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Evaluation of Scattered Rays of Jelly Type Shielding Body by L-spine AP using X-ray (L-Spine X-선 촬영에서의 Jelly type 차폐체의 산란선 차폐평가)

  • Jang, Hui-Min;Kim, Do-Gwon;Kim, Hyeong-Bin;Yoon, Joon
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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    • v.14 no.7
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    • pp.907-913
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    • 2020
  • There have been continuous controversies on medical X-ray protection and numerous researchers have been trying to prevent unnecessary exposure to radiation. As X-ray passes through the patient and obtains an image, it creates scattered ray due to interactions such as photoelectric effect and Compton scattering with the subject. As a result, both medical radiation staff and patient are exposed to unnecessary radiation on areas other than the target area. In response, this study will be assuming a body of a female, radiating X-ray on the phantom under the conditions of lumbar spine AP test, and measuring scattered ray around breasts and thyroid glands. Then, The experiment results were as follows. After application of non-shielding material, the average of scattered ray was 0.88 mR in thyroid measurement, 3.34 mR, Lt Axillary 3.54 mR, and Rt Axillary 3.03 mR in mamonary measurement but, After application of shielding material, the average of scattered ray was 0.16 mR in thyroid measurement, 0.60 mR, Lt Axillary 0.64 mR, and Rt Axillary 0.54 mR in mamonary measurement showing average scattered ray protection effect of about 82%. This study suggested the manufacturing method of a Jelly-type shielding material, identified the possibilities of researches on mixing various substances with radiology field, and verified the usability of the Jelly-type shielding material as a substitute for existing protection tools.

New in vitro multiple cardiac ion channel screening system for preclinical Torsades de Pointes risk prediction under the Comprehensive in vitro Proarrhythmia Assay concepta

  • Jin Ryeol An;Seo-Yeong Mun;In Kyo Jung;Kwan Soo Kim;Chan Hyeok Kwon;Sun Ok Choi;Won Sun Park
    • The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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    • v.27 no.3
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    • pp.267-275
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    • 2023
  • Cardiotoxicity, particularly drug-induced Torsades de Pointes (TdP), is a concern in drug safety assessment. The recent establishment of human induced pluripotent stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes (human iPSC-CMs) has become an attractive human-based platform for predicting cardiotoxicity. Moreover, electrophysiological assessment of multiple cardiac ion channel blocks is emerging as an important parameter to recapitulate proarrhythmic cardiotoxicity. Therefore, we aimed to establish a novel in vitro multiple cardiac ion channel screening-based method using human iPSC-CMs to predict the drug-induced arrhythmogenic risk. To explain the cellular mechanisms underlying the cardiotoxicity of three representative TdP high- (sotalol), intermediate- (chlorpromazine), and low-risk (mexiletine) drugs, and their effects on the cardiac action potential (AP) waveform and voltage-gated ion channels were explored using human iPSC-CMs. In a proof-of-principle experiment, we investigated the effects of cardioactive channel inhibitors on the electrophysiological profile of human iPSC-CMs before evaluating the cardiotoxicity of these drugs. In human iPSC-CMs, sotalol prolonged the AP duration and reduced the total amplitude (TA) via selective inhibition of IKr and INa currents, which are associated with an increased risk of ventricular tachycardia TdP. In contrast, chlorpromazine did not affect the TA; however, it slightly increased AP duration via balanced inhibition of IKr and ICa currents. Moreover, mexiletine did not affect the TA, yet slightly reduced the AP duration via dominant inhibition of ICa currents, which are associated with a decreased risk of ventricular tachycardia TdP. Based on these results, we suggest that human iPSC-CMs can be extended to other preclinical protocols and can supplement drug safety assessments.

Subband Acoustic Echo Canceller with Double-Talk Detector using Weighted Over1ap-add method (가중 Overlap-Add 기법을 적용한 서브밴드 반향 제거기와 새로운 동시 통화 검출기)

  • 고충기;이원철
    • Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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    • 2000.09a
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    • pp.541-544
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    • 2000
  • 본 논문은 부밴드별 반향제거 필터 뱅크를 구현하기 위한 가중 Overlap-add 적응필터를 이용한 단일 채널 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다. 기준 입력 신호의 고유치 분포율에 의존하여 수렴 특성이 결정되는 NLSM알고리즘을 사용하여 전대역 처리 과정에서 발생하는 수렴성능의 저하를 방지하고, 효율적인 블록별 병렬 처리가 가능한 부밴드 처리기법인 가중 Overlap-add 방식을 적용한 적응 반향제거기의 성능을 고찰한다 또한 본 논문에서는 동시 통화 검출을 위한 전용 필터와 에너지 비교 방법을 동시에 사용하는 새로운 형태의 동시통화 검출 기법을 제안한다.

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Crack Propagation Behavior of Small Variable Load within Tensile Load Range (인장하중 범위내 작은 병동하중의 균열성장 거동)

  • 김엽래
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.279-286
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    • 1998
  • Fatigue crack propagation behavior for variable load in high strength aluminum alloys was investigated in this study. The materials used in this study are aluminum 7075-T651 and 5052-H32 alloys. Crack length was measured from calibration curve, which was plotted by known crack length and resistance of standard specimens. Load was obtained from linear regression formula. Unloading elastic compliance method was ap;ied to check the crack closure and cracked area.

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Estimation of thickness variation due to skid mark Using Speedometer (속도계를 이용한 스키드 마크로 인한 두께 변동량 추정)

  • 이영교;조성은;김상우;홍성철
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2000.10a
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    • pp.40-40
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    • 2000
  • Generally a RF AGC controls the roll gap using the variation of rolling force caused by the roll eccentricity and the entry thickness of material, but these can not be classified. The Feed- forward AGC method, which controls the next stand roll 9ap by estimation the skid mark of the previous stand output thickness is needed to supplement the shortage of RF AGC. In this paper, an improved filtering method of skid mark which take account of the kinds of materials, the final objective thickness and the roll speed is proposed, In addition, an improved estimation method of control point using the speedometer and looper angle is suggested, Via simulation, the performance improvement of the suggested FF AGC method is verified.

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Improved Method of License Plate Detection and Recognition using Synthetic Number Plate (인조 번호판을 이용한 자동차 번호인식 성능 향상 기법)

  • Chang, Il-Sik;Park, Gooman
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.26 no.4
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    • pp.453-462
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    • 2021
  • A lot of license plate data is required for car number recognition. License plate data needs to be balanced from past license plates to the latest license plates. However, it is difficult to obtain data from the actual past license plate to the latest ones. In order to solve this problem, a license plate recognition study through deep learning is being conducted by creating a synthetic license plates. Since the synthetic data have differences from real data, and various data augmentation techniques are used to solve these problems. Existing data augmentation simply used methods such as brightness, rotation, affine transformation, blur, and noise. In this paper, we apply a style transformation method that transforms synthetic data into real-world data styles with data augmentation methods. In addition, real license plate data are noisy when it is captured from a distance and under the dark environment. If we simply recognize characters with input data, chances of misrecognition are high. To improve character recognition, in this paper, we applied the DeblurGANv2 method as a quality improvement method for character recognition, increasing the accuracy of license plate recognition. The method of deep learning for license plate detection and license plate number recognition used YOLO-V5. To determine the performance of the synthetic license plate data, we construct a test set by collecting our own secured license plates. License plate detection without style conversion recorded 0.614 mAP. As a result of applying the style transformation, we confirm that the license plate detection performance was improved by recording 0.679mAP. In addition, the successul detection rate without image enhancement was 0.872, and the detection rate was 0.915 after image enhancement, confirming that the performance improved.

Development of Real-time Quantitative PCR Assay based on SYBR Green I and TaqMan Probe for Detection of Apple Viruses (사과 바이러스 검정을 위한 SYBR Green I 및 TaqMan probe 기반의 real-time PCR 검사법 개발)

  • Heo, Seong;Chung, Yong Suk
    • KOREAN JOURNAL OF CROP SCIENCE
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    • v.65 no.4
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    • pp.496-507
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    • 2020
  • Virus infections of apples result in lowered commercial qualities such as low sugar content, weakened tree vigor, and malformed fruits. An effective way to control viruses is to produce virus-free plants based on the development of an accurate and sensitive diagnostic method. In this study, real-time PCR assays based on SYBR Green I and TaqMan probes were developed for detecting ASGV, ASPV, and ApMV viruses. These methods can detect and quantify 103 to 1011 RNA copies/μL of each virus separately. Compared with methods with two different dyes, the SYBR Green I-based method was efficient for virus detection as well as for assay using the TaqMan probe. Field tests demonstrated that real-time PCR methods developed in this study were applicable to high-throughput diagnoses for virus research and plant quarantine.

An Adaptive Flooding Scheme using N-hop Look-ahead in MANET (MANET에서 N-hop 사전조사를 이용한 적응적인 플러딩 기법)

  • Jong, Jong-Hyeok;Oh, Im-Geol
    • Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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    • v.11 no.4
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2006
  • MANET is a dynamically reconfigurable wireless network with no fixed infrastructure (base station, or AP). In order to provide the data service in MANET, we need an efficient routing protocol to deliver the data to the wanted destination at a mobile node. A method of routing protocols called reactive routing protocol has recently got attention because of their low routing overhead. But a method of flooding broadcasts the packet to all of its neighbors. For this reason, each of the node has high routing overhead to route and keep path discovery. Accordingly in this paper, I propose an adaptive flooding scheme using N-hop look-ahead in MANET, md an optimal N value of doing flooding the packet to limited area. Because of being basically ignorant about topological changes, each of the node did not spontaneously cope with path alteration. But an efficient flooding scheme applying N-hop look-ahead is more resilient to topology changes than traditional algorithms. And also with this efficient flooding scheme, the simulation results demonstrate excellent reduction of routing overhead.

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Autonomic Multimedia Transcoding Algorithm for Seamless Streaming Media of Mobile Clients (이동 단말에서 끊임없는 스트리밍 미디어를 위한 오토노믹 멀티미디어 트랜스코딩 알고리즘)

  • Han, Woo-Ram;Heo, Nan-Sook;Park, Chong-Myung;Seo, Dong-Mahn;Jung, In-Bum
    • Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.260-270
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    • 2007
  • Owing to the improved wireless communication technologies, it is possible to provide streaming service of multimedia with PDAs and mobile phones in addition to desktop PCs. Since mobile client devices have low computing power and low network bandwidth due to wireless network, the transcoding technology to adapt media for mobile client devices considering their characteristics is necessary. However, since mobile clients use wireless network and the wireless network have less stable bandwidth according to distance from AP and environments, it is hard to support stable QoS to mobile clients. In this paper, we propose a dynamic bit rate control method for transcoding in order to supprot stable QoS of streaming media service to mobile clients via wireless network. The proposed method is shown to serve seamless streaming media service with adaptive bit rate control according to state of wireless network in real time and to reduce transmission failure from experiment.