• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.207-213
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• 2017

In order to accurately perform multispectral imaging using a multiplexed illumination, intensity of illumination in a scene must be uniform. For image acquisition that requires accurate color information, even if not multispectral imaging, the illumination information must be accurate, and a flat light source or illumination calibration is performed for accurate illumination characteristics. In this paper, we propose a method of color correction to uniformly illuminate an image with non-uniform illumination intensity. The proposed method uses multispectral imaging instead of illumination calibration for color correction. First of all, we perform multispectral imaging with two images obtained from non-uniformity illumination to acquire spectral reflectance. The obtained reflection spectrum is relit as the illumination characteristic of the image obtained from general planar light such as fluorescent light or sunlight. By comparing the image obtained by relighting with the uniformly illuminated image, the non-uniformity of the illumination is confirmed, and the color correction is performed as the image obtained from the uniform image. It is expected that the experimental results will confirm whether the non-uniformity of the illumination is uniformly corrected and reduce the restriction of illumination in obtaining the color information of the image.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.118-124
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• 1995

단일광자방출전산화 단층촬영술을 이용한 영상정보를 효과적으로 얻기 위하여 고려되어야 할 사항으로는 1) 조준기(collimator)의 선택, 2) 기질(matrix)의 크기, 3) 회전각의 수 (number of angles), 4) 360도 또는 180도 획득(acquisition), 5) continuous 또는 step& shoot, 6) 원형 또는 비원형회전 등이 있다. 저자들은 비원형회전으로 검체와 검출기 사이의 거리를 단축시킴으로써 직선성, 균일성, 대조도, 해상력에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위하여 원형회전 방법과 비교하여 다음과 같은 결과를 얻었다. (1) 비원형회전을 하여도 균일성(uniformity)과 직선성(linearlity)을 유지한다. (2) 균일성, 대조도(contrast), 해상력(resolution)들이 비원형 회전을 한 경우에 보다 더 개선되었다. (3) 영상 획득시간은 비원형회전인 경우에 더 소요되었다. (매스캔 당 10분) 따라서 검사자는 영상 화질의 개선효과와 상반되는 보정(calibration)과 설치(set-up)에 소요되는 시간(매스캔당 10분이상)을 비교하여 자료획득(data acquisition) 회전방법을 선택하여야한다.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.337-344
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the radiolucency for the phantom output to the 3D printing technology. The 3D printing technology was applied for FDM (fused deposition modeling) method and was used the material of ABS (acrylonitrile butadiene styrene) resin. The phantom was designed in cylindrical uniformity. An image uniformity was measured by a cross-sectional images of the 3D printed phantom obtained from the CT equipment. The evaluation of radiolucency was measured exposure dose by the inserted ion-chamber from the 3D printed phantom. As a results, the average of uniformity in the cross-sectional CT image was 2.70 HU and the correlation of radiolucency between PMMA CT phantom and 3D printed ABS phantom is found to have a high correlation to 0.976. In the future, this results will be expected to be used as the basis for the phantom production of the radiation quality control by used 3D printing technology.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.11
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• pp.1307-1314
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• 2012

To reduce the effects of clutters with subsurface inhomogenities in ground-penetrating radar(GPR) images, an eigenimage based signal-processing technique is presented. If the conventional eigenimage filtering technique is applied to B-scan images of a GPR survey, relatively homogeneous clutters such as antenna ringing, direct coupling between transmitting and receiving antennas, and soil-surface reflection, can be removed sufficiently. However, since random clutters of subsurface inhomogenities still remain in the images, target signals are distorted and obscured by the clutters. According to a comparison of the eigenimage filtering results, there is different coherency between subsurface clutters and target signals. To reinforce the pixels with high coherency and reduce the pixels with low coherency, the pixel-by-pixel geometric-mean process after the eigenimage filtering is proposed here. For the validity of the proposed approach, GPR survey for detection of a metal target in a randomly inhomogeneous soil is numerically simulated by using a random media generation technique and the finite-difference time-domain(FDTD) method. And the proposed signal processing is applied to the B-scan data of the GPR survey. We show that the proposed approach provides sufficient enhancement of target signals as well as remarkable reduction of subsurface inhomogeneous clutters in comparison with the conventional eigenimage filtering.

• 전기의세계
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• v.34 no.8
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• pp.489-496
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• 1985

VLSI기술의 독특한 특징들은 이에 맞는 VLSI 지향적 아키텍쳐를 요구하게 된다. 이러한 아키텍쳐들은 영상신호 처리에 있어 중요한 실시간 처리를 위한 병렬처리 및 pipeline처리에도 잘 조화되어 고속영상신호 처리를 위한 시스템에서 VLSI기술이 필수적으로 사용 되어야 함을 알 수 있다. 현재 고속 영상신호 처리를 위한 VLSI 구조로 화면의 병렬성에 근거를 둔 CLA(Cellular Logic Array) 및 이의 단점을 보완한 피라밋 구조가 활말히 연구되고 있으나 거대한 양의 하드웨어 및 주변 시스템의 요구로 그 규모가 방대하여 지는 흠이 있다. 이에 반하여 화소 Kernel의 병렬성에 근거를 두는 pixel-kernel 프로세서는 영상신호 데이타의 공간의존성의 기본 단위인 Kernel을 병렬처리하고 그 거대성 및 균일성은 Pipeline 처리를 함으로써 비교적 작은 하드웨어로 높은 성능을 얻을수 있다. 또한 기존 영상 Sensor 로부터의 데이타 흐름을 중단 시키지 않고 처리할 수 있으며 기본 프로세서의 다양한 조합 방법에 의해 시스템 구조상의 유연성을 갖는다. 따라서 로보트 등의 실제적인 응용분야에서 후자의 구조가 효율적으로 사용될 것으로 전망된다. 앞으로 효과적인 pixel-Kernel 프로세서의 개발을 위해 PKF 계산구조의 연구와 함께 효과적인 Kernel 병렬성을 실현할 수 있는 VLSI 지향적 구조의 개발이 요구된다.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.20-24
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• 2009

Objective: In this study, the differences between two reconstruction methods were analyzed by comparing image uniformity and contrast according to Iteration and Subset, which were altered through the Iterative method and True X method, used in Siemens' PET/CT studies. Methods: The Phantom images were obtained by exposure for two minutes per one bed. To determine the image uniformity, the Coefficient of variance was used. Also, in order to compare the contrast value, we measured and analyzed the ratio of the SUV mean of Phantom image's hot spheres and the background. Results: Under the same reconstruction conditions (Iteration and Subset) of CV, the Iterative method was higher than the True X method. In the comparison of the SUV mean ratio of the background and hot sphere, the True X method had a closer rate than the Iterative method. Conclusion: The newly developed True X reconstruction method is better than the previously used Iterative method in terms of uniformity and contrast. However, the date for this study was only obtained using the Phantom device. In order to obtain more accurate and useful information from the experiment, further research should be conducted. Also, it is necessary to find the appropriate standards for Iteration and Subset for further experimentation.

• Korean Journal of Digital Imaging in Medicine
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.57-60
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• 2015

병원에서 사용되는 임상용 모니터의 관리는 중요하다. 모니터의 기본적 관리는 휘도이며, 휘도에서도 균일도가 가장 먼저 관리되는 대상이다. 특히 LCD 모니터인 경우 균일도에 문제가 모니터의 교체주기와 일치하는 경우가 많다. 휘도에 대한 평가는 여러 가지가 존재하지만, 본 연구에서는 AAPM TG18에 따라 TG18-UNL10, TG18-UNL80을 이용하여 휘도의 균일도를 조사하였다. 이 조사과정에서 측정값 중 가장 높은 수치를 기준으로 나머지 값의 편차를 구하는 방법과 평균값을 이용하여 측정값의 편차를 구하는 방법 두 가지를 사용하였으며, 두 가지 방법의 유의성을 알아보고자 휘도의 편차 변화량 즉, 균일도를 측정하였다. 휘도 균일도의 정량평가는 향후 모니터의 관리에 가장 큰 영향을 미치는 인자로써 측정기간 중 변화량은 매우 적게 나타났다. 따라서 본 연구에서 제시된 최대, 최소값의 편차나 평균값의 상대 편차값 모두 유의한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.278-281
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• 2008

본 논문은 그림자 밝기의 선형적 변화를 비균일하게 양자화하여 그림자를 검출하는 기법을 제안한다. 그림자의 밝기의 선형성 적용은 기하학 정보, 광원의 종류 및 방위에 독립적일 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 이 기법은 그림자 밝기가 점진적으로 변하거나 변화가 없다는 가정과 그림자는 어둡다는 공리를 기반한다. 먼저, 전처리를 통하여 그림자 후보영상을 검출한다. 다음으로, 인접화소들 사이의 선형의존성을 낮추기 위하여 유사 밝기를 대표 밝기로 표현하기 위해 양자화 한다. 이때 선형성을 증가시키 위해 등비수열을 이용하여 비균일 양자화한다. 마지막으로, 그림자 밝기의 선형적 변화 특성을 이용하여 선형의존성이 높은 그림자를 검출한다. 임의의 단일 자연영상의 실험에서, 제안한 알고리즘은 본영과 단색 배경을 갖는 반영 및 셀프그림자의 검출에 강건함을 보였다.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.29-33
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• 2011

Background and Purpose: Uniformity is the one of the important quality control features with respect to gamma cameras. To maintain adequate uniformity, we must acquire suitable flood table (=flood map) data because the flood table effects energy, and the type or dose of input radiation. Therefore, in this study we evaluated the difference in uniformity when uniformity does not match between the type of input radiation and the flood table data or collimator type. Subjects and Methods: For input radiation, we prepared 370 MBq of $^{57}Co$, $^{99m}Tc$, and $^{201}Tl$. Using SKYLight (Philips) and Infinia gamma cameras (GE), we acquired nine uniformity data that were corrected by technetium, cobalt flood table and did not corrected image for the three sources. Additionally, we acquired two uniformity images with a collimator that were corrected by intrinsic and extrinsic flood tables. Using this data, we evaluated and compared the uniformity values. Results: In the case of the SKYLight gamma camera, the uniformities of the images that matched between the input radiation and flood table with respect to $^{99m}Tc$ and $^{57}Co$ were better than the unmatched uniformity (3.96% vs. 5.69% ; 4.9% vs. 5.91%). However, because there was no thallium flood table, the uniformities of images at Tl were significantly incorrect (7.49%, 7.03%). The uniformities of the Infinia gamma camera had the same pattern as the SKYLight gamma camera (3.7% vs. 4.5%). Moreover, the uniformity of the $^{99m}Tc$ image acquired with a collimator and corrected by an extrinsic flood table was better than the intrinsic flood table (3.96% vs. 6.28%). Conclusion: Correcting an image by a suitable flood table can help achieve better uniformity for a gamma camera. Therefore, we have to acquire images with suitable uniformity correction, and update the flood table periodically. Whenever we acquire a nuclear medicine image, we always have to check the appropriate flood table according to the acquired condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.38 no.10
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• pp.1020-1025
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• 2010

On-board black body is used for radiation temperature calibration of spaceborne radiometers and imaging systems. The thermal design of black body proposed in this study is basically composed of heaters to heat-up the black body from low to high temperature during the calibration, heat pipe to transfer residual heat on the black body just after calibration to radiator on the S/C and heaters on the radiator to keep the certain temperature range of the black body during non-calibration. In the present work, the effectiveness of thermal design of on-board black body has been investigated by on-orbit thermal analysis.