• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.16-22
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• 2006

Wavefront sensing using a Shack-Hartmann sensor has been widely used for estimating wavefront errors or distortions. The sensor combines the local slopes, which are estimated from the centroids of each lenslet image, to give the overall wavefront reconstruction. It was previously shown that the pupil-plane irradiance profile effects the centroid estimation. Furthermore, a previous study reported that the reconstructed wavefront from a planar wavefront with a Gaussian pupil irradiance profile contains large focus and spherical aberration terms when there is a focus error. However, it has not been reported yet how seriously the pupil irradiance profiles, which can occur in practical applications, effect the sensing errors. This paper considered two cases when the irradiance profiles are not uniform: 1) when the light source is Gaussian and 2) when there is a partial interference due to a double reflection by a beam splitting element. The images formed by a Shack-Hartmann sensor were simulated through fast Fourier transform and were then supposed to be detected by a noiseless CCD camera. The simulations found that sensing errors, due to the Gaussian irradiance profile and the partial interference, were found to be smaller than RMS ${\lambda}/50$ when ${\lambda}$ is $0.6328\;{\mu}m$, which can be ignored in most practical cases where the reference and test beams have the same irradiance profiles.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.707-711
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• 2016

A small diameter of SiC fiber mat can produce much higher heat under microwave irradiation than the other types of SiC materials. Fabrication of high strength SiC fiber consists of iodine vapor curing on polycarbosilane precursor and heat treatment process. The curing stage of polycarbosilane fiber was maintained at $150-200^{\circ}C$ in a vacuum condition under the iodine vapor to fabricate a high thermal radiation SiC fiber. The structure and morphology of the fibers were characterized by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). In this study, the thermal properties of SiC fiber mats under microwave have been analyzed with an IR thermal camera and its image analyzer. The prepared SiC fiber mats radiated high temperature with extremely high heating rate up to $1100^{\circ}C$ in 30 seconds. The fabricated SiC fiber mats were not oxidized after the heat radiation process under the microwave irradiation.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.123-129
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• 2015

A pulse is generated when the heart pumps blood into the arterial system. The heart pumps blood only when it contracts, not when it relaxes; therefore, blood enters the arterial system in a cyclical form. Artery beating is visible in some parts of the body surface, such as the radial artery of the wrist. This paper mainly uses the feature in which near-infrared spectroscopy penetrates skin to construct a non-invasive measurement system that can measure small vibration in the subcutaneous tissue of the human body, and then uses it for the pulse measurement. This measurement system uses the optical moir$\acute{e}$ principle, together with the fringe displacement made by small vibration in the subcutaneous tissue, and an image analysis program to calculate the height variation from small vibrations in the subcutaneous tissue. It completes a measurement system that records height variation with time, and that together with a fast Fourier transform (FFT) program, they can convert the pulse waveform generated by vibration (time-amplitude) to heartbeat frequency (frequency-amplitude). This is a new and non-invasive medical assistance system for measuring the pulse of the human body, with the advantages of being simple, fast, safe and objective.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.440-445
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• 2010

This paper proposes a single accelerometer sensor control algorithm to mobile inverted pendulum, generally called 'Segway', and evaluates the performance of this system comparing to the conventional ones. The commercialized 'Prototype Segway-PT' is initially considered as a next-generation transport vehicle. However, this robot is operated by three gyroscopes and two accelerometers to control the posture and speed, and it requires the complex signal processing for fusing the two sets of data. As the result of this, the growth rate of market size of 'Segway' is slow because of its high price mainly. In this paper, the mobile inverted pendulum is operated by a single accelerometer to simplify the control system to lower the price. Low pass filter is one of the good sensors to reducing the variation of an accelerometer, but it has time delay. This time delay disturbs real-time mobile inverted pendulum control. Like this, other various algorithms are used for this system, but each one has its own weak point. So this paper proposes a new filtering method, median filter and EKF. Median filter is used to image processing to reject impulse elements like salt and pepper noise. As the major performance evaluation parameter for the accelerometer, the high-frequency to low frequency ratio from FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) is used. Effectiveness of the proposed algorithms has been verified through the real experiments and the results are demonstrated.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.68-72
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• 2013

We developed an SD-OCT (Spectral Domain-Optical Coherence Tomography) system which uses a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) for processing. The image size from the SD-OCT system is $1024{\times}512$ and the speed is 110 frame/sec in real-time. K-domain linearization, FFT (Fast Fourier Transform), and log scaling were included in the GPU processing. The signal processing speed was about 62 ms using a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and 1.6 ms using a GPU, which is 39 times faster. We performed an in-vivo retinal scan, and reconstructed a 3D visualization based on C-scan images. As a result, there were minimal motion artifacts and we confirmed that tomograms of blood vessels, the optic nerve, and the optic disk are clearly identified. According to the results of this study, this SD-OCT can be applied to real-time 3D display technology, particularly auxiliary instruments for eye operations in ophthalmology.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.103-108
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• 2020

RBC (red blood cell) deformability is one of factors inducing blood shear thinning effect. Reduction of RBC deformability increases blood viscosity in high shear region. In this study, 3D printed chip with proper distribution of wall shear rate (WSR) was proposed to measure RBC deformability of blood samples. To fabricate 3D printed chip, the design of 3D printed chip determined through numerical simulation was modified based on the resolution of the 3D printer. For the estimation of pressure drop in the 3D printed chip, two bypass outlets with low and high WSR are exposed to atmospheric pressure through the needles. By positioning the outlet of needles in the gravity direction, the formation of droplets at bypass outlets can be captured by smartphone. Through image processing and fast Fourier transform (FFT) analysis, the frequency of droplet formation was analyzed. Since the frequency of droplet formation is related with the pressure at bypass, high pressure drop caused by reduction of RBC deformability can be estimated by monitoring the formation of blood droplets using the smartphone.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.293-299
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• 2021

Purpose: To accelerate magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) by developing a flexible deep learning reconstruction method. Materials and Methods: Synthetic data were used to train a deep learning model. The trained model was then applied to MRF for different organs and diseases. Iterative reconstruction was performed outside the deep learning model, allowing a changeable encoding matrix, i.e., with flexibility of choice for image resolution, radiofrequency coil, k-space trajectory, and undersampling mask. In vivo experiments were performed on normal brain and prostate cancer volunteers to demonstrate the model performance and generalizability. Results: In 400-dynamics brain MRF, direct nonuniform Fourier transform caused a slight increase of random fluctuations on the T2 map. These fluctuations were reduced with the proposed method. In prostate MRF, the proposed method suppressed fluctuations on both T1 and T2 maps. Conclusion: The deep learning and iterative MRF reconstruction method described in this study was flexible with different acquisition settings such as radiofrequency coils. It is generalizable for different in vivo applications.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권8호
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• pp.87-96
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• 2014

본 논문은 다양한 영상 획득 과정에서 발생하는 에일리어싱 성분과 잡음을 동시에 제거하기 위하여 공간-주파수 분석 기반사전 학습(dictionary learning)을 사용한 방향 적응적 영상 개선 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안된 기술은 i) 학습된 사전과 결합된 웨이블릿-푸리에 변환을 이용하여 에일리어싱 및 잡음 영역을 검출하는 단계와, ii) 검출된 영역에서 방향 적응적 계수 축소기법을 이용하여 에일리어싱을 제거하는 동시에 잡음을 억제하는 단계로 구성된다. 제안한 방법은 공간-주파수 성분을 동시에 분석하여 특정 위치와 특정 주파수 성분을 선택적으로 제거하기 때문에, 검출된 영역에서 에지 성분을 보존하면서 에일리어싱 제거와 잡음 억제를 가능하게 한다. 실험 결과를 근거로 제안된 방법은 기존 알고리듬들과 비교할 때 주요 고주파 성분들의 억제 및 아티펙트 발생을 최소화하며 에일리어싱과 잡음을 제거함으로써 디지털 영상의 리샘플링, 초고해상도 영상 생성, 로봇비전 등과 같은 다양한 영상 획득 장치에 적용될 수 있다.

• 마이크로전자및패키징학회지
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.127-132
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 liquid-solid solution 합성법을 통해 고유전 페로브스카이트 구조의 barium strontium titanate(Ba_0.6Sr_0.4TiO₃, BSTO)를 합성하여 trimethylsilyl chloride(TMCS)를 silylation agent로 이용한 표면개질을 진행하였다. Silylation 표면개질을 활용하여 기존 BSTO 나노입자 표면에 있던 -OH 리간드와 TMCS가 갖고 있는 Cl을 반응시켜 나노입자 표면의 리간드를 -Si, -CH₃로 치환하였다. 다양한 TMCS 농도의 변화를 주어 silylation을 진행했고, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy 및 X 선 회절 분석, 전계방사 주사전자현미경을 통해 silicon network 및 결정구조, 나노입자의 크기를 확인하였다. 접촉각 변화 관찰을 통해 가장 많이 silylation된 BSTO 나노입자에서 120.9°인 소수성 특성을 확인하였다. 나노입자의 silylation을 통해 D.I water 내 BSTO 나노입자의 소수화 정도를 확인하였다.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2020

FFT(fast Fourier transform) 프로세서는 통신, 영상, 생체 신호처리와 같은 다양한 응용에 폭 넓게 사용된다. 특히, 고성능 저전력 FFT 연산은 OFDM 전송방식을 사용하는 통신시스템에서는 필수적이다. 본 논문에서는 연산복잡도가 적고 하드웨어 효율이 우수한 새로운 radix-26 FFT 알고리즘을 제안한다. 7차원 인덱스 매핑을 사용하여 회전인자를 분해하고 radix-26 FFT 알고리즘을 유도한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 기존 알고리즘과 비교하여 회전인자가 간단하고 복소 곱셈 수가 적어 회전인자를 저장하는 메모리 크기를 줄일 수 있다. 한 스테이지에서 회전인자의 계수가 적을 때 복소 곱셈기 대신 복소 상수곱셈기를 사용하면 복소곱셈을 효율적으로 처리할 수 있다. 복소 상수곱셈기는 CSD(canonic signed digit)과 CSE(common subexpression elimination) 알고리즘을 사용하여 보다 효율적으로 설계할 수 있다. 제안한 radix-26 알고리즘에서 필요한 복소 상수곱셈기를 CSD와 CSE를 이용하여 효율적으로 설계하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 성능을 평가하기 위해 SDF(single-path delay feedback) 구조를 사용하여 256 포인트 FFT를 설계하고 FPGA로 합성한 결과, 제안한 알고리즘은 기존 알고리즘 보다 약 10% 정도 하드웨어를 적게 사용하였다.