• Journal of Radiation Industry
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.85-90
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• 2015

Purpose: Time of operation has been reduced and accuracy of operation has been improved since C-arm, which offer real-time image of patient, was introduced in operation room. However, because of the contamination of patient, C-arm could not be used more appropriately. Therefore, this study is to know factors of controlling exposure dose, image quality and the exposed dose of health professional in operation room. Materials and methods: Height of Wilson frame (bed for operation) was fixed at 130 cm. Then, Model 76-2 Phantom, which was set by assembling manual of Fluke Company, was set on the bed. Head/Spine Fluoroscopy AEC mode was set for exposure condition. According to detector size of C-arm, the absorbed dose per min was measured in the 7 steps OFD (cm) from 10 cm to 40 cm (10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 cm). In each step of OFD, the absorbed dose per min of same diameter of collimation was measured. Moreover, using Nero MAX Model 8000, exposure dose per min was measured according to 3 step of distance from detector (20 cm, 60 cm, 100 cm). Finally, resolution was measured by CDRH Disc Phantom and magnification of each OFD was measured by aluminum stick bar. Result: According to detector size of C-arm, difference of absorbed dose shows that the dose of 20 cm OFD is 1.750 times higher than the dose of 40 cm OFD. It means that the C-arm, which has smaller size of detector, shows the bigger difference of absorbed dose per min (p<0.05). In the difference of absorbed dose in the same step of OFD (from 20 cm to 40 cm), the absorbed dose of 9 inch detect or C-arm was 1.370 times higher than 12 inch' s (p<0.05). When OFD was set to 20 cm OFD, the absorbed dose of non-collimation case was approximately 0.816 times lower than the absorbed dose of collimation cases (p<0.05). When the distance was 20 cm from detector, exposed does includes first-ray and scatter-ray. When the distance was 60 cm and 100 cm from detector, exposed does includes just scatter-ray. So, there was the 2.200 times difference of absorbed does. Finally, when OFD was increased, spatial resolution was 4 to 5 step was increased. However, low contrast resolution was not relative. Moreover, there was 1.363 times difference of magnification (p<0.05). Conclusion: When C-Arm is used, avoiding contamination of patient is more important factor than reducing exposed dose of health professional in operation room. Just controlling exposure time is just way to reduce the exposed does of workers. However, in the case, non-probability influence could be occurred. Therefore, this study proved that the exposed dose will be reduced if the factors such as using small detector size of C-arm, setting OFD from 20 cm to 25 cm and non-collimating. Moreover, dose management of C-arm in the non-interesting area will be considered additionally.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.3
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• pp.119-124
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• 2009

In this paper, AMR-WB+ audio coder is implemented, in real-time, using Intel 400MHz Xscale PXA250 with 32bit RISC processor ARM9E-J(R)core. The assembly code for ARM9E-J(R)core is developed through the serial process of C code optimization, cross compile, assembly code manual optimization and adjusting the optimized code to Embedded Visual C++ platform. C code is trimmed on Visual C++ platform. Cross compile and assembly code manual optimization are performed on CodeWarrior with ARM compiler. Through these stages the code for both ARM EVM board and PDA is implemented. The average complexities of the code are 160.75MHz on encoder and 33.05MHz on decoder. In case of static link library(SLL), the required memories are 65.21Kbyte, 32.01Kbyte and 279.81Kbyte on encoder, decoder and common sources, respectively. The implemented coder is evaluated using 16 test vectors given by 3GPP to verify the bit-exactness of the coder.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11c
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• pp.411-413
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 ARM922T Core와 주변장치를 설계할 수 있는 100만 게이트의 FPGA를 내장한 알데라(Altera)사의 엑스칼리버(Excalibur)를 이용하여 DC모터 제어용 SoC를 설계하였다. SoC란 System on Chip의 약자로 하나의 칩 안에 프로세서와 다양한 목적의 주변장치들을 집적하는 것을 말한다. 모터를 구동하기 위한 PWM신호 생성기를 하드웨어 설계언어(Hardware Description Language)로 구현하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 설계모듈을 검증하였다. 이렇게 검증한 PWM 생성기 모듈과 ARM922T Core를 합성하여 SoC를 설계하였다. PWM 생성기 모들을 구성하는 내부의 각 분분을 VerilogHDL로 코딩하여 심볼로 만들어 통합하는 방식으로 설계를 하였으며 실제 모터를 구동하기 위해서 프로세서가 동작할 수 있도록 C언어로 프로그램하여 함께 칩에 다운로드하여 테스트를 하였다. SoC를 기반으로한 시스템 설계의 장점은 시스템이 간단해지고 고속의 동작이 가능하며 회로의 검증 및 다양한 시뮬레이션이 용이하다는데 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.703-706
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 스테레오 비전 알고리즘을 ARM9 프로세서를 사용하는 SoC의 IP 개념으로 구현하였다. 구현하고자 하는 스테레오 비전 시스템을 기능에 따라서 하드웨어와 소프트웨어 모듈로 나누어서 성능을 최대화할 수 있도록 설계하였다. SAD correlator는 한 쌍의 이미지에 많은 계산을 필요로 하기 때문에 성능을 우선시하여 하드웨어로 구성하였고, 소프트웨어는 프로세서를 초기화 시키고, 인터럽트 처리와 SAD correlator, TFT-LCD controller, 메모리 등의 하드웨어를 제어하는 역할을 하는 firmware로 구성을 하였다. 메모리에 기저장된 영상정보를 스테레오 비전 알고리즘을 이용한 결과를 외부 TFT-LCD 모듈에서 필요로 하는 포맷에 맞게 변환시켜서 depth map을 출력하는 시스템을 ARM922T 프로세서가 내장된 Altera Excalibur를 target으로 설계하여 테스트 보드에서 정상적으로 동작하는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37C no.10
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• pp.940-948
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• 2012

Android program is developed with JAVA SDK and executed over virtual machine. For this reason, programming is easier than traditional C language but performance of operating speed decreases. To enhance the performance, NDK development tool, which provides C language, assembly language environment, was proposed. Furthermore, with NEON function provided by ARM, we can utilize the vector operation and enhance performance. In the paper, we explore effectiveness of NDK and then propose advanced multiplication structure with NEON function.

• Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.1471-1477
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• 2015

Background: Adding taxanes to adjuvant antracycline and cyclophosphamide (AC) in combination may provide significant improvement in node-positive and high risk node-negative breast cancer (BC) patients. However, the optimal dose and the role of dose-dense (DD) chemotherapy have yet to be determined. The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of a DD paclitaxel (P)-AC combination with conventional weekly P-AC or docetaxel D-AC combinations in patients with node-positive breast cancer. Materials and Methods: Newly diagnosed 280 node-positive BC patients diagnosed from 1998 to 2013 in three clinics were retrospectively analyzed. Demographic and medical data were collected from the medical charts. Patients were categorized to 3 groups according to treatment arms: arm A, ddAC-P; arm B, weekly P and AC combination; and arm C; T and AC combination. Adjuvant trastuzumab was added for HER2-positive patients. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was carried out for disease free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS). The log-rank test was used to examine the statistical significance of the differences observed between the groups. Two-sided P values <0.05 were considered statistically significant. Results: Of the total of 280 patients, 101 were in arm A, 114 in arm B and 65 in arm C.The median ages were 49, 50 and 46, respectively (p=0.11). Median follow-up was 39 (3-193) months. Stage, lymphovascular and perineural invasion, receptor patern, and menopausal status were similar in the 3 treatment arms, but HER2 positivity was significantly lower in arm A, compared to arms B and C (25.7%, 53.1%, 41.5% in arms A, B and C, respectively; p<0.001). Also grade 3 tumors were significantly less frequent in treatment arm A compared to arm B and C (27.3%, 56.8% and 49.2%, respectively, p=0.01). Afterunivariate and multivariate analysis were performed, 3-year DFS rates were 89%, 81%, and 75%, respectively (p=0.12) and three year OS rates were 96.6%, 89%, and 75% (p=0.62). Conclusions: In this study, no significant difference was found between adjuvant dose dense and conventional taxane treatment regimens.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.17-29
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• 2009

C programming is a main programming for the Educational Robot Arm which is based on AVR ATmega128. The development environment is not integrated, so it is complex and difficult to study for middle or high school students who want to learn programming and control the educational robot arm. Furthermore, there is no debug and testing environment support. This paper presents a Java-based development platform for the educational robot arm. This platform includes: an up-to-date tiny Java Virtual Machine (NanoVM) for the educational robot arm; An Eclipse based Java integrated development environment as an Eclipse plug-in; a 3D simulator on the PCs to support testing and debugging programs without real robots. The Java programming environment makes development for educational robot arm easier for students.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.425-430
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• 2009

In medical area, lots of information has been digitized and the desire of personnel health became a matter of primary concern. To satisfy this desire it requires the high-speed handhold Healthcare monitering platform for building U-health system. This paper represents that the implementation of s3c6000 platform with s3c6400 CPU using up-to-date ARM11 technology. This parer also represents building of network system with wireless LAN based on 802.11 in order to transmit medical data. Transmitting and monitoring personnel medical data will be possible in any place with wireless LAN network.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.990-994
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• 2003

This paper describes the VoIP(Voice over Internet Protocol) SoC(System on Chip) Design and the test board development for the function verification to support voice communication services using Internet. To implement the simple system of configuration, we designed the VoIP SoC which have ARM922T of 32bit microprocessor, IP network interface, voice signal interface, various user interface function. Also we developed test program and communication protocol to verify the function of this chip. We used several tools of design and simulation, developed and tested a test board with Excalibur which includes ARM922T microprocessor and FPGA.

• Maxillofacial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.567-572
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• 2010

Intraoperative breakage of instruments can be occurred unexpectedly. To prevent damage of neighboring important anatomic structures and consequent complications, broken instruments should be removed as soon as possible. There have been several methods to remove broken instruments. One of them is the Carm fluoroscopy which is commonly used for locating metal foreign bodies. However, its application for removal of broken instruments in the oral and maxillofacial area is not common. In our experiences with the removal of two broken instruments in mandibular area, the newly developed dental mini C-arm was used to find broken instrument in soft tissue, because it gives real-time in situ information for the intraoperative location. We report two cases with broken instruments, a broken dental needle in the pterygomandibular space and a broken straight bur in the mandibular angle area. They were identified and could be removed safely using a dental mini C-arm.