• 센서학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.223-230
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• 2006

An FIR filter for digital voice signal processing has been designed and implemented using a microcontroller in implantable middle ear hearing devices (IMEHDs). The designed digital voice signal processing filter which has fast and accurate filtering operation and controllable filter characteristics has been implemented using a hardware multiplier and a direct memory access (DMA) in the low power microcontroller, MSP430F169. It has been confirmed that each of the implemented 6-orders Remez FIR filters with 1 channel and 2 channels can be applied to the voice signal processing module of IMEHDs based on the evaluation results of the filtering performance experiment.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1983년도 제17차 학술대회연제순서 및 초록
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• pp.20-20
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• 1983

40세 된 남자 환자로, 12일 전 스쿠바다이빙을 한 후에 나타난, 돌발성난청.이충만감.이명을 주소로 입원하였다. 발병 16 일째에 시험적 고실 개방술을 시행하였다. 등골-난원창 관절의 전방에서 밝은 액체가 누출되는 것을 볼 수 있었고, 그곳을 이수에서 Ep어낸 작은 지방조직으로 봉했다. 술후, 순음청력이 85㏈에서 15㏈로 좋아졌다. 그러나 4KHz 이상의 고음역에서는 변화가 없었다. 중이강을 보다 많이 탐사 함으로 해서 ,돌발성 난청을 일으키는 미노루공을 발견하는 데 많은 도움이 될 것이다.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.103-106
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• 2018

A 12-year-old castrated male Shih Tzu presented with suspected hearing loss. The patient had no history of head trauma or exposure to ototoxic drugs. The results of neurologic and physical examinations were normal. An otoscopic examination showed that both the tympanic membranes and the external ear canals had a normal appearance. However, the results of brainstem auditory evoked response tests confirmed sensorineural deafness in the right ear and indicated conduction disturbances and brainstem abnormalities in the left ear. Magnetic resonance imaging was performed to confirm the causes of the conduction disturbances and brainstem abnormalities. Inflammatory changes in the left middle ear were highly suspected to be responsible for the findings in the left ear. The results of these examinations confirmed complete hearing loss in the right ear and indicated otitis media in the left ear, which could have been the cause of the conduction disturbances.

• 임상이비인후과
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.235-239
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• 2018

Due to the structure with one end closed, the external ear resonance effect in which the high frequency is amplified can be generated, and the sound can be perceived well. The external ear resonance normally has a first peak and a second peak. On average, the first peak has a gain of 18.6 dB at 2620 Hz and the second peak has a gain of 18.2 dB at 4210 Hz. The resonance of the external auditory canal changes with the state of the tympanic membrane, the presence of the ventilation tube, and the structure (length, diameter, shape) of the external auditory canal. A patient with a postauricular meatomastoid cutaneous fistula was admitted to the hospital with a foreign body which is the molding of the hearing aid. After removal of the foreign body, the resonance of the external auditory canal was lost and the subjective sound cognitive ability decreased. In the case of postauricular meatomastoid cutaneous fistula, we confirmed the improvement of sound cognitive ability, the change of pure tone hearing threshold, and the change of the external ear resonance after reconstruction of the ear canal without middle ear reconstruction.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1979년도 제13차 학술대회 연제순서 및 초록
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• pp.5.2-6
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• 1979

Nasal packing이 이관 기능장애를 일으킨다는 것은 임상적으로 잘 알려진 사실이나 이에 대한 연구는 드문 것으로 안다. 우리나라에서는 아직도 Nasal packing을 요하는 비수술이 이비인후과 영역에서 가장 흔한 수술이기 때문에 Nasal packing이 이관 기능에 미치는 영향을 연구한다는 것은 흥미있는 문제라고 생각된다. 저자는 비수술과 비출혈로 Anterior packing을 시행한 40명의 환자(80 ears)와 비출혈로 posterior packing을 시행한 13명의 환자(26 ears)로부터 Tympanometry을 측정하여 이관 기능장애를 연구하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. 1) Anterior packing을 시행한 환자의 80 ears 중 30 ears(37%)에서 중이내압의 감소를 보였으며 그 중 16 ears(20%)에서 $100mmH_2O$ 이상의 중이내 음압을 보였다. 2) Posterior Packing을 시행한 환자의 26 ears 중 15 ears(50.7%)에서 중이내압의 감소를 보였으며 그중 11 ears(42.3%)에서 $100mmH_2O$ 이상의 중이내 음압을 보였다. 3) Posterior packing이 Anterior packing보다 더 높은 빈도의 이관 기능장애를 보였다. 4) Nasal packing으로 인한 이관 기능장애는 packing 제거 후 2일에서 9일내에 정상으로 회복됨을 볼 수 있었다.

• 대한기관식도과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기관식도과학회 1981년도 제15차 학술대회연제순서 및 초록
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• pp.37.2-38
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• 1981

근래 천공된 고막에 Ear drop를 사용하는 것은 그 효과가 의간시되 오고, 또 그 안전성도 도전을 받아왔다. 전신적으로 투여하였을때는 이독성이 없는 많은 약제들도, 중이강에 국소적으로 투여했을 때는 이독성이 될수있다. Stupp등(1973)에 의하면, Neomycin, polymyxin-G, gentamycin, erythromycin, tetracycline penicillin중, 다만 penicillin만이 독작용이 없다고 알려져 있다. Ototoxic antibiotics는 round window막을 투과하여 내이, perilymph에 들어가고 또다시 Reissner's막을 통하여 Endolymph에 이르게 된다고 보고있다. 주병변은 Stria vascularis의 degeneration, Sensory epithelia의 degeneration 및 Ganglion cell의 degeneration을 이르킨다. 63세 여자의 양측천공성 만성 중이염 환자가 가정에서 중이강내에 Terramycin분말 한 Capsule을 양이에 나누어 넣고, 심한 Sensorineural Deafness를 초래, 6개월이 지난 현재, 병변의 호전을 보지못하고 있는 일증례를 문헌적고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.

• 한방재활의학과학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.181-186
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• 2014

The purpose of this study is to report a clinical progress of sudden hearing loss through korean medicine. Between 26th Mar. 2014 and 19th Apr. 2014, she was treated with Chuna manual therapy every day and observed by Pure Tone Audiometry (before and after) and visual analogue pain scale (VAS). A patient was diagnosed with sudden hearing loss on 23th Dec. 2013 in Severance Hospital, she had sudden hearing loss on left side. She had 19 times treatments. At the first of treatment, her audibility was 20 dB on right side, 74 dB on left side and she had tinitus and ear fullness (VAS 8 / VAS 9). At the middle of treatment (2nd Apr. 2014), symptoms of tinitus and ear fullness started improving. State was tinitus VAS 6, ear fullness VAS 6. At the end of treatment (21th Apr. 2014), state was tinitus VAS 4, ear fullness VAS 4, and recorded 35 dB on right side, 80 dB on left side in pure tone audiometry. Chuna manual therapy is estimated to be good for sudden hearing loss especially on tinitus and ear fullness. More cases are required to develop treatment of sudden hearing loss.

• 사상체질의학회지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.221-270
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• 1998

Objective This research is a study about constitutional diagnosis through the external appearances as a basic principle, and it is for finding shape differences of the ear, eye, nose, mouth according to the Sasang constitution Method We have collected 209 cases of patients of the Sasang Constitutional Department, including employees of the Kyung-Hee Medical Center and took pictures of the frontal view, lateral view, oblique view of face and measured heights, deapth, breadths of ear, eye, nose, mouth with 'The Measurement of R. Martin'. We analyzed shape differences of the face according to the Sasang constitution with certain results Results We got the morphologic characteristics of ear, eye, nose and mouth according to the Sasang constitution as Table 3. -Table 10. Conclusion : 1. The morphologic characteristics of Ear according to the Sasang constitution (1) Morphologic ear length, Physiognomic ear length, Ear lobule length is longer in Taeumin than Soeumin. (2) Physiognomic ear breadth is wider in Taeumin than Soeumin. (3) Physiognomic ear length, lobule length ratio is higher in Taeumin than Soyangin. 2. The morphologic characteristics of Eye according to the Sasang constitution. (1) Inner Palpebral fissure width, 5th Palpebral fissure length, Bizygomatic breadth-Outercanthal distance is the longest in Taeumin (2) Palpebral fissure inclination is widest in Soeumin. (3) Palpebral fissure length is longer in Taeumin than Soeumin. (4) Pupillary diameter ratio is the lowest in Taeumin (5) Palpebral fissure length, width ratio is higher in Soeumin than Taeumin. (6)zygomatic breadth, Bizygomatic breadth-Outercanthal distance ratio is the higher in Taeumin than Soeumin. 3. The morphologic characteristics of Nose according to the Sasang constitution. (1) Nasion depth is deepest in Soyangin. (2) Nasion to pupillary depth is deeper Soyangin than Taeumin. (3) Nasal tip depth, Nostril to Nasalalar depth is deeper Soyangin than Taeumin. (4) Subnasale to Nasalalar depth is the shallowest in Taeumin (5) Nasalalar height is lowest in Soeumin. (6) Nasalalar to Nostril distance is deeper Taeumin than Soeumin. (7) Nasal tip depth, Nasal depth ratio is the highest in Taeumin (8) Nasal depth Nasalalar heightratio is lowest in Soeumin. (9) Midfaceheight, Nasal tip depth ratio is higher Soyangin than Taeumin. 4. The morphologic characteristics of mouth according to the Sasang constitution. (1) Lower mid lip height, Lower philtrum height, Lower quarter lip height, Total middle lip height, Total philtrum height, Total quarter lip height is the shottest in Soyangin. (2) Upper mid lip height, Upper philtrum height is longer in Taeumin than Soyangin (3) Lip inclination is higher in Soeumin than Soyangin. (4) Intercheilion breadth, total height ratio is lowest in Soyangin. (5) Total lip height, Upper philtrum height ratio is higher in Soyangin than Soeumin. (6) Lower lip height Lower quarter lip height ratio is higher in Soyangin than Taeumin. (8) Total lip area is wider in Taeumin than Soyangin.

• 센서학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.286-293
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• 2009

The implantable middle ear hearing devices(IMEHDs) have been developed to overcome the conventional hearing aid's problem(ringing effect caused by the acoustic feedback, cosmetic problem, etc.). In the IMEHDs, the vibrating transducer is a key component because its vibration enables to hear for hearing impaired people. The vibrating transducer is implanted on ossicular chain by surgical operation. The coupling status between implanted transducer and ossicular chain has an effect on delivering vibrating force from transducer to stapes. Noninvasive method is required to investigate the output characteristics of IMEHDs after implementation. Recently, emitted sound pressure measuring method of tympanic membrane is proposed to investigate the output characteristics of IMEHDs. However, the relationship between displacement of stapes and sound pressure by tympanic membrane was not cleared. In this paper, displacement of stapes and sound pressure by tympanic membrane were measured using the differential floating mass transducer(DFMT) that implanted on the ossicular chain of the human temporal bone and physical ear model. Through the experiments results, the relationship between displacement of stapes and sound pressure by tympanic membrane was investigated.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.189-199
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• 2016

Many implantable hearing aids are being developed as alternatives to conventional hearing aids which has inconveniences for use and social stigma that make hearing-impaired people avoid to wear it. Particularly, the fully-implantable middle ear hearing devices (F-IMEHD) are being actively studied for mixed or sensorineural hearing impaired people. In development of F-IMEHD, the most difficult problem is improving the performance of implantable microphone. Recently, Cho et al. have studied the tympanic membrane installed microphone which has better sensitivity and is easier to operate on patient than the microphone implanted under the skin. But, it may cause howling problem due to the feedback signal via oval window and ossicle chain from the transducer on round window in the middle ear cavity, therefore, a feedback canceller is necessary. In this paper, we designed NLMS (normalized least mean square) adaptive feedback canceller for F-IMEHD with tympanic membrane installed microphone and a transducer implemented at round window, and computer simulation was performed to verify its operation. The designed adaptive feedback canceller has a delay filter, a 64 point FIR fixed filter and a 8-tap adaptive FIR filter. Computer simulation of the feedback path is modeled by using the data obtained through human cadaver experiment.