• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.538-544
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• 2000

A phased array ultrasonic nondestructive inspection system is being developed to obtain images of the interior of steel structures by modifying a medical ultrasound imaging system. The medical system consists of 64 individual transceiver channels that can drive 128 array elements. Several modifications of the system were required mainly due to the change of sound speed. It was necessary to fabricate array transducers for steel structure and to obtain A-scan signal that is necessary for the nondestructive testing. Boundary diffraction wave model was used for the prediction of radiation beam field from array transducers, which provided guidelines to design array transducers. And a RF data acquisition board was fabricated for the A-scan signal acquisition along a selected un line within an image. For the proper beam forming in the transmission and reception for steel structure, delay time was controlled. To demonstrate the performance of the developed system and fabricated transducers, images of artificial specimens and A-scan signals for selected scan lines were obtained in a real time fashion.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Technology Engineers
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.604-613
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• 2009

Recently, researches to develop phased array ultrasonic examination techniques are proceeded to diagnose dental caries and the status of surgical operation of dental implant. Sound field analysis of phased array ultrasonic transducers were carried out in order to characterizing the ultrasonic phased array beams. The sound field of ultrasonic radiation was calculated for the sample called "gypsum-improved stone" with the similar characteristics of dental materials. Industrial phased array ultrasonic devices were utilized for the insptriion of the artificial flaws machined in the gypsum-improved stone. Dental implants were made at the pig jaw bone and defect images were confirmed for the dental implants.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.361-364
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• 2002

의료용 초음파 진단기는 음축 방향 초점거리의 제어를 위해서 각 진동요소의 전기단자에 전기회로를 이용한 가중치를 부가하는 방식을 사용하고 있다. 그러나 본 연구에서는 단일 PVDF로 구성된 트랜스듀서에 바이몰프 타입의 엑츄에이터를 부가하여 진동요소의 배열이나 전기적 가중치의 부가없이 기계적으로 곡률 반경(R.O.C. : Radius Of Curvature)을 제어하는 방법을 제안하였고, 바이몰프 타입 엑츄에이터에 인가한 전압 변화에 따른 트랜스듀서의 곡률 반경 변화를 측정하여 이에 따른 수중에서의 음장 분포 변화를 시뮬레이션 결과와 비교하였다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.29 no.11 s.242
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• pp.1439-1444
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• 2005

A two-dimensional boundary element method was used for the scattering analysis of side-drilled hole(SDH). The far-field scattering amplitude was calculated for shear vertical(SV) wave, and their frequency and time-domain results were presented. The time-domain scattering amplitude showed the directly reflected wave from the SDH leading edge as well as the creeping wave. In an immersion, pulse-echo testing, two measurement models were introduced to predict the response from SDHs. The 2-D boundary element scattering amplitude was converted to the 3-D amplitude to be used in the measurement model. The receiver voltage was calculated fer SV wave incidence at 45$^{\circ}C$ on the 1 m diameter SDH, and the result was compared with experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.28B no.10
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• pp.822-830
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• 1991

In this paper, we propose a new process for ultrasonic B-mode image considering the sound field effects of a concave circuit focused transducer, and aim to remove the speckle pattern which cause the blurring on boundary in ultrasonic B-mode image. We discuss in detail the conception of speckle pattern generation, and the frequency compounding method which is applied to the process for getting a speckle reduced B-mode image. Through the computer simulation, we define the meaning of speckle region, and show the results of reduced speckle pattern. It is discovered in the results that the frequency compounding method is very effective for boundary detection and that the application of the method is limited by various conditions.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.295-298
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• 2000

음향 흐름 (Acoustic Streaming)현상은 음파가 유체 내에서 전파하는 경우에 음파의 흡수로 인한 음장방향으로의 유체 흐름을 말한다. 이러한 유체 내에서의 음향 흐름현상은 입사음파의 구동주파수나 음압진폭등에 영향을 받으며, 현재 음향 흐름현상은 DNA 분열이나 박테리아 분해 등 생체학적 효과01 초음파의 비 열적 효과로 널리 사용중이다 본 연구에서는 수중에서 전기분해 법을 이용하여 형성된 기포층에 음파를 수직 입사하여 밀려나가는 기포의 거리를 측정함으로써 입사음파의 구동주파수와 음압진폭 변화에 따른 음향 흐름현상을 관측하였다. 기포의 거리 측정 결과에 의하면 입사음파의 음압진폭 증가에 따라 기포의 밀림현상이 현저하게 증가하였으며, 구동주파수 변화에 따른 기포의 밀림현상은 차이를 보이고 있지 않았다 본 측정결과로부터 음향 흐름현상은 입사음파의 구동주파수에 의한 영향을 확인 할 수 없었으나. 음압진폭에 상당한 영향을 받는다는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.399-409
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• 2012

In this paper we propose a method for measuring the shear modulus of an ultrasound soft tissue phantom using an acoustic radiation force. The proposed method quantitatively determines the shear modulus based on the rise time of a displacement induced by an acoustic radiation force at the focal point of a focused ultrasound beam. The shear wave speed and shear modulus obtained from the proposed method and a shear wave propagation method were compared to verify the validity of the proposed method. In the shear wave propagation method, the shear modulus is first computed by measuring the propagating speed of a shear wave induced in a phantom by a limited-diffraction transmit field, and then was compared to that obtained with the proposed method in an ultrasound data acquisition system calibrated based on the first computed shear modulus. The relative errors between the two methods were found to be 4% for shear wave speed and less than 9% for shear modulus, confirming the usefulness of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2000

In this paper, we proposed an algorithm that used a direct method to set an initial value of Broydon-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno(BFGS) method and, accordingly, conducted an experiment in optimal directivity synthesis of adaptive ultrasonic transducer by point source array. To certify the efficiency of this method, quasi-ideal beam with arbitrary beam width, rotating beam, and multi beam, all with the limited side lobe level -30dB, were chosen to check the problem of directivity synthesis that was formed by point source array in the second dimensional sound field. The numerical calculation results showed that the proposed method performed the directivity synthesis faster than the BFGS method did. In addition, the proposed method showed a good error correction for directivity synthesis, and did not demand the choice of initial value. Finally, it is also shown that the proposed method can be used for the adaptive control that was not possible with the direct method alone.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2012

In this study, we constructed a virtual auditory display(VAD) that enables listener to move in a room freely. The VAD system was installed in a soundproof room($4.7m(W){\times}2.8m(D){\times}3.0m(H)$). The system consisted of a personal computer, a sound presentation device, and a three-dimensional ultrasound sensor system. This system acquires listener's location and position from a three-dimension ultrasonic sensor system covering the entire room. Localization was realized by convolving the sound source with head related transfer functions(HRTFs) on personal computer(PC). The calculated result is generated through a LADOMi(Localization Auditory Display with Opened ear-canal for Mixed Reality). The HRTFs used in the experiment were measured for each listener with loudspeakers constantly 1.5m away from the center of the listener' s head in an anechoic room. To evaluate the system performance, we experimented a search task of a sound source position in the condition that the listener is able to move all around the room freely. As a result, the positioning error of presented sound source was within 30cm in average for all listeners.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.19 no.6
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• pp.490-496
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• 2010

In this study, in order to overcome the weakness of acoustic field analysis which is generally used for ultrasonic probe performance evaluation, automatic acoustic field measurement system and evaluation parameters were proposed. The comparisons between acoustic field simulation and measured acoustic distribution data of normal and abnormal channels were conducted to evaluate the availability of proposed system and evaluation parameters. First, the impulse response characteristic of sample probe was investigated to classify the normal elements and abnormal elements. And then, normal channels and abnormal channels with abnormal element were chosen. The suggested 12 evaluation parameters were calculated using the acoustic fields of these channels. The availability of proposed automatic acoustic field measurement system and evaluation parameters was confirmed. And the performance evaluation of ultrasonic probe using acoustic field analysis could be easier and faster.