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A case of pulmonary disease with unilateral hyperlucent lung (일측성 방사선 과투시성을 보인 폐질환)

  • Ohn, Joon-Sang;Seo, Jee-Young;Park, Mi-Ran;Rheu, Nam-Soo;Cho, Dong-Ill
    • Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases
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    • v.43 no.6
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    • pp.1042-1047
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    • 1996
  • The Swyer-James syndrome is a relatively uncommon disease entity presented with unilateral hyperlucent lung due to hypoplasia of a pulmonary artery and bronchiectasis of the affected lung. The main finding is a hyperlucent lung with small hilar shadows on the chest X-ray. Pulmonary angiography is the standard method for diagnosis. We report a case of the Swyer-James syndrome with a brief review of literature.

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Economic Scale of Radiation Application in Japan

  • Kume, Tamikazu
    • Journal of Radiation Industry
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.191-196
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    • 2011
  • The economic scale of nuclear application is a good indicator to show how the radiation technology is useful and contribute to improve public welfare and living standard. Recent research in Japan shows that the economic scale of nuclear field was 4,112 B¥ for radiation application(46%) and 4,741 B¥ for nuclear energy (54%) playing a role of "two wheels of one cart" in nuclear field and the total 8,853 B¥ constitutes 1.8% of gross domestic products (GDP). The radiation application consisted of 2,295 B¥ (56%) in industry (semiconductor, sterilization, nondestructive testing, radiation processing of tires, etc.), 1,538 B¥ (37%) in medicine (therapy and diagnosis such as X-ray, nuclear medicine, computed tomography, etc.) and 279 B¥ (7%) in agriculture (mutation breeding, food irradiation, sterile insect technique, etc.). Radiation application by ${\gamma}$-ray, electron beam and ion beam is steadily increasing in Japan.

Situs inversus totalis in a dog with splenic marginal zone lymphoma

  • Choi, Sooyoung;Kim, Heesu;Lee, Kija;Park, Inchul
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Service
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    • v.41 no.4
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    • pp.281-285
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    • 2018
  • An 11-year-old intact male mixed-breed dog was referred for evaluation of a splenic mass. On radiographs, the cardiac apex, stomach, and head of the spleen were on the right and the descending colon was on the left of the midline. In addition, the left kidney was located more cranially than the right kidney. Standard two-dimensional echocardiographic images were obtained from each inverted left and right parasternal windows. Furthermore, the spleen was observed on the right side and a splenic mass was found on the splenic tail. Based on the radiographic and ultrasonographic characteristics of the patient, a diagnosis of situs inversus totalis (SIT) and a splenic mass was made, and splenic resection was performed successfully with no unexpected complications. The splenic mass was confirmed histopathologically as being marginal zone lymphoma (MZL). This report describes a dog with SIT and splenic MZL.

Spontaneous Intracranial Vertebral Artery Dissection in a 2-Year-Old Child Diagnosed with High-Resolution MRI: a Case Report

  • Heo, Subin;Han, Miran;Kim, Sung Hwan;Choi, Jin Wook
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.259-263
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    • 2019
  • Although many imaging modalities can play some roles in the diagnosis of vertebral artery dissection (VAD), digital subtraction angiography (DSA) remains the gold standard method, with the highest detection rate and ability to assist in planning for endovascular treatment. However, this tool is often avoided in children because its invasive nature and it exposes them to radiation. High resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HR-MRI) have been suggested to be a reliable and non-invasive alternative, but it has never been discussed in children in whom vertebral artery dissection is a rare condition. In this report, we evaluate a case of a 2-year-old child who initially presented with cerebellar symptoms, and was early diagnosed with vertebral artery dissection using HR- MRI and was successfully treated.

A Requirement of a Search Browser for Effective Searching of Clinical Terminology (효과적인 의학용어 검색을 위한 검색 브라우저의 요건)

  • Ryu, Wooseok
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2014.10a
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    • pp.416-417
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    • 2014
  • SNOMED CT is a standard clinical terminology to provide a standardized way for recording and managing of clinical records in EMR systems. However, because of its huge expressive power, it is very difficult to consistently record patients' status such as diagnosis and procedure. The reason is that one clinical meaning can be expressed in variety of ways using multiple terminologies and vice versa. This paper proposes a novel requirement of effective search browser for SNOMED CT terminologies by analyzing duplicated or similar terminologies.

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Masticatory muscle tendon-aponeurosis hyperplasia accompanied by limited mouth opening

  • Yoda, Tetsuya
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
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    • v.45 no.4
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    • pp.174-179
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    • 2019
  • Patients with masticatory muscle tendon-aponeurosis hyperplasia (MMTAH) experience limited mouth opening due to restricted muscle extension. Hyperplastic aponeurosis and tendons lead to the restriction of muscle extension. The criteria for the diagnosis of MMTAH are limited mouth opening that progresses very slowly from adolescence, intraoral palpation reveals a hard cord-like structure along the overhang of the anterior border of the masseter muscle on maximum mouth opening, and a square mandible. Conservative treatment, including pharmacotherapy, occlusal splint and physical therapy are ineffective. The standard therapy is surgical treatment, such as anterior partial aponeurectomy of the masseter muscle and coronoidectomy. The long-term results are very satisfying.

Tumor Segmentation in Multimodal Brain MRI Using Deep Learning Approaches

  • Al Shehri, Waleed;Jannah, Najlaa
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.22 no.8
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    • pp.343-351
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    • 2022
  • A brain tumor forms when some tissue becomes old or damaged but does not die when it must, preventing new tissue from being born. Manually finding such masses in the brain by analyzing MRI images is challenging and time-consuming for experts. In this study, our main objective is to detect the brain's tumorous part, allowing rapid diagnosis to treat the primary disease instantly. With image processing techniques and deep learning prediction algorithms, our research makes a system capable of finding a tumor in MRI images of a brain automatically and accurately. Our tumor segmentation adopts the U-Net deep learning segmentation on the standard MICCAI BRATS 2018 dataset, which has MRI images with different modalities. The proposed approach was evaluated and achieved Dice Coefficients of 0.9795, 0.9855, 0.9793, and 0.9950 across several test datasets. These results show that the proposed system achieves excellent segmentation of tumors in MRIs using deep learning techniques such as the U-Net algorithm.

Comparison on electrical characteristic changes of ZnO Arrester Blocks by Lightning Impulse Current (ZRO 피뢰기 소자의 뇌충격전류에 의한 전기적 특성 변화 비교)

  • Han, Joo-Sup;Park, Young-Ho;Kil, Gyung-Suk;Kim, Chan-Young
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 1999.11d
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    • pp.1108-1110
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    • 1999
  • This paper describes the comparison results on electrical characteristic changes of ZnO blocks by lightning impulse current. The five types of ZnO blocks used in lightning arrester for distribution lines have been estimated repeatedly till about 400 times by a standard lightning impulse current of 3kA, $8/20{\mu}s$, and changes of the performance characteristics of them to operation times were examined and compared quantitatively every fifty times discharge. It is expected that the result will be useful to diagnose the soundness of ZnO blocks or lightning arresters, and to develope deterioration diagnosis device for them.

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A Study on Process Innovation of Strategy plan (프로세스 혁신 전략수립 방안에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Guk;Kim, Kil-Hwan;Son, Chul-Min;Kim, Chang-Eun
    • Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.153-160
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    • 2011
  • This thesis introduced a model of diagnosing a company's quality management, and a process of achieving quality innovation based on the model. As for study methods, books and theses related to quality and process innovation were collected for investigation, a survey on internal employees to investigate major issues of quality and standard consciousness was conducted, and 5DP was discussed for balanced process analysis.

An Experimental Study on the Supposed Heating Temperature of Exposed Concrete at High Temperature (고온에 노출된 콘크리트의 수열온도 추정을 위한 실험적 연구)

  • Jang Jea bong;Lee Eui Bae;Cho Bong Suk;Kim Yong Ro;Kwon Young Jin;Kim Moo-Han
    • Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.157-160
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    • 2004
  • If concrete structure is exposed to high temperature such as long-term fire, damages affecting partial or whole structure system may occur. Therefore accurate diagnosis of deterioration is needed based on mechanism of fire deterioration in general concrete structures. Fundamental information and data on the properties of concrete exposed to high temperature are necessary. Especially, the amount of fire damage done to concrete depends on the materials, the standard design compressive strength of concrete, and heated temperature. So, the object of this study is to present data for supposed heated Temperature of deteriorated concrete by fire.

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