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자기공명분광에서 비균질 자장보정에 관한 평가 (Evaluations of Inhomogeneous Shimming in $^1$H MR Spectroscopy)

  • Choe, Bo-Young;Baik, Hyeon-Man;Suh, Tae-Suk;Lee, Hyoung-Koo;Chun, Heung-Jae;Shim, Kyung-Sub
    • 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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    • 제11권1호
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    • pp.73-83
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    • 2000
  • 본 연구에서는 양성자 자기공명분광법을 이용하여 대사물질의 양적 비율 산출시 비균질한 자장보정의 영향을 정량평가하였다. 점분해분광법과 자극반향 획득법을 사용하여 대사비율의 변화상수를 전신 1.5T 자기공명장비, 기존 분석방법에 의해 평가하였다. 통게학적 분석방법으로 선형계측방법을 사용하여 P d값을 산출하였다. 결과로서 N-acetylaspartate (NAA)/ creatine (Cr)과 NAA/ choline (Cho) 비율은 긴 TE와 짧은 TE 값에 대해 낮은 COV 값은 나타낸 반면 Cho/Cr과 Cr/Cho 비율은 높은 COV 값을 나타냈다. NAA/Cr과 Cho/Cr 그리고 NAA/Cho과 Cr/Cho 비율은 긴 TE와 짧은 TE 값에 대해 상당한 긴밀한 P값을 나타냈다. (P < 0.0001 and P < 0.0001; P = 0.015 and P = 0.005). 반면 Cho/NAA과 Cr/NAA은 통게Gkr적 유의성이 발견되지 않았다. (P = 0.159; P = 0.910). 본 연구 결과에 의해서 NAA/Cr과 NAA/Cho 비율은 자기공명분광 비율산출에서 자기보정에 관계없이 가장 유용한 방법으로 나타났다. 결론적으로 Cr과 Cho는 정확한 정량측정시 가장 유용한 대사물질로 나타났다.

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A simulation-based design study of superconducting zonal shim coil for a 9.4 T whole-body MRI magnet

  • Kim, Geonyoung;Choi, Kibum;Park, Jeonghwan;Bong, Uijong;Bang, Jeseok;Hahn, Seungyong
    • 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.12-16
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    • 2020
  • As high homogeneity in magnetic field is required to increase the resolution of MRI magnets, various shimming methods have been researched. Using one of them, the design of the superconducting active zonal shim coil for MRI magnets is discussed in this paper. The magnetic field of the MRI magnet is expressed as the sum of spherical harmonic terms, and the optimized current density of shim coils capable of removing higher-order terms is calculated by the Tikhonov regularization method. To investigate all potential designs derived from calculated current density, 4 sweeping parameters are selected: (1) axial length of shim coil zone; (2) radius of shim coils; (3) exact axial position of shim coils; and (4) operating current. After adequate designs are determined with constraints of critical current margin and homogeneity criterion, the total wire length required for each is calculated and the design with a minimum of them is chosen. Using the superconducting wire length of 9.77 km, the field homogeneity over 50 cm DSV is improved from 24 ppm to 1.87 ppm in the case study for 9.4 T whole-body MRI shimming. Finally, the results are compared with the finite element method (FEM) simulation results to validate the feasibility and accuracy of the design.

7T MRI에서 B1 필드 조정을 위해 페로브스카이트 재료를 이용한 자기공명영상 향상 (MRI Enhancement using Perovskite Material for B1 Field Control at 7T)

  • 김용태;김주연;백현만
    • 한국방사선학회논문지
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    • 제15권4호
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    • pp.565-573
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    • 2021
  • 인체 내 전자기장의 공간 분포는 고 유전율 재료를 사용하여 비교적 간단하게 조정할 수 있다. 이 방법은 다른 방법에 비해 보완적인 성격이 강하지만 특정 응용 분야에서 강력한 유전체 시밍용 도구로 활용될 수 있다. 기하학적으로 자유로운 형상으로 제조 가능하며 시스템의 어떠한 변경 없이 목적에 따라 제작된 패드를 적용할 수 있다. 특히 초 고자장(ultrahigh magnetic field UHF) MRI에서 높은 작동 주파수로 인해 낮은 감도 (low sensitivity)를 갖는 송신 (B1+) 및 수신 (B1-) 필드의 강도를 높이는 데 사용되는 임상목적의 고 유전율 패드는 잠재적 가치가 상당히 클 뿐만 아니라 그 효과가 클 것으로 예상되는 UHF MRI에 적용된 연구가 적기 때문에 이 연구에서는 티탄산 칼슘의 현탁액으로 제조된 고 유전율 패드를 실험실에서 직접 개발하였으며 UHF 7T 자기공명영상 MRI의 다양한 프로토콜에서 임상적으로 유용한 영상의 신호증가를 확인하였다.

Analysis of a shimming aircraft NLG controlled by the modified simple adaptive control

  • Alaimo, Andrea;Orlando, Calogero
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • 제7권5호
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    • pp.459-473
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    • 2020
  • The aircraft nose landing gear (NLG) can suffer of an unstable vibration called shimmy that is responsible of discomfort and of fatigue stress on the gear strut components. An adaptive controller is proposed in this paper to cope with the aforementioned problem. It is based on a method called Modified Simple Adaptive control (MSAC) which is able of governing the NLG motion by using a feedback signal that relies on just one output of the plant. The MSAC only asks for the passivity of the controlled plant. With this aim, a parallel feedforward compensator is employed in this work to let the system satisfies the almost strictly passivity (ASP) requirements. The nonlinear equations that govern the aircraft NLG shimmy vibration behavior are used to analyzed the controlled system transient response undergoing an initial disturbance and taking into account different taxiing speed values.

Evaluation of Selective Saturation and Refocousing Pulses in Chemical Shift NMR Imaging

  • Shin, Yong-Jin;Park, Young-Sik
    • 한국자기공명학회논문지
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    • 제4권1호
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    • pp.64-73
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    • 2000
  • There are several methods to achieve selective NMR image of differing chemical species with the three most popular methods of Dixon's, CHESS, and SECSI. A major problem common to all chemical shift imaging methods is the uniformity of the static magnetic field and distortions introduced when RF coils are loaded with a conducting specimen. Without magnetic field shimming, these methods cannot be used to acquire selectively image protons in fat and water which are separated by approximately 3.0ppm. Experiments with a phantom, with linewidths of 2.5 to 3.5ppm, were quantitatively evaluated for the three methods and a new chemical shift imaging method. In this study the new chemical shift imaging method (modified CHESS+SECSI technique) which included a selective saturation and refocusing pulse, was developed to determine the ratios of water and fat in different samples.

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지반침하가 있는 저압 증기터빈의 진동저감 (Vibration Reduction of a LP Steam Turbine having Support Subsidence)

  • 신범식;최연선;봉석근
    • 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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    • 제22권1호
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    • pp.74-80
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    • 2012
  • The vibration of a LP turbine case may cause the failure of power generation and reduce the life of its facility. In this study we carried out on-site measurements of a LP turbine in order to find the cause of the vibration and conducted experimental and numerical modal analysis of the turbine case with its support frame. The measurement and the modal analysis show that the natural frequency of the turbine becomes close to 60 Hz due to the subsidence of the support. The elimination of the subsidence by shimming between the turbine and the support frame gave rise to the reduction of the vibration of the LP turbine case.

초전도 MRI 마그네트 국산화 개발 (The Domestic Development of a Superconducting MRI Magnet)

  • 배준한;심기덕;고락길;진홍범;조전욱;하동우;오상수;권영길;류강식
    • 한국초전도저온공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 한국초전도저온공학회 2001년도 학술대회 논문집
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    • pp.121-124
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    • 2001
  • The research results on the superconducting magnet for whole body MRI are presented. The magnet consists of main coil with 6 solenoid coils, shielding coil with 2 solenoid coils and 6 sets of cryogenic shim coil. The ferromagnetic shim assembly is installed on the inside wall of the room temperature bore for shimming inhomogeneous field components generated due to manufacturing tolerances, installation misalignments and external ferromagnetic materials near the magnet. Also, the magnet is enclosed with the horizontal type cryostat with 80cm room temperature bore to keep the magnet under the operating temperature. The magnetic field distributions within the imaging volume were measured by the NMR field mapping system. Through the test, the central field of magnet was 1.5 Tesla and the field homogeneity of 9.3 ppm has been obtained on 40cm DSV(the diameter of spherical volume) and using this magnet, comparatively good images for human body, fruits and water phantoms have been achieved.

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