• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.6 no.4
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• pp.281-290
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• 2012

The difference of radiation dose of MDCT due to different protocols between hospitals was analyzed by CTDI, DLP, the number of Slice and the number of DLP/Slice in 30 cases of the head, the abdomen and the chest that have 10 cases each from MDCT examination of the department of diagnostic imaging of three general hospitals in Gyeongsangbuk-do. The difference of image quality, CTDI, DLP, radiation dose in the eye and radiation dose in thyroid was analyzed after both helical scan and normal scan for head CT were performed because a protocol of head CT is relatively simple and head CT is the most frequent case. Head CT was significantly higher in two-thirds of hospitals compared to A hospital that does not exceed a CTDI diagnostic reference level (IAEA 50mGy, Korea 60mGy) (p<0.001). DLP was higher in one-third of hospitals than a diagnostic reference level of IAEA 1,050mGy.cm and Korea 1,000mGy.cm and two-thirds exceeded the recommendation of Korea and those were significantly higher than A hospital that does not exceed a diagnostic reference level (p<0.001). Abdomen CT showed 119mGy that was higher than a diagnostic reference level of IAEA 25mGy and Korea 20mGy in one-third. DLP in all hospitals was higher that Korea recommendation of 700mGy.cm. Among target hospitals, C hospital showed high radiation dose in all tests because MPR and 3D were of great importance due to low pitch and high Tube Curren. To analyze the difference of radiation dose by scan methods, normal scan and helical scan for head CT of the same patient were performed. In the result, CTDI and DLP of helical CT were higher 63.4% and 93.7% than normal scan (p<0.05, p<0.01). However, normal scan of radiation dose in thyroid was higher 87.26% (p<0.01). Beam of helical CT looked like a bell in the deep part and the marginal part so thyroid was exposed with low radiation dose deviated from central beam. In addition, helical scan used Gantry angle perpendicularly and normal scan used it parallel to the orbitomeatal line. Therefore, radiation dose in thyroid decreased in helical scan. However, a protocol in this study showed higher radiation dose than diagnostic reference level of KFDA. To obey the recommendation of KFDA, low Tube Curren and high pitch were demanded. In this study, the difference of image quality between normal scan and helical scan was not significant. Therefore, a standardized protocol of normal scan was generally used and protective gear for thyroid was needed except a special case. We studied a part of CT cases in the local area. Therefore, the result could not represent the entire cases. However, we confirmed that patient's radiation dose in some cases exceeded the recommendation and the deviation between hospitals was observed. To improve this issue, doctors of diagnostic imaging or technologists of radiology should perform CT by the optimized protocol to decrease a level of CT radiation and also reveal radiation dose for the right to know of patients. However, they had little understanding of the situation. Therefore, the effort of relevant agencies with education program for CT radiation dose, release of radiation dose from CT examination and addition of radiation dose control and open CT contents into evaluation for hospital services and certification, and also the effort of health professionals with the best protocol to realize optimized CT examination.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.27-33
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• 2007

Recently, a new hard problem on a two dimensional vector space called vector decomposition problem (VDP) was proposed by M. Yoshida et al. and proved that it is at least as hard as the computational Diffe-Hellman problem (CDHP) on a one dimensional subspace under certain conditions. However, in this paper we present the VDP relative to a specific basis can be solved in polynomial time although the conditions proposed by M. Yoshida on the vector space are satisfied. We also suggest strong instances based on a certain type basis which make the VDP difficult for any random vector relative to the basis. Therefore, we need to choose the basis carefully so that the VDP can serve as the underlying intractable problem in the cryptographic protocols.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.263-272
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• 2017

The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly popular these days, and its areas of application have been broadened. However, if the data stored in an IoT system is damaged and cannot be recovered, our society would suffer considerable damages and chaos. Thus far, most of the studies on fault-tolerance have been focused on computer systems, and there has not been much research on fault-tolerance for IoT systems. In this study, therefore, a fault-tolerance method in IoT environments is proposed. In other words, based on the EVENODD method, one of the traditional fault-tolerance methods, a fault-tolerance storage and recovery method for the data stored in the IoT server is proposed, and the method is implemented on an oneM2M IoT system. The fault-tolerance method proposed in this paper consists of two phases - fault-tolerant data storage and recovery. In the fault-tolerant data storage phase, some F-T gateways are designated and fault-tolerant data are distributed in the F-T gateways' storage using the EVENODD method. In the fault-tolerant recovery phase, the IoT server initiates the recovery procedure after it receives fault-tolerant data from non-faulty F-T gateways. In other words, an EVENODD array is reconstructed and received data are merged to obtain the original data.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Next Generation Computing
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.90-99
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• 2017

The service structure of the Mobius IoT platform, which has been developed on the basis of the oneM2M standard, connects servers and gateways directly to exchange data using HTTP or MQTT. Such structure may cause problems not to operate IoT services safely. In this paper, we propose an effective structure to manage sessions between gateways (or devices) and server using SIP safely and stably. In addition, we provide the way to implement the proposed method on Mobius IoT platform. To verify the operation of the proposed method, we actually implement the proposed method on Mobius IoT platform, and construct a testbed for a typical IoT application service environment with SIP servers. The results of the experiment show that the proposed method works normally, and it can contribute to the stable operation of IoT services.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.23 no.8
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• pp.1941-1951
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• 1998

In this paper, hardware circuit that performs functions of IEEE 802.11 wireless LAN frequency hopping PLCP protocol is designed using 0.8 um CMOS cmn8a technology of the COMPASS. Transmission rate of the designed hardware is 1Mbps. The designed circuit have about 6300 gates and $2.5{\times}2.5mm^2$ area. In order to verify the circuit, two PLCP circuits are interconnected and frames are transmitted from one PLCP circuit to the other PLCP circuit. As a results of the simulation, we conclude that the designed PLCP circuit works well as the IEEE 802.11 standard specification.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.45-58
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• 2004

This paper consists of two parts, One is the ECC( GF(2/sup m/)) algorithm to improve the security strength and the processing time of SSL VPN and the other is the WLCAPT algorithm instead of LSNAT for the security strength of virtual server. In general when corporates use SSL protocol in order to build VPN, they use RSA algorithm with the problem of security and processing time about authentication and confidentiality, In this paper, a shared public key is generated with ECSPK which uses ECC( GF(2/sup m/)) algorithm to improve the security and processing time instead of RSA In addition, WLCAPT algorithm proposed in this paper is applied to virtual server which resides in the server side and then after NAT translation, the actual server of headquarter is securely communicated with it.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.39 no.5
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• pp.477-485
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• 2002

In this paper, we present an efficient hardware architecture for the H.263 video codec and its VLSI implementation. This architecture is based on the unified interface by which internal hardware engines and an internal RISC processor are connected one another. The unified interface enables the modular design of internal blocks, efficient hardware/software partitioning, and pipelined paralled operations. The developed VLSI supports the H.263 version 2 profile 3 @ level 10, and moreover, both the control protocol H.245 and the multiplexing protocol H.223. Therefore, it can be used for the complete ITU-T H.324 or 3GPP 3G 324M multimedia processor with the help of an external audio codec. Simultaneous encoding and decoding of QCIF format images at a rate greater than 15 frames per second is achieved at 40 MHz clock frequency.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.129-136
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to estimate radiation doses from 64-slice single source Computed Tomography(SSCT) coronary angiography(CA) and 128-slice dual source Computed Tomography(DSCT). With SSCT CA, the effective dose averaged approximately 13.86 mSv when two dose modulation was not. The mean effective dose for DSCT CA with retrospectively gated helical(RGH) technique was 11.87 mSv, when prospective ECG gating transverse(PGT) without dose modulation technique was 5.61 mSv. The one with dose modulation in PGT technique and flash mode were 3.04 mSv and flash mode was 0.98 mSv respectively. The lifetime attributable risk(LAR) of cancer incidence from SSCT RGH mode averaged approximately 1 for 1,176, and DSCT averaged 1 for 1,960(RGH mode), 1 for 3,030(PGT without modulation), 1 for 5,882(PGT with modulation). Because of CTCA is associated with non-negligible risk of cancer. Doses can be reduced by application PGT, FLASH than RGH using DSCT.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.372-374
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• 2015

최근 가전제품, 모바일 장비, 웨어러블 컴퓨터 등의 IoT 분야에서 센서 정보를 주고 받는 직렬 통신 방식이 사용된다. 기존의 SPI와 I2C 직렬 통신 방식은 클럭과 데이터 2개의 핀을 사용하여 비교적 빠른 속도로 데이터를 전송하는 방식이다. 사용되는 사물들이 점차 작아지고, 데이터 전송 정보의 양이 적어지면서 전송 속도보다는 하드웨어의 단순화가 중요한 설계요소가 되는 응용분야가 늘어나고 있다. 본 논문에서는 단일 핀을 사용하여, 데이터를 직렬로 송 수신하는 회로를 설계하고 FPGA로 구현하였다. 제안된 단일 핀 직렬 통신 프로토콜은 적은 양의 데이터를 저속으로 통신하는 IoT 제품에 적합하다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.336-343
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• 2010

Coronary artery CT angiography has short scanning length, the exposure dose is high. Therefore, it is required to study on the organ dose when using MDCT. We compared the differences between the absorbed dose and effective dose in the major organs assessing the absorbed dose in the major organs by 16-MDCT and 64-MDCT in the subjects with coronary artery CT angiography, the same protocol by 16-MDCT and 64-MDCT. As a result, the great orders of absorbed dose when conducting coronary artery CT angiography had been shown as heart, stomach, liver, pancreas, kidney, spleen, large intestine, lung, small intestine, thyroid gland, ovary, bladder, and orbit with the absorbed dose distribution of $0.538{\pm}0.026(Mean{\pm}SD,\;p<0.05)mGy{\sim}71.316{\pm}4.316mGy$ in 16-MDCT, and heart, stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver, kidney, small intestine, large intestine, lung, thyroid gland, ovary, bladder, and orbit with the absorbed dose distribution of $0.87{\pm}0.01mGy{\sim}115.26{\pm}1.59mGy$ in 64-MDCT, demonstrating some different distributions. The exposed doses to the patient per one time scanning with coronary artery CT angiography were $71.316{\pm}4.316mGy$ in 16-MDCT as the absorbed dose based on the heart and $115.26{\pm}1.59mGy$ in 64-MDCT. The effective doses were 7.41 mSv and 12.11 mSv in 16 and 64-MDCT, respectively. Taking into account the results of brain CT with 2.8 mSv that has comparatively large scanning length and size, facial CT 0.8 mSv, chest CT 5.7 mSv, pelvic CT 7.2 mSv, and abdominal and pelvic CT 14.4 mSv, it is very high considering the scanning length of 13 cm limited to the heart for the scanning range.