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Gradient Optimized Gradient-Echo Gradient Moment Nulling Sequences for Flow Compensation of Brain Images

  • Jahng, Geon-Ho;Stephen Pickup
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.20-26
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    • 2000
  • Gradient moment nulling techniques require the introduction of an additional gradient on each axis for each order of motion correction to be applied. The additional gradients introduce new constraints on the sequence design and increase the demands on the gradient system. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate techniques for optimization of gradient echo gradient moment nulling sequences within the constraints of the gradient hardware. Flow compensated pulse sequences were designed and implemented on a clinical magnetic resonance imaging system. The design of the gradient moment nulling sequences requires the solution of a linear system of equations. A Mathematica package was developed that interactively solves the gradient moment nulling problem. The package allows the physicist to specify the desired order of motion compensation and the duration of the gradients in the sequence with different gradient envelopes. The gradient echo sequences with first, second, and third order motion compensation were implemented with minimum echo time. The sequences were optimized to take full advantage of the capabilities of the gradient hardware. The sequences were used to generate images of phantoms and human brains. The optimized sequences were found to have better motion compensation than comparable standard sequences.

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Characteristics of Acoustic Impulse Response of Submerged Cylindrical Objects as Elements of Target-Scattered Echo (표적신호 시뮬레이션 요소로서 원통형 몰수체의 충격응답의 특성)

  • Kim, Jae-Soo;Seong, Nak-Jin;Lee, Sang-Young;Kim, Kang;Yu, Myong-Jong;Cho, Woon-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.13 no.2E
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    • pp.5-13
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    • 1994
  • Simulation of the target-scattered echo requires the understanding of scattering mechanism at the highlight points. In this paper, the basic assumption of Highlight Model is reviewed through the analyzed data obtained in the acoustic water tank experiment. The analysis shows that the scattering mechanism involves pulse elongation and frequency shift as elements of target-scattered echo, and that the internal structures affect the temporal response of the target-scattered echo significantly. The band-limited impulse response or Green's function due to the diffraction from highlight points of internal structures is not mere delta function, but acts like a filter, which causes frequency shift and is elongated in time.

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A Study on the Realization of Echo Canceller in CDMA Mobile Communication Networks (CDMA 이동통신 망에서의 반향제거기 구현에 관한 연구)

  • 유태훈;박광철;이윤희;김기두
    • Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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    • v.37 no.5
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    • pp.36-47
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    • 2000
  • The CDMA digital cellular systems provide better voice Quality than analog systems, however there exists inherent delays due to speech coding and transmission processing, which brings echoes returned by the BSC and PSTN interface. In this paper, we show the performance improvement of a proposed echo canceller by real time implementation, where Block Update NLMS algorithm is applied into the TMS320C54X DSP. By applying the proposed method into the practical mobile phone, we verify that various types of echoes (LE, ESE, AE) may be removed more precisely. We also cope with echo path change resulting from change of delay length after taking VAD to find echo path delay.

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Pulse-echo response of ultrasonic transducer fabricated with PZT-polymer 3-3 type composite (PZT-고분자 3-3형 복합압전체 소자로 제작된 초음파 트랜스듀서의 펄스에코 응답특성)

  • 박정학;최헌일;손무현;사공건
    • Electrical & Electronic Materials
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.1053-1059
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    • 1996
  • The pulse-echo response of the piezoceramics PZT-polymer 3-3 type composite transducers with various PVA additions were investigated. The PZT powder was prepared by the molten salt synthesis method. The porous PZT specimens will be used as a filler to make 3-3 type comosite were prepared from a mixture of PZT and polyvinylalcohol(PVA) sphere by utilizing BURPS(Bumout Plastic Sphere) technique. It was shown that the transmitting and receiving sensitivity of 3-3 type piezoelectric composite transducers could be improved than that of solid PZT transducers. The reason is that 3-3 type piezoelectric composite have low dielectric constant, density and acoustic impedance. The distance between transducer and reflector was in good agreement with the distance calculated from the longitudinal velocity of the specimens and receiving time observed pulse-echo responses on the ultrasonic transducer analyzer.

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Spatial Filtering based STAP Algorithm for Clutter plus Jamming Suppression (재머와 클러터 억압을 위한 공간 필터링 기반 STAP 알고리즘)

  • Hoon-Gee, Yang
    • Journal of IKEEE
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.524-530
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    • 2022
  • When radar return contains strong jammers along with ground clutter echo, a STAP(space-time adaptive processing) algorithms tend to suppress jammer components more severely than it does the clutter. This hinders moving target detection in that the target echo is apt to be buried by clutter echo. This paper presents a two-step STAP algorithm in which the pre-suppression of jammer by the spatial filtering is applied, prior to applying the STAP algorithm. We propose how to find the coefficients of the spatial filter and show that the spatial filtering barely alter the spectra of the target and the clutter echo, having only to suppress the jammers. Finally, we simulate a STAP scenario with strong jammers and show the proposed algorithm can improve STAP performance.

Measurement of Infinitesimal Delaminaton Thickness by Echo Amplitude of Ultrasonic Wave (초음파의 에코 높이를 이용한 미소(微小) 박리(剝離) 두께 측정에 관한 연구)

  • Han, E.K.;Jang, K.Y.;Hwang, B.I.;Lee, B.S.;Park, I.G.
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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    • v.13 no.1
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    • pp.21-28
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    • 1993
  • If the infinitesimal delamination exists and the two waves can hardly be distinguished from each other on account of being much closer, we cannot measure the thickness of delamination by the time difference method. On this study, we calculated the thickness of infinitesimal delamination model by means of measuring echo height due to the deflection of material particles and utilized Newton Ring for optical measurement as a delamination model. From the result of Newton Ring expressed in the delamination model, we can calculate the infinitesimal delamination thickness up to $0.2{\sim}0.3{\mu}m$ due to the difference of acoustic impedance by the ratio of the echo height to the total reflection.

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Pulse-echo Response of Ultrasonic Transducer Fabricated by PZT-Polymer 3-3 Type Composite Resonator for Distance Measurement Applications (거리측정용 PZT-고분자 3-3형 복합압전체 트랜스듀서의 펄스에코 응답특성)

  • 주용관;박정학;최헌일;사공건
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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    • 1995.11a
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    • pp.205-208
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    • 1995
  • PZT powders were prepared by the molten salt synthesis method. The porous PZT specimens were prepared from a mixture of PZT and Polyvinylalcohol(PVA) powders by BURPS(Burnout Plastic Sphere) technique. The pulse-echo response of PZT-polymer 3-3 type composite transducer with various PVA wt.% were studied, The fall time of pulse-echo response of PZT-polymer 3-3 type composite transducer was shorten to that of solid PZT-maded transducer. Therefore, a good transmitting and receiving properties could be obtained. The distance between transducer and reflector was in good agreement both solid PZT and PZT-polymer 3-3 type composite fabricated transducer.

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Pulse-echo Response of Ultrasonic Transducer Fabricated by Porous Piezoceramics PZT Resonator (다공질 압전소자(PZT)로 제작된 초음파 트랜스듀서의 펄스에코 응답특성)

  • Joo, Yong-Khoan;Lee, Su-Ho;Park, Jung-Hak;SaGong, Geon
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1995.11a
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    • pp.358-360
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    • 1995
  • PZT powders were prepared by the molten salt synthesis method. The porous PZT specimens were prepared from a mixture of PZT and polyvinylalcohol(PVA) powders by BURPS(Burnout Plastic Sphere) technique. The pulse-echo response of porous PZT transducer with various PVA wt.% were studied. The fall time of pulse-echo response of porous PZT transducer was shorten to that of solid PZT-maded transducer. Therefore, a good transmitting and receiving properties could be obtained. The distance between transducer and reflector was in good agreement both solid PZT and porous PZT fabricated transducer.

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Network traffic prediction model based on linear and nonlinear model combination

  • Lian Lian
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.46 no.3
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    • pp.461-472
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    • 2024
  • We propose a network traffic prediction model based on linear and nonlinear model combination. Network traffic is modeled by an autoregressive moving average model, and the error between the measured and predicted network traffic values is obtained. Then, an echo state network is used to fit the prediction error with nonlinear components. In addition, an improved slime mold algorithm is proposed for reservoir parameter optimization of the echo state network, further improving the regression performance. The predictions of the linear (autoregressive moving average) and nonlinear (echo state network) models are added to obtain the final prediction. Compared with other prediction models, test results on two network traffic datasets from mobile and fixed networks show that the proposed prediction model has a smaller error and difference measures. In addition, the coefficient of determination and index of agreement is close to 1, indicating a better data fitting performance. Although the proposed prediction model has a slight increase in time complexity for training and prediction compared with some models, it shows practical applicability.

Identification of Fish Species using Affine Transformation and Principal Component Analysis of Time-Frequency Images of Broadband Acoustic Echoes from Individual Live Fish (활어 개체어의 광대역 음향산란신호에 대한 시간-주파수 이미지의 어파인 변환과 주성분 분석을 이용한 어종식별)

  • Lee, Dae-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.50 no.2
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    • pp.195-206
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    • 2017
  • Joint time-frequency images of the broadband echo signals of six fish species were obtained using the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution in controlled environments. Affine transformation and principal component analysis were used to obtain eigenimages that provided species-specific acoustic features for each of the six fish species. The echo images of an unknown fish species, acquired in real time and in a fully automated fashion, were identified by finding the smallest Euclidean or Mahalanobis distance between each combination of weight matrices of the test image of the fish species to be identified and of the eigenimage classes of each of six fish species in the training set. The experimental results showed that the Mahalanobis classifier performed better than the Euclidean classifier in identifying both single- and mixed-species groups of all species assessed.