• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.471-476
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• 2007

Various active microwave imaging techniques have been developed for cancer detection for past several decades. Both the microwave tomography and the UWB radar techniques, constituting functional microwave imaging systems, use the electrical property contrast between normal tissues and malignancies to detect the latter in an early development stage. Even though promising simulation results have been reported, the understanding of the functional microwave imaging diagnostics has been relied heavily on the complicated numerical results. We present a computationally efficient and physically instructive analytical electromagnetic wave channel models developed for functional microwave imaging system in order to detect especially the breast tumors as early as possible. The channel model covers the propagation factors that have been examined in the previous 2-D models, such as the radial spreading, path loss, partial reflection and transmission of the backscattered electromagnetic waves from the tumor cell. The effects of the system noise and the noise from the inhomogeneity of the tissue to the reconstruction algorithm are modeled as well. The characteristics of the reconstructed images of the tumor using the proposed model are compared with those from the confocal microwave imaging.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.107-114
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• 2012

Microwave imaging (MI) is one of the most promising and attractive new techniques for earlier breast cancer detection. Microwave tomography (MT) realizes configuration of a multistatic multiple-input multiple-output system and reconstructs dielectric properties of the breast by solving a nonlinear inversion scattering problem. In this paper, we describe ETRI 3D MT system with 3D MI reconstruction program and demonstrate its robustness through some examples of the image reconstruction.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제32권6호
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• pp.901-910
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• 2010

As a supplement to X-ray mammography, microwave imaging is a new and promising technique for breast cancer detection. Through solving the nonlinear inverse scattering problem, microwave tomography (MT) creates images from measured signals using antennas. In this paper, we describe a developed MT system and an iterative Gauss-Newton algorithm. At each iteration, this algorithm determines the updated values by solving the set of normal equations using Tikhonov regularization. Some examples of successful image reconstruction are presented.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.70-80
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• 2016

This paper addresses the problem of robust waveform design for distributed multiple-radar systems (DMRSs) based on low probability of intercept (LPI), where signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) and mutual information (MI) are utilized as the metrics for target detection and information extraction, respectively. Recognizing that a precise characterization of a target spectrum is impossible to capture in practice, we consider that a target spectrum lies in an uncertainty class bounded by known upper and lower bounds. Based on this model, robust waveform design approaches for the DMRS are developed based on LPI-SINR and LPI-MI criteria, where the total transmitting energy is minimized for a given system performance. Numerical results show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제18권4호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2003

Various nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques have been studied to locate steel rebars of dowel, and to detect invisible damage such as voids and cracks inside concrete and debonding between rebars and concrete caused by corrosions and earthquakes. In this study, the aurhors developed 3-dimensional (3D) electromagnetic (EM) imaging technology to detect such damage and to identify exact location of steel rebars of dowel. The authors have developed sub-surface two-dimensional (2D) imaging technique using tomographic antenna array in previous works. In this study, extending the earlier analytical and experimental works on 2D image reconstruction, a 3D microwave imaging system using tomographic antenna array was developed, and multi-frequency technique was applied to improve quality of the reconstructed image and to reduce background noises. This paper presents the analytical expressions of numerical focusing procedures for 3D image reconstruction and numerical simulation to study the resolution of the system and the effectiveness of multi-frequency technique. Also, the design of 4?4 antenna array with switching devices is introduced as a preliminary study for the final design of whole array.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.593-597
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• 2002

The paper introduces a research on the W-band Millimeter Wave Radiometer(RADW92) through an airborne experiment. Microwave remote sensing images of part of the Yellow River and the WeiHe River are of fared. Analysis of factors influencing the image qualities as well as the resolutions to them are also included. The RADW92 is the first generation of Millimeter Wave Radiometer in China, which works with operating frequency 92 GHz, the bandwidth 2 GHz, the integration time 60ms, the system sensitivity 0.6k and the linearity better than 0.999. Cassegrain Antenna is designed for imaging by conically scanning. The result of the experiment suggested that RADW92 had been adequate for space use.

• 한국방재학회 논문집
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2005

콘크리트 구조물 내부 결함이나 철근 위치를 탐지하기 위하여 초단파를 이용하는 비파괴 시험방법이 구조물 안전진단 분야에서도 최근 관심을 불러일으키고 있다. 본 연구의 목적은 기 개발된 2차원 영상화 방법을 확장하여 3차원 영상처리방법을 개발하는 것이다. 그 방법으로 콘크리트 구조물 내의 결함을 탐지하기 위한 안테나를 구성, 수치적 초점조절시스템을 이용하여 송신부와 수신부의 초점을 동시 조절하여 구조물 내부의 모든 부분을 검색하였다. 또한 다중주파수 방식을 이용, 데이터의 오류를 제거하고 해상도를 향상시켜 구조물 내부의 결함이나 내부모습을 탐지할 수 있는 3차원 영상장치를 개발하고자 하였다. 실험 결과, 데이터 오류를 줄이는 다중주파수방식에 의하여 재현된 영상의 정확성을 검증하고, 주파수 조절방법에 의하여 $4{\times}4$ 안테나배열을 설계함으로써 5.2 GHz에서 주파수대역의 우수한 투과성능을 입증하였다. 즉 본 연구에서 개발된 슬롯안테나는 파동의 방사기능과 주파수대역의 넓이 등에서 구조부재의 결함탐지에 이용될 수 있음을 검증하였다.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.370-376
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• 2005

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.348-351
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• 2013

최근 전자파를 이용하여 두뇌를 영상화하는 시스템이 제안되고 있다. 이러한 시스템은 초광대역 특성(0.5~2 GHz)과 주빔의 방향이 모든 동작 주파수 대역에서 일정하게 유지되는 소형 안테나를 요구한다. 위의 요구 조건을 만족하기 위해서 본 논문에서는 비대칭형 corrugation들을 일반 TSA에 적용하여 안테나의 크기는 14 % 감소시키고, 요구되는 동작 주파수 대역인 0.5 GHz에서 2 GHz까지 반사 손실이 10 dB 이하의 값을 가지도록 설계하였다. 특히 대칭형 corrugation들을 적용한 TSA가 가지는 주빔의 방향이 주파수에 따라 변하는 점을 개선하였고, 이러한 비대칭형 corrugated TSA는 전자파를 이용한 두뇌 영상장치의 구현을 위해서 요구되는 조건을 모두 만족한다.

• 한국우주과학회:학술대회논문집(한국우주과학회보)
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• 한국우주과학회 2008년도 한국우주과학회보 제17권2호
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• pp.31.4-32
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• 2008

The microwave instruments are used many areas of the space remote sensing and space science applications. The imaging radar of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is well known microwave radar sensor for earth surface and ocean research. Unlike radar, microwave radiometer is passive instrument and it measures the emission energy of target, i.e. brightness temperature BT, from earth surface and atmosphere. From measured BT, the geophysical data like cloud liquid water, water vapor, sea surface temperature, surface permittivity can be retrieved. In this paper, the radiometer characteristics, system configuration and principle of BT measurement are described. Also the radiometer instruments TRMM, GPM, SMOS for earth climate, and ocean salinity research are introduce. As first korean microwave payload on STSAT-2, the DREAM (Dual-channels Radiometer for Earth and Atmosphere Monitoring) is described the mission, system configuration and operation plan for life time of two years. The main issues of DREAM unlike other spaceborne radiometers, will be addressed. The calibration is the one of main issues of DREAM mission and how it contribute on the space borne radiometer. In conclusion, the radiometer instrument to space science application will be considered.