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Usefulness of Registration in the Evaluation of Parkinson′s Disease (영상 융합하여 분석한 파킨슨씨병 환자영상의 유용성)

  • 주라형;김재승;문대혁;최보영;서태석
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.268-278
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    • 2003
  • Purpose:The aim of this study was to evaluate the striatal binding ratio, the anterior/posterior ratio and reproducibility using a template based registration method using the standard MR template as a replacement for each patients MR image. Materials and Methods:This study analyzed the 123I IPT SPECT images of 30 patients with IPD, who were subdivided into 17 patients (56.6$\pm$10.8 yr, M/F : 8/9.) with mild IPD, and 13 patients (56.4$\pm$11.1 yr, M/F : 8/5) with severe IPD. In addition, 11 normal controls (57.8$\pm$14.4 yr, M/F : 4/7) were also analyzed. The ROIs were positioned manually in the same slice showing the highest striatal activity using the traditional manual method, whereas those were positioned automatically in a mid striatal slice of the SPECT image coregistered to the standard T1 weighted MR template. Results : The specific binding ratio (SBR) obtained using the template based registration method strongly correlated with those using the manual method in all groups : normal controls (r=0.85, P<0.001), mild IPD (r=0.84, P<0.001) and severe IPD (r=0.7, P=0.01). The SBRs obtained using both methods were significantly different among the three groups (P=0.05) and the SBRs obtained by the template based registration method were higher than those by the manual method (P=0.05) in all three groups. The APRs obtained by the template based registration correlated with those using manual method in only mild IPD (r=0.72, P=0.0). The APRs obtained by the template based registration method were significantly different from the normal controls and those with mild or severe IPD (P<0.05), whereas those obtained using the manual method were not significantly different among the three groups (P>0.1). The reproducibility (rmsCV) of the template based registration method was 7.2% (normal controls:5.2%, mild IPD:4.2%, severe IPD:10.8%), whereas the reproducibility of the manual method was 31% (normal controls:19.7%, mild IPD:21.7%, severe IPD:46.2%). Conclusion:These results show that the use of $^{123}$ I-IPT SPECT for assessing IPD is affected by the methods used to position the striatal ROI. The template based registration method using the standard MR template can be useful in diagnosing IPD and assessing the disease severity with a high reproducibility. Therefore, the template based registration method appears to be a good replacement for the manual method.

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Study of point defects caused by a thin contamination layer in a-Si TFT-LCD

  • Oh, Jae-Young;Lee, Jae-Kyun;Yang, Moung-Su;Kang, In-Byeong
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2007.08a
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    • pp.845-848
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    • 2007
  • Analysis of point defects invisible by a microscope has been studied on the a-Si thin film transistor panel. The point defects which were named Invisible Point Defect (IPD) is characterized by no particles or distortion of patterns on a pixel structure and randomly distributed on panels. To investigate the IPD, measurements were carried out: gray level driving, transistor transfer characteristic, focused ion beam (FIB), and secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). The results showed that a contamination layer had a bad influence on an active surface. The contamination layer consisted of oxygen and iron from a water supply line during cleaning process. After the process tuning, IPD has been stabilized.

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A Dual Band Directional Coupler with Feedback Compensation Using Diplexer Structure (Diplexer 구조를 이용한 Dual Band 방향성 커플러)

  • Kim Ki-Joong;Park Ja-Young;Jeong Young-Hak;Bae Hyo-Gun;Kim Nam-Heung;Kim Hak-Sun
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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    • v.16 no.8 s.99
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    • pp.783-789
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, a novel design and implementation of a dual-band directional coupler based on RF IPD(Integrated Passive Device)-on-glass technology is proposed, which can be adopted in GSM/GPRS cellular phones for closed loop power control at the output of the power amplifier. The proposed coupler has a compensation capacitor to improve the directivity, and was designed using a new diplexing structure to minimize the cross-band isolation.

RETRIEVAL OF LOCAL INTERPLANETARY DUST EMISSIVITY BY ASTRO-F

  • HONG S. S.;KWON S. M.;PYO J.;UENO M.;ISHIGURO M.;USUI F.;WEINBERG J. L.
    • Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.159-169
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    • 2004
  • This is a proposal to probe local part of the interplanetary dust (IPD) cloud complex and retrieve mean volume emissivity of the local IPDs at mid-infrared wavelengths. This will be done by monitoring, with Infrared Camera (IRC) aboard the ASTRO-F, the annual modulation of the zodiacal emission. In pointing mode of the ASTRO-F mission the spacecraft can make attitude maneuvering over approximately ${\pm}1^{\circ}$ range centered at solar elongation $90^{\circ}$ in the ecliptic plane. The attitude maneuvering combined with high sensitivity of the IRC will provide us with a unique opportunity observationally to take derivatives of the zodiacal emission brightness with respect to the solar elongation. From the resulting differential of the brightness over the ${\pm}1^{\circ}$ range, one can directly determine the mean volume emissivity of the local IPDs with a sufficient accuracy to de-modulate the annual emissivity variations due to the Earth's elliptical motion and the dis-alignment of the maximum IPD density plane with respect to the ecliptic. The non-zero eccentricity ($e_{\oplus}$= 0.0167) of the Earth's orbit combined with the sensitive temperature dependence of the Planck function would bring modulations of amplitude at least $3.34\%$ to the zodiacal emission brightness at mid-infrared wavelengths, with which one may determine the IPD temperature T(r) and mean number density n(r) as functions of heliocentric distance r. This will in turn fix the power-law exponent $\delta$ in the relation $T(r) = T_o(r/r_o)^{-\delta}$ for the dust temperature and v in $n(r) = n_o(r/r_o)^-v$ for the density. We discuss how one may de-couple the notorious degeneracy of cross-section, density, reference temperature $T_o$ and exponent $\delta$.

Production of Indole-3-acetate in Corynebacterium glutamicum by Heterologous Expression of the Indole-3-pyruvate Pathway Genes

  • Kim, Yu-mi;Kwak, Mi-hyang;Kim, Hee-sook;Lee, Jin-ho
    • Microbiology and Biotechnology Letters
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    • v.47 no.2
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    • pp.242-249
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    • 2019
  • Biosynthesis of indole-3-acetate (IAA) from L-tryptophan via indole-3-pyruvate pathway requires three enzymes including aminotransferase, indole-3-pyruvate decarboxylase, and indole-3-acetate dehydrogenase. To establish a bio-based production of IAA, the aspC, ipdC, and iad1 from Escherichia coli, Enterobacter cloacae, and Ustilago maydis, respectively, were expressed under control of the tac, ilvC, and sod promoters in C. glutamicum. Cells harboring ipdC produced tryptophol, indicating that the ipdC product is functional in this host. Analyses of SDS-PAGE and enzyme activity revealed that genes encoding AspC and Iad1 were efficiently expressed from the sod promoter, and their enzyme activities were 5.8 and 168.5 nmol/min/mg-protein, respectively. The final resulting strain expressing aspC, ipdC, and iad1 produced 2.3 g/l and 7.3 g/l of IAA from 10 g/l L-tryptophan, respectively, in flask cultures and a 5-L bioreactor.

Structure analysis of metal gaskets in tightened flanges (플랜지 체결 시 금속 개스킷의 구조해석)

  • IN, S.R.;Yoon, B.J.
    • Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.475-484
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    • 2006
  • The deformation, the stress distribution, and the contact pressure of gaskets used in sealing flanges of CF (Con-Flat) or IPD (Improved) type were calculated to investigate the possibility of analyzing and estimatimg the sealing performance under a given tightening condition for a specific flange system.

Salivary Gland Uptake on 18F-FP-CIT PET as a New Biomarker in Patients With Parkinsonism

  • Seo Young Kang;Ji Young Yun;Yeon-Koo Kang;Byung Seok Moon;Hai-Jeon Yoon;Min Young Yoo;Bom Sahn Kim
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • v.24 no.7
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    • pp.690-697
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    • 2023
  • Objective: 18F-FP-CIT positron emission tomography (PET) is known for its high sensitivity and specificity for evaluating striatal dopamine transporter (DAT) binding. Recently, for the early diagnose of Parkinson's disease, many researchers focused on the diagnosis of synucleinopathy in organs involved in non-motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease. We investigated the feasibility of salivary gland uptake on 18F-FP-CIT PET as a new biomarker in patients with parkinsonism. Materials and Methods: A total of 219 participants with confirmed or presumed parkinsonism, including 54 clinically diagnosed idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD), 59 suspected and yet undiagnosed, and 106 with secondary parkinsonism, were enrolled. The standardized uptake value ratio (SUVR) of the salivary glands was measured on both early and delayed 18F-FP-CIT PET scans using the cerebellum as the reference region. Additionally, the delayed-to-early ratio (DE_ratio) of salivary gland was obtained. The results were compared between patients with different PET patterns. Results: The SUVR in early 18F-FP-CIT PET scan was significantly higher in patients with IPD pattern compared that in the non-dopaminergic degradation group (0.5 ± 0.19 vs. 0.6 ± 0.21, P < 0.001). Compared with the non-dopaminergic degradation group, the DE_ratio was significantly lower in patients with IPD (5.05 ± 1.7 vs. 4.0 ± 1.31, P < 0.001) or atypical parkinsonism patterns (5.05 ± 1.7 vs. 3.76 ± 0.96, P < 0.05). The DE_ratio was moderately and positively correlated with striatal DAT availability in both the whole striatum (r = 0.37, P < 0.001) and posterior putamen (r = 0.36, P < 0.001). Conclusion: Parkinsonism patients with an IPD pattern exhibited a significant increase in uptake on early 18F-FP-CIT PET and a decrease in the DE_ratio in the salivary gland. Our findings suggest that salivary gland uptake of dual-phase 18F-FP-CIT PET can provide diagnostic information on DAT availability in patients with Parkinson's disease.

Analysis of the Current-voltage Curves of a Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Thin-film Solar Cell Measured at Different Irradiation Conditions

  • Lee, Kyu-Seok;Chung, Yong-Duck;Park, Nae-Man;Cho, Dae-Hyung;Kim, Kyung-Hyun;Kim, Je-Ha;Kim, Seong-Jun;Kim, Yeong-Ho;Noh, Sam-Kyu
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.321-325
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    • 2010
  • We analyze the current density - voltage (J - V) curve of a Cu(In,Ga)$Se_2$ (CIGS) thin-film solar cell measured at different irradiation power densities. For the solar-cell sample investigated in this study, the fill factor and power conversion efficiency decreased as the irradiation power density (IPD) increased in the range of 2 to 5 sun. Characteristic parameters of solar cell including the series resistance ($r_s$), the shunt resistance ($r_{sh}$), the photocurrent density ($J_L$), the saturation current density ($J_s$) of an ideal diode, and the coefficient ($C_s$) of the diode current due to electron-hole recombination via ionized traps at the p-n interface are determined from a theoretical fit to the experimental data of the J - V curve using a two-diode model. As IPD increased, both $r_s$ and $r_{sh}$ decreased, but $C_s$ increased.