• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.1102-1108
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• 2008

Wearable physiological signal monitoring systems are regarded as an important sensing unit platforms in ubiquitous/mobile healthcare application. In this paper, we suggested the modified bipolar electrodes implemented on the portable heart activity monitoring system, which minimized the distance of electrodes formed on a attachable pad. The proposed electrode configuration is useful in mobile measurement environments, but has a disadvantage of reduced amplitude of the heart action potential. In order to overcome the shortcoming of the suggested electrode configuration, we implemented the amplifying circuit to increase the signal-gain and decrease the artifacts. For evaluations, we analyzed the specificity of measured cardiography using the proposed electrodes through the comparing of heart activity monitoring system with standard clinical ECG(lead2) by pearson correlation coefficients. The result showed that the average correlation coefficient is $0.903{\pm}0.036,\;0.873{\pm}0.072$ at V3, V4 chest lead position, respectively. Thus, the modified bipolar electrode is quite suitable to monitor the electrical activity of the heart in the situation of the mobile environment, and could be considered having high similarity with standard clinical ECG.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.63 no.7
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• pp.945-949
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• 2014

In cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI), heart and respiratory motions are one of main obstacles in obtaining diagnostic quality of images. To synchronize CMRI to the physiological motions, ECG and respiratory gatings are commonly used. In this paper multi-biological signal (ECG, respiratory, and SPO2) based smart trigger system is proposed. By using multi-biological signal, the proposed system is robust to the induced noise such as eddy current when gradient pulsing is continuously applied during the examination. Digital conversion of the multi-biological signal makes the system flexible in implementing smart and intelligent algorithm to detect cardiac and respiratory motion and to reject arrhythmia of the heart. The digital data is used for real-time trigger, as well as signal display, and data storage which may be used for retrospective signal processing.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2685-2686
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• 2004

심자도(Magnetocardiography: MCG)는 심장에서 발생하는 자기신호로 크기가 수 pico Tesla에서 수 femto Tesla 정도로 지구 자기에 비하여 $10^{-6}{\sim}10^{-10}$ 정도로 매우 작기 때문에 보통 3층의 차폐 막 구조로 되어 있는 자기차폐실을 사용하여 외부 잡음을 줄인다. 그러나 자기차폐실의 비용이 크기 때문에, 자기차폐실의 비용을 줄이고 다양한 신호처리를 병행하여 신호대 잡음비를 높이고 있다. 본 논문에서는 1Giga FLOPS (FLoating point Operationals Per Second)의 부동 소숫점 연산능력을 가진 TMS320C6701을 사용하여 실시간 신호처리가 가능한 신호처리 시스템을 설계하였다. 개발된 DSP 보드는 PCI-bus 기반으로 설계하여 신호 측정 컴퓨터에 내장이 가능하도록 하였다. 프로그램과 데이터 처리를 위한 외부 메모리를 장착하였고, PCI 콘트롤러를 갖추어 PC 와의 대용량 메모리 공유가 가능하도록 하였다. 제작된 DSP 보드를 사용하여, 심자도 신호에서 실시간으로 적응 잡음 소거 및 필터링을 구현하여 신호대 잡음비의 향상을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.51 no.10
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• pp.477-482
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• 2002

One of the key technologic requirements for rotary blood pumps is the sealing of the motor shaft. A mechanical seal, a journal bearing, magnetic coupling, and magnetic suspension have been developed, but they have drawbacks such as wear, thrombus formation, and power consumption. A magnetic fluid seal is durable, simple, and non power consumptive. Long-term experiments confirmed these advantages. The seal body was composed of a Nd-Fe-B magnet and two pole pieces; the seal was formed by injecting magnetic fluid into the gap (50${\mu}m$) between the pole pieces and the motor shaft. To contain the ferro-fluid in the seal and to minimize the possibility of magnetic fluid making contact with blood, a shield with a small cavity was attached to the pole piece. While submerged in blood, the sealing pressure of the seal was measured and found to be 31kPa with magnetic fluid LS-40 (saturated magnetization, 24.3 KA/m) at a motor speed of 10,000 rpm and 53kPa under static conditions(0mmHg). The specially designed magnetic fluid seal for keeping liquids out is useful for axial flow blood pumps. The magnetic fluid seal was incorporated into an intra-cardiac axial flow blood pump.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2002.11c
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• pp.407-410
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• 2002

As a part of electro-mechanical totally implantable artificial heart, a transcutaneous energy transmission system has been developed. By mutual magnetic induction between the first coil on the skin and the subcutaneously implanted second coil, the system transfers electrical power through the skin. This research aimed a minimizing the size of the implanted part as well as maximizing the transfer efficiency. When an air gap is 1$\sim$2cm, voltage gain and current gain low and it is hard to transfer energy due to large leakage flux. That is, the required input voltage and input current must be large compared with the output voltage and output current, respectively, This paper research the inverter topology and the control method in order to increase the voltage gain and the current gain. For this purpose, this inverter employs double tune to compensate the large leakage inductance of primary and secondary of the transcutaneous transformer. And the output energy of transcutaneous energy transmission system supply for Lithium-ion battery charger.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.65 no.3
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• pp.493-498
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• 2016

Heart Rate Variability (HRV) represents beat-to-beat fluctuations of R-R intervals in Electrocardiogram (ECG). On of the clinical applications of HRV is to assess the mental-stress state by evaluating its power spectral density distribution. This study aims at finding new discriminative role of the coupled-oscillating coupling constants, Cs and Cp in the Integral Pulse Frequency Modulation (IPFM) model. Based on comparing with power spectral density of HRV in terms of the relative ratio of the low and high-frequency power component, we can conclude the fact that the coupling parameters Cs and Cp can replace the role of HRV power spectrum interpretation for judging the mental-stress state.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.66 no.3
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• pp.581-586
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• 2017

The well-known Integral Pulse Frequency Modulation (IPFM) cardiac oscillator has been used to generate the heart beat fluctuations as a representation of the modulatory autonomic nervous activity in terms of sympathetic and parasympathetic state. The IPFM model produces heartbeats by integrating the modulated sinusoid signals and applying the threshold of unity or chaotic threshold levels. This study aims at evaluating the performance of IPFM model by analyzing the influence of the threshold level with comparatively applying preset threshold of unity and Logistic-map and Henon-map chaotic-threshold. Based on our simulated results with interpreting the spectral features of Heart Rate Variability (HRV), we can conclude that the IPFM model with preset threshold level of unity can generate the optimal heartbeat variations int the sense of clinically valid heartbeats.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2023.01a
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• pp.273-274
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• 2023

최근 고령화 사회로 인해 노년층의 인구 비율이 증가하고, 각종 질병 및 조기사망 등 많은 위험에 노출되고 있다. 이러한 위험을 최소화하기 위해 다양한 의료 기기들이 발전해나가고 있다. 그 중 일반 사람들이 접하기 쉬운 기기가 바로 AED(자동제세동기)이다. 현재 상용화되어 있는 AED는 의학 지식이 부족한 일반인에게 음성 및 화면을 통해 가이드를 해주고, 부착 패드에 전기를 가하여 심장에 전기충격을 줄 수 있게 만들어져 있다. 본 논문에서 AED 기능을 고도화하여 환자의 상태를 확인하고 환자의 위치와 바이탈 체크 정보를 수집하여 웹 서버로 전송하는 기능을 구현하였다. 서버에 전달된 정보는 출동하는 구급대원에서 전달되어 보다 빠른 조치가 가능한 응급시스템에 이용된다. 본 논문의 결과는 환자의 상태나 위치를 손쉽게 확인하고 관리함으로써 비상 상황 시 대처를 신속하게 할 수 있으며 기존 AED보다 경제제적 부담을 줄이는 기대 효과를 가질 수 있다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.715-720
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• 2014

In order to maximize the effect of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) on ventricular unloading, the therapy should be begun at appropriate level of heart failure severity. We predicted pumping efficacy of LVAD according to the severity of heart failure theoretically. We used 3 dimensional finite element model of ventricle coupled with 6 Wind-kessel compartmental model of vascular system. Using the computational model, we predicted cardiac responses such as contractile ATP consumption of ventricle, left ventricular pressure, cardiac output, ejection fraction, and stroke work according to the severity of ventricular systolic dysfunction under the treatments of continuous LVAD. Contractile ATP consumption, which indicates the ventricular energetic loading condition decreased maximally at the $5^{th}$ level heart-failure under LVAD therapy. We conclude that optimal timing for LVAD treatment is $5^{th}$ level heart-failure when considering LVAD treatment as "bridge to recovery".

• Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.3-14
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• 2004

In this article, the effects of stress on central nerve system and heart function and the concept of heart rate variability were reviewed. HRV(Heart Rate Variability), the periodical change of the heart rate, is indicated larger in the healthier because they respond flexibly to various sorts of facts influencing on HR. HRV analysis is largely composed of the time domain analysis and the frequency analysis. In the former the flexibility of heart function is analysed, while in the latter autonomic nerve function is examined, which is the degree of sympathetic and parasympathetic nerve activity and the state of balance. Furthermore, existence or nonexistence of disease and/or level of stress can be estimated by measuring the variability and normality of heart rate, and balance of autonomic nerve system, and through HRV biofeedback the symptoms of anxiety disorder or asthma can be reduced.