• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.577-584
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• 2007

Uroflowmetry is non-invasive and easily performed to diagnose benign prostatic hypertrophy(BPH) frequent in aged men. Weight change during urination is usually measured to estimate the urinary flow rate by a load cell, but sensitive to any impacts against the bottom of the container, leading to unnecessary noise generation. Moreover, load cells are relatively expensive raising the production cost. The present study proposed a new technique, measuring hydraulic pressure on the bottom of the urine container to evaluate the urinary volume. Low cost pressure transducer enabled almost perfectly linear relationship between the urine volume and the hydraulic pressure. During both the simulated and human urination experiments, variance of the pressure signal was more than 50% smaller than the weight signal acquired by a load cell, which demonstrated that the impact noise was decreased to a great degree by pressure compared to weight measurement.

• 한국진공학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.231-237
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 분동식 기준압력계의 기준분동(reference weight)의 부피를 측정하는 새로운 측정방법인 기체용적계(gas pycnometer) 측정방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 측정방법에 의한 측정결과로서 기준분동 1 kg, 2 kg, 5 kg에 대한 부피 측정불확도는 신뢰수준 95%에서 0.2%를 나타내었다. 기체용적계의 주요 장치는 샘플용기와 팽창용기, 정밀압력계, 정밀온도계, 진공펌프로 구성되며, 측정 원리는 일정한 용기 내에 들어 있는 일정한 양의 기체의 압력과 부피는 서로 반비례한다는 보일(boyle's law)의 법칙을 용용하였다. 본 결과는 현재까지 문헌이나 제조사로부터 기준분동 재질에 대한 밀도값을 적용하여 오던 것을 기준분동의 부피를 직접 측정하여 밀도값을 적용함으로서 압력기준기의 압력 기준값에 대한 국가측정표준의 신뢰도 향상에 기여될 것이다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제54권8호
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• pp.504-509
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• 2005

This paper presents a new method for obtaining the noninvasive and unrestrained blood pressure readings noninvasively and unrestrainedly using based on reflected wave arrival time(RAT) in the volume of pulse. Since this new method employs only volume pulse, is more rapider and simpler than the method using pulse transit time(PTT) because it only employs the volume of pulse. Blood pressure, PTT and RAT were acquired from 15 healthy subjects. Each subjects were performed forty trials of each measurement. As a result of those trials, the mean error between oscillometric and RAT measurements for systolic blood pressure was $4.55\pm5.64mmHg$. This result showed quite equal with the mean error between oscillometric and PPT measurf:ments, $4.22\pm5.30mmHg$, However, it was not obtained a satisfactory result in the relativity of oscillometric to both RAT and PPT measurements for diastolic blood pressure because of personal difference. To conclude, the method of systolic blood pressure estimation noninvasively and unrestrainedly using by RAT may be used as the method by PTT. Nevertheless, additional studies would be necessary for the RAT/PTT estimation of diastolic blood Pressure measurement.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.64-69
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• 2014

Measuring an exact amount of remaining cryogenic liquid propellant under microgravity condition is one of the important issues of rocket vehicle. A Pressure-Volume-Temperature (PVT) gauging method is attractive due to its minimal additional hardware and simple gauging process. In this paper, PVT gauging method using liquid nitrogen is investigated under microgravity condition with parabolic flight. A 9.2 litre metal cryogenic liquid storage tank containing approximately 30% of liquid nitrogen is pressurized by ambient temperature helium gas. During microgravity condition, the inside of the liquid tank becomes near-isothermal condition within 1 K difference indicated by 6 silicon diode sensors vertically distributed in the middle of the liquid tank. Helium injection with higher mass flow rate after 10 seconds of the waiting time results in successful measurements of helium partial pressure in the tank. Average liquid volume measurement error is within 11% of the whole liquid tank volume and standard deviation of errors is 11.9. As a result, the applicability of PVT gauging method to liquid propellant stored in space is proven with good measurement accuracy.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제22권6호
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• pp.479-486
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• 2001

호흡 측정기는 기도를 통해 환자의 폐에 드나드는 기체의 양을 측정하여 호흡에 관련된 기능을 판단하는 의료기기이다. 수술실에서 전신 마취시 사용하는 마취기용 인공호흡기는 미미한 양의 마취제 과용으로도 환자의 생명을 앗아갈 수 있으므로 정확한 호흡량 측정이 특히 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 호흡량 측정에 영향을 주는 요인들로부터 정확한 유량을 산출해내는 방법에 대해 고찰하고. 마취용 인공호흡기에 적용하여 수술환자의 호흡특성을 알아내는 호홉측정기를 구현하였다. 인공호흡기에 많이 사용되고 있는 차동압력형 유량센서를 이용하여 압력, 온도, 가스구성의 상관관계에 따라 유랑을 계측하였으며 유량-타동압력의 비선형적 관계를 선형화하였다. 또한, 휴대형 기기에 적합하도록 전력 효율을 최대화 할 수 있게 시스템을 설계하였다

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.591-593
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• 2006

The differential pressure method has been used in the level measurement of steam generator in nuclear power plant. Two sensing lines from a steam generator to a pressure transmitter are needed to measure the high pressure and low pressure. The fluid conditions in the sensing line require the uniform phase with no bubbles and the slope of sensing line should be installed with forward slope. The expansion of the bubble volume according to the upper pressure and the reverse slope of sensing lines explain how the level errors took place.

• 한국분무공학회지
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• 제27권2호
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• pp.84-93
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• 2022

To implement carbon-neutrality in transportation sectors until 2050, hydrogen is considered a promising fuel for internal combustion engines because hydrogen does not contain carbon itself. Although hydrogen does not emit CO₂ emission from its combustion process, the low energy density in a volume unit hinders the adoption of hydrogen. Therefore, the understanding of hydrogen jet behavior and measurement of equivalence ratio must be conducted to completely implement the high-pressure hydrogen direct injection. The main objective of this research is feasibility test of hydrogen local equivalence ratio measurement by laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBs). To visualize the macroscopic structure of hydrogen jet, high-speed schlieren imaging was conducted. Moreover, LIBs has been adopted to validate the feasibility of hydrogen local equivalence ratio measurement. The hydrogen injection pressure was varied from 4 MPa to 8 MPa and injected in a constant volume chamber where the ambient pressure was 0.5 MPa. The increased injection pressure extends the vertical penetration of hydrogen jet. Due to the higher momentum supply when the injection pressure is high, the hydrogen has easily diffused in all directions. As the laser trigger timing has delayed, the low hydrogen atomic emission was detected due to the longer mixture formation time. Based on equivalence ratio measurement results, LIBs could be applied as a methodology for hydrogen local equivalence ratio measurement.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제29권3호
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• pp.198-204
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• 2008

Uroflowmetry is a non-invasive clinical test useful for screening benign prostatic hyperplasia(BPH) common in the aged men. The current standard way to obtain the urinary flow rate is to continuously acquire the urine weight signal proportional to volume over time. The present study proposed an alternative technique measuring pressure to overcome noise problems present in the standard weight measuring technique. Experiments were performed to simultaneously acquire both weight and pressure changes during urination of 9 normal men. Noise components were separated from volume signals converted from both weight and pressure signals based on the polynomial signal model. Signal-to-noise ratio was defined as the ratio of the energies between signal and noise components of the measured volume changes, which was 8.5 times larger in the pressure measuring technique, implying that cleaner signal could be obtained, more immune to noisy environments. When four important diagnostic parameters were estimated, excellent correlation coefficients higher than 0.99 were resulted with mean relative errors less than 5%. Therefore, the present pressure measurement seemed valid as an alternative technique for uroflowmetry.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.152-160
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• 2001

목적: 게이트 심근 SPECT를 이용하여 좌심실심근의 최대탄성률을 측정하는 방법의 재현성을 조사하고 단일 압력-부피 고리방법과 매개변수 최적화 방법으로 얻었을 때 재현성의 차이를 조사하였다. 대상 및 방법: 관상동맥질환이 의심되는 47명 (남자 42명, 여자 5명, 평균나이 53세, 좌심실구혈률 22-68%)에서 Tc-99m MIBI게이트 심근 SPECT와 동시에 요골동맥 긴장도를 측정하였다. 이 중 11명에서는 누운 자리에서 움직이지 않고 연이어 두번 측정하였다. 최대탄성률과 영점부피를 Lee 등이 제안한 단일 압력-부피 고리 방법과 Yoshizawa 등이 제안한 선형근사에 의한 매개변수 최적화 방법으로 추정하였다. 결과: 최대탄성률(상관계수 0.96)과 영점부피(상관계수 0.99)의 재현성은 단일 압력-부피 고리 방법이 매개변수 최적화 방법(최대탄성률 0.89, 영점부피 0.64)보다 좋았다. 두 방법으로 추정한 최대탄성률의 상관계수는 0.77, 영점부피의 상관계수는 0.65이었다. 결론: 게이트 심근 SPECT와 동맥긴장도 측정법으로 얻어 단일 압력-부피 고리 방법으로 추정한 좌심실 심근의 최대탄성률의 재현성은 매우 우수하였다. 매개변수 최적화 방법으로 얻은 최대탄성률도 우수하나 단일 압력-부피 고리 방법보다 못하였다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.707-713
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• 2003

We investigate the ultrasonic gas flow meter for the measurement of gas volume quantity, which passing through pipe, using the transit time difference method. We have designed a receiving system of an ultrasonic signal and hardware system of a flow meter Also, we have designed an experimental system for the characteristic test and calibration of a gas flow meter system. We have developed an ultrasonic gas flow meter, which has a measurement uncertainty within $\pm$ 1.7 %. For the test, we have compared our system with a difference pressure type flow meter for a few months in the real field. Through the test, we have confirmed that our system have a good reliability and durability. Also, we have confirmed that our system follows very well the variation of gas volume quantity, which was measured by a difference pressure type flow meter.