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Development of Short Form of the Korean Version- the Boston Naming Test (K-BNT-15) Based on Item Response Theory (문항반응이론을 적용한 한국판 보스톤 이름대기 검사 단축형(K-BNT-15) 개발)

  • Kim, HyangHee;Kim, Soo Ryon
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.321-327
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    • 2013

  • Impaired naming difficulty is common in normal elderly as well as in patients with neurological impairment. The 60-item Korean version-Boston Naming Test(K-BNT) is one of the most commonly used test for measuring confrontational naming ability. However, age-related cognitive decline may make the elderly difficult concentrating during the 60-item test, therefore, item reduction of the K-BNT would improve test validity and reliability. Thus, the purpose of this study was to develop a short form of the K-BNT based on Item Response Theory(IRT). Considering item-fit index, sex factor, and item difficulty through Rasch analysis, the 15-item K-BNT(i.e., K-BNT-15) was developed. Via administration of the K-BNT-15, we observed age-related decline in naming ability and significantly different performance between the normal elderly and patients with mild cognitive impairment. This study demonstrates the utility of IRT for developing a short-form language evaluation tool. The K-BNT-15 can be effective as a language screening tool to differentiate between normal aging and pathological diseases.

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A Method for Estimating the Lung Clinical Target Volume DVH from IMRT with and without Respiratory Gating

  • J. H. Kung;P. Zygmanski;Park, N.;G. T. Y. Chen
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.53-60
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    • 2002

  • Motion of lung tumors from respiration has been reported in the literature to be as large as of 1-2 cm. This motion requires an additional margin between the Clinical Target Volume (CTV) and the Planning Target Volume (PTV). While such a margin is necessary, it may not be sufficient to ensure proper delivery of Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) to the CTV during the simultaneous movement of the DMLC. Gated treatment has been proposed to improve normal tissues sparing as well as to ensure accurate dose coverage of the tumor volume. The following questions have not been addressed in the literature: a) what is the dose error to a target volume without gated IMRT treatment\ulcorner b) what is an acceptable gating window for such treatment. In this study, we address these questions by proposing a novel technique for calculating the 3D dose error that would result if a lung IMRT plan were delivered without gating. The method is also generalized for gated treatment with an arbitrary triggering window. IMRT plans for three patients with lung tumor were studied. The treatment plans were generated with HELIOS for delivery with 6 MV on a CL2100 Varian linear accelerator with a 26 pair MLC. A CTV to PTV margin of 1 cm was used. An IMRT planning system searches for an optimized fluence map ${\Phi}$ (x,y) for each port, which is then converted into a dynamic MLC file (DMLC). The DMLC file contains information about MLC subfield shapes and the fractional Monitor Units (MUs) to be delivered for each subfield. With a lung tumor, a CTV that executes a quasi periodic motion z(t) does not receive ${\Phi}$ (x,y), but rather an Effective Incident Fluence EIF(x,y). We numerically evaluate the EIF(x,y) from a given DMLC file by a coordinate transformation to the Target's Eye View (TEV). In the TEV coordinate system, the CTV itself is stationary, and the MLC is seen to execute a motion -z(t) that is superimposed on the DMLC motion. The resulting EIF(x,y)is inputted back into the dose calculation engine to estimate the 3D dose to a moving CTV. In this study, we model respiratory motion as a sinusoidal function with an amplitude of 10 mm in the superior-inferior direction, a period of 5 seconds, and an initial phase of zero.

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345KV송전선에 채용된 ACAR선

  • 오명환
    • 전기의세계
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    • v.24 no.5
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    • pp.441-441
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    • 1975

  • Cape Code해협과 New England의 345KV 간선을 Boston 서남쪽으로 약 15 Miles 떨어진 지점에 연결되어 있는 Cannal-Walpole 송전선에는 내층에 A1선을 사용하고 외층에 A1합금선을 입힌 새로운 형태의 ACAR가 채용되었다. 이 전선은 종래의 ACAR연선과는 구성이 다른 것으로서 37개의 경A1선을 내층에 두고 54개의 5005합금선을 외층에 두고 있는 2,335MCM(1,180mm$^{2}$)의 대형 송전선이며 현재 실제가선에 의한 현장시험이 행하여 지고 있다.

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