• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.12-21
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• 2003

Purpose : In order to overcome limitations in the existing conventional spectrometer, a new spectrometer with advanced functionalities is designed and implemented. Materials and Methods : We designed a spectrometer using the TMS320C6701 DSP capable of 1 giga floating point operations per second (GFLOPS). The spectrometer can generate continuously varying complicate gradient waveforms by real-time calculation, and select image plane interactively. The designed spectrometer is composed of two parts: one is DSP-based digital control part, and the other is analog part generating gradient and RF waveforms, and performing demodulation of the received RF signal. Each recover board can measure 4 channel FID signals simultaneously for parallel imaging, and provides fast reconstruction using the high speed DSP. Results : The developed spectrometer was installed on a 1.5 Tesla whole body MRI system, and performance was tested by various methods. The accurate phase control required in digital modulation and demodulation was tested, and multi-channel acquisition was examined with phase-array coil imaging. Superior image quality is obtained by the developed spectrometer compared to existing commercial spectrometer especially in the fast spin echo images. Conclusion : Interactive control of the selection planes and real-time generation of gradient waveforms are important functions required for advanced imaging such as spiral scan cardiac imaging. Multi-channel acquisition is also highly demanding for parallel imaging. In this paper a spectrometer having such functionalities is designed and developed using the TMS320C6701 DSP having 1 GFLOPS computational power. Accurate phase control was achieved by the digital modulation and demodulation techniques. Superior image qualities are obtained by the developed spectrometer for various imaging techniques including FSE, GE, and angiography compared to those obtained by the existing commercial spectrometer.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.327-340
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• 2002

In this paper, we performed the design study of a wide-band digital autocorrelation spectrometer for the observation study of an extra-galaxy's spectral lines and the survey research of the special radio sources in field of the radio astronomy observational research. The autocorrelation spectrometer designed in this paper can be used to their spectrometer of any system because this spectrometer has a wide dynamic power and frequency range properties. In this system we use the aliasing sampling method to minimize the band loss. For the output signal of the correlator we can increase the signal processing speed using by a special DSP chip, the integration and the FFT using hardware, so this spectrometer can support the newest developed technique for the radio astronomy observation so called “On the fly” method.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2000

In tendency of digitalization, we studied about the purpose of digital modem for MRI spectrometer and advantage of digital modem compared with analog one. We introduce requirements lot designing transmitter of high speed digital modem for MRl spectrometer We also introduce its top-level and mid-level architecture. The transmitter is composed of CPC-P interface block, DUC & DAC block, RF block, master clock generation block, MCU block. Especially, DUC and its control parts are studied in detail. DUC and DAC can operate up to 52MHz and 100Msps, respectively. However we uses 35MHz as master clock and this paper shows its validity through simulations.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.341-349
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• 2003

A real time interactive controller (spectrometer) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system has been developed using high speed digital signal processors (DSP). The controller generates radio frequency (rf) waveforms and audio frequency gradient waveforms and controls multiple receivers for data acquisition. By employing DSPs having high computational power (e.g., TMS320C670l) real time generation of complicated gradient waveforms and interactive control of selection planes are possible, which are important features in real-time imaging of moving organs, e.g., cardiac imaging. The spectrometer was successfully implemented at a 1.5 Tesla whole body MRI system for clinical application. Performance of the spectrometer is verified by various experiments including high- speed imaging such as fast spin echo (FSE) and echo planar imaging (EPI). These high-speed imaging techniques reduce measurement time, however, usually intensify artifact if there is any systematic phase error or jitter in the synchronization between the transmitter, receiver, and gradients.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.83-86
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• 2003

This paper is the research and development including the system design and the prototype system building of the wide-band digital autocorrelation spectrometer system for radio astronomy observation, which will be used as back-end signal processing unit of the Dual channel SIS receiver at Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory. So in this paper. we performed development of the high speed digitizing sampler, the circular memory buffer, and the correlator module for the 400MHz wide-band digital autocorrelator.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07c
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• pp.2641-2644
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• 2003

Recently, TRAO Taeduk Radio Astronomy Observatory is developing wide-band digital spectrometer for radio astronomy, which will be used as back-end signal processing unit of Dual channel SIS receiver. So in this paper, we performed development of high speed digitizing sampler for the wide-band digital autocorrelator, which can perform sampling and quantization on pseudo-random gaussian noise with the maximum conversion speed of 1.5 Gsps..

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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• 2003.10a
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• pp.623-626
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• 2003

Image analysis was performed with two color systems, Red-Green-Blue (RGB) values and normalized Hue-Saturation-Intensity (HSI). We conducted field studies in Cheongju to determine canopy spectral reflectance and digital image analysis of rice. Spectral reflectance measurements made with a portable spectrometer(LI-1800) correlated with growing stage and digital images for rice. Images in which the color was specified by the common RGB coordinates could be used when there was a sharp contrast between the color of the rice and that of the field soil. In the absence of sharp contrast, identification of the rice covered area was much easer after the color had been transformed into HSI coordinates. This study introduced fundamental theories in digital image analysis and applied that for field situations rice.

• Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.178-178
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• 2001

목적： 본 연구에서는 초당 $10^{9}$ 부동점 연산이 가능한 Texas Instrument사의 TMS320C6701 DSP를 이용하여 연속적으로 변하는 경사자계를 real-time으로 계산하여 후, 4 채널의 phase array 코일을 이용하여 영상을 얻은 후 빠른 재구성을 통하여 영상을 확인할 수 있는 spectrometer를 개발하였다. 대상 및 방법： 실시간 구현을 위하여 DSP 보드에 Texas Instruments(Tl)사의 TMS320C6701을 장착하였다. Transmitter, receiver, 그리고 gradient를 담당하는 DSP 보드들과 이들과 연결되어 rf modulation, gradient waveform을 만드는 analog board와 phased array coil을 위한 4 채널까지 측정이 가능한 receiver board로 구성하였다. Gradient 보드의 경우 각 경사자계의 채널(Gx, Gy, Gz)의 sampling points를 real-time으로 각각 계산함으로써 blipped-EPI 뿐만 아니라, 경사자계 파형이 연속적으로 변화하는 spiral-EPI의 실험도 가능하게 하였다.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.101-107
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• 2004

This paper describes the digital back-end system for getting the data to analyze the user observation mode by digitalize the analog data after receiving the space radio using the radio telescope, The received analog data will be digitalized by high-speed sampler with 1 Gsps for 4 channel frequency band of millimeter wave, and the digital data will be transported through the fiber-optic digital transmission system and WDM(wavelength division multiplex) to observation building, The wideband digital FIR(Finite Impulse Response) filters analyze the data for user observation mode to record the data in high-speed recorder with 1 Gbps. In this paper, we introduce the overall system configuration and features combined by various information and communication technology in radio astronomy briefly, which will be adopted by KVN(Korean VLBI Network).

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.69-72
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• 2000

This paper shows the more improved design of MRI receiver compared to conventional one based on Elscint Spectrometer. At first, the low-cost ADC is 16 bits, 3MHz sampling A/D converter Comparing to conventional one with signal bits of 14 bits, this device with those of 16 bits helps getting Improved the image resolution improved. If frequency is designed centering around 7.6 MHz to be satisfied in 10 MHz of maximum input bandwidth of ADC. For 1st demodulation, fixed IF is used for the purpose of the implementing multi nuclei system. Control parts & partial digital parts are integrated on one chip(FPGA). In DDC(Digital Down Converter), we got required bandwidth of LPF by controlling its decimation rate. With above considerations, we designed optimal receiver for high resolution imaging to be implemented through PC interface & experimental test of receiver of MRI after receiver's fabrication.