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Implementation of a Circuit for the Enhancement of Signal to Noise Ratios of Current Signal in a Artificial Heart (인공심장 전류 신호의 신호대 잡음비 개선을 위한 회로 구현)

  • Choi, J.H.;Lee, J.H.;Choi, W.W.;Ahn, J.M.;Kim, W.E.;Lee, J.J.;Om, K.S.;Choi, J.S.;Park, S.K.;Cho, Y.H.;Kim, H.C.;Min, B.G.
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1996 no.11
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    • pp.277-280
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    • 1996
  • We have developed a ground-isolation circuit in order to reduce the noise of the internal controller system for the total artificial heart(TAH) and ventricular assist device(VAD). Using the ground-isolation technique, we could transmit the analog target signal to other pheriperal device including IBM PC via RS232C and polygraph, with no noise. Experimental results of VAD showed that there was less impulsive noise in current signal which caused in our previous conventional system. Therefore it could be proved that implementation of isolation technique is very effective to improve the signal to noise ratios of analog signal transmission for TAH or VAD.

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Design of BLDC Motor Control Circuit for Electric Driver using UC3625 Controller IC (UC3625 Controller IC를 이용한 전동 Driver용 BLDC 전동기 제어회로 설계)

  • Jeong, Sungin
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.129-134
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    • 2021
  • A power tool is a tool used to manufacture and process various structures using a motor that is a power source. Using a motor that uses electricity as a power source, a reduction device, power transmission and conversion device functions are built-in to make the tool rotate, reciprocate, and vibrate. It is a work tool designed to assist the user's movement skills. In the case of Korea, the power tool industry has a short history and is lagging behind advanced countries such as Germany, the United States, and Japan in terms of technology level, market share, and recognition. In addition, electric drivers used in Korea are foreign products from the US and European countries, and the domestic market also prefers 100% foreign companies, and multinational companies are investing a lot in the domestic market. Therefore, technological development must follow in order to develop domestic technology and secure a consistently high market share. The purpose of this thesis is to design a motor driver with high output performance of motor performance, miniaturization, and high speed in accordance with the basic performance requirements of power tools, and finally research developments that can be applied to industrial and medical applications.

A comparison of ventilation effects using bag-valve-mask assist device (백-밸브-마스크 보조장치를 이용한 환기효과 비교)

  • EunYoung, Seo;ByoungGil, Yoon;GaEun, Kim;YougSeok, Kim
    • The Korean Journal of Emergency Medical Services
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    • v.26 no.3
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    • pp.37-46
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: TThe experiment was designed to compare the efficiency of ventilation between conventional BVM ventilation and a newly devised A-BVM ventilation method with Tidal volume, total ventilation rate, average Ventilation speed, and average Ventilation volume. Methods: 40 Paramedical students who agreed to participate in the study were analyzed. Values were measured using IMB PASS after 2 minutes of Brayden Pro manikin with BVM and A-BVM ventilation. The difference in general characteristics was assessed by t-test and ANOVA and the difference in ventilation methods was analyzed by IBM SPSS. Results: A significant difference was found between the two ventilation methods in terms of tidal volume (t=-11.203, p<.001), ventilation time (t=-3.834, p<.001), and optimum ventilation probability (t=10.770, p<.001). A-BVM ventilation method, rather than BVM ventilation method, showed a value close to the appropriate amount recommended by Korean Advanced Life Support (500~600mL) in tidal volume, and higher in optimum ventilation probability. Conclusion: We could identify the a better mode of ventilation. Further studies on the efficacy of existing BVM ventilation methods as compared to device augmented BVM ventilation methods should be carried out to ensure that adequate ventilation is available to patients in clinical practice.

A Study on the Dataset Construction and Model Application for Detecting Surgical Gauze in C-Arm Imaging Using Artificial Intelligence (인공지능을 활용한 C-Arm에서 수술용 거즈 검출을 위한 데이터셋 구축 및 검출모델 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jin Yeop;Hwang, Ho Seong;Lee, Joo Byung;Choi, Yong Jin;Lee, Kang Seok;Kim, Ho Chul
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.290-297
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    • 2022
  • During surgery, Surgical instruments are often left behind due to accidents. Most of these are surgical gauze, so radioactive non-permeable gauze (X-ray gauze) is used for preventing of accidents which gauze is left in the body. This gauze is divided into wire and pad type. If it is confirmed that the gauze remains in the body, gauze must be detected by radiologist's reading by imaging using a mobile X-ray device. But most of operating rooms are not equipped with a mobile X-ray device, but equipped C-Arm equipment, which is of poorer quality than mobile X-ray equipment and furthermore it takes time to read them. In this study, Use C-Arm equipment to acquire gauze image for detection and Build dataset using artificial intelligence and select a detection model to Assist with the relatively low image quality and the reading of radiology specialists. mAP@50 and detection time are used as indicators for performance evaluation. The result is that two-class gauze detection dataset is more accurate and YOLOv5 model mAP@50 is 93.4% and detection time is 11.7 ms.

Pediatric Mechanical Circulatory Support

  • Wilmot, Ivan;Lorts, Angela;Morales, David
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.46 no.6
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    • pp.391-401
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    • 2013
  • Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) in the pediatric heart failure population has a limited history especially for infants, and neonates. It has been increasingly recognized that there is a rapidly expanding population of children diagnosed and living with heart failure. This expanding population has resulted in increasing numbers of children with medically resistant end-stage heart failure. The traditional therapy for these children has been heart transplantation. However, children with heart failure unlike adults do not have symptoms until they present with end-stage heart failure and therefore, cannot safely wait for transplantation. Many of these children were bridged to heart transplantation utilizing extracorporeal membranous oxygenation as a bridge to transplant which has yielded poor results. As such, industry, clinicians, and the government have refocused interest in developing increasing numbers of MCS options for children living with heart failure as a bridge to transplantation and as a chronic therapy. In this review, we discuss MCS options for short and long-term support that are currently available for infants and children with end-stage heart failure.

A Study of the Acoustical Properties of the Mechanical Heart Valve Using MUSIC (MUSIC을 이용한 기계식 심장 판막의 음향 신호 특성 연구)

  • Yi S. W.;Choi M. J.;Min B. G.
    • Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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    • autumn
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    • pp.131-134
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    • 1999
  • This paper considers the acoustical characteristics of the mechanical valve employed in the Korean type Artificial Heart. $Bj\"{o}rk-Shiley$ tilting disc valve was chosen for the study and acoustic measurements were performed for the artificial heart operated in a mock circulation system as well as implanted to an animal as a Bi Ventricular Assist Device (BVAD). In the mock system, three different conditions of the valve were examined which were normal, damaged (torn off), pseudothrombus attached. Microphone measurements for the BVAD were carried out at a regular time interval for 5 days after the implantation operation. Of the recorded acoustic emissions from the artificial heart, click sounds mainly originated from the valves were further analyzed using Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) for estimating their spectral properties. It was shown that the spectral peaks below 4 kHz and the optimal order number for MUSIC, equivalent to the number of the spectral component, might be the key parameters which were highly correlated to the physiological states of the valve like the mechanical damage of the valve or the formation of thrombus on the valves.

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A Service Composition using Hierarchical Model in Multiple Service Environment

  • Tang, Jiamei;Kim, Sangwook
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.18 no.9
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    • pp.1091-1097
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    • 2015
  • Internet-of-Things (IoT) becomes one of the most promising future paradigms, which foresees enormous amounts of interoperable things and heterogeneous services. The goal of IoT is to enable all things connected and brings all kinds information and services to people. However, such a great deal of information may lead to cognitive overload or restrain in productivity of people. Thus, it is a necessity to build intelligent mechanisms to assist people in accessing the information or services they needed in a proactive manner. Most of previous related mechanisms are built on well-defined web services and lack of consideration of constrained resources. This paper suggests a services composition method by adapting a hierarchical model, which is a graph-based model composed of four layers: Context Layer, Event Layer, Service Layer and Device Layer. With a such multi-layer graph, service composition can be achieved by the iteration of layer by layer. Then, to evaluate the effectiveness of this proposed hierarchical model, a real-life emergency response dataset is applied and the experimental results are composed with the general probabilistic method and indicate that the proposed method is help for compositing multiple services while considering given context and constrained resources.

Reoperation of Postinfarction VSD (심근경색증의 합병증으로 발생한 심실중격 파열의 재수술)

  • 안재호
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.30 no.5
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    • pp.528-532
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    • 1997
  • After early surgical repair of ventricular septal rupture complicated by myocardial infarction, newly developed ventricular septal defects were discovered on the 7th and the 40th postoperative day in 2 cases. We reoperated these patients for closure of newly developed ventricular septal defects with Dacron patch successfully on the 77th and the loth day after discovery of those defects. From these results we conclude that early surgical rep ir for ruptured ventricular septum following myocardial infarction is an appropriate approach with low risk and that remnant or recurred ventricular septal defect can be corrected rather safely with proper myocardial preservation and unrestricted application of intraaortic balloon pump or other ventricular assist device.

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Surgical Results of Fontan Operation (Fonatan 수술성적에 대한 평가)

  • Seo, Gyeong-Pil;Seong, Suk-Hwan
    • Journal of Chest Surgery
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.22-29
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    • 1987
  • From Sep. 1978 to Aug. 1986, 44 cases of Fontan operation were performed at Seoul National University Hospital. 1] The diagnoses were TA in 13 [38.6%], UVH in 21 [47.79`], DORV in 3 [6.8%], TGA in 2 [4.5%] and C-ECD with DORY in 1[2.3%]. 2] There were 20 operative deaths [44.5%]. 3] The operative risk factors were early date of operation between 1978 and 1983, young age below 3 years old, direct atriopulmonary anastomosis without roofing, and postoperative high CVP above 25cmH,O. But the relation between operative mortality and various cardiac diseases was absent. 4] survived patients were followed from 1 to 54 months except 3 patients who were lost to follow up. 16 patients were in functional class I and 1 in class II, 2 of the above 17 patients were reoperated due to residual right to left shunt. In remained 4 patients, 3 patients persisted cyanosis after operation and 1 patients died 1 month postoperatively due to pulmonary embolism. 5] As 4 result, the Fontan procedure can be done with a good result for tricuspid atresia and other complex lesions. The operative mortality can be reduced further with a correct anatomical diagnosis preoperatively, rigid operative criteria to pulmonary vascular resistance, direct atriopulmonary anastomosis with roofing, and use of `Venous Assist Device` postoperatively in low cardiac output patients.

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Development of an Algorithm for Regulation of Inlet Blood Flow in Electrohydraulic Left Ventricular Assist Device (전기유압식 좌심실 보조장치의 유입혈류량 조절 알고리즘의 개발)

  • Choi, Jae-Soon;Choi, Won-Woo;Jo, Yung-Ho;Park, Seong-Keun;Min, Byoung-Goo
    • Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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    • v.1995 no.11
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    • pp.211-215
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    • 1995
  • 전기유압식 좌심실 보조장치에서 모터 전류 파형을 정보로 하여 작동기의 이완기 속도를 조절함으로써 좌심방으로부터 유입되는 혈류량을 조절하는 알고리즘을 개발하였다. 전기 유압식 좌심실 보조장치에서는 혈액의 유입이 능동적으로 이루어지므로, 좌심방 함몰로 인한 심근 손상 및 외부 공기 유입으로 인한 색전증을 방지하기 위해 유입혈류량을 현재 좌심방 내의 상태에 따라 적절히 조절해 주어야 한다. 좌심방 내의 혈액량 정도는 혈액을 유입해내는 작동기의 이완기 동작 시에 소모되는 에너지 크기에 반영되고, 작동기를 구동하는 모터에 들어가는 전류의 크기는 작동기에 공급되는 에너지에 비례하므로, 이 전류 파형의 정보들을 통해 좌심방 내의 상태를 추정해 볼 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 퍼지로직을 적용하여 모터 전류 파형의 이상 유무를 판단한 뒤 이에 따라 작동기의 이완기 속도를 조절하는 알고리즘을 개발하여 모의순환장치 실험을 통해 그 실효성을 검증한 결과를 정리하였다.

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