• 대한한의학회지
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.222-226
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• 2006

Objective: The aim of this study was to introduce newly developed cooperation group standards of acupuncture needles for single use and to make a contribution to the future development of Korean Industrial Standards (KS) of acupuncture needles for single use. Results and Conclusion: Quality assurance and quality control with high safety profile is one of the most critical issues in medical device manufacturing. Up to now, proper attention has not been paid to this issue with respect to acupuncture needles for single use and their related devices. We, therefore, organized a committee to make guidelines to produce an acupuncture needle with high quality and safety. In the committee, we reviewed the topic from an historical viewpoint, and investigated the current situation of the standardization of acupuncture needles in other developed countries. Finally, we developed the cooperation group standards in advance of development of KS on the acupuncture needles for single use. The standards are composed of 12 sections describing: Scope, Normative references, Definitions, Materials, Configuration, Appearance and Cleanliness, Quality, Sterilization and Safety, Processing of Surface and Coating Material, Test, Packaging, and Labeling. We hope that the standards would be useful guidelines to produce high quality acupuncture needles and play an important role in the development of KS in the future.

• Journal of Acupuncture Research
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.149-162
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• 2004

Quality assurance with high safety profile is one of the most critical issues to medical device manufacturing. In general, this issue was not paid proper attention with respect to acupuncture needle and its related devices. Acupuncture needles are manufactured through various standards ranging from purely hand-made, partially hand-made and partially machine-made, to fully machine-made mainly in China, Korea, and Japan. There is a large difference in quality between needles from different manufacturers. In order to provide a standard manufacturing guideline, it seems necessary to make a Korean Industrial standard (KS). The authors review this topic from an historical view point, investigate the current situation of the standardization of acupuncture needles in other developed countries, and inspect the general procedure to establish a KS in Korea in order to suggest a KS for acupuncture needles.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.53-61
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• 2016

Objectives: Considering high prevalence of myopia in Asian countries, social cost paid for myopia may gradually increase in Korea. However, studies for developing myopia treatment are deficient. The study was to evaluate whether the periocular acupressure with a medical massager is effective for suppressing myopia progression. Methods: This study was an investigator-sponsored, prospective, open-labeled, and superiority pre and post single-armed study. 14 myopia children aged 7-12 years wore a medical massager for 15 minutes to stimulate periocular acupoints. For 24 weeks, the participants used the device twice a day. Based on prior studies, the refraction change of naturally proceeded myopia was set as -0.38 D. The axial length change of naturally proceeded myopia was set as 0.228 mm. To assess the safety, we performed vital sign check, physical examination, visual acuity test, slit lamp examination, IOP measurement, and fundus examination. Results: The refraction and axial length of the participants increased. For 24 weeks, the change in refraction was -0.38 D at the right eye and -0.40 D at the left. The change in axial length was 0.21 mm at the right and 0.22 mm at the left. In the safety assessment, any adverse event did not occur. Conclusions: There was no significant difference between the control group and the intervention group. The effect of growth may have more contributed to our result than that of acupressure. Based on our result, a full-scale study will not be conducted.

• 한국한의학연구원논문집
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• 제4권1호통권4호
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• pp.27-45
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• 1998

$\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui醫方類聚$\lrcorner$ (1445) is regarded as a treasure-house of the knowledge of traditional oriental medicine which contains over 50,000 prescriptions and enormerous amount of medical information. Despite the importance and information contained in this book, it has been rarely used since it was not convenient to use this book. In this study, therefore, the establishment of database on $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ was carried out. Before the database establishment of $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ , basic works such as correction, interpretation, proofreading and translation of original text should be done. The results obtained in this study are summaried as follows : 1) During the course of studying the original text of $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ , the editing process and transmission of medical books in early Chosun dynasty was figured out. 2) For better correction, interpretation, proofreading and translation of $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ , $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ microfilms which are the collection of Japanese Royal Library (宮內廳 圖書寮) were obtained in this study. Through this process, the errors in the republication were able to be corrected. 3) Analyzing the organization and compilatory method of $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ is one of the basic requirements of understanding the scale of the whole. book and establishing database as a result. So the analysis results were used for the basic structuring of database. 4) $\ulcorner$Euibangyoochui$\lrcorner$ CD- ROM was designed in a way that the images of microfilms, original text and Korean translation can be compared by 3-D device. In addition, the convenience and proficiency of imaging the information and prescriptions of the text is one of the remarkable features of this CD-ROM.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권11호
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• pp.221-228
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• 2014

혀의 색상 및 형태는 신체의 생리적이고 임상 병리적인 상태를 반영한다. 최근에는 정량적이고 객관화된 설 진단을 위해 다양한 설 영상 측정 장치가 개발되고 있다. 설 진단의 대부분은 혀의 색상 정보를 활용하기 때문에 설 영상 획득 장치에서 조명환경의 성능은 매우 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 좁은 시스템 내부 구조에서 설 표면에 조명이 고르게 비춰질 수 있도록 간접조명을 고안하였고, 그 성능을 평가하였다. 간접 조명환경 구현을 위해 타원체 형태의 반사 구조를 시스템 내부에 위치시키고, 타원체 내부에 높은 조도의 LED 두 개를 통해 정면 카메라 아래 방향으로 빛을 조사하도록 배치시켰다. 혀 위치 영역에는 반사 구조에 의해 반사된 빛만이 조사될 수 있도록 하였다. 조명의 균질도는 5개 영역에서 밝기를 측정하여 변동계수로 평가하였고, 직접조명과 확산판조명에서 각각 0.16, 0.13으로 나타난 반면 간접조명에서는 0.01미만으로 나타났다. 혀 모형을 통해 조명에 의한 빛 반사 영역의 비율을 계산한 결과는 직접조명, 확산판조명, 간접조명에서 각각 5.76%, 4.22%, 1.79%로 나타났다. 혀 모형을 측정한 영상에서 6영역의 변동계수를 계산해 색상 균질도를 평가한 결과는 간접조명에서 0.06 미만으로 가장 우수한 것으로 나타났다. 본 논문에서 구현한 조명방식을 설진 시스템에 적용하여 진단 지표 측정의 재현성 및 반복성이 향상될 것으로 기대된다.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.458-465
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• 2016

The information relating to the health of person has been increasing. The information is such as medical information and personal health record and the information collected by utilization and dissemination of mobile devices. Therefore, the interest and demand for systems that can integrate and manage the Personal Health Record(PHR) is increasing. Quantity and quality of information that is collected from the patient can have a major impact on the diagnosis and treatment of Korean Medicine(KM) in clinical practice. Because closely observe the usual clinical symptoms of patients to utilize the treatment. But if the interview when memories are not sure of the correct answer does not get much easier to find exactly the symptoms. So when recording original symptom(素證) and daily subjective symptom can be helpful for care. Therefore, the personal health care services that can record and manage and own is necessary based on KM. In this paper, we propose Korean Medicine Personal Health Record Platform(KM PHR Platform). We have selected the significant symptoms that mean to the personal records from symptom information required for diagnosis in KM. And classifying and scoring as the symptoms were used as personal health care indicators. And significant symptoms were easily configure a screen that can be recorded. simple operation is recorded as a symptom. It was designed to reflect these functions. So KM PHR Platform helps to Personal health care. Doctor may be able to help in the diagnosis and prognosis observation by reference to shared symptom. We look forward to a variety of health services based on KM using a symptom, a medical record, personal health device information.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제27권6호
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• pp.847-852
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• 2013

The aim of this study was to investigate the difference of electrodermal activity between the hypertensive and non-hypertensive subjects. A total 161 subjects who visited a hospital for health check ups from August 2011 through November 2011 and from September 2012 through November 2012 were included in this study. We divided the subjects into two groups by blood pressure, hypertension group(81 patients) and non-hypertension group(180 subject). Then we compared electrodermal activity between two groups by using the autonomic bioelectric response device model CP-6000A. The data was analyzed by independent t-test and logistic regression. In this study, there was a significant difference in electrodermal activity(the mean absolute value of positive, negative pulse conductivity) between hypertensive and normotensive group in t-test and electrodermal activity showed the significant influence on the prevalence risk of hypertension with age, body mass index and dyslipidema in binominal logistic regression. In conclusion, hypertensive patients had high level of electrodermal activity compared with normotensive subjects and this finding suggests that electrodermal activity which is explained excess tendency in Korean traditional medicine could be used for diagnosis in hypertension patients at Korean traditional medical clinic.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.81-89
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• 2024

Purpose : This study conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of laser acupuncture for each condition using information from laser acupuncture trials registered on clinicaltrials.gov from January 2013 to June 2023. Methods : We quantitatively and qualitatively analysed the results of 16 clinical trials of laser acupuncture whose research results were confirmed. A risk of bias assessment was also carried out to assess the quality of each clinical trial. Results : A meta-analysis including three clinical trials was conducted to evaluate the comparative effectiveness of laser acupuncture and sham laser acupuncture in reducing pain and found that the laser acupuncture group had a statistically significant reduction in pain compared with the sham laser acupuncture group. In addition, 11 of the 13 trials not included in the meta-analysis showed a positive effect of laser acupuncture. Conclusion : Although laser acupuncture has a long history of clinical use and a lot of research, there is still some scepticism due to the lack of a clear mechanism of action and inconsistent reports of clinical effectiveness. In addition, there is a significant lack of systematic reviews of clinical evidence for major disease specific, and ongoing research is needed to establish an objective evidence base for the clinical effectiveness of laser acupuncture.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권6호
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• pp.260-269
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• 2016

최근 유전체학의 발전, 웨어러블 디바이스의 확산, IT/NT의 발전 등에 따라 방대한 양의 바이오-메디컬 데이터가 생산되고, 이에 따라 빅데이터를 활용한 헬스케어 산업이 급속히 발달하고 있으며, 이와 관련된 빅데이터 기술은 국민의 건강 증대와 건강한 고령 삶을 제공하는 핵심 기술로 급부상하고 있다. 또한, 한의학에 대한 과학적 접근이 진행되면서 한약재 성분의 효능을 검증하고자 하는 다양한 분자 생물학 분야의 연구가 진행되고 있다. 하지만 관련 한약재의 주요 성분과 관련된 생화학적 기작을 손쉽게 검색할 수 있는 시스템이 갖추어져 있지 못한 실정이다. 그래서 본 논문에서는 PubMed로부터 한약재와 관련된 논문들을 수집후, 수집된 논문들에 대한 문헌 분석을 통해 추출된 한약재 관련 화합물, 유전자 그리고 생물학적 상호작용 정보를 저장 및 관리하는 한약재 정보 데이터베이스를 구축했다. 또한, 연구자들에게 구축한 한약재 정보 데이터베이스에 대한 직관적 분석을 제공하기 위해 화합물, 유전자 그리고 생물학적 상호작용 정보간 계층구조를 기반으로 네트워크를 구성 후, 해당 네트워크에 대한 다차원 분석을 제공하는 시스템을 개발했다. 마지막으로, 본 시스템은 향후 다양한 한약재 성분의 효능 및 생물학적 기작을 파악하는데 중요한 도구로 활용될 것으로 기대한다.

• 동의생리병리학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.621-629
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• 2012

This study aimed to examine the possibility of data from pulse diagnosis device to be used for diagnosis of Sasang constitution. Systematic searches of 5 major Korean medical database were conducted for articles published up to May 2012. Searching key word was "Sasang" or "Constitution". Studies dealt with correlation between Sasang constitution and the pulse wave data from pulse diagnosis machine were included. Totally 2886 studies are searched and 3 studies are added from references of evaluated articles. Among them, 12 studies were met our inclusion criteria (2 Xishu Mac, 2 Self-made pulse diagnosis machine, 8 3D-Mac). Three of the eight 3D-Mac studies intended to develop a formula of constitutional differential diagnosis, 2 studies compared variables by Sasang constitution in healthy group and 3 studies compared variables by Sasang constitution in healthy group and special disease group. They all reported some significant variables, however results are not consistent between studies. The accuracy of the formula of constitutional differential diagnosis using 3D-Mac pulse diagnosis devices is 46.0% by now. Improvements in measuring pulse are required to achieve more accurate result and be used for diagnosis of Sasang constitution. Compensating B.M.I. among Sasang constitutional groups and separating constitutional pulse factors from acquired characteristics are also needed in further study.