• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.71-78
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• 2003

SPM99를 이용한 뇌지도 작성 과정에서 각각의 뇌 영상을 SPM99에서 제공하는 template image와 소아의 영상으로 만든 template image로 각각 공간 규격화하였을때 소아 ADHD 환자의 정상인 소아와 환자 그룹간의 비교를 실행하여 뇌혈류의 변화를 분석, 결과를 비교하였다. P-value를 0.05로 하였을 때 SPM99에서 제공하는 template image로 규격화하여 t-test를 한 결과 Inter-hemispheric 부근과 대뇌 후두엽에서 혈류량이 증가하는 것을 볼 수 있으나 12명의 정상 소아의 평균 image로 만든 template image로 규격화한 결과의 경우 좌뇌(Left Cerebrum)의 두정엽(Parietal Lobe)에서 또 다른 혈류량증가의 cluster가 나타났다.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.31-37
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• 2007

Objectives : A voxel based investigation of cerebral blood flow was conducted to identify functional differences during resting state between children with early-onset schizophrenia and normal controls. Methods : 19 children and adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia(8 boys and 11 girls, mean age $14.0{\pm}1.7$ years old) and 17 comparison children(13 boys and 4 girls, mean age $11.0{\pm}1.9$ years old) were examined by HMPAO-SPECT. The SPECT images were compared using statistical parametric mapping analyses, controlling for age and sex. Results : Increased cerebral blood flow in left medial and inferior frontal gyrus, right superior and middle frontal gyrus, both inferior temporal gyrus, and right cerebellar tonsil was found in children and adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia compared to control subjects. In addition, decreased cerebral blood flow in right thalamus, left posterior cingulate gyrus, right anterior cingulate gyrus and relatively wide areas from left medical frontal gyrus to superior parietal lobule were found in children and adolescents with early-onset schizophrenia compared to control subjects. Conclusion : The results of the current study provide additional evidences for brain areas involving the onset of schizophrenia in early age.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.152-158
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• 2002

Background & Purpose:Neuropsychological disorders after traumatic brain injury(TBI) are poorly correlated with structural lesions detected by structural neuroimaging techniques such as computed tomography(CT) scan or magnetic resonance imaging(MRI). It is well known that patients with TBI have cognitive and behavioral disorders even in the absence of structural lesions of the brain. This study investigated whether there are abnormalities of regional cerebral blood flow(rCBF) in TBI patients without structural abnormality on MRI, using technetium 99m ethyl cysteinate dimer(Tc-99m-ECD) single photon emission computed tomography(SPECT) scans. Materials and Methods:Twenty-eight TBI patients without structural abnormality on MRI(mild, n=13/moderate, n=9/severe, n=6) and fifteen normal controls were scanned by SPECT. A voxel-based analysis using statistical parametric mapping(SPM) was performed to compare the patients with the normal controls. Results:rCBF was reduced in the right uncus and the right lateral orbitofrontal gyrus in the TBI patients. However, no increase of rCBF was noted in the patients in comparison to the normal controls. Conclusions:These results suggest that the TBI patients, even in the absence of structural lesion of the brain, may have dysfunction of the brain, particularly of the orbitofrontal and anterior pole of the temporal cortex. They also suggest that SPECT can be a useful method to identify brain dysfunctions in combination with structural brain imaging and neuropsychological tests.

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.13-18
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• 2008

Objectives : Internet addiction or pathologic internet use is one of the major mental health problems in children and adolescents in Korea. Internet addiction is defined as uncontrollable, markedly time-consuming internet use, which lasts for a period of at least six months. Internet addiction results in poor academic performance and negative parent-child relationships. By using $^{18}F$-fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET), we investigated the effects of internet addiction on functional changes occurring in the adolescent brain. Methods : Adolescent patients with an internet addiction (4 boys and 2 girls; $15.6{\pm}1.2$ years) participated in this study. Eight healthy young adults (5 males and 3 females; 18-30 years old) with no previous history of psychiatric illness also participated as normal controls. Brain FDG-PET data was obtained with the participants in the resting condition and with no addictive stimuli. Results : Statistic parametric mapping analysis of the brain FDG-PET data revealed hypometabolic changes in the visual information processing circuits and hypermetabolic changes in the prefrontal areas in the adolescents with internet addiction, as compared with normal controls (p<.001). Conclusion : These results suggest a neuronal adaptation to excessive visual stimulation and synaptic plasticity due to internet addiction.

• 한국인지과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국인지과학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.151-153
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• 2005

We investigated the brain substrate of repetition priming on the implicit memory taskusing low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) with high-density 128 channel EEG and individual MRI as a realistic head model. Thirteen right-handed, healthy subjects performed a word/nonword discrimination task, in which the words and nonwords were presented visually,and some of the words appeared twice with a lag of one or five items. All of the subjects exhibited repetition priming with respect to the behavioral data, in which a faster reaction time was observed to the repeated word (old word) than to the first presentation of the word (new word). The old words elicited more positive-going potentials than the new words, beginning at 200 ms and lasting until 500 ms post-stimulus. We conducted source reconstruction using LORETA at a latency of 400 ms with the peak mean global field potentials and used statistical parametric mapping for the statistical analysis. We found that the source elicited by the old words exhibited a statistically significant current density reduction in the left inferior frontal gyrus. This is the first study to investigate the generators of repetition priming using voxel-by-voxel statistical mapping of the current density with individual MRI and high-density EEG.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.168-176
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• 2003

Objectives:We investigated the characteristics of P300 generators in obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) patients by using voxel-based statistical parametric mapping of current density images. Methods:P300 generators, produced by a rare target tone of 1500Hz under a frequent non-target tone of 1,000Hz, were measured in 15 right-handed OCD patients and 15 controls. Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography(LORETA), using a realistic head model of the boundary element method based on individual MRI, was applied to the 128-channel EEG. Statistical parametric mapping(SPM) was applied for the statistical analysis. Results:We found that both groups had the mean current density of P300 in the parietal, temporal and prefrontal lobe. There was a trend for decreased current density in the prefrontal area in OCD patients. The statistical comparison showed current density increase in the supraparietal area, a statistically significant longer P300 latency and a trend for reduced P300 amplitude in OCD patients. Conclusion:It suggests that P300 source of both groups exists in multiple brain regions at the same time. And both groups had no statistically significant differences in the current density of P300 except for increased current density in the supraparietal area in OCD patients. But, considering the statistically significant longer P300 latency, a trend for reduced P300 amplitude and relative mean current density reduction in the prefrontal area in OCD patients, this study suggests that the frontal lobe may have a reduced normal inhibitory process in OCD patients.

• 대한핵의학회지
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.131-141
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• 2001

목적: 수술을 필요로 하는 난치성 간질 중 전두엽 간질은 두 번째로 흔하나 간질 병소의 국소화는 쉽지 않다. 이 연구에서는 수술로 확인한 전두엽 간질환자를 대상으로 F-18-FDG PET의 간질 병소 국소화 성능을 알아보았다. 대상 및 방법:본 병원에서 간질 표준 검사 후 전두엽 간질로 진단되어 병소절제술을 시행한 후 간질이 잘 조절된 환자 24명을 대상으로 하였다. 이들은 모두 수술 후 Engel 분류상 I 또는 II 로 예후가 좋은 환자로서 수술 병리소견에 피질이형성증 18, 종양 4, 피질 반흔 2예이었다. F-18-FDG PET스캔에서의 대사 감소 부위를 육안 판독과 SPM 방법으로 분석하고 간질 병소를 국소화하였다. SPM 분석 때에 유의수준을 바꾸어가며 간질원인병소 국소화성능을 비교하였다. 결과: MR에 구조이상 병변이 보이는 경우가 12예, 정상례가 11예이었다. 육안 판독에 의한 F-18 FDG PET의 간질 병소를 편측화 또는 국소화 정확도는 54% (13/24)이었다. MR에서 구조적 이상이 있었던 경우는 67%에서, MR에 이상 소견이 없었던 경우 50%에서 F-18 FDG PET으로 대사 감소부위를 찾아 간질 병소를 발견하였다. SPM 분석에서는 유의수준 p값을 낮출수록 예민도가 감소하였다. SPM 방법으로 분석한 F-18 FDG PET의 간질원인 병소발견 예민도는 63%로 육안 판독에 비하여 높았으나 통계적 차이는 없었다. 결론: F-18 FDG PET은 전두엽 간질 환자에서 간질 병소를 예민하게 국소화하였으며 뇌 MR에서 구조적 병변이 없는 경우에서도 비슷한 빈도로 대사 감소부위를 찾아주었다. SPM 분석 방법은 F-18 FDG PET 전문가의 육안분석과 대등한 예민도를 보여 주었고 따라서 전두엽 간질 환자에서 간질 병소를 찾는데 도움될 것이라 생각한다.발생하기 용이함을 의미한다. 시스템과 사용자 설명서는 국내 시행이 가능한 상태로 판단된다. 그러나, 시행 시에 치료표적에서의 오차는 크지 않을 것으로 예상이 되지만, 위험장기에서의 오차는 클 것으로 예상되며, 이에 대한 방안이 마련돼야 할 것이며, 또한 임상의 중요성과 연관해 의미 있는 2차원 선량분포의 기준 마련이 요구된다.본 GE $Advance^{TM}$ PET 시스템이 임상에의 적용에 적합함을 보여주었다.mens사의 상용 분석 프로그램에는 해당 기능이 없어 계산값의 비교를 통한 검증은 수행하지 못하였고, 수화(hydration)와 탈수(dehydration) 각각의 조건에 따른 신장기능 분석에 적용하였을 때, 판별 기준이 되는 유의미한 값을 산출하여 타당성 검증을 대신하였다. 결론: 이 연구에서 개발한 핵의학 영상의 정량적 분석을 통한 신장기능 분석 프로그램을 사용하여 신장 기능을 분석한 결과, 타당성 있는 결과를 도출하여 그 유용성을 입증하였다. 이 개발 프로그램은 좀 더 다양한 임상응용 목적의 분석기능을 사용자가 직접 개발, 추가하기가 용이하여 기존 상용 프로그램보다 연구적 활용범위가 크다고 사료된다.2.2{\pm}0.4\;(1.6{\sim}3.2){\mu}g/ml$와 $1.4{\pm}0.2\;(0.8{\sim}1.6){\mu}g/ml$로서(p=0.16), 표준균주 3종 모두에서 Infecton의 MBC 또한 ciprofloxacin에 비해 $2{\sim}4$배가 높았다. 결론: Tc-99m Infecton은 ciprofloxacin 보다는 약하였지만 표준균주에 대해 생체외 항균력을 보였다.를 보였고 또한 다변량분석에서 휴식기의 관류지수는 좌심실 확장을 예측할 수 있는 유일한 지표였다. 또한 작은 수의 증례이지만

• Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.122-128
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• 2009

Objectives : Autism is a well-known psychiatric disorder that is presumed to have a neural basis. To investigate the underlying neurofunctional abnormalities of autism, the authors performed single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) on children with autism. Methods : Fifty-five children with untreated autism (47 boys and 8 girls, mean age=$50.6{\pm}20.28$ months) were selected from among the patients visiting the child and adolescent psychiatric clinic of Seoul National University Hospital. Psychiatrists had diagnosed the participants according to the DSM-IV criteria for autistic disorder and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) criteria for a diagnosis of autism. All participants were examined using 99mTC-HMPAO Brain SPECT. Using statistical parametric mapping (SPM) analysis, we compared the participants' SPECT images to standardized SPECT images of normal children, which had been retrospectively selected by the authors, on a voxel by voxel basis. Voxels with a p-value less than .001 were considered to be significantly different. Results : The autistic group showed significant hypoperfusion in the right medial frontal gyrus, right precentral gyrus, and left precuneus gyrus. In addition, they showed no significant hyperperfusion areas when compared to the control group. Conclusion : The findings of hypoperfusion in the medial-frontal lobe and precuneus are accord with hemodynamic abnormalities that have been already reported. Therefore, these findings are compatible with the recently suggested "theory of mind" hypothesis and the disturbances in attention shifting that have been observed in autistic children.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2009

In general, Independent component analysis (ICA) is a statistical blind source separation technique, used either in spatial or temporal domain. The spatial or temporal ICAs are designed to extract maximally independent sources in respective domains. The underlying sources for spatiotemporal data (sequence of images) can not always be guaranteed to be independent, therefore spatial ICA extracts the maximally independent spatial sources, deteriorating the temporal sources and vice versa. For such data types, spatiotemporal ICA tries to create a balance by simultaneous optimization in both the domains. However, the spatiotemporal ICA suffers the problem of source ambiguity. Recently, constrained ICA (c-ICA) has been proposed which incorporates a priori information to extract the desired source. In this study, we have extended the c-ICA for better analysis of spatiotemporal data. The proposed algorithm, i.e., constrained spatiotemporal ICA (constrained st-ICA), tries to find the desired independent sources in spatial and temporal domains with no source ambiguity. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested against the conventional spatial and temporal ICAs using simulated data. Furthermore, its performance for the real spatiotemporal data, functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI), is compared with the SPM (conventional fMRI data analysis tool). The functional maps obtained with the proposed algorithm reveal more activity as compared to SPM.

• Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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• 제42권5호
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• pp.347-353
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• 2008

목적: 본 연구는 일측 뇌관류결손이 있는 뇌경색 환자들에서 $^{99m}Tc-ECD$ 단일 광자방출단층촬영술을 이용하여 반대측 국소 뇌관류의 변화를 관찰하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 뇌관류결손이 있는 뇌경색 환자 57명이 대조군에 포함되었으며, 좌측과 우측 뇌경색 환자군으로 구분하였으며, 이들은 발병 시기에 따라 6개월을 기준으로 급성 뇌경색 환자군, 만성뇌경색 환자군으로 구분하였다. 대조군들 모두 국소 뇌관류를 측정하고자 SPM분석을 이용한 $^{99m}Tc-ECD$ 단일 광자방출단층촬영술을 실시하였다. 모든 대조군의 결과를 정상 대조군과 비교하였다. 결과: 모든 대조군에서 뇌경색 반대측 대뇌피질에서 뇌관류 증가가 관찰되었으며, 뇌경색 대뇌측에서의 뇌관류 증가는 관찰되지 않았다. 만성 뇌경색 대조군에서는 뇌병변 반대측 일차 감각운동피질에서의 뇌관류 증가가 관찰되었으나, 급성 뇌경색 대조군에서는 관찰되지 않았다. 만성 좌측 뇌경색 대조군에서는 우측 소뇌 뇌관류 증가가 관찰되었다. 결론: 뇌혈류 SPECT의 SPM분석에서 일측성 뇌경색 환자에서 뇌경색 반대측 대뇌의 혈류가 증가하고, 일부 환자군에서는 뇌경색 동측 소뇌의 혈류도 증가함을 관찰하였다. 그러나 이러한 소견이 뇌기능의 회복 기전과 직접적으로 연관성이 있는지 증명하기 위해서는 추가적인 연구가 필요하다.