• Title/Summary/Keyword: Imaging Measurement Technique

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Transport Properties of Conversion Materials for Digital Radiography

  • Kim, Jae-Hyung;Park, Chang-Hee;Nam, Sang-Hee
    • Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials
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    • v.8 no.6
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    • pp.250-254
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    • 2007
  • Applying the moving photo-carrier grating(MPG) technique and time-of-flight(TOF) measurements, we studied the transport properties of stabilized amorphous selenium typical of the material used in direct conversion X-ray imaging devices. For MPG measurement, we obtained electron and hole mobility and the recombination lifetime of $\alpha-Se$ films with arsenic(As) additions. We found an apparent increase in hole drift mobility and recombination lifetime, especially when 0.3 % As was added into $\alpha-Se$ film, whereas electron mobility decreased with the addition of As due to the defect density. For TOF measurement, a laser beam with pulse duration of 5 ns and wavelength of 350 nm was illuminated on the surface of $\alpha-Se$ with a thickness of 400 ${\mu}m$. The measured hole and electron transit times were about 8.73 ${\mu}s$ and 229.17 ${\mu}s$, respectively.

Clinical Validity of Tooth Size Measurements Obtained via Digital Methods with Intraoral Scanning

  • Mohammed, Alnefaie;Sun-Hyung, Park;Jung-Yul, Cha;Sung-Hwan, Choi
    • Journal of Korean Dental Science
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.132-140
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    • 2022
  • Purpose: Dental diagnostic records derived from study models are a popular method of obtaining reliable and vital information. Conventional plaster models are the most common method, however, they are being gradually replaced by digital impressions as technology advances. Moreover, three-dimensional dental models are becoming increasingly common in dental offices, and various methods are available for obtaining them. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of the measurement of dental digital models by comparing them with conventional plaster and to determine their clinical validity. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on 16 patients' maxillary and mandibular dental models. Tooth size (TS), intercanine width (ICW), intermolar width (IMW), and Bolton analysis were taken by using a digital caliper on a plaster model obtained from each patient, while intraoral scans were manually measured using two digital analysis software. A one-way analysis of variance test was used to compare the dental measurements of the three methods. Result: No significant differences were reported between the TS, the ICW and IMW, and the Bolton analysis through the conventional and two digital groups. Conclusion: Measurements of TS, arch width, and Bolton analysis produced from digital models have shown acceptable clinical validity. No significant differences were observed between the three dental measurement techniques.

Quality Evaluation and Standardization Trend of Holographic Displays (홀로그래픽 디스플레이 화질 평가 및 표준화 연구 동향)

  • Nam, J.;Oh, K.J.;Park, M.;Kim, J.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.32 no.5
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2017
  • A holography technique optically reconstructs a three-dimensional object in space to provide a natural sense of depth and volume to the observer, thereby providing an ultimate 3D image capable of solving the problem of "vergence-accommodation conflict" occurring in a conventional stereoscopic imaging system. In this paper, we present a technical framework for measuring the performance and evaluating the quality of a holographic display, which enables a quantitative measurement of the optical and physical properties that affect the performance and quality of a holographic display. In addition, we provide the trend regarding standardization related to holographic display measurements. Although this trend has barely started, research activities related to holographic display measurements and quality evaluations are expected to grow in the near future.

Effects of Temperature Change on the Current Injected MRI (전류 주입 자기공명영상에 온도 변화가 미치는 영향)

  • 이수열;강현수;우응제;조민형
    • Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.303-309
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    • 2001
  • It is well known that the electrical impedance of biological tissues is very sensitive to their temperature. In this paper, we have analyzed the effects of temperature change on the phase of magnetic resonance images obtained with external current injection. It has been found that the local phase in the current injected magnetic resonance image can be changed noticeably when local temperature change appears at a part of the tissue. At the experiments with a 0.3 Tesla MRI system, we observed the local phase changes at the phantom images when the phantom temperature was varied between 25 -45$^{\circ}C$. We think that the current injection MRI technique can be used for in-vivo monitoring of the temperature inside biiological tissues if the relation between the local temperature and phase can be quantified.

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Overview of Various Measurement Tools for Shoulder Kinematics

  • Kim, Doo Sup;On, Myoung Gi;Yeom, Jun Seop
    • Clinics in Shoulder and Elbow
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.244-249
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    • 2017
  • Shoulder kinematics is important, as it is associated with shoulder arthropathy and pain mechanisms. Various static and dynamic analysis methods are prevalent for shoulder kinematics. These include 2-dimensional plane x-ray, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, cadaver study, electromagnetic motion analysis, transcortical bone pins technique, and in vivo 3-dimensional motion analysis. Although these methods provide the value of the shoulder kinematics angle, they are unable to explain why such changes occur. Since each method has its pros and cons, it is important to understand all factors accurately, and to choose a method that best meets the purpose of the researcher.

Performance Analysis in Wide Swath Mode on a Spaceborne SAR System (위성탑재 영상레이다(SAR)의 광역감시 모드에 대한 체계 성능 분석)

  • 이범석
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.104-123
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    • 2001
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar(SAR) can provide radar imagery in all weather, day and night situations. Recently SAR system consisted of several imaging modes, has been used for not only military purpose, but also commercial and scientific applications. This paper firstly reviews spaceborne SAR theory, specially scansar principle, and secondly the theories and the design procedures of system performance analysis in the scansar mode, which are different from the ones in the conventional stripmap mode. Based on the SAR-related knowledge, it lastly derives the results of performance analysis in wide swath mode using the scansar technique at the design phase. It shows that these results can meet the system requirements as given the customer. In future, they will continuously be updated using the real measurement data, in connection with the development of a spaceborne SAR system.

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Multi-Resolution Kronecker Compressive Sensing

  • Canh, Thuong Nguyen;Quoc, Khanh Dinh;Jeon, Byeungwoo
    • IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.19-27
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    • 2014
  • Compressive sensing is an emerging sampling technique which enables sampling a signal at a much lower rate than the Nyquist rate. In this paper, we propose a novel framework based on Kronecker compressive sensing that provides multi-resolution image reconstruction capability. By exploiting the relationship of the sensing matrices between low and high resolution images, the proposed method can reconstruct both high and low resolution images from a single measurement vector. Furthermore, post-processing using BM3D improves its recovery performance. The experimental results showed that the proposed scheme provides significant gains over the conventional framework with respect to the objective and subjective qualities.

Hybrid Time-Reversal Method for Structural Health Monitoring (구조물 건전성 모니터링을 위한 하이브리드 시간-반전기법)

  • Lee, U-Sik;Kim, Dae-Hwan;Jun, Yong-Ju
    • Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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    • 2010.06a
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    • pp.546-548
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    • 2010
  • This paper proposes a new baseline-free TR-based SHM method in which the time-reversal (TR) property of the guided Lamb waves is utilized. The new TR-based SHM method has two distinct features when compared with the other existing SHM techniques: (1) The measurement- based backward TR process is replaced by the computation-based process (2) In place of the comparison method most commonly used for SHM, the TOF information of the damage signal extracted from the reconstructed signal is utilized for the damage diagnosis. For the damage diagnosis, the imaging method is adopted to efficiently detect damage by representing the damage as an image. The proposed TR-based SHM technique is then validated through the damage diagnosis experiment for an aluminum plate with a damage at different locations.

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Velocity Measurement of Granular Flow with Block Matching (블록 매칭을 이용한 Granular Flow의 속도 측정)

  • Lee, Jin-Geol
    • The Journal of Engineering Research
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.5-11
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    • 1997
  • The flow of granular materials is common to many industrial processes. This paper discusses a methodology which utilizes high speed digital imaging to measure velocity of dry granular solids flowing down an inclined chute under the action of gravity. Glass particles have been used as granular solids in our experiment. The proposed technique utilizes block matching for spatially averaged velocity measurements of the glass particles. The velocity measurements are refined to the subpixel resolution by the variance normalized correlation with interpolation.

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Investigation of Phase Singularity Problem in Microwave Breast Tomography

  • Son, Seong-Ho;Simonov, Nikolai;Lee, Kwang-Jae;Jeon, Soon-Ik
    • Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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    • v.14 no.4
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    • pp.332-335
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    • 2014
  • This paper investigates the phase singularity problem in microwave image reconstruction utilizing unwrapped phase data. The measured phases of the electric fields in most microwave measurement systems are wrapped. Thus, a certain phase unwrapping process is necessary for reconstruction of the image of a high contrast object. This unwrapping, however, is difficult in the presence of scattering nulls on/near the unwrapping path. At the null point, the phase value will be rendered, resulting in a poor image reconstruction. In this paper, we investigate the phase singularity arising from electromagnetic scattering nulls in microwave breast tomographic imaging. We then propose a transformation technique for the measured electric fields that avoids phase singularity.