도를 측정하는 단일채널 도플러 장치에서는 실시간 고속 푸리에 변환기를 구현하여 도플러 주하수의 스펙트럼을 측정함으로서 혈류속도를 측정하며 초음파 빔의 일직선상에서의 여러점을 동시에 측정하는 다중채널 도플러 장치에서는 영점교차검출기를 구현하여 평균주파수를 측정하였다. 자중채널 장치는 직렬처리법을 사용하여 하드웨어를 간단히 하였으며 8점에서의 속도를 측정할 수 있도록 하였다.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2008

유방초음파 검사는 유방암 검사에 있어 유방촬영술에 비하여 많은 장점이 있으나, 미세석회화 발견에는 적합하지 않은 단점이 있다. 이에 유방초음파 검사에서 기존의 7.5 MHz 선형 탐촉자를 사용하여 매질의 공명현상을 이용한 유방조직 석회화 병변을 관측할 수 있는 방법을 연구하였다. 먼저 gelatin과 돼지 젖가슴살을 이용하여 유방조직 팬텀을 제작하였으며, 외부 진동을 변화시켜 가며 석회화 병변을 관측하였다. 유방조직 팬텀안에 주입된 석회화는 주변 조직과 다른 공명을 일으키면서 외부진동에 따라 음향공명의 정도가 파워도플러의 ROI 영역 내의 색상의 밝기와 영역의 차이로 나타내었다. 낮은 주파수 영역에는 음향공명이 거의 나타나지 않았으며, 약 $300{\sim}400\;Hz$ 사이에서 일정한 플래토우 영역을 나타내었으며, 이후 주파수가 증가함에 따라 색상이 사라짐을 확인하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.177-186
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• 2010

In 3D ultrasound color Doppler imaging (CDI), 8-16 pulse transmissions (ensembles) per each scanline are used for effective clutter rejection and flow estimation, but it yields a low volume acquisition rate. In this paper, we have evaluated three flow estimation methods: autoregression (AR), eigendecomposition (ED), and autocorrelation combined with adaptive clutter rejection (AC-ACR) for a small ensemble size (E=4). The performance of AR, ED and AC-ACR methods was compared using 2D and 3D in vivo data acquired under different clutter conditions (common carotid artery, kidney and liver). To evaluate the effectiveness of three methods, receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves were generated. For 2D kidney in vivo data, the AC-ACR method outperforms the AR and ED methods in terms of the area under the ROC curve (AUC) (0.852 vs. 0.793 and 0.813, respectively). Similarly, the AC-ACR method shows higher AUC values for 2D liver in vivo data compared to the AR and ED methods (0.855 vs. 0.807 and 0.823, respectively). For the common carotid artery data, the AR provides higher AUC values, but it suffers from biased estimates. For 3D in vivo data acquired from a kidney transplant patient, the AC-ACR with E=4 provides an AUC value of 0.799. These in vivo experiment results indicate that the AC-ACR method can provide more robust flow estimates compared to the AR and ED methods with a small ensemble size.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.389-396
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• 1986

A pulsed ultrasonic doppler flowmeter for mesurements of velocity profils in man is described. The device projects a beam of ultrasound in burst of 570 ns duration at 3.5 MHz. The back-scattered signals are processed to produce a signal oxrresponding to the mean velocity over a small region of the flowing stream. The observation range of 112mm is divided into 128 depth channels. The size of this sample volume determines the flowmeter sensitivity and accuracy. The device uses a quadrature detector to detect the direction of the moving target(hemoglobin). The main feature of the novel instrumnet is its simple hardware structure due to sequential signal processing.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.2081-2085
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• 2012

Background: To investigate the value of ultrasound elastography (UE) in the differentiation between benign and malignant enlarged cervical lymph nodes (LNs). Methods: B-mode ultrasound, power Doppler imaging and UE were examined to determine LN characteristics. Two kinds of methods, 4 scores of elastographic classification and a strain ratio (SR) were used to evaluate the ultrasound elastograms. Results: The cutoff point of SR had high utility in differential diagnosis of benign and malignant of cervical lymph nodes, with good sensitivity, specificity and accuracy. Conclusion: UE is an important aid in differential diagnosis of benign and malignant cervical LNs.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.33-40
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• 1984

보통의 초음파 도플러 시스템은 게이트된 연속파(gutted CW)를 사용하기 때문에 초음파 B스캔너와 같이 스캔할 수 있는 초음파 도플러 진단기는 많은 선형 고주파 증폭기를 필요로 한다. 제작이 어려운 고압 고주파 증폭기를 사용하지 않고 초음파 소자를 직접 임펄스로써 구동하는 펄스 도플러 시스템이 이론적으로 해석되었으며, 실험적으로 연구되었다. 설계된 시스템은 8채널 기능을 갖고, 직각 검파(quodrature detection)를 사용하여 목표물의 운동방향을 알 수 있도록 하였으며, 감쇄영향을 보상할 구 있도록 하였다. 연구된 시스템은 주파수 축상에서 실시간으로 혈류진단을 할 수 있는 다중 채널 진단기의 가능성을 보이고 있다.

• Restorative Dentistry and Endodontics
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• 제48권1호
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• pp.9.1-9.11
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• 2023

Objectives: This study evaluated the effect of adjacent gingival blood flow on detection of pulpal blood flow (PBF) using ultrasound Doppler flowmetry (UDF) through animal study. Materials and Methods: The study included 36 right and left maxillary the third incisors and canines in 9 experimental dogs. The study included 2 main steps: In the first step, the pulse sound level (PSL) was recorded on the cervical part of each tooth without flap elevation (Group 1), with flap elevation (Group 2), and after it was repositioned in place (Group 3). In the second step, the PSL was recorded on the cervical part of each tooth (Group 4), after pulpotomy (Group 5), after partial pulp extirpation (Group 6), after complete extirpation (Group 7), and after canal filling (Group 8). In Groups 5-8, the study was performed with and without flap elevation in the left and right teeth, respectively. The PSL was graded as follows: 0, inaudible; 1, heard faintly; and 2, heard well. The difference between each group was analyzed using Friedman's test with Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (α = 0.05). Results: In step 1, the PSL results were Group 1 > 2 and 3. In step 2, there was no significant difference between the groups when the flap was not elevated, while PSL results were Group 4 > 5 ≥ 6 and 7 ≥ 8 when the flap was elevated. Conclusions: PBF is affected by gingival blood flow when measured with UDF. UDF measurements require isolation of gingiva from the tooth.