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Radiation-induced Pulmonary Toxicity following Adjuvant Radiotherapy for Breast Cancer (유방암 환자에서 보조적 방사선치료 후의 폐 손상)

  • Moon, Sung-Ho;Kim, Tae-Jung;Eom, Keun-Young;Kim, Jee-Hyun;Kim, Sung-Won;Kim, Jae-Sung;Kim, In-Ah
    • Radiation Oncology Journal
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    • v.25 no.2
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    • pp.109-117
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    • 2007
  • [ $\underline{Purpose}$ ]: To evaluate the incidences and potential predictive factors for symptomatic radiation pneumonitis (SRP) and radiographic pulmonary toxicity (RPT) following adjuvant radiotherapy (RT) for patients with breast cancer. A particular focus was made to correlate RPT with the dose volume histogram (DVH) parameters based on three-dimensional RT planning (3D-RTP) data. $\underline{Materials\;and\;Methods}$: From September 2003 through February 2006, 171 patients with breast cancer were treated with adjuvant RT following breast surgery. A radiation dose of 50.4 Gy was delivered with tangential photon fields on the whole breast or chest wall. A single anterior oblique photon field for supraclavicular (SCL) nodes was added if indicated. Serial follow-up chest radiographs were reviewed by a chest radiologist. Radiation Therapy Oncology Group (RTOG) toxicity criteria were used for grading SRP and a modified World Health Organization (WHO) grading system was used to evaluate RPT. The overall percentage of the ipsilateral lung volume that received ${\geq}15\;Gy\;(V_{15}),\;20\;Gy\;(V_{20})$, and $30\;Gy\;(V_{30})$ and the mean lung dose (MLD) were calculated. We divided the ipsilateral lung into two territories, and defined separate DVH parameters, i.e., $V_{15\;TNGT},\;V_{20\;TNGT},\;V_{30\;TNGT},\;MLD_{TNGT}$, and $V_{15\;SCL},\;V_{20\;SCL},\;V_{30SCL},\;MLD_{SCL}$ to assess the relationship between these parameters and RPT. $\underline{Results}$: Four patients (2.1%) developed SRP (three with grade 3 and one with grade 2, respectively). There was no significant association of SRP with clinical parameters such as, age, pre-existing lung disease, smoking, chemotherapy, hormonal therapy and regional RT. When 137 patients treated with 3D-RTP were evaluated, 13.9% developed RPT in the tangent (TNGT) territory and 49.2% of 59 patients with regional RT developed RPT in the SCL territory. Regional RT (p<0.001) and age (p=0.039) was significantly correlated with RPT. All DVH parameters except for $V_{15\;TNGT}$ showed a significant correlation with RPT (p<0.05). $MLD_{TNGT}$ was a better predictor for RPT for the TNGT territory than $V_{15\;SCL}$ for the SCL territory. $\underline{Conclusion}$: The incidence of SRP was acceptable with the RT technique that was used. Age and regional RT were significant factors to predict RPT. The DVH parameter was good predictor for RPT for the SCL territory while $MLD_{TNGT}$ was a better predictor for RPT for the TNGT territory.

THE STATUS QUO OF THE GEOMAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENTS IN KOREA (한국에서의 지구자기장관측의 현황)

  • LIM MU-TAEK;PARK YEONG-SUE;JUNG HYUN-KEY;LEE HEE-IL
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.15 no.spc2
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    • pp.15-20
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    • 2000
  • The geomagnetic measurements on the Korean Territory began in 1918 in the Incheon (Zinsen in Japanese pronunciation) Observatory of which the annual means of total magnetic field intensity, declination, and inclination still remain for 1918-1944. From 1970s, the National Geography Institute (NGI) and the Radio Research Laboratory (RRL) have tried independently to measure the geomagnetic field continuously. The RRL as the result of such efforts has installed 3 geomagnetic observatories, the first in Icheon and the second in Yongin in 1996, and the third in Jeju in 1997. From 1992, the Korea Institute of Geology, Mining and Materials (KIGAM) has tried also to measure the geomagnetism and as the result they have installed 2 geomagnetic observatories, one in Daejeon in 1998 and the other in Gyeongju in 2000. Nowadays, the RRL and the KIGAM collect the measured data into their own main computers by telecommunication in real time. The two institutions will cooperate in near future to link the two geomagnetic data bases so that the whole set of geomagnetic data measured on Korean Territory could be provided to the end users in Korea.

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Clinical Observation on Current Status of Stroke Patients Admitted to Oriental Hospital (한방병원에 입원한 뇌졸중환자의 역학적 동향에 대한 임상적 관찰)

  • 김승은;김도형;고창남;김용석;박동원;이경섭
    • The Journal of Korean Medicine
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.104-111
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    • 2000
  • Objectives: When stroke occurs, Korean people usually hope to be treated by traditional therapy and to be admitted to an oriental hospital. So this observation was done to make a small contribution toward stroke studies at oriental hospitals. Methods: This observation was made on 189 cases of stroke patients who were admitted to Kang Nam oriental medicine Hospital of Kyung Hee University from May, 1999 to August, 2000. Results and Conclusions : 1. The incidence of cerebral infarction was 3.6 times that of cerebral hemorrhage. 2. The incidence in females was 1.25 times of that in males. The incidence of stroke increased with aging and more cerebral hemorrhage occurred in lower age group than cerebral infarction. 3. There was higher morbidity in October and May, during the changing of the seasons, than any other months. 4. Hypertension the most common preceding disease, followed by heart disease, diabetes mellitus, hyperlipidemia. 5. Alcohol was the highest risk factor, followed by smoking, then obesity. 6. In cerebral infarction, MCA territory was the most frequent lesion site. 7. The change of Modefied Bathel Index(MBI) between MCA territory and others in cerebral infarction had no significance for 4weeks.(P>0.05)

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Pre-school Children′s Privacy Needs in the Residential Space (주거공간 내에서의 유아의 프라이버시 욕구)

  • Lee, In-Soo
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.15 no.5
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    • pp.1-11
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    • 2004
  • This study has been performed to review pre-school children's needs for privacy within normal residential space. In this study, there were three circumstances in which children need to stay alone without being interrupted by their parents; First, they strongly want to be stay quiet until relieving their anger or fear, shortly after disciplined and impugned by their parents. Second, infant children need to obtain their own territory in order to demonstrate ownership and dignity in their sley space. Third, there are also special circumstances of privacy needs among families with intrusive parents such as alcoholics and heavy smokers, or for the children of disability. In Korea, it is presumed that more than 60 percent the pre-school children aging three to six are in deficit of privacy for relieving their emotional disturbance, but no research has been documented for the case of disabled or interrupted children. Therefore in this study, it was primarily proposed that empirical studies need to be peformed among Korean preschoolers, in order to evaluate privacy needs in the perspectives of ordinary family lives, individual household behaviors, and special conditions of disability or offensive family members.

A Comparative Study on the Characteristics between Paekche and Silla Style Stone Pagodas (백제석탑(百濟石塔)과 신라석탑(新羅石塔)의 비교론적(比較論的) 고찰(考察))

  • Cheon, Deuk-Youm;Han, Seung-Hoon;Kim, Jin-sug
    • Journal of architectural history
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.93-112
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    • 1995
  • The wooden pagoda was first appeared in about late 4th century in Korea. And between the late 6th century and the eary 7th centry, the multistoried wooden pagoda was replaced with the stone pagodas, in order to improve their stability and durability. In Three-kingdom and Unificated-Silla period, there are two types of stone stupas in Korea. The one is Paekche(百濟)style, and the other is Silla(新羅) style stone pagoda. These two styles are basically different in each part like podium, roof stone, body stone, structure and the others. Two types of stupas are distributed in two regions which devided into the East(Silla territory) and West(Paekche territory) in the Korean peninsular. The origin of the Korean stone pagoda can be traced to the Paekche dynasty and Silla dynasty. The former were the result of the careful study of their skillful wooden pagodas, where the latter were actualy originated from copying their sundried brick pagodas with stone. Two important pagodas of the primitive stage are the stone pagoda of Miruksa(彌勒寺) temple in Iksan and Bunhwangsa(芬皇寺) temple in Kyungju. These two pagodas are compared with each other in the style of their construction. Silla style have sharp straight lines and short distance between roof stone and eaves. They give us strong as well as intelletural feeling. Howerever, Paekche style has curved lines and dull angles of cutting area of stone, they give us soft feeling.

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A study on the program in Kazuyo Sejima's Architecture (카즈요 세지마의 건축에서 나타나는 프로그램에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Dong-Ho;Kim, Dong-Jin
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.16 no.2 s.61
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    • pp.32-39
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    • 2007
  • The Program from modern architecture is an indispensable condition which must put in all buildings today and it is a relationship setting of a various functions. According to changing society consequently, a complicated form and program in modem appear again. Through this background from, we intend to observe the meaning which the program is having in the construction in this manuscript. Sejima is the architecture who try to use variously special formation of the program. Specially, we are planning to research the quality which his program is haying form Sejima's architecture and how it is reflected ill this construction. Resultantly, each program which appears from Sejima's architecture makes a gap space and irregular arrangement. The characters of the space which is put each through the gap don't have a deceptive plan each other and they are compounded. Also, each character to have their territories is intersected and putting out of the various features in the program coat. First, form of the maze plane, Intersecting each territory. Second, forming the territory as fitting their act oneself in the space where can be existing. Third, having more interest in the event that happens inside than existence problem of thing.

Development of Cartography and State-building in France from the Sixteenth Century to the Eighteenth Century (프랑스 지도학의 발달과 국가 형성 - 16세기에서 18세기까지 -)

  • Jung, In-Chul
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.41 no.5 s.116
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    • pp.545-560
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    • 2006
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the development of French state and the development of cartography from the sixteenth century to the seventeenth century. For this, firstly, the development of military maps as a means for the defense and expansion of territory was examined. Secondly, the development of overseas maps as an aid for colonial expansion was considered. Thirdly, the development of national maps as a representation of the state was examined. Fourthly, the development of atlas mapping as a means for establishing national consciousness was considered. And finally, the role of maps in state building was discussed.