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The Method of Reducing Echo Time in 3D Time-of-flight Angiography

  • Park, Sung-Hong;Park, Jung-Il;Lee, Heung-Kyu
    • 한국의학물리학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국의학물리학회 2002년도 Proceedings
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    • pp.367-369
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    • 2002
  • We have designed ramp profile excitation pulse based on the Shinnar-Le Roux (SLR) algorithm. The algorithm provides many advantages to pulse designers. The first advantage is the freedom of deciding the amplitudes, frequencies, and ripple sizes of stopband, passband, and transition band of pulse profile. The second advantage is the freedom of deciding the pulse phase, more specifically, minimum phase, linear phase, maximum phase, and any phase between them. The minimum phase pulse is the best choice in the case of 3D TOF, because it minimizes the echo time, which implies the best image quality in the same MR examination condition. In addition, the half echo technique is slightly modified in our case. In general, using the half echo technique means that the acquired data size is half and the rest part can be filled with complex conjugate of acquired data. But in our case, the echo center is just shifted to left, which implies the reduction of echo time, and the acquired data size is the same as the one without using the half echo technique. In this case, the increase of right part of data leads to improvement of the resolution and the decrease of left part of data leads to decrease of signal to noise ratio. Since in the case of 3D TOF, the signal to noise ratio is sufficiently high and the resolution is more important than signal to noise ratio, the proposed method appears to be significantly affective and gives rise to the improved high resolution angiograms.

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${T_2}weighted$- Half courier Echo Planar Imaging

  • 김치영;김휴정;안창범
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • 제5권1호
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    • pp.57-65
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    • 2001
  • 목적 : 초고속 Echo Planar Imaging (EPI) 의 데이터 측정시간을 반으로 단축시킨 half courier EPI와 임상에서 널리 사용하는 $T_2$ 강조 영상을 결합한 $T_2$-weighted half courier EPI(T2HEPl) 영상기법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법으로 강한 $T_2$ 대조도를 갖는 $128{\times}128$의 고해상도 EPI 영상을 single scan으로 얻고자 한다. 대상 및 방법 : 초고속 EPI 기법의 데이터 측정시간을 줄이기 위하여 k-space의 절반만을 측정하고, 나머지 절반은 conjugate symmetry 성질을 이용하여 재구성한다. 따라서 64개의 에코로 $128{\times}128$의 고해상도 single shot 영상을 얻을 수 있다. 또한 k-space 데이터의 순서를 시간 축에서 조절하여 강한 $T_2$ 대조도를 갖는 영상을 얻을 수 있다 Eddy current의 영향으로 phase encoding 방향으로 잔류 경사자계가 있을 경우 측정된 데이터들은 k-space에서 이동이 되며 , 이것은 재구성 영상에 심각한 문제점을 초래하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 pre-scan에서 얻은 기준 데이터와 dc에 해당하는 에코간의 상관도를 측정하여 이동을 추정하며, 초기의 phase encoding gradient의 크기를 조정하여 이러한 이동을 제거한다. 결과 : 제안한 $T_2$-weighted half courier EPI 영상기법을 1.0 Tesla 전신 MRI 시스템에 적용하였다. 실험 조건은 single shot으로 TR은 무한대이고, TE는 72ms와 96ms로 설정하였다. 제안한 영상기법을 이용하여 single scan으로 강한 $T_2$ 대조도를 갖는 128x128의 고해상도 EPI 영상을 얻을 수 있었다. 결론 : 제안한 Half Fourier기법을 이용하여 기존의 $64{\times}64$ 영상보다 해상도를 높인 $128{\times}128$ EPI영상을 single scan으로 얻을수 있었으며, 에코의 적절한 배치를 통해 임상에서 널리 사용되는 $T_2$ 대조도를 얻을 수 있었다. 제안한 방법은 특별한 하드웨어의 추가 없이, 펄스 시퀀스와 tuning 및 재구성 알고리즘 등의 소프트웨어적인 방법만으로 구현이 가능하여 많은 임상 응용이 기대된다.

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Elucidation of Central Line Refocusing in Quadrupolar Echo Formation

  • Han, Duk-Young
    • 한국자기공명학회논문지
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    • 제3권1호
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 1999
  • Quadrupolar interaction is a strong line broadening agent for nuclei of half-integer spin except the central line. The two-pulse quadrupolar echo technique is widely used, which refocuses the quadrupolar broadening. Echo formation is due to the cancellation of quadrupolar broadening effect by the applied two pulses. Since the central line is not quadrupolar broadened, it should not be involved in the echo formation. However, the central line peak always appears in experiments. This is explained qualitatively here by close examination on the time development of individual coherence. This explanation is used to predict the number of echoes that will be formed with 2 pulse sequence for nuclei of I=3/2, 5/2, 7/2, 9/2 with ease.

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AN ECHO CANCELLATION ALGORITHM FOR REDUCING THE HARDWARE COMPLEXITIES AND ANALYSIS ON ITS CONVERGENCE CHARACTERISTICS

  • LEE HAENG-WOO
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • 제20권1_2호
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    • pp.637-645
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    • 2006
  • An adaptive algorithm for reducing the hardware complexity is presented. This paper proposes a simplified LMS algorithm for the adaptive system and analyzes its convergence characteristics mathematically. An objective of the proposed algorithm is to reduce the hardware complexity. In order to test the performances, it is applied to the echo canceller, and a program is described. The results from simulations show that the echo canceller adopting the proposed algorithm achieves almost the same performances as one adopting the NLMS algorithm. If an echo canceller is implemented with this algorithm, its computation quantities are reduced to the half as many as the one that is implemented with the LMS algorithm, without so much degradation of performances.

Full Duplex 릴레이 시스템에서의 자기 신호 제거 (Echo Cancellation in Relay Systems)

  • 우중재;주형식
    • 전기전자학회논문지
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    • 제16권2호
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    • pp.76-80
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    • 2012
  • 본 논문에서는 릴레이 스테이션에서 에코 제거를 사용하는 새로운 릴레이 시스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 릴레이 시스템에서는 한 심볼을 전송하는데 기존 릴레이 시스템에 비해 절반의 시간 자원만을 필요로 한다. 에코 제거 기법과 제안된 시스템의 프레임 구조를 기술하였으며 제안된 기법은 기존 시스템에 비해 두 배의 용량을 가짐을 모의실험으로 보였다.

채널 신호의 차성분을 이용한 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기 (Stereo Acoustic Echo Canceller Using Difference Components of Channel Signals)

  • 김현태;박장식;손경식
    • 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국음향학회 1999년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제18권 2호
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    • pp.119-122
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    • 1999
  • In stereo acoustic echo canceller scheme, adaptive filters coefficients converge very slowly or misconverge to real acoustic echo path in receiving room. This is due to cross-correlation between channel signals. In this paper, new preprocessor using absolute difference factor between stereo signals is proposed to reduce cross-correlation between signals. Computer simulations demonstrate that this preprocessor perform well to the half wave rectifier which has simple and good performance of the several preprocessors in recent papers. When the paths in transmitting room change, performance does not degrade in proposed preprocessor.

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스테레오 신호의 차성분을 이용한 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기의 성능 향상 (Performance Improvement of Stereo Acoustic Echo Canceler using the Difference of Stereo Signals)

  • 김현태;박장식;손경식
    • 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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    • 제3권6호
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    • pp.604-610
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    • 2000
  • 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기는 각 채널 신호 사이의 상호상관(cross-correlation)이 크기 때문에 수신실의 반향경로를 추정하는 적 응필터 계수가 반향경로를 잘못 추정하거나 수렴이 느려진다. 본 논문에서는 스테레오 신호의 차성분(difference factor)의 절대값을 이용하여 전처리기를 구성함으로써 스테레오 신호의 상호상관을 줄여 스테레오 음향 반향 제거 성능을 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다 기존의 반파 정류 필터를 이용한 전처리기와 비교하여 제안하는 전처리기가 반향 제거 성능이 우수함을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해서 확인한다. 그리고 전송실의 경로변화에도 성능이 저하되지 않는 것을 확인하였다.

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반파장 직경을 갖는 50kHz tonpilz형 음향 변환기의 설계, 제작 및 성능특성 (Design, fabrication and performance characteristics of a 50kHz tonpilz type transducer with a half-wavelength diameter)

  • 이대제;이원섭
    • 수산해양기술연구
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    • 제46권2호
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    • pp.173-183
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    • 2010
  • In a split beam echo sounder, the transducer design needs to have minimal side lobes because the angular position and level of the side lobes establishes the usable signal level and phase angle limits for determining target strength. In order to suppress effectively the generation of unwanted side lobes in the directivity pattern of split beam transducer, the spacing and size of the transducer elements need to be controlled less than half of a wavelength. With this purpose, a 50 kHz tonpilz type transducer with a half-wavelength diameter in relation to the development of a split beam transducer was designed using the equivalent circuit model, and the underwater performance characteristics were measured and analyzed. From the in-air and in-water impedance responses, the measured value of the electro-acoustic conversion efficiency for the designed transducer was 51.6%. A maximum transmitting voltage response (TVR) value of 172.25dB re $1{\mu}Pa/V$ at 1m was achieved at 52.92kHz with a specially designed matching network and the quality factor was 10.3 with the transmitting bandwidth of 5.14kHz. A maximum receiving sensitivity (SRT) of -183.57dB re $1V/{\mu}Pa$ was measured at 51.45kHz and the receiving bandwidth at -3dB was 1.71kHz. These results suggest that the designed tonpilz type transducer can be effectively used in the development of a split beam transducer for a 50kHz fish sizing echo sounder.

An Outlook on Rotordynamic Pump Theory Development

  • Ni, Yongyan;Pan, Zhongyong
    • International Journal of Fluid Machinery and Systems
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    • 제10권2호
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    • pp.99-118
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    • 2017
  • ECHO progress was defined to depict the rotordynamic pump theory development. Experience (E) era for pumps lasted nearly one and a half hundred years before the Industrial Revolution due to the low rotation speed of motor and undeveloped manufacture ability. Classic (C) theory referring to quasi-static performance as well as the items those were not able to be steadily resolved under the level were briefly and sophisticated outlined. Since 1962, flow instabilities and the dynamic responses had come into main attention with the development of the modern technologies such as ballistic missile, rocket and space shuttle main engine, and were finally heuristically (H) elucidated by talented scholars and researchers. Recently, new applications for the pumps open (O) to the surrounding fluid and diversity of the medium such as multiphase flow need more studies and some examples were briefly introduced to display the potential problems lastly.