• Title/Summary/Keyword: intensity modulation

Search Result 231, Processing Time 0.031 seconds

Brachytherapy: A Comprehensive Review

  • Lim, Young Kyung;Kim, Dohyeon
    • Progress in Medical Physics
    • /
    • v.32 no.2
    • /
    • pp.25-39
    • /
    • 2021
  • Brachytherapy, along with external beam radiation therapy (EBRT), is an essential and effective radiation treatment process. In brachytherapy, in contrast to EBRT, the radiation source is radioisotopes. Because these isotopes can be positioned inside or near the tumor, it is possible to protect other organs around the tumor while delivering an extremely high-dose of treatment to the tumor. Brachytherapy has a long history of more than 100 years. In the early 1900s, the radioisotopes used for brachytherapy were only radium or radon isotopes extracted from nature. Over time, however, various radioisotopes have been artificially produced. As radioisotopes have high radioactivity and miniature size, the application of brachytherapy has expanded to high-dose-rate brachytherapy. Recently, advanced treatment techniques used in EBRT, such as image guidance and intensity modulation techniques, have been applied to brachytherapy. Three-dimensional images, such as ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and positron emission tomography are used for accurate delineation of treatment targets and normal organs. Intensity-modulated brachytherapy is anticipated to be performed in the near future, and it is anticipated that the treatment outcomes of applicable cancers will be greatly improved by this treatment's excellent dose delivery characteristics.

Comparison of PCCC and SCCC for an Optical CDMA System

  • Kim, Jin-Young
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
    • /
    • 2000.06a
    • /
    • pp.181-184
    • /
    • 2000
  • In this paper, performance of an optical CDMA system with PCCC and SCCC is simulated and compared. It is assumed that optical channel is an intensity modulated (IM) channel and direct-detection scheme is employed to detect the received optical signal. The modulation scheme used is pulse-position-modulation (PPM). The performance is evaluated in terms of bit error probability. From the simulation results, it is shown that turbo coding offers considerable coding gain with reasonable encoding/decoding complexity.

  • PDF

Weighted least-square phase-unwrapping method using intensity modulation in moire interferometry (모아레 간섭계에서 Modulation을 이용한 가중 최소자승 위상 복원 방법에 관한 연구)

  • 이현호;채규민;박승한
    • Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
    • /
    • 2000.08a
    • /
    • pp.128-129
    • /
    • 2000
  • 3차원 형상측정에서 많이 쓰이고 있는 모아레 간섭계에는 그 setup에 따라 Projection Type과 Shadow Type이 있다. 이러한 모아레 간섭계는 광원과 측정 카메라의 각도에 의해 물체의 형상을 측정하게 된다. 그러나, 이러한 광원과 측정 카메라의 각도에 의해 생겨나는 그림자에 의한 영향 때문에 물체의 형상이 굴곡이 심한 곳은 측정하기 어렵다. 본 논문에서는 아래 그림과 같이 두 개 이상의 광원을 사용하여 그 영향을 줄이기 위한 방법을 제안하였다. 이 방법은 projection type이나 shadow type에서 동일하게 적용 가능할 것으로 예상된다. (중략)

  • PDF

A Study of Total Dose in Intensity Modulation Radiation Therapy (선량강도 조절법을 이용한 방사선치료에서 총선량에 관한 고찰)

  • 김성규
    • Progress in Medical Physics
    • /
    • v.11 no.1
    • /
    • pp.85-90
    • /
    • 2000
  • In radiation therapy, the effects of radiation are decided total dose, total treatment times and number of radiation dose fractions. We considered that total dose, total treatment times and number of radiation dose fractions in intensity modulation radiation therapy(IMRT) infuence tumor cell killing. The goal of three dimensional conformal radiation therapy(3DCRT) in radiation therapy is to conform the partial distribution of the prescribed radiation dose to the precise 3D configuration of the tumor, and at the same time, to minimize the dose to the surrounding normal tissues. To optimize treatment volume of tumor, treatment volume will be same tumor volume. All IMRT compare to conventional treatment plus boost IMRT when total dose irradiated 75 - 90 Gy. Because of biological effect, total dose are decreased 12.5 - l5Gy in all IMRT.

  • PDF

Study on Modeling and Experiment of Optical Three Axis Tool-Origin Sensor for Applications of Micro Machine-Tools (초소형 공작기계 적용을 고려한 광학식 3 축 공구원점 센서 모델링 및 실험에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Woo-Cheol;Lee, Hyeon-Hwa;Ro, Seung-Kook;Park, Jong-Kweon;Noh, Myoung-Gyu
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
    • /
    • v.26 no.6
    • /
    • pp.68-73
    • /
    • 2009
  • One of the traditional optical methods to monitor a tool is a CCD sensor-based vision system which captures an aspect of the tool in real time. In the case using the CCD sensor, specific lens-modules are necessary to monitor the tool with higher resolution than its pixel size, and a microprocessor is required to attain desired data from captured images. Thus theses additional devices make the entire measurement system complex. Another method is to use a pair of an optical source and a detector per measuring axis. Since the method is based on the intensity modulation, the structure of the measurement system is simper than the CCD sensor-based vision system. However, in the case measuring the three dimensional position of the tool, it is difficult to apply to micro machine-tools because there may not be space to integrate three pairs of an optical source and a detector. In this paper, in order to develop a tool-origin measurement system which is employed in micro machine-tools, the improved method to measure a tool origin in x, y and z axes is introduced. The method is based on the intensity modulation and employs one pair of an optical source radiating divergent beams and a quadrant photodiode to detect a three dimensional position of the tool. This paper presents the measurement models of the proposed tool-origin sensor. The models were verified experimentally The verification results show that the proposed method is possible and the induced models are available for design.

The effect of phase modulation on the central peak intensity in an optical system (광학계의 위상 변조 조건에 따른 중심 강도 변화)

  • 이영철;정창섭;박성종;이윤우
    • Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
    • /
    • v.11 no.2
    • /
    • pp.67-72
    • /
    • 2000
  • A lot of varIOUS studies are taking advantage of annular masks or various pupil filters to design optical systems such as a digital versatile disc (DVD) pick up head and precise scanning microscopy that have the superresolution beyond the diffraction limit. We considered both annular mask and pupil filter for the superresolution system. Since image quality is a function of annular width, position and modulation amount, we computel'lzed the optimized condition for the phase modulation and mvestigated the variation of lhe center peak: intensity for the phase modulated system From tills result, we were able to detenrune the best conditions for the annular apodizer, wluch give the maximum value of the center peak intensity_ We made especially sure that the phase modulated system have an excellent compensation for spherical aberration as it lllcreases. eases.

  • PDF

Pulse Dual Slope Modulation for VLC

  • Oh, Minseok
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
    • /
    • v.8 no.4
    • /
    • pp.1276-1291
    • /
    • 2014
  • In the field of visible light communication (VLC), light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are used for transmitting data via visible light. In this study, we analyze pulse dual slope modulation (PDSM) as a means of delivering information in VLC. PDSM involves the modulation of symmetrical slope pulses to encode binary 0s and 1s, and owing to the moderately increasing and decreasing pulse shapes that are created, this method enables more spectral efficiency than the variable pulse position modulation (VPPM) technique currently adopted in IEEE 802.15.7. In particular, PDSM allows for the avoidance of intra-frame flicker by providing idle pulses in a spectrum-efficient way. A simple detection scheme is proposed for PDSMsignals, and its bit error rate (BER) is analyzed mathematically at varying slopes to validate the process through simulation. The BER performance of PDSM detection using dual sampling is compared to the performances of PDSM and VPPM using correlation detection. It is found that, when the probability of idle pulse transmission is less than 0.08 and higher than 0, the BER of dual sampling PDSM is lower than that of PDSM using correlation detection over the entire light intensity range.

Enhanced Spatial Modulation of Indoor Visible Light Communication

  • Shan, Ye;Li, Ming;Jin, Minglu
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
    • /
    • v.13 no.1
    • /
    • pp.1-6
    • /
    • 2015
  • In this study, we consider visible light communication in an indoor line-of-sight environment. It has been proved that among the multiple input multiple output (MIMO) techniques, spatial modulation (SM) performs better than repetition coding (RC) and spatial multiplexing (SMP). On the basis of a combination of SM and pulse amplitude modulation (PAM), here, we propose an enhanced SM algorithm to improve the bit error rate. Traditional SM activates only one light-emitting diode (LED) at one time, and the proposed enhanced SM activates two LEDs at one time and reduces the intensity levels of PAM by half. Under the condition of a highly correlated channel, power imbalance is used to improve the algorithm performance. The comparison between the two schemes is implemented at the same signal-to-noise ratio. The simulation results illustrate that the enhanced SM outperforms the traditional SM in both highly correlated and lowly correlated channels. Furthermore, the proposed enhanced SM scheme can increase the transmission rate in most cases.

Deep Learning-Based Modulation Detection for NOMA Systems

  • Xie, Wenwu;Xiao, Jian;Yang, Jinxia;Wang, Ji;Peng, Xin;Yu, Chao;Zhu, Peng
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
    • /
    • v.15 no.2
    • /
    • pp.658-672
    • /
    • 2021
  • Since the signal with strong power need be demodulated first for successive interference cancellation (SIC) receiver in non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) systems, the base station (BS) need inform the near user terminal (UT), which has allocated higher power, of the far UT's modulation mode. To avoid unnecessary signaling overhead of control channel, a blind detection algorithm of NOMA signal modulation mode is designed in this paper. Taking the joint constellation density diagrams of NOMA signal as the detection features, the deep residual network is built for classification, so as to detect the modulation mode of NOMA signal. In view of the fact that the joint constellation diagrams are easily polluted by high intensity noise and lose their real distribution pattern, the wavelet denoising method is adopted to improve the quality of constellations. The simulation results represent that the proposed algorithm can achieve satisfactory detection accuracy in NOMA systems. In addition, the factors affecting the recognition performance are also verified and analyzed.

Effect of Cross Phase Modulation on Channel Compensation in 320 Gbps Intensity Modulation / Direct Detection WDM Transmission Systems (320 Gbps 강도 변조 직접 검파 WDM 시스템의 채널 보상에서 상호 위상 변조의 영향)

  • 이성렬;김지웅;손성찬
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
    • /
    • v.8 no.5
    • /
    • pp.1134-1140
    • /
    • 2004
  • In this paper, we investigated the effect of cross phase modulation(XPM) on compensation for WDM channel distortion due to chromatic dispersion, self phase modulation and XPM as a function of fiber dispersion coefficient and modulation format in 320 Gbps WDM systems. The considered WDM transmission system is based on mid-span spectral inversion(MSSI) compensation method, which has highly nonlinear dispersion shifted fiber(HNL-DSF) as nonlinear medium of optical phase conjugator (OPC) in the mid-way of total transmission line. We confirmed that the maximum channel input power resulting 1 dB eye opening penalty is reduced due to XPM effect on channel distortion, even if MSSI method was applied to WDM system. But, we confirmed that the effect of XPM on channel distortion becomes decrease as fiber dispersion coefficient of WDM system becomes larger. Futhermore, we confirmed that NRZ is better than RZ as a modulation format for similarly compensating overall WDM channels in WDM system with large fiber dispersion coefficient in order to minimize the effect of the XPM on channel distortion.