• 핵의학기술
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2017

본원에서 시행하는 Brain SPECT 검사는 $^{99m}Tc-ECD$ 또는 $^{99m}Tc-HMPAO$를 주사 한 후 뇌 영상을 얻어 뇌 관류상태를 평가하는 검사이다. 하지만 검사 중 일부 환자 상태가 불안정할 경우 움직임이 발생하여 재촬영이나 검사실패로 이어지는 경우가 발생 된다. 이에 현재의 Step and Shoot Mode(SSM)이 아닌 움직임이 발생되더라도 재구성을 통해 영상 구현이 가능한 Dynamic Continuous Mode(DCM)를 적용하여 환자의 재촬영과 피폭선량을 감소시키고 검사실에 운영 효율성을 높이고자함에 있다. Deluxe PET/SPECT Phantom과 Hoffman 3D Brain Phantom으로 Filtered Back Projection(FBJ)과 Iterated Reconstruction(IR)으로 재구성하여 영상을 구현하였다. 이미지를 가지고 핵의학과 5년이상의 임상경력이 있는 의사 5명과 방사선사 5명을 대상으로 리커트 5점 척도(Likert 5 Scale)와 블라인드 판독 테스트를 실시 하였다. 판독의 블라인드 테스트 결과 최소 DCM 3Repeat (30%)에서 7Repeat (50%)까지 판독에 영향을 주지 않는다고 답해 주었다. DCM으로 검사 시 환자 움직임이 발생되면 불필요한 부분을 제거하여 재촬영, 재주사의 감소를 가져올 수 있고, 장비 오류 시 영상을 재구성 후 구현 할 수 있어 검사실 운영 효율도 높을 수 있을 것으로 기대된다. 또한 SPECT검사뿐 만 아니라 SPECT/CT검사 에서도 활발한 연구가 적용 될 거라 기대 되며 마지막으로 실제 환자 적용은 환자 데이터의 충분한 수집 후 병원 판독 실정에 맞게 도입이 필요 하리라 사료된다.

• 한국디자인학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국디자인학회 2001년도 Bulletin of The 5th Asian Design Conference International Symposium on Design Science
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• pp.57.1-57
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• 2001

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제15권11호
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• pp.1384-1390
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• 2012

신체의 감각기관 중에서도 손가락의 운동과 감각 부분이 뇌에 가장 큰 영향을 미친다는 것은 널리 알려진 사실이다. 본 연구는 이러한 사실에 주목하여 교육, 훈련, 건강증진 등의 목적으로 다양하게 활용이 가능한 기능성 게임 장치를 개발하되, 주로 두뇌향상을 위한 다섯 손가락의 균형적 사용에 초점을 맞춘 게임 콘텐츠를 위한 장치 개발하고자 한다. 제안하고 있는 게임 장치는 본체 부분만을 독립적으로 사용하는 '오프라인' 방식과 스마트폰 등의 단말기와 연동하여 사용하는 '온라인' 방식의 2가지 방식으로 게임을 즐길 수 있다. '온라인' 방식으로 동작할 때는 블루투스를 통해서 연동되는 단말기에서 시각 정보를 표시하여 게임을 진행하는 것이 가능하고 '오프라인' 방식에서는 주로 청각과 촉각 등을 이용하여 두뇌 훈련을 하거나 정서를 함양하도록 고안되었다. 본 게임장치의 성능과 활용 가능성을 살펴보기 위해서, 연령에 관계없이 모두가 즐길 수 있는 온라인 모드의 슈팅게임과 촉각이나 청각에 의존하는 고령자 친화형 게임콘텐츠인 낚시게임을 개발하였다. 낚시 게임은 온라인 모드로 게임을 진행하는 것도 가능하지만 오프라인 모드에서는 청각과 순발력을 이용하여 다섯 손가락을 균형 있게 사용하게 함으로써 뇌활동이 저하되는 고령자가 게임을 통해 치매, 기억력 저하 등의 인지기능 장애를 예방하는데 도움을 줄 수 있다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1812-1824
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• 2016

The neural dynamics underlying the causal network during motor planning or imagery in the human brain are not well understood. The lack of signal processing tools suitable for the analysis of nonlinear and nonstationary electroencephalographic (EEG) hinders such analyses. In this study, noise-assisted multivariate empirical mode decomposition (NA-MEMD) is used to estimate the causal inference in the frequency domain, i.e., partial directed coherence (PDC). Natural and intrinsic oscillations corresponding to the motor imagery tasks can be extracted due to the data-driven approach of NA-MEMD, which does not employ predefined basis functions. Simulations based on synthetic data with a time delay between two signals demonstrated that NA-MEMD was the optimal method for estimating the delay between two signals. Furthermore, classification analysis of the motor imagery responses of 29 subjects revealed that NA-MEMD is a prerequisite process for estimating the causal network across multichannel EEG data during mental tasks.

• Radiation Oncology Journal
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.37-40
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• 1983

Whole brain irradiation is one mode in the treatment of brain cancer and brain metastasis, but it might cause brain injury such as brain necrosis. It has been studied whether the dose distribution could be a cause of brain injury. The dose distribution in whole brain irradiated by Co-60 beam has been measured by means of calibrated TLD chips inserted in the brain of Humanoid phantom. The following results were obtained. 1. Dose distribution on each transverse section of the brain was uniform. 2. On the midsagital plane of the brain, the dose was highest in upper portion and lowest in lower portion, varying 8 from 104% to 90%. 3. When the radiation field includes free space of 2cm or more width out of the head, the dose distribution in the whole brain is almost independent of the field width. 4. It is important to determine adequate shielding area and to set shielding block exactly in repetition of treatment.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제51권1호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2012

Objective : This study was conducted to assess the clinical significance of traumatic brain stem injury (TBSI) reflected on Glasgow Coma Score (GCS) and Glasgow Outcome Score (GOS) by various clinical variables. Methods : A total of 136 TBSI patients were selected out of 2695 head-injured patients. All initial computerized tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging studies were retrospectively analyzed according to demographic- and injury variables which result in GCS and GOS. Results : In univariate analysis, mode of injury showed a significant effect on combined injury (p<0.001), as were the cases with skull fracture on radiologic finding (p<0.000). The GCS showed a various correlation with radiologic finding (p<0.000), mode of injury (p<0.002), but less favorably with impact site (p<0.052), age (p<0.054) and skull fracture (p<0.057), in order of statistical significances. However, only GOS showed a definite correlation to radiologic finding (p<0.000). In multivariate analysis, the individual variables to enhance an unfavorable effect on GCS were radiologic finding [odds ratio (OR) 7.327, 95% confidence interval (CI)], mode of injury (OR; 4.499, 95% CI) and age (OR; 3.141, 95% CI). Those which influence an unfavorable effect on GOS were radiologic finding (OR; 25.420, 95% CI) and age (OR; 2.674, 95% CI). Conclusion : In evaluation of TBSI on outcome, the variables such as radiological finding, mode of injury, and age were revealed as three important ones to have an unfavorable effect on early stage outcome expressed as GCS. However, mode of injury was shown not to have an unfavorable effect on late stage outcome as GOS. Among all unfavorable variables, radiological finding was confirmed as the only powerful prognostic variable both on GCS and GOS.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제54권6호
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• pp.453-460
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• 2013

Objective : There is a rich literature confirming the default mode network found compatible with task-induced deactivation regions in normal subjects, but few investigations of alterations of the motor deactivation in patients with intracranial lesions. Therefore, we hypothesized that an intracranial lesion results in abnormal changes in a task-induced deactivation region compared with default mode network, and these changes are associated with specific attributes of allocated regions. Methods : Blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) during a motor task were obtained from 27 intracranial lesion patients (mean age, 57.3 years; range 15-78 years) who had various kinds of brain tumors. The BOLD fMRI data for each patient were evaluated to obtain activation or deactivation regions. The distinctive deactivation regions from intracranial lesion patients were evaluated by comparing to the literature reports. Results : There were additive deactivated regions according to intracranial lesions : fusiform gyrus in cavernous hemangioma; lateral occipital gyrus in meningioma; crus cerebri in hemangiopericytoma; globus pallidus, lateral occipital gyrus, caudate nucleus, fusiform gyrus, lingual gyrus, claustrum, substantia nigra, subthalamic nucleus in GBM; fusiform gyrus in metastatic brain tumors. Conclusion : There is increasing interest in human brain function using fMRI. The authors report the brain function migrations and changes that occur in patients with intracranial lesions.

• 한국응용곤충학회지
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.20-32
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• 1995

Adult diapause in insects is characterized by suppression of reproductive development. It is induced by environmental cues such as photoperiod, temperature, food availability, and other conditions Diapause-inducing environment is recognized and analyzed by the brain of the insects. The interpreted information is conveyed via endocrine system to target tissues such as ovaries, fat body, and other tissues. From this signal hierarchy of a brain-endocrine-target tissue axis, several factors are involved to express a diapause trait in a quantitative mode, even though the insects show a binomial phenotye between being in diapause or not. Recent works estimated that the number of the factors is relatively small by a series of crossing trials between high and low diapause lines. Heritability of the diapause is quite high (ca. 70%) in some species. Epistasis, sex-linkage, pleiotropism, and other nongenetic components also affect diapause inheritance. Most physiological studies have been focused on control mechanisms of the juvenile hormone (JH) synthesis in corpora allata (CA) because JH level in hemolymph of teneral adults is critical to decide a later developmental mode. Allatostatin, an antagonizer of JH synthesis, has been believed to be a potent brain message to CA for adult diapause induction.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.1170-1178
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• 2011

In the present study, the approach of high accuracy mass measurements for phospholipid identifications was evaluated using a 7 T ESI-FTMS/linear ion trap MS/MS. Experiments were carried out for porcine brain, bovine liver, and soybean total lipid extracts in both positive and negative ion modes. In total, 59, 55, and 18 phospholipid species were characterized in the positive ion mode for porcine brain, bovine liver, and soybean lipid extracts, respectively. Assigned lipid classes were PC, PE, PEt, PS, and SM. In the negative ion mode, PG, PS, PA, PE, and PI classes were observed. In the negative ion mode, for porcine brain, bovine liver, and soybean lipid extracts, 28, 34, and 29 species were characterized, respectively. Comparison of our results with those obtained by other groups using derivatization-LC-APCI MS and nano-RP-LC-MS/MS showed that our approach can characterize PC species as effectively as those methods could. In conclusion, we demonstrated that high accuracy mass measurements of total lipid extracts using a high resolution FTMS, particularly, 7T FTMS, plus ion-trap MS/MS are very useful in profiling lipid compositions in biological samples.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제24권5호
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• pp.684-694
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• 2021

Resting-state Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging(fMRI) data detects the temporal correlations in Blood Oxygen Level Dependent(BOLD) signal and these temporal correlations are regarded to reflect intrinsic cortical connectivity, which is deactivated during attention demanding, non-self referential tasks, called Default Mode Network(DMN). The relationship between fMRI and anatomical connectivity has not been studied in detail, however, the preceded studies have tried to clarify this relationship using Diffusion Tensor Imaging(DTI) and fMRI. These studies use method that fMRI data assists DTI data or vice versa and it is used as guider to perform DTI tractography on the brain image. In this study, we hypothesized that functional connectivity in resting state would reflect anatomical connectivity of DMN and the combined images include information of fMRI and DTI showed visible connection between brain regions related in DMN. In the previous study, functional connectivity was determined by subjective region of interest method. However, in this study, functional connectivity was determined by objective and advanced method through Independent Component Analysis. There was a stronger connection between Posterior Congulate Cortex(PCC) and PHG(Parahippocampa Gyrus) than Anterior Cingulate Cortex(ACC) and PCC. This technique might be used in several clinical field and will be the basis for future studies related to aging and the brain diseases, which are needed to be translated not only functional connectivity, but structural connectivity.