• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.252-259
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• 2011

본 연구는 복부지방면적과 복부표면온도와의 상관관계를 알아보고자 연구하였다. CT와 MRI 검사을 시행하여 복부지방면적을 분석 하였고, 복부지방면적에 따른 복부표면온도는 적외선체열진단 검사로 측정하였다. 20명의 남녀 대학생을 대상으로 시행하였다. 분석 결과, CT와 MRI검사를 이용한 복부영역별 지방면적은 체중그룹과 모두 통계적으로 유의한 차이가 있었다. 복부표면온도는 T12번 부위에서만 통계적 유의성이 있었다. 체중그룹간의 복부표면 온도 차이는 $0.7^{\circ}C$이상이었다. 결론적으로, CT는 가장 정확한 복부지방 측정 방법이다. 그러나 방사선 피폭과 고가의 검사 비용이 단점이다. 본 연구에서는 복부지방면적과 복부표면온도와의 상관관계가 있는 것으로 확인되었다. 따라서 적외선체열진단검사는 복부비만을 간편하게 진단 할 수 있는 방법이고, 임상적으로 유용할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권9호
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• pp.1138-1143
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• 2020

복부 분야 MRI 검사는 호흡에 의한 인공물로 인해 최적의 영상 구현이 어렵다. 복부 MRI 검사를 받은 총 45명 (남자:여자 = 30:15) 중 호흡이 일정하지 않아 검사가 어려운 환자를 대상으로 메트로놈을 이용한 검사 방법에 대하여 연구 하였다. 메트로놈을 사용하지 않고 검사 한 영상을 A 그룹, 메트로놈을 사용하여 검사 한 영상을 B그룹으로 나누었다. 메트로놈을 사용한 영상에서 화질 향상이 약 30% 증대 되었고, 검사시간이 약 50초 감소되었다. 복부자기공명영상(ABD MRI) 검사 시 메트로놈(Metronome)을 사용하여 검사 한 영상이 사용하지 않은 영상에 비하여 화질과 검사시간 차이가 있었다. 호흡동조가 어려운 환자의 호흡 유도 하(RTr Scan) 복부 자기 공명 영상(Abdomen MRI) 검사 시 환자의 호흡수를 조절하는 메트로놈 (Metronome) 보조기를 사용하면 더 효과적이다.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제85권2호
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• pp.345-362
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• 2024

자기공명영상(이하 MRI)은 복부 영상에서 국소 병변의 감지와 특성을 찾을 수 있는 것 때문에 중요한 역할을 한다. 그러나 MRI 검사에 상대적으로 긴 검사 시간과 호흡 유지 기법에서 움직임 관리와 같은 몇 가지 힘든 요인이 있다. 최근에는 검사 시간을 줄이면서 적절한 이미지 품질을 유지하는 기법인 평행 이미징, 압축 감지(compressed sensing) 및 최첨단 딥 러닝(deep learning) 기술이 등장하여 문제 해결 전략을 가능하게 하고 있다. 또한, 역동적 조영증강 영상에서 자유 호흡 기법은, 추가 차원(extra-dimensional)-부피 보간 호흡 유지 검사(volumetric interpolated breath-hold examination) 및 황금 각도 방사형 희소 병렬(golden-angle radial sparse parallel), 간 가속 볼륨 획득(liver acceleration volume acquisition) 스타와 같은, 심한 호흡곤란이나 마취 중인 환자에게서 복부 MRI를 시행하는 것을 돕는다. 이 임상화보에서는 시간을 줄이면서도 이미지 품질을 유지하기 위한 다양한 고급 복부 MRI 기술과 역동적 영상을 위한 자유 호흡 기술을 제시하고 또한 이를 통한 예시들을 보여주고자 한다. 이러한 첨단 기법들의 고찰은 적용된 시퀀스의 적절한 해석에 도움을 줄 것이다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.143-149
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• 2021

In order to predict and prevent the disease of the abdominal aorta, which is the largest artery in the human body and the most common aneurysm, the normal arterial blood flow operation should be considered. To this end, we are trying to solve problems that may arise in the future by executing FSI based on the data obtained from 4D flow MRI. However, to match the similarity between the 4D flow MRI flow and the FSI flow, correlation was used in previous papers, but the correlation did not show the degree of agreement. Therefore, in this paper, we analyzed the correlation between the 4D flow MRI flow velocity of the human abdominal aorta and the two-way FSI flow velocity in which the three physical properties used for the aortic FSI were added to the CT abdominal aorta 3D model and the interclass correlation coefficient. As a result, the physical property M2 showed the highest similarity in correlation and intraclass correlation coefficient, and this property is intended to be helpful in the future study of the abdominal aortic two-way FSI flow rate.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.603-615
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• 2016

In this study, in order to determine the validity and accuracy of MR imaging of 3D gradient dual echo 2-point DIXON technique for measuring abdominal adipose tissue volume and distribution, the measurements obtained by CT were set as a reference for comparison and their correlations were evaluated. CT and MRI scans were performed on each subject (17 healthy male volunteers who were fully informed about this study) to measure abdominal adipose tissue volume. Two skilled investigators individually observed the images acquired by CT and MRI in an independent environment, and directly separated the total volume using region-based thresholding segmentation method, and based on this, the total adipose tissue volume, subcutaneous adipose tissue volume and visceral adipose tissue volume were respectively measured. The correlation of the adipose tissue volume measurements with respect to the observer was examined using the Spearman test and the inter-observer agreement was evaluated using the intra-class correlation test. The correlation of the adipose tissue volume measurements by CT and MRI imaging methods was examined by simple regression analysis. In addition, using the Bland-Altman plot, the degree of agreement between the two imaging methods was evaluated. All of the statistical analysis results showed highly statistically significant correlation (p<0.05) respectively from the results of each adipose tissue volume measurements. In conclusion, MR abdominal adipose volumetry using the technique of 3D gradient dual echo 2-point DIXON showed a very high level of concordance even when compared with the adipose tissue measuring method using CT as reference.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.113-117
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• 2019

The purpose of this study was to investigate the FA value which can produce the best T2-weighted images by measuring the signal intensity and noise according to the FA value change in the brain image and the abdominal image of the mouse using micro-MRI. Brain imaging and abdominal imaging of BALB / C mice weighing 20g were performed using 4.7T (Bruker BioSpin MRI GmbH) micro-MRI equipment, Turbo RARE-T2 (spin echo-T2) images were scanned at TR 3500 msec and TE 36 msec. The changes of the FA values were $60^{\circ}$, $80^{\circ}$, $100^{\circ}$, $120^{\circ}$, $140^{\circ}$, $160^{\circ}$ and $180^{\circ}$. We measured signal intensity according to FA values of ventricle and thalamus in brain imaging, The signal intensity of kidney and muscle around the kidney was measured in abdominal images. To obtain SNR and CNR, we measured the background signals of two different parts, not the tissue. In the brain (thalamus) image, the signal intensity of FA $100^{\circ}$ was 7,433 and SNR (6.49) was the highest. In the abdominal (kidney) image, the signal intensity was highest at 16,523 when FA was $120^{\circ}$, and the highest SNR was 8.54 when FA was $140^{\circ}$. The CNR value of the brain image was 1.38 at FA $60^{\circ}$ and gradually increased to 8.29 at FA $180^{\circ}$. The CNR value of the muscle adjacent to the kidney gradually increased from 2.36 when the FA value was $60^{\circ}$ and the highest value was 4,57 at the FA value $180^{\circ}$.

• 대한영상의학회지
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• 제81권5호
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• pp.1069-1082
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• 2020

복부 영상 영역에서는 새로운 건강보험 보장성 강화 대책으로 인하여 2018년 4월 1일 상복부 초음파, 2019년 2월 1일 하복부 초음파와 2019년 11월 1일 복부 MRI가 순서대로 급여 확대되었다. 많은 환자들이 건강보험 급여 혜택을 보게 되었으며 간경화, 담낭용종, 간선종, 이형성 결절, 췌장 낭종과 자가면역성 췌장염, 담석 등이 건강보험에 포함되었다. 그러나 급여화로 인해 각 검사의 적응증, 추적검사 가능 질환과 적용 횟수 등이 보다 복잡해졌으며 획득하여야 할 표준영상과 판독소견서의 양식이 지정되었으며, 따라서 외래나 병실에서 검사를 처방하고 검사실에서 검사를 시행할 때 주의해야 할 필요가 있다.

• 한국방사선학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2018

하복부 MRI 검사에서 환자는 body array coil과 물리적으로 접촉하여 검사를 받는다. 이 연구에서는 아크릴 보조장치(ACR)를 설계하여 코일과 환자의 비접촉식 스캔을 가능하게하고, ACR을 이용해서 획득 한 영상을 ACR 없이 얻은 영상와 비교하여 실현 가능성을 평가하였다. Ingenia 3.0TTM MR 시스템과 dStreamTM torso coil (Philips Healthcare, Netherlands)을 사용하여 10건(F : 5, m : 5)을 테스트하였다. 대표적인 두가지 pulse sequence(T1 AXE TSE, eTHRIVE (GRE))를 사용하여, 스캔 한 영상을 정량적, 정성적으로 비교 분석 하였다. 정성적으로 보면, TSE는 ACR의 유무에 관계없이 4.44와 4.56의 평균값을, GRE에서는 각각 4.34와 4.28을 보여준다. 정량적으로, TSE는 ACR 유무에 관계없이 12.15 CNR, 17.95 SNR 및 12.71 CNR, 18.96 SNR을 보였으며, GRE는 ACR이 있는 경우와 없는 경우 각각 17.72 CNR, 22.59 SNR 및 18.26 CNR, 24.47 SNR을 보여주었다. 즉, ACR의 사용이 환자를 편안하게 하지만, 화질에는 큰 영향이 없음을 확인하였다. 우리는 하복부 환자의 MRI 검사용 아크릴 보조 장치를 설계하고 적용해보았다. 우리의 결과는 환자와의 물리적 접촉없이 현재의 복부 MRI 스캔과 유사한 이미지 품질을 얻을 수 있음을 보여주었다.

• 대한디지털의료영상학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.31-35
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• 2012

To test the real image quality of a spectral attenuated inversion-recovery (SPAIR) fat-suppression (FS) techniquein clinical abdominal MRI by comparison to turbo spin echo inversion-recovery (TSEIR) fat-suppression (FS) technique. 3.0T MRI studies of the abdomen were performed in 30 patients with liver lesions (hemangiomas n: 15; HCC n: 15). T2W sequences were acquired using SPAIR TSEIR. Measurements included retroperitoneal and mesenteric fat signal-to-noise (SNR) to evaluate FS; liver lesion contrast-to-noise (CNR) to evaluate bulk water signal recovery effects; and bowel wall delineation to evaluate susceptibility and physiological motion effects. SPAIR-TSEIR images produce significantly improved FS and liver lesion CNR. The mean SNR of the retroperitoneal and mesenteric fat for SPAIR were 20.5, 10.2 and TSEIR were 43.2, 24.1 (P<0.05). SPAIR-TSEIR images produced higher CNR for both hemangiomas CNR 164.88 vs 126.83 (P<0.05) and metastasis CNR 75.27 vs 53.19 (P<0.05). Bowel wall visualization was significantly improved using in both SPAIR-TSEIR (P< 0.05). The real image quality of SPAIR was better than over conventional TSEIR FS on clinical abdominal MRI scans.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• 제15권21호
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• pp.9487-9494
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• 2014

Background: The size of a hepatic neoplasm is critical for staging, prognosis and selection of appropriate treatment. Our study aimed to compare the radiological size of solid hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) masses on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the pathological size in a Chinese population, and to elucidate discrepancies. Materials and Methods: A total of 178 consecutive patients diagnosed with HCC who underwent curative hepatic resection after enhanced MRI between July 2010 and October 2013 were retrospectively identified and analyzed. Pathological data of the whole removed tumors wereassessed and differences between radiological and pathological tumor size were identified. All patients were restaged using a modified Tumor-Node-Metastasis (TNM) staging system postoperatively according to the maximum diameter alteration. The lesions were classified as hypo-staged, iso-staged or hyper-staged for qualitative assessment. In the quantitative analysis, the relative pre and postoperative tumor size contrast ratio ($%{\Delta}size$) was also computed according to size intervals. In addition, the relationship between radiological and pathological tumor diameter variation and histologic grade was analyzed. Results: Pathological examination showed 85 (47.8%) patients were overestimated, 82 (46.1%) patients underestimated, while accurate measurement by MRI was found in 11 (6.2%) patients. Among the total subjects, 14 (7.9%) patients were hypo-staged and 15 (8.4%) were hyper-staged post-operatively. Accuracy of MRI for calculation and characterized staging was related to the lesion size, ranging from 83.1% to 87.4% (<2cm to ${\geq}5cm$, p=0.328) and from 62.5% to 89.1% (cT1 to cT4, p=0.006), respectively. Overall, MRI misjudged pathological size by 6.0 mm (p=0.588 ), and the greatest difference was observed in tumors <2cm (3.6 mm, $%{\Delta}size=16.9%$, p=0.028). No statistically significant difference was observed for moderately differentiated HCC (5.5mm, p=0.781). However, for well differentiated and poorly differentiated cases, radiographic tumor maximum diameter was significantly larger than the pathological maximum diameter by 3.15 mm and underestimated by 4.51 mm, respectively (p=0.034 and 0.020). Conclusions: A preoperative HCC tumor size measurement using MRI can provide relatively acceptable accuracy but may give rise to discrepancy in tumors in a certain size range or histologic grade. In pathological well differentiated subjects, the pathological tumor size was significantly overestimated, but underestimated in poorly differentiated HCC. The difference between radiological and pathological tumor size was greatest for tumors <2 cm. For some HCC patients, the size difference may have implications for the decision of resection, transplantation, ablation, or arterially directed therapy, and should be considered in staging or selecting the appropriate treatment tactics.