• 한국의학물리학회지:의학물리
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.198-205
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• 2011

감마선조사장치는 세포실험, 동물실험, 혈액방사선 조사, 선량측정 실험 및 교육 등에 널리 사용되고 있다. 한국원자력의 학원에서 보유하고 있는 Biobeam8000 (STS Steuerungstechnik &. Strahlenschutz GmbH, Braunschweig, Germany, Cs-137, 81.4 TBq) 감마선 조사장치는 7.5 L의 대용량과 넓은 영역에 사용이 가능한 감마선 조사장치이다. 비커 내부에 균일한 방사선조사를 위해 Cs-137 선원이 위아래 24 cm 범위를 일정한 주기로 왕복 이동하며, 기존의 다른 감마선 조사기와 같이 시료를 넣는 비커는 방사선 조사동안 360도 회전한다. 기존의 감마선 조사기와 달리 비교적 균일한 선량이 조사되는 반면에 방사선원이 이동하므로 위치에 따른 구체적인 선량정보도 필요로 하게 된다. 본 연구에서는 유리 선량계를 이용하여 Biobeam8000 감마선 조사장치의 비커 내부 선량을 측정하였고, 측정결과를 바탕으로 선량선형성과 선량재현성에 대한 평가 및 선량분포의 정보를 도출하였다. 이 결과를 바탕으로 실험 및 방사선 조사 시 효율적인 조사장치 사용을 위한 가이드라인을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 1984

Well type 전리함과 미세전류 측정희로를 사용하여 표준 감마선 전리함 장치를 개발하였다. 미세전류는 automatic Townsend balance with stepwise compensation방법을 사용하여 측정하였다. $^{226}Ra$을 기준 선원으로 택하여 감마 방출핵종인 $^{241}Am,\;^{133}Ba,\;^{60}Co,\;^{134}Cs,\;^{137}Cs^{22}Na$에 대한 비교 교정인자를 산출하였으며, 감마에너지의 함수로서 검출 효율 곡선을 구하였다.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권2호
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• pp.93-99
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• 2016

A redback system is a binary system composed of a pulsar and a main sequence star. The inverse Compton (IC) scattering between the stellar soft photons and the relativistic pulsar wind will generate orbital-modulating GeV photons. We look for these IC emissions from redback systems. A multi-wavelength observation of an unassociated gamma-ray source, 3FGL J2039.6-5618, by Salvetti et al. (2015) detected an orbital modulation with a period of 0.2 days in both X-ray and optical cases. They suggested 3FGL J2039.6-5618 to be a new redback candidate. We analyzed the gamma-ray emission of 3FGL J2039.6-5618 using the data from the Fermi large area telescope (Fermi-LAT) and obtained the spectrum in different orbital phases. We propose that the spectrum has orbital dependency and estimate the characteristic energy of the IC emission from the stellar-pulsar wind interaction.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.223-228
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• 1972

Radiography에 있어서 피사체로부터의 산란 ${\gamma}$선은 film상의 상질을 나쁘게 하는 큰 요소중에 하나이다. 피사체로부터의 산란선량을 조사하기 위하여 여러가지 폭의 slit에 의한 조사장에서의 film의 흑화농도를 구했다. 또 그때의 투과측정기 검출감도의 양부도 검토했다. 피사체가 두꺼워지면 산란선량이 증가하여 결함검출도가 저하하지만, slit폭을 좁힘으로써 개선할 수가 있었다. 그러고 선원은 $_{60}$Co을 사용했고 시료는 철로서 실험을 했다.

• 지구물리와물리탐사
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.154-161
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 중성자-감마 스펙트럼검층 존데 설계를 목적으로 Monte Carlo 시물레이션을 이용하여 열중성자 반응의 우세한 영역 파악 및 포획감마 스펙트럼의 에너지피크 값에 기초한 지층 구성 원소 구분을 수행하였다. 14 MeV 에너지준위의 중성자를 방출하는 중성자발생장치를 선원으로 이용하여 선원으로부터 10 cm 간격으로 12개의 중성자 검출기들을 배열함으로써 거리에 따른 열중성자 양을 측정하였다. 시추공 영향 저감을 위해 존데모형에 차폐재를 적용하여 보다 정확한 열중성자 측정을 수행하여 열중성자 반응이 우세한 위치를 분석한 뒤, 이 위치에서 검출된 포획감마 에너지 스펙트럼을 분석하여 지층을 구성하는 주요 원소 및 그 양을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과는 중성자-감마 스펙트럼검층 존데의 신호대잡음 비 향상과 포획감마 검출기 최적 위치 선정에 도움이 될 것으로 판단된다.

• Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.85-90
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• 2000

To assess the relationship between the changes of cellular components and the production of Th 1 cytokine in the immune tissue, inbred C57BL/6 mice were orally infected with 40 cysts of 76K strain of Toxoplosma gondii. The sequential change of cell differentials and $IFN-{\gamma}$ production of splenocytes were analyzed by Diff-Quik stain and RT-PCR. There were no significant proportional changes of cellular components of splenocytes until day 4 postinfection (Pl) as compared to those of day 0, and the relative percentage of macrophages and neutrophils/eosinophils increased significantly (p<0.01) thereafter. The expression of $IFN-{\gamma}$ mRNA of $CD3^{-}$ cells was observed from day 1 Pl at a low level. However, $IFN-{\gamma}$ production of $CD3^{+}$ cells increased significantly from day 4 Pl (p<0.01) which progressively increased thereafter. These findings provide the relative percentages of granulocytes and macrophages were increased in conjunction with increase of total number of splenocytes after oral infection with T. gondii in the susceptible murine hosts, and lymphocytes were the major cellular components and the important source of $IFN-{\gamma}$.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제54권12호
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• pp.4422-4430
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• 2022

Studying the effects of gamma radiation on the instrumentation and control (I&C) system of a nuclear power plant is critical to the successful and reliable operation of the plant. In the accidental scenario, the adverse environment of ionizing radiation affects the performance of the I&C system and it leads to inaccurate and incomprehensible results. This paper reports the effects of gamma radiation on the AT89C51RD2, a commercial-off-the-shelf 8-bit high-performance flash microcontroller. The microcontroller, selected for the device under test for this study is used in the remote terminal unit for a nuclear power plant. The custom circuits were made to test the microcontroller under different gamma doses using a ⁶⁰Co gamma source in both ex-situ and in-situ modes. The device was exposed to a maximum dose of 1.5 kGy. Under this hostile environment, the performance of the microcontroller was studied in terms of device current and voltage changes. It was observed that the microcontroller device can operate up to a total absorbed dose of approximately 0.6 kGy without any failure or degradation in its performance.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제56권1호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2024

In high radiation fields, gamma cameras suffer from pulse pile-up, resulting in poor energy resolution, count losses, and image distortion. To overcome this problem, various methods have been introduced to reduce the size of the aperture or pixel, reject the pile-up events, and correct the pile-up events, but these technologies have limitations in terms of mechanical design and real-time processing. The purpose of this study is to develop a real-time gamma camera to evaluate the radioactive contamination in high radiation fields. The gamma camera is composed of a pinhole collimator, NaI(Tl) scintillator, position sensitive photomultiplier (PSPMT), signal processing board, and data acquisition (DAQ). The pulse pile-up is corrected in real-time with a field programmable gate array (FPGA) using the start time correction (STC) method. The STC method corrects the amplitude of the pile-up event by correcting the time at the start point of the pile-up event. The performance of the gamma camera was evaluated using a high dose rate ¹³⁷Cs source. For pulse pile-up ratios (PPRs) of 0.45 and 0.30, the energy resolution improved by 61.5 and 20.3%, respectively. In addition, the image artifacts in the ¹³⁷Cs radioisotope image due to pile-up were reduced.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제17권3호
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• pp.219-224
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• 2023

A high-efficiency underwater radiation monitoring system, HydroGamma, has been developed for detecting ¹³⁷Cs and ¹³¹I in the event of waterborne radiation contamination. The system consists of a 3-inch NaI (Tl) detector, solar panels for power supply, data acquisition and transmission modules, and batteries. HydroGamma also includes a ⁴⁰K calibration source for remote performance evaluation and energy calibration. In this study, some simulations and experiments were carried out to evaluate the minimum detectable activities (MDA) of HydroGamma. We installed the HydroGamma at Tapjeongho Lake in Nonsan-si and acquired background data since MDA is calculated based on the experimental background data. The results show that the minimum detectable activities for ¹³⁷Cs and ¹³¹I were 1.78Bq L^-1 and 1.81Bq L^-1, respectively even though the gamma rays emitted from ⁴⁰K(1,460 keV) affect the minimum detectable activities for them.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.75-78
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• 1991

The carotenoid biosynthesis of a red oleaginous yeast, Rhodotorula glutinis was significantly changed when the yeast was grown on different carbon substrates. The highest carotenoid production was obtained on culture medium containing glucose when the carbon to nitrogen ratio (C/N ratio) was adjusted to 25.7. Galactose stimulated the biosynthetic rate of torularhodin, a xanthophyll component of the yeast. With decreasing C/N ratio of the medium, significant changes of $\gamma$-carotene and torularhodin were observed such that increase in the torularhodin concentration was nearly equal to the decrease in $\gamma$-carotene. It was speculated that the nature of carbon substrate affected the metabolic rate of the cell, and accompanied by the different pattern of carotenoid accumulation in the cell.