• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.79-88
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• 2014

내부표적체적을 기반으로 계획된 간암 환자의 세기조절방사선치료에서 호흡에 의한 장기의 움직임 영향을 적용하여 체내 실제 종양 부피와 중요 장기 부피에서의 선량분포를 재계산하고, 호흡동조 방식의 세기조절방사선치료 계획 결과와 비교를 통한 선량적 특성을 분석하였다. 내부표적체적은 MIM 프로그램을 사용하여 형성하였고, 호흡에 의한 장기 움직임을 모사할 수 있는 구동 팬텀을 사용하였다. 체내 선량분포는 세기조절방사선치료의 품질보증 과정에서 2차원 다이오드 검출기 배열 장치인 MapCHECK2로 측정한 조사면 별 측정 결과를 기반으로 3DVH 프로그램으로 재계산 하였다. 내부표적체적 기반의 세기조절방사선치료 수행 시 계획표적체적에 충분히 처방선량이 조사되었지만, 선량의 균일도는 호흡동조 방식의 세기조절방사선치료와 비교 시 열등한 결과를 보였다. 상대적으로 더 큰 조사면을 사용하는 내부표적체적 기반의 세기조절방사선치료에서 손상위험장기체적에 더 높은 선량이 조사됨을 확인할 수 있었지만, 척수에 증가된 선량은 부작용 발생확률에 큰 영향을 주지 않는 적은 양이었고, 정상 간이나 신장 부위의 증가된 선량도 최적화 과정에서 좀 더 선량감소 조건을 강화한다면 큰 영향이 없을 것으로 평가되었다. 호흡동조 방식의 세기조절방사선치료가 치료계획에서는 더 좋은 선량분포를 보이고 있으나, 실제 구현 과정에서 다엽콜리메이터의 움직임 오류로 인한 선량의 오차와 치료시간의 증가 측면의 단점이 있으므로, 환자 호흡 상태 및 손상위험장기의 선량제한 값에 대한 사전 분석을 통해 환자 별 최적의 세기조절방사선치료 기법을 선정하여 적용하는 것이 타당하다고 생각된다.

• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.33-41
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• 2012

최근 환자맞춤형방사선치료를 위해 임상에서 활용하고 있는 입체적세기조절회전방사선치료의 정도관리를 수행하고자 기존의 세기조절방사선치료에서 수행하는 정도관리 프로그램을 본 원의 실정에 맞게 치료계획단계 정도관리(Treatment planning QA), 치료전 전달단계 정도관리(Pretreatment delivery QA), 치료단계 정도관리(Treatment QA)인 세 가지 단계로 나누어 설정하였다. 각 정도관리 단계에서는 정도관리 프로그램에 따라 점검할 항목과 측정하여 평가할 항목을 설정하여 문서화를 위해 서식화 하였다. 본 원에서는 서식화한 정도관리 프로그램에 따라 실제 치료환자에 적용하였으며 본원의 치료전 전달 정도관리의 임상 허용기준을 위해 국소적 신뢰수준(confidence limit, CL)을 평가하였다. 그 결과 고선량 영역 점선량 측정, 저선량영역 점선량 측정의 CL는 모두 기존의 IMRT 수준과 유사한 결과를 얻었으며 이를 토대로 본원의 임상허용 기준은 고선량영역은 3%, 저선량 영역은 5%로 설정하였다. 입체적세기조절회전방사선치료의 특성상 Intensity map 평가는 360도 전 방향에서 Intensity map을 측정할 수 있는 ArcCheck 기기를 사용 하여 감마 지표(Gamma Index) 평가를 하였으며 그 결과는 IMRT의 개별적 intensity map 평가와 유사한 결과를 얻었으며 본원의 CL은 93%로 설정하였다. 등선량분포 평가는 2D detector array인 Mapcheck을 사용하였으며 95% 이상의 일치도를 보여 본원의 CL은 95%로 설정하였다. 방사선치료 정도관리에서 임의의 불확도와 계통 오차를 줄이려면 실제 환자 적용에 앞서 다 기관이 참여하는 팬톰을 이용한 국소적 CL 평가를 권장하고 있다. 국내 여건상 다 기관이 참여하는 연구가 여의치 않다면 본 연구와 같이 개별 기관에서 자체적으로 허용검사가 끝난 후에 실제 임상에서는 환자 치료 부위별로 세분화 하여 국소적 CL을 평가하는 방법이 유용할 것으로 사료된다.

• International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.246-253
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• 2016

Infrared (IR) imaging has been researched for various applications such as surveillance. IR radiation has the capability to detect thermal characteristics of objects under low-light conditions. However, automatic segmentation for finding the object of interest would be challenging since the IR detector often provides the low spatial and contrast resolution image without color and texture information. Another hindrance is that the image can be degraded by noise and clutters. This paper proposes multi-level segmentation for extracting regions of interest (ROIs) and objects of interest (OOIs) in the IR scene. Each level of the multi-level segmentation is composed of a k-means clustering algorithm, an expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, and a decision process. The k-means clustering initializes the parameters of the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), and the EM algorithm estimates those parameters iteratively. During the multi-level segmentation, the area extracted at one level becomes the input to the next level segmentation. Thus, the segmentation is consecutively performed narrowing the area to be processed. The foreground objects are individually extracted from the final ROI windows. In the experiments, the effectiveness of the proposed method is demonstrated using several IR images, in which human subjects are captured at a long distance. The average probability of error is shown to be lower than that obtained from other conventional methods such as Gonzalez, Otsu, k-means, and EM methods.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.46-52
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• 2018

최근 국내 대형화재 발생으로 화재예방 및 소방에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있는 추세이다. 화재에 대한 피해를 최소화하기 위해서는 감지설비, 경보설비, 소화설비, 피난설비 및 유지관리 등 모든 요소가 중요하지만 화학공장과 같이 철골구조에 가연성 물질을 집중적으로 취급하는 시설에서는 화재 시 그 구조를 유지할 수 있도록 주요구조부에 적용하는 내화구조의 중요성이 특히 대두된다. 현재 건축법, 산업안전보건법 등 국내법에서는 산업시설에 대하여 일괄적으로 지상으로부터 6m까지 내화구조를 적용하도록 규정하고 있다. 하지만 화학공장은 경우에 따라 가연성 물질을 대량으로 취급할 수도 비가연성 물질만을 취급할 수도 있다. 이 연구에서는 화학공장에서 발생할 수 있는 화재 규모에 따라 필요한 내화구조 적용이 필요한 높이에 대하여 연구하였다.

• 한국염색가공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국염색가공학회 2011년도 제44차 학술발표회
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• pp.63-63
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• 2011

The donor-${\pi}$-acceptor (D-${\pi}$-A) chromophoric dye system has received great attention in variety fields such as electroluminescent materials, sensors and optoelectronic devices. There are many research activities focused on the development for abovementioned application materials with the high-performance properties. In the previous work, we are reported that novel D-${\pi}$-A dye, 2-[4-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)benzylidene]-2,3-dihydroinden-1-one, is successfully attained and exhibited a positive fluorescence solvatochromism. In this work, the molecular structure and packing geometry of 2-[4-(9H-carbazol-9-yl)benzylidene]-2,3-dihydroinden-1-one was discussed by their conformational structure. Their single yellow prism crystal having approximate dimensions of $0.30{\times}0.10{\times}0.10$ mm was carried out with a Rigaku RAXIS RAPID imaging plate area detector with graphite monochromated $CuK_{\alpha}$ radiation. Their crystal structure were solved by using the CrystalStructure crystallographic software package.

• 한국응용과학기술학회지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.11-20
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• 1998

The propagation of light radiation in a turbid medium is an important problem that confronts dosimetry of therapeutic laser delivery and the development of diagnostic spectroscopy. Scattered light is measured as a function of the position(distance r, depth z) between the axis of the incident beam and the detection spot. Turbid sample yields a very forward-directed scattering pattern at short range of position from source to detector, whereas the thicker samples greatly attenuated the on-axis intensity at long range of position. The portions of scattered light reflected from or transmitted throughphantom depend upon internal reflectance and absorption properties of the phantom. Monte Carlo simulation method for modelling light transport in tissue is applied. It uses the photon is moved a distance where it may be scattered, absorbed, propagated, internally reflected, or transmitted out of tissue. The photon is repeatedly moved until it either escape from or is absorbed by the phantom. In order to obtain an optimum therapeutic ratio in phantom material, optimum control the light energy fluence rate is essential. This study is to discuss the physical mechanisms determining the actual light dose in phantom. Permitting a qualitative understanding of the measurements. It may also aid in designing the best model for laser medicine and application of medical engineering.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1997년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.414-417
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• 1997

This paper presents vessel contour for extracting features and segmentating narrow blood vessels down to a diameter of two pixels in digital subtraction angiographic image. We present a new tracking algorithm for contour, mainly blood vessels in DSA image, and extracting properties such as their intensities, diameters, and center lines by exploiting spatial continuity. The proposed algorithm comes to detect blood vessel's boundary using difference edge detector one of homogeneity operator and find a next centerline position by direction vector of edge information. This algorithm enhanced variation of vessel's diameter compared to Sun's tracking algorithm and lessoned to compute as direction vector decide adaptively entire vessel's direction field. The processed images are intended to support radiologists in diagnosis, radiation therapy planning, and surgical planning. The algorithm should be useful for automating angiographic analyses of blood vessels.

• 한국결정학회지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-8
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• 1999

Two conformational isomers of p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene hexanoate were prepared from the reaction of-p-tert-butylcalix[4]arene and hexanoly chloride in the presence of AlCl3 in CH2Cl2 and their structures were determined by NMR spectra and X-ray diffraction as a cone and a 1,3-alternate conformer, respectively. The crystal of cone conformer (C68H96O8·(CH3)2CO) is triclinic, P, a=15.066(1) , b=16.063(1) , c=16.365(1) , α=79.75(2)o, β=109.95(2)o, γ=80.32(0)o, V=3602.7(4) 3, Z=2. The intensity data were collected on Simens SMART diffractometer/CCD area detector. The structure was solved by direct method and refined by least-squares calculations to a final R value of 0.144 for 4638 observed reflections. The molecular conformation is distorted symmetric cone with the flattening A and D phenyl rings. The crystal of 1,3-alternate conformer (C68H96O8·2CHCl3) is orthorhombic, Pca21, a=34.586(5) , b=10.207(3) , c=20.394(4) , V=7199(3) 3, Z=4. The intensity data were collected on an Enraf-Noninus CAD-4 Diffractometer with a graphite monochromated Mo-K radiation. The structure was solved by direct method and refined by least-squares calculations to a final R value of 0.152 for 2241 observed reflections. The molecule has a pseudo mirror symmetric 1,3-alternate conformation.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제16권17호
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• pp.7897-7903
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• 2015

Background: To explored the value of 3D C-arm CT (CACT) guidance system in performing radiofrequency ablation (RFA) following transarterial chemoembolizationon (TACE) for hepatocellular carcinomas. Materials and Methods: RFA of hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC) were performed on 15 patients (21 lesions) with the assistance of CACT guidance system. Technical success, procedure time, complications and patient radiation exposure were investigated. The puncture performance level was evaluated on a five-point scale (5-1: excellent-poor). Complete ablation rate was evaluated after two months follow-up using enhanced CT scans. Results: The technical success rate of RFA procedure under CACT navigation system was 100 %. Mean total procedure time was $24.24{\pm}6.53min$, resulting in a mean effective exposure dose of $15.4{\pm}5.1mSv$. The mean puncture performance level rated for CACT guided RFA procedure was $4.87{\pm}0.35$. Complete ablation (CA) was achieved in 20 (95.2%) of the treated 21 tumors after the first RFA session. None of patients developed intra-procedural complications. Conclusions: 3D CACT guidance system enables reliable and efficient needle positioning by providing real-time intraoperative guidance for performing RFA on HCCs.

• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.139-143
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• 2010

Two-dimensional(2D) images like Multi Planar Reconstruction(MPR) Image or Maximum Intensity Projection(MIP) were used for the purpose of diagnosis, but MPR image's quality were limited due to its superior limit of Z-axis ability to produce permitted radiation exposure virtuous in the permitted time limit from the existing Spiral CT. However, in company with the development of the Multi Detector Computed Tomography(MDCT), we were able to get the Data with the equal amount of Voxel, also get varied reconstructions as in the aspect of our needs. This present study propose a reconstruction technique which is to extract a field using Region of interest(ROI) segmentation method for improvement of the quality of the medical image and after that reconstruct the concerned part using the four-directed symmetry method of the oval, than using the reconstructed data, reorganize the image by using the Curved MPR method. If current proposed method is used, it is highly effective because of its ability to accurately display the disease concerned part, which will reduce the decoding time and also effectively provide information based on the accuracy of the decode.