• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.141-153
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• 2020

Purpose: Myocardial T1 and T2 relaxation times are affected by technical factors such as cardiovascular magnetic resonance platform/vendor. We aimed to validate T1 and T2 mapping sequences using a phantom; establish reference T1, T2, and extracellular volume (ECV) measurements using two sequences at 3T in normal Koreans; and compare the protocols and evaluate the differences from previously reported measurements. Materials and Methods: Eleven healthy subjects underwent cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) using 3T MRI equipment (Verio, Siemens, Erlangen, Germany). We did phantom validation before volunteer scanning: T1 mapping with modified look locker inversion recovery (MOLLI) with 5(3)3 and 4(1)3(1)2 sequences, and T2 mapping with gradient echo (GRE) and TrueFISP sequences. We did T1 and T2 mappings on the volunteers with the same sequences. ECV was also calculated with both sequences after gadolinium enhancement. Results: The phantom study showed no significant differences from the gold standard T1 and T2 values in either sequence. Pre-contrast T1 relaxation times of the 4(1)3(1)2 protocol was 1142.27 ± 36.64 ms and of the 5(3)3 was 1266.03 ± 32.86 ms on the volunteer study. T2 relaxation times of GRE were 40.09 ± 2.45 ms and T2 relaxation times of TrueFISP were 38.20 ± 1.64 ms in each. ECV calculation was 24.42% ± 2.41% and 26.11% ± 2.39% in the 4(1)3(1)2 and 5(3)3 protocols, respectively, and showed no differences at any segment or slice between the sequences. We also calculated ECV from the pre-enhancement T1 relaxation time of MOLLI 5(3)3 and the post-enhancement T1 relaxation time of MOLLI 4(1)3(1)2, with no significant differences between the combinations. Conclusion: Using phantom-validated sequences, we reported the normal myocardial T1, T2, and ECV reference values of healthy Koreans at 3T. There were no statistically significant differences between the sequences, although it has limited statistical value due to the small number of subjects studied. ECV showed no significant differences between calculations based on various pre- and post-mapping combinations.

• 한국컴퓨터그래픽스학회논문지
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 하이트필드 맵을 이용한 회화적 질감 표현 방법을 제시한다. 회화적 렌더링된 결과물의 하이트필드 맵을 이용하면 회화작품의 질감을 표현할 수 있다. 이를 위해 하이트필드 맵을 바탕으로 노말 매핑과 디스플레이스먼트 매핑 방법을 이용하여 회화적 렌더링을 구현하였다. 제시된 방법은 GPU 프로그래밍을 이용하여 물체의 세부적인 표면을 실시간으로 회화적 렌더링할 수 있어 3차원 가시화나 게임엔진에 응용할 수 있다.

• Genomics & Informatics
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.32-35
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• 2007

Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) is an enzymatic ribonucleoprotein that prolongs the replicative life span of cells by maintaining protective structures at the ends of eukaryotic chromosomes. Telomerase activity is highly up-regulated in 85-90% of human cancers, and is predominately regulated by hTERT expression. In contrast, most normal somatic tissues in humans express low or undetectable levels of telomerase activity. This expression profile identifies TERT as a potential anticancer target. By using an RNA mapping strategy based on a trans-splicing ribozyme library, we identified the regions of mouse TERT (mTERT) RNA that were accessible to ribozymes. We found that particularly accessible sites were present downstream of the AUG start codon. This mTERTspecific ribozyme will be useful for validation of the RNA replacement as cancer gene therapy approach in mouse model with syngeneic tumors.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2003년도 Proceedings of ACRS 2003 ISRS
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• pp.75-77
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• 2003

The spatial distribution of snow cover area is a crucial input to models of hydrology and climate in alpine and other seasonally snow covered areas.The objective in our study is to develop a rapidly automatic and high accuracy snow cover mapping algorithm applicable for the Tibetan Plateau which is the most sensitive about climatic change. Monitoring regional snow extent reqires higher temoral frequency-moderate spatial resolution imagery.Our algorithm is based AVHRR and MODIS data and will provide long-term fraction snow cover area map.We present here a technique is based on the multiple endmembers approach and by taking advantages of current approaches, we developed a technique for automatic selection of local reference spectral endmembers.

• Nonlinear Functional Analysis and Applications
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.433-442
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• 2021

Let X and X^* be a Banach space and its dual, respectively, and let B(X) and S(X) be the unit ball and unit sphere of X, respectively. In this paper, we study the relation between Modulus of n-dimensional U-convexity in X^* and normal structure in X. Some new results about fixed points of nonexpansive mapping are obtained, and some existing results are improved. Among other results, we proved: if X is a Banach space with $U^n_{X^*}(n+1)>1-{\frac{1}{n+1}}$ where n ∈ ℕ, then X has weak normal structure.

• 호남수학학술지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.125-130
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• 1997

In this paper, we give a characterization of collectionwise normality using continuous functions. More precisely, we give a new and short proof of the Dowker's theorem using selection theory that a $T_1$ space X is collectionwise normal if every continuous mapping of every closed subset F of X into a Banach space can be continuously extended over X. This is also a generalization of Tietze's extension theorem.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제54권2호
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• pp.493-506
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• 2017

In this paper, we define the modulus of n-dimensional U-flatness as the determinant of an $(n+1){\times}(n+1)$ matrix. The properties of the modulus are investigated and the relationships between this modulus and other geometric parameters of Banach spaces are studied. Some results on fixed point theory for non-expansive mappings and normal structure in Banach spaces are obtained.

• 대한수학회지
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• 제45권6호
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• pp.1725-1740
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• 2008

In this paper, we introduce a fixed point index of weakly inward 1-set-contraction mappings. With the aid of the new index, we obtain some new fixed point theorems, nonzero fixed point theorems and multiple positive fixed points for this class of mappings. As an application of nonzero fixed point theorems, we discuss an eigenvalue problem.

• 대한수학회보
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• 제57권2호
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• pp.383-391
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• 2020

We study the mapping property of multilinear fractional maximal operators in Lipschitz spaces. It should be pointed out that some of the techniques employed in the study of fractional integral operators do not apply to fractional maximal operators.

• 대한수학회논문집
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.67-83
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• 2009

Several common fixed point theorems for a few contractive type mappings in complete metric spaces are established. As applications, the existence and uniqueness of common solutions for certain systems of functional equations arising in dynamic programming are discussed.