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Investigation of Polyesters by Time-of-Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry

  • Lee, Yeonhee;Han, Seunghee;Hercules, David M.
    • Analytical Science and Technology
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.715-722
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    • 1995
  • The structural characterization for series of polyesters has been done by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS). Polymer fragments and intact oligomers composed of large numbers of repeat units have been investigated. Transesterification of polyesters in trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) and chlorodifluoroacetic acid (CFA) was monitored and reaction products were identified using TOF-SIMS. The shapes and intensities of clusters in transesterification spectra show good agreement with the theoretical isotope pattern. TOF-SIMS spectra were used to obtain information about the progress of the transesterification reaction.

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Determination of the Isotope Ratio for Metal Samples Using a Laser Ablation/Ionization Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometry

  • Song, Kyu-Seok;Cha, Hyung-Ki;Kim, Duk-Hyeon;Min, Ki-Hyun
    • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.25 no.1
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    • pp.101-105
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    • 2004
  • The laser ablation/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry is applied to the isotopic analysis of solid samples using a home-made instrument. The technique is convenient for solid sample analysis due to the onestep process of vaporization and ionization of the samples. The analyzed samples were lead, cadmium, molybdenum, and ytterbium. To optimize the analytical conditions of the technique, several parameters, such as laser energy, laser wavelength, size of the laser beam on the samples surface, and high voltages applied on the ion source electrodes were varied. Low energy of laser light was necessary to obtain the optimal mass resolution of spectra. The 532 nm light generated mass spectra with the higher signal-to-noise ratio compared with the 355 nm light. The best mass resolution obtained in the present study is ~1,500 for the ytterbium.

Fast Image Reconstruction for Positron Emission Tomography Using Time-Of-Flight Information (양전자 방출 단층 촬영기의 비행 시간 정보를 이용한 고속 영상재구성)

  • Lee, Nam-Yong
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.865-872
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    • 2017
  • Recent advance in electronics and scintillators makes it possible to utilize the time-of-flight (TOF) information in improving image reconstruction of positron emission tomography(PET). In this paper, we propose a TOF-based fast image reconstruction method for PET. The proposed method uses the deconvolution of TOF data for each angle view and the rotational averaging of deconvolved images. Simulation results show an improved performance of the proposed method, as compared with filtered backprojection (FBP) method, TOF-FBP, and TOF version of expectation-maximization(EM) methods. Simulation results also show a great potentiality of the proposed method in limited angle tomography applications.

A Study on the Flight-time Limitation at each Mission in Whole-Body Vibration Exposure of UH-1 Pilot (UH-1H 조종사의 전신진동 노출에 따른 임무별 비행시간 한계에 관한 연구)

  • 송근식;정완섭;이달호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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    • 1998.11a
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    • pp.353-358
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    • 1998
  • Vibrations exposured to human whole-body are transmitted through the contact area of a human body, such as feet, hip and back directly in contact with vibrating surface. they apparently leads to the decrease of human comfort, the reduction of working efficiency or normal activities, and, furthermore, causes the loss of health and safety. In this study, UH-1 vibration has been measured to produce the flight-time limitation at each mission Results of this study show that the most significant peaks appear at a main rotor blade-passage frequency and that the vibration level in ground is higher than that in airborne In addition, it is shown that the most affective aspect for the flight-time limitation is ground vibration level

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The Evaluation of Image Quality using Time of Flight in Intracranial Magnetic Resonance Imaging : Comparison with 1.5 T and 3.0 T (뇌혈관 자기공명영상에서 Time-of-flight(TOF) 기법을 이용한 영상의 질 평가: 1.5 T 와 3.0 T 자기공명영상 비교)

  • Goo, Eunhoe
    • Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.43-48
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    • 2015
  • Intracrnial 3D TOF MR angiography was performed in 30 normal volunteers with both 1.5 and 3.0 T MRI system with high resolutions. Used Voxel sizes were $0.39{\times}0.39{\times}0.2$(1.5 T) and $0.19{\times}0.19{\times}0.35$(3.0 T), respectively. High image quality and depiction of small vessel branches were equality demonstrated with 1.5 T and 3.0 T HR TOF MRA(p<0.05). Intracranial high resolution TOF MRA with 1.5 T and 3.0 T provides high diagnostic information with having merits and demerits in depiction of vascular branches.

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Near-Infrared Light Propagation in an Adult Head Model with Refractive Index Mismatch

  • Kim, Seung-Hwan;Lee, Jae-Hoon
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.377-384
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    • 2005
  • We investigate near-infrared light (NIR) propagation in a model of an adult head using an extensive Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. The adult head model is a four-layered slab which consists of a surface layer, a cerebrospinal fluid layer, a gray-matter layer, and a white-matter layer. We study the effects of a refractive index mismatch on the model, calculating the intensity of detected light, mean flight time, and partial mean flight time of each layer for various refractive indices of the cerebrospinal fluid layer as functions of source-detector spacing. The Monte Carlo simulation shows that the refractive index mismatch presents very rich results including rapidly decaying intensity of detected light and a peak and cross-over in the partial mean flight time with source-detector spacing. We also investigate spatial sensitivity profiles at various source-detector spacings, discussing the index mismatch effect on the model.

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Factors Affecting the Recovery of Pilots +Gz Tolerance

  • Park, Myunghwan;Jee, Cheolkyu;Kim, Cheonyoung;Seol, Hyeonju
    • Journal of the Ergonomics Society of Korea
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    • v.36 no.5
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    • pp.535-543
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    • 2017
  • Objective: This study was designed to identify factors affecting pilots' +Gz tolerance recovery from +Gz induced exhaustion. Background: +Gz tolerance of pilots has been considered as a crucial factor to fly the modern high performance fighter aircrafts. However, the factors affecting pilots' G-tolerance recovery from +Gz induced exhaustion have not been examined in the acceleration research community. Method: A centrifuge profile consisting of a high +Gz run for pilot's exhaustion and a low +Gz run for pilot's recovery and another high +Gz runs for pilot's second exhaustion was designed. The subjects' +Gz tolerance recovery ratio was measured by ratio of second high +Gz run time to the first high +Gz run time. The subjects' +Gz tolerance recovery rate was measured by dividing the subjects' +Gz tolerance recovery ratio by the low +Gz run time. The subjects' G-tolerance recovery rate was analyzed with respect to the subjects' personal factors including subjects' anthropometric and physiologic characteristics, flight time, flying aircraft type and so on. Results: The subjects' previous three-month flight hours (r=-0.336, p=0.039), six-month flight hours (r=-0.403, p=0.012) and one-year flight hours (r=-0.329, p= 0.044) correlated with the subjects' G-tolerance recovery rate. Conclusion: The subjects' G-tolerance recovery rate is clearly related to the subjects' previous flight hours. However, the subjects' anthropometric and physiologic characteristics do not show any statistically significant correlation with the subjects' G-tolerance recovery rate. Application: This research provides a safety critical insight to aviation community by identifying the factors to affect the gravity-induced loss of consciousness (GLOC) of pilots.

Development & Verification of On-Board Flight Software on Software-based Spacecraft Simulator (소프트웨어 기반의 위성 시뮬레이터를 이용한 위성 탑재소프트웨어 개발 및 검증 방안)

  • Choi, Jong-Wook;Shin, Hyun-Kyu;Lee, Jae-Seung;Cheon, Yee-Jin
    • Journal of Satellite, Information and Communications
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.1-7
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    • 2010
  • For many years the development and verification of on-board flight software have been essentially performed on STB (Software Test Bed) environments which consist of real hardware in KARI. During development of on-board flight software on STB, we experienced many difficulties such as the late delivery of target hardware and limitation to access STB simultaneously by multiple developers. And it takes too much time and cost to build up multiple STBs. In order to successfully resolve this kind of problems, the software-based spacecraft simulator has been developed. The simulator emulates the on-board computer, I/O modules and power controller units and it supports the debugging and test facilities to software engineers for developing flight software. Also the flight software can be loaded without any modification and can be executed as pseudo real-time. This paper presents the architecture and design of software-based spacecraft simulator, and flight software development and verification under this environment.

Improvement of Track Tracking Performance Using Deep Learning-based LSTM Model (딥러닝 기반 LSTM 모형을 이용한 항적 추적성능 향상에 관한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jin-Ha;Lee, Jong-Min
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2021.05a
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    • pp.189-192
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    • 2021
  • This study applies a deep learning-based long short-term memory(LSTM) model to track tracking technology. In the case of existing track tracking technology, the weight of constant velocity, constant acceleration, stiff turn, and circular(3D) flight is automatically changed when tracking track in real time using LMIPDA based on Kalman filter according to flight characteristics of an aircraft such as constant velocity, constant acceleration, stiff turn, and circular(3D) flight. In this process, it is necessary to improve performance of changing flight characteristic weight, because changing flight characteristics such as stiff turn flight during constant velocity flight could incur the loss of track and decreasing of the tracking performance. This study is for improving track tracking performance by predicting the change of flight characteristics in advance and changing flight characteristic weigh rapidly. To get this result, this study makes deep learning-based Long Short-Term Memory(LSTM) model study the plot and target of simulator applied with radar error model, and compares the flight tracking results of using Kalman filter with those of deep learning-based Long Short-Term memory(LSTM) model.

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Automatic Processing Techniques of Rotorcraft Flight Data Using Data Mining (회전익항공기 운동모델 개발을 위한 데이터마이닝을 이용한 비행데이터 자동 처리 기법)

  • Oh, Hyeju;Jo, Sungbeom;Choi, Keeyoung;Roh, Eun-Jung;Kang, Byung-Ryong
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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    • v.46 no.10
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    • pp.823-832
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    • 2018
  • In general, the fidelity of the aircraft dynamic model is verified by comparison with the flight test results of the target aircraft. Therefore, the reference flight data for performance comparisons must be extracted. This process requires a lot of time and manpower to extract useful data from the vast quantity of flight test data containing various noise for comparing fidelity. In particular, processing of flight data is complex because rotorcraft have high non-linearity characteristics such as coupling and wake interference effect and perform various maneuvers such as hover and backward flight. This study defines flight data processing criteria for rotorcraft and provides procedures and methods for automated processing of static and dynamic flight data using data mining techniques. Finally, the methods presented are validated using flight data.