• The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.248-258
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• 2023

PURPOSE. This study aims to evaluate the effects of exposure energy on the lateral resolution and mechanical strength of dental zirconia manufactured using digital light processing (DLP). MATERIALS AND METHODS. A zirconia suspension and a custom top-down DLP printer were used for in-office manufacturing. The viscosity of the suspension and uniformity of the exposed light intensity were controlled. Based on the exposure energy dose delivered to each layer, the specimens were classified into three groups: low-energy (LE), medium-energy (ME), and high-energy (HE). For each energy group, a simplified molar cube was used to measure the widths of the outline (X_o and Y_o) and isthmus (X_i and Y_i), and a bar-shaped specimen of the sintered body was tested. A Kruskal-Wallis test for the lateral resolution and one-way analysis of variance for the mechanical strength were performed (α = .05). RESULTS. The zirconia green bodies of the ME group showed better lateral resolution than those of the LE and HE groups (both P < .001). Regarding the flexural strength of the sintered bodies, the ME group had the highest mean value, whereas the LE group had the lowest mean value (both P < .05). The ME group exhibited fewer agglomerates than the LE group, with no distinctive interlayer pores or surface defects. CONCLUSION. Based on these findings, the lateral resolution of the green body and flexural strength of the sintered body of dental zirconia could be affected by the exposure energy dose during DLP. The exposure energy should be optimized when fabricating DLP-based dental zirconia.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제49권1호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2012

초해상도 영상복원은 동일한 노출을 가진 다수의 저해상도 영상을 사용하며, 각 영상들 간의 부화소 이동량을 통해 높은 해상도를 가지는 영상을 복원하는 방법이다. 최근에는 노출이 다른 다수의 입력 영상들을 사용하여 해상도와 동적범위 모두를 향상시키는 방법들이 제시되고 있다. 기존의 방법들은 장면의 휘도 변환을 위한 카메라 응답곡선과 톤 맵핑 방법을 필수적으로 요구한다. 이러한 과정에서 CRC 곡선은 추가적인 영상 획득을 요구하며, 과정 또한 복잡하다. 특히 톤 맵핑은 방법에 따라 결과 영상의 화질을 일정하게 나타내지 못하는 장점이 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 가중치 맵을 사용한 고해상도 동적 범위 확장 영상 재현 방법을 제시한다. 제안된 방법에서 먼저 각 입력 영상에서 인간 시각에 가장 잘 보이는 영역을 가중치 맵(weight map)이라 정의하고, 가중치 맵이 적용된 입력 영상을 초해상도 복원방법에 적용함으로써, 해상도와 동적 범위가 모두 확장된 결과 영상을 획득한다. 이 방법은 카메라 응답곡선과 톤 맵핑을 사용하지 않음으로 일정한 화질을 획득한다. 또한 제안된 방법은 입력 영상의 구성에 따라 결과 영상의 화질이 다르게 나타남으로, 수수의 불규칙한 입력에도 유사한 결과를 획득하기 위한 밝기 보상 요소를 제안한다.

• 유체기계공업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 유체기계공업학회 2006년 제4회 한국유체공학학술대회 논문집
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• pp.403-406
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• 2006

A new medical X-ray PIV technique was developed using a conventional medical X-ray tube. To acquire images of micro-scale particles, the X-ray PIV system consists of an x-ray CCD camera with high spatial resolution, and a X-ray tube with small a focal spot. A new X-ray exposure control device was developed using a rotating disc shutter to make double pulses which are essential for PIV application. Synchronization methodology was also developed to apply the PIV technique to a conventional medical X-ray tube. In order to check the performance and usefulness of the developed X-ray PIV technique, it was applied to a glycerin flow in an opaque silicon tube. Tungsten particles which have high X-ray absorption coefficient were used as tracer particles. Through this preliminary test, the spatial resolution was found to be higher than ultrafast MRI techniques, and the temporal resolution was higher than conventional X-ray PIV techniques. By improving its performance further and developing more suitable tracers, this medical X-ray PIV technique will have strong potential in the fields of medical imaging or nondestructive inspection as well as diagnosis of practical thermo-fluid flows.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.575-586
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• 2022

Uneven light in real-world causes visual degradation for underexposed regions. For these regions, insufficient consideration during enhancement procedure will result in over-/under-exposure, loss of details and color distortion. Confronting such challenges, an unsupervised low-light image enhancement network is proposed in this paper based on the guidance of the unpaired low-/normal-light images. The key components in our network include super-resolution module (SRM), a GAN-based low-light image enhancement network (LLIEN), and denoising-scaling module (DSM). The SRM improves the resolution of the low-light input images before illumination enhancement. Such design philosophy improves the effectiveness of texture details preservation by operating in high-resolution space. Subsequently, local lightness attention module in LLIEN effectively distinguishes unevenly illuminated areas and puts emphasis on low-light areas, ensuring the spatial consistency of illumination for locally underexposed images. Then, multiple discriminators, i.e., global discriminator, local region discriminator, and color discriminator performs assessment from different perspectives to avoid over-/under-exposure and color distortion, which guides the network to generate images that in line with human aesthetic perception. Finally, the DSM performs noise removal and obtains high-quality enhanced images. Both qualitative and quantitative experiments demonstrate that our approach achieves favorable results, which indicates its superior capacity on illumination and texture details restoration.

• 정보저장시스템학회논문집
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.79-82
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• 2010

In optical imaging systems, such as microscopes, high resolution exposure systems, and optical storage devices, higher optical resolution is a requirement. One of the promising technologies that is able to satisfy this requirement with relatively simple construction and reliable performance are, solid immersion lens (SIL)-based near-field (NF) optical systems. High NA optical systems using annular apertures have been investigated as one solution to achieve higher resolutions and an extended focal depth. By applying an optimized annular aperture to convention SIL optical head resolution can be increased by approximately 20%. This novel SIL-based near-field optics will be verified through experiments such as measuring focused beam spot profiles and observing the topology of a measurement sample. The studied SIL-based near-field optics can be applicable to not only next generation optical storage device but also high resolution microscopy and pattering technologies.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권8호
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• pp.273-279
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• 2013

본 연구에서는 변조전달함수(Modulation transfer function, MTF)를 이용한 컴퓨터 방사선영상의 감도 노출 분류에 따른 공간분해능을 평가하여 컴퓨터 방사선영상 획득의 기초자료로 제시하고자 하였다. 본 실험에서는 $100{\mu}mm$ 픽셀의 영상판을 이용하여 엣지법의 MTF를 측정하였다. 방사선 선질은 IEC 61267에서 권고하고 있는 RQA5를 이용하였다. X-선이 조사된 영상판은 감도 노출 분류를 50, 100, 200, 300, 400, 600, 800, 1200으로 각각 설정한 후 디지털 영상화하였다. 최종 획득된 영상들은 공인된 영상분석 프로그램인 image J와 Origin 8.0을 이용하여 MTF 50%와 10%를 구하여 평가하였다. 그 결과 감도 노출 분류 200에서 가장 우수한 MTF 50%($1.979{\pm}0.114lp/mm$)와 MTF 10%($3.932{\pm}0.041$)의 공간주파수를 구하였다. 따라서 골절 등과 같이 높은 공간분해능을 요구하는 질병진단에 유용할 것으로 사료된다.

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.21-28
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• 2000

Although commercial PIV systems have been widely used for the non-intrusive velocity field measurement of fluid flows, they are still under development and have considerable room for improvement. In this study, a single-frame double-exposure PIV system using a high-resolution CCD camera was developed. A pulsed Nd:Yag laser and high-resolution CCD camera were synchronized by a home-made control circuit. In order to resolve the directional ambiguity problem encountered in the single-frame PIV technique, the second particle image was genuinely shifted in the CCD sensor array during the time interval dt. The velocity vector field was determined by calculating the displacement vector at each interrogation window using cross-correlation with 50% overlapping. In order to check the effect of spatial resolution of CCD camera on the accuracy of PIV velocity field measurement, the developed PIV system with three different resolution modes of the CCD camera (512 ${\times}$ 512, lK ${\times}$ IK, 2K ${\times}$ 2K) was applied to a turbulent flow which simulate the Zn plating process of a steel strip. The experimental model consists of a snout and a moving belt. Aluminum flakes about $1{\mu}m$ diameter were used as scattering particles for the liquid flow in the zinc pot and the gas flow above the zinc surface was seeded with atomized olive oil with an average diameter of 1-$3{\mu}m$. Velocity field measurements were carried out at the strip speed $V_s$=1.0 m/s. The 2K ${\times}$ 2K high-resolution PIV technique was significantly superior compared to the smaller pixel resolution PIV system. For the cases of 512 ${\times}$ 512 and 1K ${\times}$ 1K pixel resolution PIV system, it was difficult to get accurate flow structure of viscous flow near the wall and small vortex structure in the region of large velocity gradient.

• 한국측량학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.563-572
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 회전익 UAV를 이용하여 1cm 미만의 GSD를 갖는 초고해상도 영상을 취득하기 위해 비행고도, 비행속도, 카메라 셔터의 노출시간, 자동초점조절 사용 여부가 영상의 시각적 해상도에 미치는 영향을 객관적으로 분석하는 것이다. 아울러 다양한 형태의 항공표적에 대한 인식 용이성을 평가하는 것도 목표로 한다. 이를 위해 35mm 크기의 7952*5304 화소 CMOS 센서와 55mm 단렌즈를 이용하여 비행고도 20m부터 120m에서 20m 간격으로 촬영하고 영상의 시각적 해상도를 분석하였다. 결과로 자동초점조절을 사용한 경우 시각적 해상도는 이론적인 GSD에 비하여 1.1~1.6배로 나타났고, 자동초점조절을 사용하지 않은 경우 1.5~3.5배로 나타났다. 다음으로 비행고도 80m에서 5m/s로 정속 비행하면서 카메라의 노출 시간을 1/60sec에서 1/2000sec까지 1/2씩 줄이면서 촬영하고 시각적 해상도를 분석하였다. 허용 흐려짐을 1 화소로 가정할 때 최장 노출 시간을 준수한 경우 시각적 해상도 는 이론적인 GSD이 비하여 1.3~1.5배로 나타났고, 초과한 경우 1.4~3.0배로 나타났다. A4 용지에 항공표적을 출력하여 비행고도 80m 이내에서 촬영하면 상용소프트웨어를 이용하여 코드화된 항공표적을 자동으로 인식할 수 있으며, 자동 인식이 불가능한 고도에서도 다양한 형태의 일반 항공표적 및 코드화된 항공표적을 큰 어려움 없이 수동으로 인식할 수 있었다.

• 치과방사선
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.137-147
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• 1994

A digital imaging system using Machintosh Ⅱ ci computer, high resolution Sony XC-77 CCD camera, Quickcapture Frame Grabber Board was evaluated for quantitative analysis of standardized periapical film with aluminum step wedge. The results were as follows: 1. Correlation between Al thickness and gray level was high-positively associated(r²=0.99, p<0.001). 2. Correlation between measured weight of experimental lesion and estimated relative lesion volume by digital subtracted radiography was also high-positively associated (r²=0.98, p<0.001). 3. As exposure time was increased, mean gray level was decreased(p<0.01) and slope of regression line between Al thickness and gray level was also decreased (p<0.01). And when the exposure time was shorter than 0.2 second, the value of r² was relatively low. On the basis of the above results, it is considered that this digital imaging system using a Macintosh Ⅱ ci computer & a high resolution CCD monochrome camera will be useful in evaluating digitized image from standardized periapical film quantitatively.

• 천문학회보
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• 제36권2호
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• pp.154.1-154.1
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• 2011

IGRINS (Immersion Grating Infrared Spectrometer) is a cross-dispersed high resolution near-infrared spectrograph whose primary disperser is a silicon immersion grating (SIG) and cross-dispersers are two volume phase holographic gratings (VPHG). IGRINS covers the full ranges of H and K astronomical wavelength bands at a single exposure with the spectral resolution of 40,000. The overall layout of the IGRINS Cryostat is a $960{\times}600{\times}380$ cubic millimeter rectangular box and the whole optical train is sitting on an $880{\times}520{\times}50\;mm^3$ rectangular Optical Bench. The total volume of the instrument has been revolutionarily reduced and remained compact for the spectral coverage and sensitivity of a high resolution spectrograph in infrared. We, in this presentation, introduce the design models, the structural and thermal analysis results of the mechanics and cryogenics of IGRINS.