• 산업기술연구
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• 제28권B호
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• pp.129-133
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• 2008

A method to reduce seam line artifact in spatial compounding of ultrasonic images is presented. Spatial compounding is a speckle reducing imaging technique in which a number of ultrasound images of a given target that have been obtained from multiple view angles are combined into a single compounded image by combining the data received from each data point in the compounded image. Since different view angle results in different view area, and the images of different view arms are combined into an image, the compounded image consists of regions with different signal to noise ratio, and the boundary lines between these regions are visible as seam lines in the compounded images. In this paper, we present an algorithm that reduces the visibility of this seam line in the spatially compounded images. Design procedure for a FIH filter is described and the results of applying the filter to in-vivo ultrasonic images are analyzed.

• Advances in pediatric surgery
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.73-78
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• 1995

Torsion of the wandering spleen is a rare condition especially in children. Unfortunately, splenectomy was the advocated treatment of choice for wandering spleen in many children up to 1985 in spite of the well-known possibility of overwhelming postsplenectomy sepsis. Because of the conclusive evidence of the vital function of the spleen in infection, indication of splenectomy have been revised and more attention has been paid to preserving the spleen where possible. We are presented a girl with splenic torsion, seen as a migratory abdominal mass and intermittent vague abdominal pain. Splenopexy by fixation of the spleen to the diaphragm and posterolateral peritoneum and the use of Avitene in the splenic bed was successfully performed. Complete fixation of the spleen was confirmed by ultrasound a year after this procedure was carried out. The clinical presentation, etiology, diagnostic procedures and management are discussed also.

• Journal of Gastric Cancer
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.275-278
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• 2014

Gastric cancer is rare during pregnancy, and often advanced upon presentation. A Krukenberg tumor presents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in the pregnant patient. We present a case of a 38-year-old woman at 22 weeks' gestation who presented with worsening epigastric pain, and was found to have a left pelvic mass on ultrasound, which was confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging. She went into active labor and delivered a viable infant via vaginal delivery. An exploratory laparotomy revealed a large mass originating from her left ovary and diffuse thickening of the lesser curvature of the stomach. Frozen section investigation revealed the presence of signet cell adenocarcinoma. Subsequent upper endoscopy showed linitis plastica, while biopsy confirmed the presence of adenocarcinoma. In conclusion, the occurrence of gastric cancer in pregnancy is rare despite extremely common symptoms. The management poses a challenge because of the need for early treatment, and the continuation of the pregnancy.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.66-71
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• 2015

Down syndrome screening with cell-free DNA (cfDNA) in the maternal plasma has recently received much attention in the prenatal diagnostic field. Indeed, a large amount of evidence has already accumulated to show that screening tests with cfDNA are more sensitive and specific than conventional maternal serum and/or ultrasound screening. Globally, more than 1,000,000 of these noninvasive prenatal tests (NIPTs) have been performed to date. There are several different methods for NIPTs that are currently commercially available, including shotgun massively parallel sequencing, targeted massively parallel sequencing, and single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-based methods. All of these methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. In this review, I will focus specifically on the SNP-based NIPT.

• 대한후두음성언어의학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.19-23
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• 2018

Ultrasonography has increasingly moved from being a modality confined to the radiology department to an active diagnostic and therapeutic aid available to the head and neck at the point of patient care. However, the application of ultrasonography to the laryngeal disorder is very rare due to progressive age-related ossification of laryngeal cartilage and the presence of air in the lumen, which contribute to difficult conditions for transmission of the ultrasonic waves. The observation about the movements of larynx or surrounding structures is important to understand the physiology of phonation or swallowing and to diagnose the disease. Ultrasonography is a noninvasive and safe imaging technique that can be used to investigate the anatomic structures of the head and neck. Recently, the development of high-frequency ultrasonography makes it possible to apply the ultrasound in the evaluation of larynx.

• 대한기관식도과학회지
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2009

Lung cancer could be developed through a series of morphological changes from dysplasia to carcinoma in situ and then invasive cancer. However, precancerous lesions are generally a few cell layers thick and are detected only by chance. Autofluorescence bronchoscopy(AFB) is one of the newly developed diagnostic tools to detect the pre-cancerous lesions m the bronchial tissue. Several studies have shown that AFB improved the rate of detection of cancer and dysplastic lesions of the airway, especially those in intraepithelial stage. However, there were high rates of false positive with AFB, and it is also important to develop non-biopsy methods because of lack of accurate information of variable course of preneoplastic lesions regarding progression. So, many other technologies were developed, such as narrow band imaging(NBI), endobronchoscopic ultrasound, optical coherence tomography, and confocal fluorescence microendoscopy. Among the new machines, NBI is a new optical technology that can clearly visualize the microvascular structure m the mucosal layer. NBI seems to increase specificity without compromising sensitivity. In the future such techniques would make it possible to precisely study in detail the natural history of the premalignant epithelium.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.479-484
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• 1994

An English Bulldog 4 years old, Queen was hospitalized three weeks after mating as anorexia, decreased activity, hamorrhagic pus like vaginal discharge, and high fever. It was very difficult to diagnose by clinical signs and clinical pathological findings, at the first. Eenlarged uterus cavity, fluid accumulation in uterus was clearly identified by radiography and ultrasonography. The results suggest that X-ray and ultrasound is very important diagnostic method for pyometra to know disease progress.

• 한국콘텐츠학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국콘텐츠학회 2014년도 추계 종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.187-188
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• 2014

초음파 전파 매개물은 초음파의 손실 없는 투과력을 위한 1차적인 목적 이외에 피부위에서 탐촉소자의 부드러운 이동을 위한 부가적인 목적이 있다. 본 연구는 제형이 다른 진단초음파 전파매개물이 갖는 피부 윤활성, 피부 보습성, 건조속도 등의 초음파 매개물의 특징을 측정하고 비교하였다. 마찰계수는 점도가 높을수록 높았으며 제제의 건조속도는 고분자 수화젤이 가장 높았다. 오일 함유량이 많을수록 수분증발이 나타나지 않았다. 피부수분함량에서는 저점도 에멀전이 높은 수분함량을 나타냈으며 수분함량 감소 정도가 가장 완만히 나타났다. 오일성분을 적절히 사용한 에멀전 형태의 초음파 전파매개물은 피부 보습효과, 피부 유연작용의 피부 건강측면과 피부-탐촉소자간의 피부 윤활성면에서 효과적인 제형임을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.277-282
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• 1990

A workstation for archiving and communication of medical records is developed for clinical use in hospital. In this system, handwritten diagnostic reports, medical recording papers such as ECG and EEG etc., and ultrasound images are stored in optical disks instead of papers. This system improves medical service owing to speedy diagnosis by fast finding the patient's medical chart, and curtails the cost of archiving medical charts economically. If this system can be combined with already developed MPACS, then integrated medical image di- agnosis will be possible.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1988년도 전기.전자공학 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.720-722
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• 1988

The Diagnostic applications of Ultrasound are developed in many ways. In this paper, We measure the attenuation coeffient of biological tissue using DSP. This method is useful in tissue characterization with real time. In the future, We expect that this method coupling with the ultrasonic temperature dependence of biological tissue also is applied to hyperthermia.