• 한국공작기계학회논문집
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.17-22
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• 2004

A study for investigating the effects of the cutting conditions (radial depth of cut feed per tooth) and the number of tooth on the side wall of prismatically milled workpiece is described. This study is available not only for understanding the geometrical characteristics of the end milled side wall but also for finding the optimal cutting conditions. In this work, the side wall geometry was characterized by the straightness and the location of maximum peak point. Through this study, it was revealed that the geometrical characteristics of the end milled side wall are strongly related to the material removal per tooth and the number of tooth.

• 대한전기학회논문지:전력기술부문A
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• 제53권10호
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• pp.542-549
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• 2004

The conventional fault location algorithms based on the travelling waves have an inherent problem. In cases of the close-up faults occurring near the relaying point and of the faults having zero degree inception angle of voltage signals, the conventional algorithms can not estimate an accurate fault distance. It is because the shapes of travelling waves are near sinusoidal in those cases. A new method solving this problem is presented in this paper. An FIR(Finite Impulse response) filter which makes high frequency components prominent and makes the power frequency component and dc-offset attenuated is used. With this method, the cross-correlation peak is to be very clear when a close-up fault or a fault having near zero-degree inception angle occurs. The cross-correlation peaks can be clearly distinguished and accurate fault location is practically possible consequently. A series of simulation studies using EMTP(Electromagnetic Transients Program) show that the proposed algorithm can calculate an accurate fault distance having maximum 2% or less error.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권8호
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• pp.2767-2773
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• 2021

We used the GEANT4 Monte Carlo MC Toolkit to simulate carbon ion beams incident on water, tissue, and bone, taking into account nuclear fragmentation reactions. Upon increasing the energy of the primary beam, the position of the Bragg-Peak transfers to a location deeper inside the phantom. For different materials, the peak is located at a shallower depth along the beam direction and becomes sharper with increasing electron density NZ. Subsequently, the generated depth dose of the Bragg curve is then benchmarked with experimental data from GSI in Germany. The results exhibit a reasonable correlation with GSI experimental data with an accuracy of between 0.02 and 0.08 cm, thus establishing the basis to adopt MC in heavy-ion treatment planning. The Kolmogorov-Smirnov K-S test further ascertained from a statistical point of view that the simulation data matched the experimentally measured data very well. The two-dimensional isodose contours at the entrance were compared to those around the peak position and in the tail region beyond the peak, showing that bone produces more dose, in comparison to both water and tissue, due to secondary doses. In the water, the results show that the maximum energy deposited per fragment is mainly attributed to secondary carbon ions, followed by secondary boron and beryllium. Furthermore, the number of protons produced is the highest, thus making the maximum contribution to the total dose deposition in the tail region. Finally, the associated spectra of neutrons and photons were analyzed. The mean neutron energy value was found to be 16.29 MeV, and 1.03 MeV for the secondary gamma. However, the neutron dose was found to be negligible as compared to the total dose due to their longer range.

• Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.29-36
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• 2016

The East African ionosphere (3°S-18°N, 32°E-50°E) was mapped using Total Electron Content (TEC) measurements from ground-based GPS receivers situated at Asmara, Mekelle, Bahir Dar, Robe, Arbaminch, and Nairobi. Assuming a thin shell ionosphere at 350 km altitude, we project the Ionospheric Pierce Point (IPP) of a slant TEC measurement with an elevation angle of >10° to its corresponding location on the map. We then infer the estimated values at any point of interest from the vertical TEC values at the projected locations by means of interpolation. The total number of projected IPPs is in the range of 24-66 at any one time. Since the distribution of the projected IPPs is irregularly spaced, we have used an inverse distance weighted interpolation method to obtain a spatial grid resolution of 1°×1° latitude and longitude, respectively. The TEC maps were generated for the year 2008, with a 2 hr temporal resolution. We note that TEC varies diurnally, with a peak in the late afternoon (at 1700 LT), due to the equatorial ionospheric anomaly. We have observed higher TEC values at low latitudes in both hemispheres compared to the magnetic equatorial region, capturing the ionospheric distribution of the equatorial anomaly. We have also confirmed the equatorial seasonal variation in the ionosphere, characterized by minimum TEC values during the solstices and maximum values during the equinoxes. We evaluate the reliability of the map, demonstrating a mean error (difference between the measured and interpolated values) range of 0.04-0.2 TECU (Total Electron Content Unit). As more measured TEC values become available in this region, the TEC map will be more reliable, thereby allowing us to study in detail the equatorial ionosphere of the African sector, where ionospheric measurements are currently very few.

• 대한방사선치료학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.73-78
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• 2015

목 적 : 본 연구는 위상 기반 방식으로 배열 된 사차원 전산화 단층 촬영 영상(4DCT, 4-dimensional computed tomography)를 이용하여 진폭 기반 방식으로의 재구성 하였을 때의 위상 차이를 분석하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 2015년 02월부터 03월 까지 호흡동조 방사선 치료를 받은 간암 환자 10명의 사차원 전산화 단층 촬영 영상을 대상으로 분석 하였다. RPM respiratory gating (RPM 1.7.5, Varian, USA)장치를 이용하여 위상 기반 배열 방식의 호흡주기별 영상을 획득 하였으며, 획득된 호흡 주기별 영상은 치료계획시스템(Pinnacle 9.2, Philips, USA)을 이용하여 호흡주기별 복부의 움직임 값을 측정하였다. 최대 호기(50%)와 최대 흡기(0%)에서의 복부 움직임을 진폭으로 하여 10개 위상의 진폭 기반 호흡위상을 재구성하고, 이를 위상 기반 사차원영상촬영영상의 호흡 위상과 비교하였다. 결 과 : 위상 기반 및 진폭 기반 사차원단층촬영영상으로 재구성한 영상에서의 위상 차이는 최대 30% 호흡위상에서 확인할 수 있었으며, 30% 호흡 위상에서 평균 0.13 cm (최대 0.24 cm)의 위치 차이를 확인할 수 있었고, 동일 측정 점 위치가 가지는 위상차는 30% 위상에서 평균 8.7%(최대 16.5%)의 위상차를 확인하였다. 전체 호흡 구간에서 평균 위치 차이는 0.4 cm, 평균 위상 차이는 13.0% 임을 확인하였다. 결 론 : 본 연구 결과는 위상 기반 방식으로 배열된 4DCT 영상을 진폭 기반 방식으로의 변환하였을 때 계산 값과 실측값을 분석한 결과 최대 16.5% 의 위상차가 발생함을 확인하였다.