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Three-dimensional Dynamic Display System Based on Integral Imaging

  • Jung, Sung-Yong;Min, Sung-Wook;Park, Jae-Hyeung;Lee, Byoung-Ho
    • Journal of Information Display
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.22-26
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    • 2002
  • Three-dimensional dynamic display system based on computer-generated integral imaging is discussed and its feasibility is verified via some basic experiments. Integrated images observed from different viewing points are seen to have full parallax and the animated 3D image was implemented successfully. Moreover, using large size Fresnel lens array was found to helps widen viewing angle and to make the system more practical.

Translational Imaging with PET Reporter Gene Approaches (PET 리포터 유전자를 이용한 이행성 연구)

  • Min, Jung-Joon
    • Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
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    • v.40 no.6
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    • pp.279-292
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    • 2006
  • Recent progress in the development of non-invasive imaging technologies continues to strengthen the role of biomedical research. These tools have been validated recently in variety of research models, and have born shown to provide continuous quantitative monitoring of the location(s), magnitude, and time-variation of gene delivery and/or expression. This article reviews the use of PET technologies as they have been used in imaging biological processes for molecular imaging applications. The studies published to date demonstrate that noninvasive imaging tools will help to accelerate pre-clinical model validation as well as allow for clinical monitoring of human diseases.

MicroSPECT and MicroPET Imaging of Small Animals for Drug Development

  • Jang, Beom-Su
    • Toxicological Research
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2013
  • The process of drug discovery and development requires substantial resources and time. The drug industry has tried to reduce costs by conducting appropriate animal studies together with molecular biological and genetic analyses. Basic science research has been limited to in vitro studies of cellular processes and ex vivo tissue examination using suitable animal models of disease. However, in the past two decades new technologies have been developed that permit the imaging of live animals using radiotracer emission, X-rays, magnetic resonance signals, fluorescence, and bioluminescence. The main objective of this review is to provide an overview of small animal molecular imaging, with a focus on nuclear imaging (single photon emission computed tomography and positron emission tomography). These technologies permit visualization of toxicodynamics as well as toxicity to specific organs by directly monitoring drug accumulation and assessing physiological and/or molecular alterations. Nuclear imaging technology has great potential for improving the efficiency of the drug development process.

Embedded 3D-Sensing Devices with Real-Time Depth-Imaging Technologies

  • Bhowmik, Achintya K.
    • Information Display
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2017
  • In the recent years, significant advances have been made in the development of small form-factor, low power, and low cost 3D-sensing devices based on depth-imaging technologies with real-time performance. This has led to the advent of devices and machines that are able to sense and understand the world, navigate in the environment, and interact naturally with their human users. Human-computer interactions based on touch sensing and speech recognition have already become mainstream, and the rapid developments in 3D sensing is paving the path towards the next level of machine intelligence and interactions. This paper discusses the recent developments in real-time 3D sensing technologies and their emerging system application.

Recent Progress in Three-Dimensional Display Based on Integral Imaging

  • Lee, Byoung-Ho;Jung, Sung-Yong;Park, Jae-Hyeung;Choi, Hee-Jin
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.133-142
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    • 2002
  • In this paper, we describe one of the most attractive techniques in autostereoscopic three-dimensional display-integral imaging. We explain the weak points of the integral photography in the early days and the methods to overcome these problems. Finally we describe the technical trends developed recently.

Efficient Algorithms to Generate Elemental Images in Integral Imaging

  • Oh, Se-Chan;Hong, Ji-Soo;Park, Jae-Hyeung;Lee, Byoung-Ho
    • Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.115-121
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we propose a new algorithm to generate elemental images in a computer generated integral imaging system. By comparing the computing time of this algorithm with that of the existing algorithm, we prove the efficiency of this algorithm. Two more algorithms considering the finite size of each pixel are also proposed. These algorithms enhance the quality of the integrated image while generating the elemental image as fast as the existing algorithm.

Recent Trends of Hyperspectral Imaging Technology (초분광 이미징 기술동향)

  • Lee, M.S.;Kim, K.S.;Min, G.;Son, D.H.;Kim, J.E.;Kim, S.C.
    • Electronics and Telecommunications Trends
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.86-97
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    • 2019
  • Over the past 30 years, significant developments have been made in hyperspectral imaging (HSI) technologies that can provide end users with rich spectral, spatial, and temporal information. Owing to the advances in miniaturization, cost reduction, real-time processing, and analytical methods, HSI technologies have a wide range of applications from remote-sensing to healthcare, military, and the environment. In this study, we focus on the latest trends of HSI technologies, analytical methods, and their applications. In particular, improved machine learning techniques, such as deep learning, allows the full use of HSI technologies in classification, clustering, and spectral mixture algorithms. Finally, we describe the status of HSI technology development for skin diagnostics.

Current Status of Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Patients with Malignant Uterine Neoplasms: A Review

  • Yu-Ting Huang;Yen-Ling Huang;Koon-Kwan Ng;Gigin Lin
    • Korean Journal of Radiology
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.18-33
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    • 2019
  • In this study, we summarize the clinical role of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the diagnosis of patients with malignant uterine neoplasms, including leiomyosarcoma, endometrial stromal sarcoma, adenosarcoma, uterine carcinosarcoma, and endometrial cancer, with emphasis on the challenges and disadvantages. MRI plays an essential role in patients with uterine malignancy, for the purpose of tumor detection, primary staging, and treatment planning. MRI has advanced in scope beyond the visualization of the many aspects of anatomical structures, including diffusion-weighted imaging, dynamic contrast enhancement-MRI, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Emerging technologies coupled with the use of artificial intelligence in MRI are expected to lead to progressive improvement in case management of malignant uterine neoplasms.

Nondestructive sensing technologies for food safety

  • Kim, M.S.;Chao, K.;Chan, D.E.;Jun, W.;Lee, K.;Kang, S.;Yang, C.C.;Lefcourt, A.M.
    • 한국환경농학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.07a
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    • pp.119-126
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    • 2009
  • In recent years, research at the Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory (EMFSL), Agricultural Research Service (ARS) has focused on the development of novel image-based sensing technologies to address agro-food safety concerns, and transformation of these novel technologies into practical instrumentation for industrial implementations. The line-scan-based hyperspectral imaging techniques have often served as a research tool to develop rapid multispectral methods based on only a few spectral bands for rapid online applications. We developed a newer line-scan hyperspectral imaging platform for high-speed inspection on high-throughput processing lines, capable of simultaneous multiple inspection algorithms for different agro-food safety problems such as poultry carcass inspection for wholesomeness and apple inspection for fecal contamination and defect detection. In addition, portable imaging devices were developed for in situ identification of contamination sites and for use by agrofood producer and processor operations for cleaning and sanitation inspection of food processing surfaces. The aim of this presentation is to illustrate recent advances in the above agro.food safety sensing technologies.

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Advanced Methods in Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Arterial Phase Imaging of the Liver

  • Kim, Yoon-Chul
    • Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2019
  • Dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging plays an important role in non-invasive detection and characterization of primary and metastatic lesions in the liver. Recently, efforts have been made to improve spatial and temporal resolution of DCE liver MRI for arterial phase imaging. Review of recent publications related to arterial phase imaging of the liver indicates that there exist primarily two approaches: breath-hold and free-breathing. For breath-hold imaging, acquiring multiple arterial phase images in a breath-hold is the preferred approach over conventional single-phase imaging. For free-breathing imaging, a combination of three-dimensional (3D) stack-of-stars golden-angle sampling and compressed sensing parallel imaging reconstruction is one of emerging techniques. Self-gating can be used to decrease respiratory motion artifact. This article introduces recent MRI technologies relevant to hepatic arterial phase imaging, including differential subsampling with Cartesian ordering (DISCO), golden-angle radial sparse parallel (GRASP), and X-D GRASP. This article also describes techniques related to dynamic 3D image reconstruction of the liver from golden-angle stack-of-stars data.