• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.108-115
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• 2003

Purpose : To evaluate the effect of the gradient switching noise on the ECD source localization with the EEG data recorded during the MRI scan. Materials and Methods : We have fabricated a spherical EEG phantom that emulates a human head on which multiple electrodes are attached. Inside the phantom, electric current dipole(ECD) sources are located to evaluate the source localization error. The EEG phantom was placed in the center of the whole-body 3.0 Tesla MRI magnet, and a sinusoidal current was fed to the ECD sources. With an MRI-compatible EEG measurement system, we recorded the multi channel electric potential signals during gradient echo single-shot EPI scans. To evaluate the effect of the gradient switching noise on the ECD source localization, we controlled the gradient noise level by changing the FOV of the EPI scan. With the measured potential signals, we have performed the ECD source localization. Results : The source localization error depends on the gradient switching noise level and the ECD source position. The gradient switching noise has much bigger negative effects on the source localization than the Gaussian noise. We have found that the ECD source localization works reasonably when the gradient switching noise power is smaller than $10\%$ of the EEG signal power. Conclusion : We think that the results of the present study can be used as a guideline to determine the degree of gradient switching noise suppression in EEG when the EEG data are to be used to enhance the performance of fMRI.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1992 no.05
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• pp.92-97
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• 1992

The pulsatile nature of blood flow makes artefacts in 2D Fourier transform image. Spatial presaturation is known to be effective in eliminating flow artefacts when the spin echo acquisition is employed. However. this method requires additional RF pulse and spoiling gradient for presaturation. In this paper a new flow saturation technique which does not require additional saturation-RF and gradient is proposed. The proposed technique is equivalent to the existing saturation technique but the elimination of the flow component is achieved by a pair of tailored $90^{\circ}-180^{\circ}$ RF pulses in tile spin echo sequence. By use of two tailored RF pulses with opposite phase polarity, a linear phase gradient is generated for those moving materials and consequently all the spins of moving materials become dephased thereby no signal is observable. Computer simulations and experimental results obtained using both a phantom and a human volunteer with a 2.0 T whole body system are also presented.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.462-471
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• 1989

Two-dimensional median filters were affectively supprssing the noise in image processing with the adge smearing decreased. However, if the window were large as necessary in noise then the filter had tendency to cut off corners. An estimate of gradient was used to decide how the ouputs of the filters were calculated. For parallel to the gradient direction we used edge preserving median operation and orthogonal to that averaging subfilters over which medians were then chosen. Four different algorithms were introduced.

• Korean Journal of Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.111-121
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• 1993

Double-diffusive convection during solidification process of the binary mixture was studied numerically. Enthalpy method and finite element method were implemented in the analysis. Calculation carried out for $R{\alpha}_T=10^3-10^4$ and $R{\alpha}_T=0-10^5$. The results show that the variation of thermal Rayleigh number changes the fields of velocity, temperature and concentration, but the variation of solutal Rayleigh number gives little effects on those. In conclusion, concentration gradient can be negligible compared with temperature gradient in macroscopic point of view, although concentration gradient plays a role in forming dendrite.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.1546-1552
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• 1993

We proposed an adaptive block truncation coding(BTC) using gradient and a new initial value. We used gradient of sobel operator as a new category classification coefficient to reduce Jagged appearance at edge part. We defined a new initial value to reduce large quantization error in the 4-level quantizer block including edge part. By computer simulations, we showed that the proposed method less computation load, reduced jagged appearance at edge part, also improved PSNR more than the conventional adaptive BTC.

• 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.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.1 no.3
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• pp.221-229
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 기존의 개인 식별 방법의 한계를 해결하는 대안으로 떠오르고 있는 생체인식 기술 중 인식률이 뛰어나고 신뢰성 있는 홍채인식 시스템을 구현하고자 한다. 구현을 위하여 신호처리 분야에서 주로 사용되는 wavelet변환으로 계수 특징 값 추출을 하였으며, 인식률을 알아보기 위하여 신경망 기법을 이용하고자 한다. 그러나 신경망 기법에서 주로 사용되는 비선형 최적화기법인 Scale Conjugate Gradient는 최적화 문제점을 해결하기에는 수렴속도가 느리기 때문에 적합하지 않다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존 Scale Conjugate Gradient를 보완한 Levenberg-Marquardt Back-Propagation을 홍채인식에 적용하여 구현함으로써 인식율을 높이고자 한다. 적용한 알고리즘 구현으로 해의 수렴정도, 변수 벡터의 변화정도에 따라 크기를 적절히 변화시킴으로써 수렴속도를 개선하고, 효율성과 안정성을 동시에 얻을 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.276-284
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• 2003

The preconditioned conjugate gradient method is an efficient iterative solution scheme for large size finite element problems. As preconditioning method, we choose an incomplete Cholesky factorization which has efficiency and easiness in implementation in this paper. The incomplete Cholesky factorization mettled sometimes leads to breakdown of the computational procedure that means pivots in the matrix become minus during factorization. So, it is inevitable that a reduction process fur stabilizing and this process will guarantee robustness of the algorithm at the cost of a little computation. Recently incomplete factorization that enhances robustness through increasing diagonal dominancy instead of reduction process has been developed. This method has better efficiency for the problem that has rotational degree of freedom but is sensitive to parameters and the breakdown can be occurred occasionally. Therefore, this paper presents new method that guarantees robustness for this method. Numerical experiment shows that the present method guarantees robustness without further efficiency loss.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.17 no.10
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• pp.2590-2600
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• 1993

The present paper describes numerical predictions for the film cooling effectiveness from a row of hole at various injection ratios and injection alngles.Numerical calculations were performed to investigate film cooling effectiveness and the characteristics of flow and temperature distributions in the region near the downstream of injection hole including the region of adverse pressure gradient. The elliptic 3-dimensional governing equations with variable thermal properties were solved by SIMPLE algorithm. The results showed that the presence of adverse pressure gradient in the region near the downstream of injection hole induces large temperature gradient. At injection angle of $35^{\circ}$ the average film cooling effectiveness was increased as increased of injection ratio up to 1.0. At injection angle of $90^{\circ}$ however, the average film cooling effectiveness was decreased from injection ratio larger than 0.4.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.117-126
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• 2009

The recent interest in sensor networks has led to a number of routing schemes that use the limited resources available at sensor nodes more efficiently. These schemes typically try to find the minimum energy path to optimize energy usage at a node. Some schemes, however, are prone to unbalance of the traffic and energy. To solve this problem, we propose a novel solution: a gradient-field approach which takes account of the minimum cost data delivery, energy consumption balancing, and traffic equalization. We also modify the backoff-based cost field setup algorithm to establish our gradient-field based sensor network and give the algorithm. Simulation results show that the overhead of routing establishment obtained by our algorithm is much less than the one obtained by Flooding. What's more, our approach guarantees the basic Quality of Service (QoS) without extra spending.