• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.167-171
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• 2012

In this paper, we present an algorithm to extract features about disease region in digital stomach images. For feature extraction, DCT coefficients of gastrointestinal imaging matrix was obtained. DCT coefficent matrix is concentrated energy in low frequency region, we were extracted 128 feature parameters in low frequency region. Extracted feature parameters can using for differential compression of PACS and, can using for input parameter in CAD.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.141-148
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• 1991

A since authors started IORT for stomach cancer patient on 198, we developed various sized, shaped IORT cones for better clinical application and homogeneous surface and depth dose distribution. Authors concluded as following. 1. The shaping block should be fixed on the tray, not under the tray for homogeneous dose distribution. 2. The straight cone was showed better dose distribution than divergence cone. 3. The acryl cone was superior than the stainless-steel cone. 4. The acryl cover fixed on the end for IORT cone not only improvement of surface dose, but also homogenity of depth dose.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.1633-1636
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• 2005

의료영상정합은 환자의 해부학적 정보와 기능적 정보를 혼합함으로써 기능이상부위의 해부학적 위치를 판별하기 위한 목적으로 널리 이용되고 있다. 그러나 실제적으로 여러 종류의 환자영상 취득이 어렵거나 해부학적 영상정보가 손실되는 경우가 적지 않다. 따라서 표준 정상인 해부학적 영상과 환자 기능영상을 정합함으로써 보다 객관적인 환자 기능이상부위 분석이 요구된다. 이는 다중개체, 다중모달리티간 영상정합으로 기존의 표면정보 또는 복셀정보 기반 방법으로는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 두 대상영상 표면 뿐 아니라 내부 볼륨까지 대응시킬 수 있는 표면정보와 복셀정보를 혼합 적용한 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.27-28
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• 2009

경동맥 내중막두께(intima media thickness: IMT)는 2000년 미국심장학회에서 관상동맥 질환이나 허혈성 뇌질환 위험도의 독립적인 인자임을 인정하여 일차 진단지표로 권장함에 따라 세계적으로 그 관심이 확산되고 있다. 최근 국내에서도 서구화되어 가는 식생활 패턴으로 인해 고혈압, 동맥경화, 뇌졸중, 관상동맥 질환 등의 심뇌혈관계 질환 발병률이 높아지고 있다. 서구의 연구결과에 의하면 경동맥 내중막 두께는 인종, 성별, 연령에 따라 많은 차이를 보이기 때문에 임상적 진단에 기초가 되는 한국형 경동맥 내숭막두께 정상치 확립이 요구된다. 경동맥의 내중막두께는 경동맥 팽대부에서 근위부 10 mm 부위의 far wall 총경동맥 부위에서 심혈관계 위험 인자와 가장 상관성이 많은 것으로 보고되고 있다.

• The Korean Journal of Zoology
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• v.30 no.3
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• pp.239-247
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• 1987

생쥐 신장의 근위세뇨관과 원위세뇨관 세포의 미세구조에 미치는 염화 메틸수은의 독성에 대한 홍삼유출물의 첨독성적 영향을 전자현징경적으로 연구하였다. 염화 메틸수은 처리군의 근위세뇨관 세포에서는 대조군에서 보다 철세 융모가 다소 축소되고 불규칙한 배열을 하였다. Brush border의 인접 부위에서는 작은 경계들이 나타나고 세포질 중앙 부위에서는 치밀체를 함유한 큰 육포들이 관색되었다. Mitochondria는 상당히 팽대되고 기양막은 부분적으로 비후되었으며 다수의 ITsosome이 나타났다. 염화 메틸수은 처리군의 원위세뇨관 세롱에서는 불규칙한 세포 표면, 양사된 세포, 그리고 다수의 ribosome과 소수의 지방사이 나타났으며 mitochondria 는 팽대되고 기고막은 부분적으로 비후되었다. 염화 메틸수은-홍삼추출물 병행 처리군의 근위세뇨관 세포에서는 염화 메틸수은 처리군에서 보다 mitochondria의 팽대 정도가 감소되었으며 육포의 크기와 수도 상당히 감소되었다. 염화 메틸수은-홍모적출물 병행 처리군의 원위세뇨관 세롱에서는 세포 표면이 어느정도 규칙적이고 mitochondria의 정해와 기저막의 비후 정도가 감소되어 정상 세포와 거의 유사하였다.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
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• 1982.05a
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• pp.10.3-11
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• 1982

Recently through the advancement of medical and surgical managements and the development of low pressure cuffed endotracheal tube, incidence of tracheal stenosis was decreased significantly. Though its incidence was decreased markedly, stenosis was developted unfortunately in the situations such as long term use of respirator, heavy infection, trauma of the trachea and long term intubation etc. Tracheal stenosis had been handled with various methods such as mechanical dilatation, tissue graft techniques, luminal augumentation and end to end anastomosis due to their individual advantages but their effects were not satisfactory. In 1959 Lester had been found the regenerated cartilage from the perichondrium of the rib incidentaly. Since then Skoog, Sohn and Ohlsen were reported chondrogenic potential of perichondrium through the animal experiments. Though many different materials have been tried to rebuild stenosis and gaping defect of trachea, tracheal reconstruction has been a perplexing clinical problems. We choose the perichondrium as the graft material because cartilage is the normal supporting matrix of that structure and it will be an obvious advantage to be able to position perichondrium over a defect and obtain new cartilage there. The young rabbits, which were selected as our experimental animals, were sacrified from two to eight weeks after surgery. The results of our experiment were as follows; 1) In control group, the defect site of trachea was covered with fibrosis and vessels but graft site was covered with hypertrophied perichondrium and vessels. 2) Respiratory mucosa was completely regenerated in defect sites both control and grafted groups. 3) The histologic changes of the grafted sites were as follows: 2 weeks- microvessel dilatation, inflammatory reaction, initiation of fibrosis 4 weeks- decreased microvessel engorgement, submucosal fibrosis, decreased inflammatory reaction immatured cartilage island was noted in the grafted perichondrium (one specimen) 6 weeks- mild degree vascular engorgement submucosal fibrosis. chronic inflamatory reaction cartilage island and endochondrial ossification was noted in the grafted perichondrium (Two specimens) 8 weeks- minute vascular engorgement dense submucosal fibrosis. loss of inflammatory reaction. cartilage island was noted in the grafted perichondrium (two specimens) 4) There was no significant differences in regeneration between active surface in and out groups. 5) We observed immatured cartilage islands and endochondrial ossification in the perichondrial grafted groups where as such findings were not noted in control groups except fibrosis. We concluded that perichondrium was the adequate material for the reconstruction of defected trachea but our results was not sufficient in the aspect of chondrogenic potential of perichondrium. So further research has indicated possibility of chondrogenic potential of perichondrium.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.73-79
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• 2012

Purpose: The association of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, deletions and copy number with progressive changes in patients with some glomerular disease and end-stage renal disease have been reported. In this study, we performed mtDNA mutation analysis in children with IgA nephropathy to investigate its role in progressive clinical course. Methods: Seven children with IgA nephropathy were involved in this study. MtDNA isolated from platelet was amplified by PCR and sequenced entirely. Results: The mean age at renal biopsy was $11.5{\pm}2.2$ year and the mean age at latest evaluation was $17.9{\pm}3.2$ year. The mean follow-up period were $7.8{\pm}3.1$ years. Patients was divided into 2 groups according to the amount of proteinuria at presenting manifestation. Group 2 patients were nephrotic syndrome. Renal function reveals within normal range in all patients. In group 2 patients, the mean serum albumin level was significantly lower than those of group 1 ($3.7{\pm}0.6g/dL$ vs. $4.7{\pm}0.2g/dL$, P=0.0241) and the mean total cholesterol level was significantly higher than those of group 1 ($222.7{\pm}35.7mg/dL$ vs. $148.3{\pm}29.1mg/dL$, P=0.0283). In Group 2 patients, total amount of protein of 24 hour collected urine also significantly higher than those of group 1 ($1,466.0{\pm}742.5mg$ vs. $122.5{\pm}48.1mg$, P=0.0135). Pr/Cr ratio in random urine sample was also higher in group 2 than those of group 1 but the statistical significance was not noted ($1.8{\pm}1.6$ vs. $0.2{\pm}0.2$, P=0.0961). Deletion of mtDNA nt 8272-8281 were observed in two patients, one patient in each groups, respectively. This is noncoding lesion. No patients demonstrated the mtDNA mutations. Conclusions: We have identified a deletion of mtDNA nt 8272-8281 in two children with IgA nephropathy. Further studies are needed to clarify the role of mitochondrial function in the progressive change of IgA nephropathy.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.248-261
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• 1994

This study was undertaken to evaluate the clinical usefulness of magnetic motor evoked potential (MEP) in the diagnosis of stroke and predicting the motor improvement following stroke. The cortical, cervical and lumbar stimulations were performed in the case of 24 healthy controls and 24 ischemic stroke patients. The central motor conduction time (CMCT) was represented by the difference of latency to a target muscle between after transcranial stimulation and after cervical or lumbar stimulation. There was no case showing no response in controls. But in 11 out of 24 ischemic patients, we could not get cortical MEP. Mean CMCT of abductor pollicis brevis muscle was not significantly different in controls and stroke patients in whom MEPs were recorded. There were significant differences between mean CMCT of normal controls and that of stroke patients showing MEPs in AH Muscle. MEP Results from testing the stroke patients were correlated with site of lesion, degree of motor weakness and motor improvement after 1 to 2 months. These results suggest that magnetic MEP is easy and useful in electrophysiological test of central motor pathway and is useful indicator for representing the motor weakness and predicting the motor outcome in acute ischemic stroke patients.

• Journal of the korean academy of Pediatric Dentistry
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.580-585
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• 2009

Pediatric dentists often meet children with abnormal in number of tooth. Presence of supernumerary teeth is frequent cause of malocclusion. Etiology for supernumerary teeth is not yet clearly defined, but it is thought to be caused by excessive proliferation of dental lamina by hereditary and environmental factors. Supernumerary teeth occur in the maxilla nine times more frequently than in the mandible. Most common supernumerary tooth is the mesiodens in the maxilla, and some are observed in the maxillary molar and mandibular premolar. It occurs rarely in the mandibular incisor region with the incidence of 1-2% among all supernumerary teeth. A six-year old boy visited the department of the pediatric dentistry, Yonsei University Dental Hospital, with the chief complaint of crowded supernumerary teeth on the mandibular incisor region. Clinical and radiographic examinations revealed six permanent mandibular incisors similar in size, shape, and length. Further investigation using computed tomography(CT) was proceeded on the mandible to measure and compare morphologic features and positions of the six incisors. Then, we decided to remove two incisors which were already erupted. Periodic check-up was followed to monitor the dental development and spontaneous positional enhancement of the remaining four incisors in the mandible.

• Journal of Veterinary Clinics
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.515-518
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• 2014

A castrated male Yorkshire Terrier dog was presented for urinary incontinence and constipation. On physical examination, the dog showed difficult urination. There were no neurological abnormalities and no bacterial detection on urinalysis. Rectal examination revealed a regular, normal-sized prostate. Urethral catheterization was performed easily. Excretory urography and retrograde positive contrast urethrocystography showed displacement of the urinary bladder to the intrapelvic region. There was no evidence of an ectopic ureter. A tentative diagnosis of urethral sphincter mechanism incompetence accompanied with a pelvic bladder was made. Cystopexy was decided to place the urinary bladder to its normal position. The neck of the urinary bladder was anchored to the body wall and prepubic tendon using mattress sutures. Additional sutures were placed to appose the lateral part of the urinary bladder and abdominal wall. A simple interrupted suture was placed to tack the apex of the urinary bladder on the abdominal incision line. A urinary catheter was placed in the urinary bladder to provide post-operative evacuation. The catheter was removed when the dog was able to urinate with minimal straining at 3 days post-operatively. The owner reported that the dogs showed normal urination without straining at 3 days after the catheter was removed. Excretory urography revealed that the urinary bladder was located on its normal position at 2 months post-operatively. Subsequent communication with the owner by telephone revealed that the dog was in good urination at 3 years 11 months post-operatively.