• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.30-35
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• 2005

목적 : 본 논문은 뇌 기능 자기공명영상(Brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Brain fMRI)을 이용하여 짠 맛 자극에 대한 인지활동으로 뇌 신경세포의 활성화에 따른 국소 대사 및 혈류역학적 변화가 일어나는 뇌 영역을 분석 및 가시화함으로써 맛에 대한 뇌 활성화 부위의 기초자료를 마련하고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법 : 건강한 비흡연 남자 12명을 대상으로 1.5T MRI 장치에서 혈액산소수준의존(Blood Oxygen Level Dependent, 이하 BOLD) 방법을 이용한 fMRI 실험을 수행하여 인간의 미각 중 짠맛에 대한 반응을 관찰하였다. 잔 맛의 자극은 $3\%$ 농도의 소금물(NaCl)을 미각 자극기를 이용하여 혀 전체에 자극을 주었다. 미각 자극기인 Auto Syringe Pump는 일정한 자극을 반복적으로 가할 수 있도록 마이크로프로세서를 이용하여 연구실에서 자체 제작되었다. 자극의 패러다임은 5회의 휴식기간과 4회의 자극기간으로 구성되었으며, 자극기간은 15초씩 진행되고 휴식기간은 30초로 하여 각 slice당 42 영상을 연속적으로 획득하였다. 자극에 대해 얻은 fMRI 영상은 SPM99'(Statistical Parametric Mapping, UCL)를 이용하여 분석하였다. 활성화 영상은 EPI 영상과 동일한 부위의 T1 강조영상에 registration 기법을 이용하여 overlapping시켜 활성화 부위의 해부학적 판별을 용이하도록 하였다. 결과 : 농도 $3\%$ 소금물의 짠맛 자극에 대해서 insula, amygdala, frontal opercular taste cortex (OFC), orbitofrontal cortex 영역에서 활성화 영역을 fMRI로 확인하였으며, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) 영역에서도 유효한 신호를 관찰하였다. 결론 : 본 연구의 결과는 미각의 주요 신경이 뇌의 insula, OFC 그리고 DLPFC 영역에 주로 분포한다는 기존의 결과와 잘 일치하고 있다. 마이크로 프로세서로 동작하는 자동펌프를 미각 자극기로 사용함으로써 미각자극에 대한 뇌의 활성화 영역을 안정되게 관찰할 수 있었다. 본 연구의 결과는 fMRI를 이용한 고차원적 미각작용 과정 연구에 튼튼한 밑거름이 될 것으로 생각된다.

• 생물정신의학
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.168-176
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• 2003

Objectives:We investigated the characteristics of P300 generators in obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) patients by using voxel-based statistical parametric mapping of current density images. Methods:P300 generators, produced by a rare target tone of 1500Hz under a frequent non-target tone of 1,000Hz, were measured in 15 right-handed OCD patients and 15 controls. Low Resolution Electromagnetic Tomography(LORETA), using a realistic head model of the boundary element method based on individual MRI, was applied to the 128-channel EEG. Statistical parametric mapping(SPM) was applied for the statistical analysis. Results:We found that both groups had the mean current density of P300 in the parietal, temporal and prefrontal lobe. There was a trend for decreased current density in the prefrontal area in OCD patients. The statistical comparison showed current density increase in the supraparietal area, a statistically significant longer P300 latency and a trend for reduced P300 amplitude in OCD patients. Conclusion:It suggests that P300 source of both groups exists in multiple brain regions at the same time. And both groups had no statistically significant differences in the current density of P300 except for increased current density in the supraparietal area in OCD patients. But, considering the statistically significant longer P300 latency, a trend for reduced P300 amplitude and relative mean current density reduction in the prefrontal area in OCD patients, this study suggests that the frontal lobe may have a reduced normal inhibitory process in OCD patients.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권5호
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• pp.373-380
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• 2009

In general, Independent component analysis (ICA) is a statistical blind source separation technique, used either in spatial or temporal domain. The spatial or temporal ICAs are designed to extract maximally independent sources in respective domains. The underlying sources for spatiotemporal data (sequence of images) can not always be guaranteed to be independent, therefore spatial ICA extracts the maximally independent spatial sources, deteriorating the temporal sources and vice versa. For such data types, spatiotemporal ICA tries to create a balance by simultaneous optimization in both the domains. However, the spatiotemporal ICA suffers the problem of source ambiguity. Recently, constrained ICA (c-ICA) has been proposed which incorporates a priori information to extract the desired source. In this study, we have extended the c-ICA for better analysis of spatiotemporal data. The proposed algorithm, i.e., constrained spatiotemporal ICA (constrained st-ICA), tries to find the desired independent sources in spatial and temporal domains with no source ambiguity. The performance of the proposed algorithm is tested against the conventional spatial and temporal ICAs using simulated data. Furthermore, its performance for the real spatiotemporal data, functional magnetic resonance images (fMRI), is compared with the SPM (conventional fMRI data analysis tool). The functional maps obtained with the proposed algorithm reveal more activity as compared to SPM.

• 한국인지과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국인지과학회 2005년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.151-153
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• 2005

We investigated the brain substrate of repetition priming on the implicit memory taskusing low-resolution electromagnetic tomography (LORETA) with high-density 128 channel EEG and individual MRI as a realistic head model. Thirteen right-handed, healthy subjects performed a word/nonword discrimination task, in which the words and nonwords were presented visually,and some of the words appeared twice with a lag of one or five items. All of the subjects exhibited repetition priming with respect to the behavioral data, in which a faster reaction time was observed to the repeated word (old word) than to the first presentation of the word (new word). The old words elicited more positive-going potentials than the new words, beginning at 200 ms and lasting until 500 ms post-stimulus. We conducted source reconstruction using LORETA at a latency of 400 ms with the peak mean global field potentials and used statistical parametric mapping for the statistical analysis. We found that the source elicited by the old words exhibited a statistically significant current density reduction in the left inferior frontal gyrus. This is the first study to investigate the generators of repetition priming using voxel-by-voxel statistical mapping of the current density with individual MRI and high-density EEG.

• 대한불안의학회지
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• 제4권2호
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• pp.148-156
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• 2008

Objective : Although cognitive-behavior therapy (CBT) is effective in patients with panic disorder, its the-rapeutic mechanism of action in the brain remains unclear. This study was performed to investigate regional blood flow changes associated with successful completion of CBT in drug-naive patients with panic disorder. Method : The regional blood flow in 4 patients with panic disorder was compared to that in 11 healthy controls before and after a 12-week group CBT using $^{99m}Tc$-ECD SPECT imaging. Psychopathology was assessed using Panic Disorder Severity Scale. Data were analyzed using software for statistical parametric mapping (SPM2). Results : Before CBT, significantly decreased blood flow was found in the parietal and occipital area in panic patients than normal volunteers. In all the patients who showed remission after CBT, increased blood flow was detected in the right cingulate gyrus, left lingual gyrus, and left superior parietal lobule, whereas decreased blood flow was seen in the left inferior temporal gyrus. Conclusion : These results suggested that CBT is effective for panic disorder and change the activity of cingulate gyrus and left temporal gyrus, a part of the brain areas associated with fear in panic disorder.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제10권5호
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• pp.165-181
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• 2009

본 논문은 해마의 형상 분석을 위한 효과적인 모델 표현 방법과 분석 과정에서의 실제감을 향상시키는 스테레오-햅틱 장치 기반의 대화형 가상 환경을 제공한다. 매개변수형 표면 모델과 골격 표현은 해마의 형상을 효과적으로 표현하고 이러한 정보를 옥트리 자료 구조에 저장하여 대화형의 형상 분석 작업을 가능하게 한다. 그리고 골격 기반 정규화 방법은 다양한 모달리티를 갖는 의료 영상으로부터 생성된 3차원 해마 모델들의 위치와 방위를 정확하게 맞추어주는 기능을 수행한다. 또한 본 논문에서는 정상인 해마 형상 집단과 간질 환자 해마 형상 집단의 정확한 분류 작업을 수행하기 위하여 SVM 알고리즘 기반의 분류기 모델을 구축하였다. 실험 결과를 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 표현 구조는 다양한 단계의 형상 표현을 제공하며 SVM 기반 분류기는 두 집단간 형상 차이를 분석하기 위한 효과적이었음을 확인하였다. 또한 스테레오 디스플레이 장치와 햅틱 장치를 결합한 가상환경은 사용자에게 향상된 공간 인지와 조작력을 제공하기 때문에 의료 분야에서의 해마 모델과 같은 다양한 해부학적 구조에 대한 분석 작업에 효과적으로 활용될 수 있다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.27.2-27.2
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• 2011

The Kepler(NASA) and CoRoT(ESA) space telescopes are surveying thousands of exoplanet for finding Earth-like exoplanets with similar environments of the Earth. Then the TPF(NASA), DARWIN(ESA) and many large-aperture ground telescopes have plan for spectroscopic observations of these earth-like exoplanets in next decades. Now, it has been started to simulate the disk averaged spectra of the earthlike exoplanets for comparing the observed spectra and suggesting solutions of environment of these planets. Previous research, the simulations are based on radiative transfer method, but these are limited by optical models of Earth system and instruments. We introduce a new simulation method, IRT(Integrated Ray Tracing) to overcome limitations of previous method. The 3 components are defined in IRT; 1)Sun model, 2)Earth system model (Atmosphere, Land and Ocean), 3)Instrument model. The ray tracing in IRT is simulated in composed 3D real scale space from inside the sun model to the detector of instrument. The Sun model has hemisphere structure with Lambertian scattering optical model. Atmosphere is composed of 16 distributed structures and each optical model includes BSDF with using 6SV radiative transfer code. Coastline and 5 kinds of vegetation distribution data are used to land model structure, and its non-Lambertian scattering optical model is defined with the semi-empirical "parametric kernel method" used for MODIS(NASA) and POLDER(CNES) missions. The ocean model includes sea ice cap structure with the monthly sea ice area variation, and sea water optical model which is considering non-lambertian sun-glint scattering. Computation of spectral imaging and radiative transfer performance of Earth system model is tested with hypothetical space instrument in IRT model. Then we calculated the disk averaged spectra of the Earth system model in IRT computation model for 8 cases; 4 viewing orientation cases with full illuminated phase, and 4 illuminated phase cases in a viewing orientation. Finally the DAS results are compared with previous researching results of radiative transfer method.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2018

This review article presents an assessment of trends in statistical methods and an evaluation of their appropriateness in articles published in the Archives of Plastic Surgery (APS) from 2012 to 2017. We reviewed 388 original articles published in APS between 2012 and 2017. We categorized the articles that used statistical methods according to the type of statistical method, the number of statistical methods, and the type of statistical software used. We checked whether there were errors in the description of statistical methods and results. A total of 230 articles (59.3%) published in APS between 2012 and 2017 used one or more statistical method. Within these articles, there were 261 applications of statistical methods with continuous or ordinal outcomes, and 139 applications of statistical methods with categorical outcome. The Pearson chi-square test (17.4%) and the Mann-Whitney U test (14.4%) were the most frequently used methods. Errors in describing statistical methods and results were found in 133 of the 230 articles (57.8%). Inadequate description of P-values was the most common error (39.1%). Among the 230 articles that used statistical methods, 71.7% provided details about the statistical software programs used for the analyses. SPSS was predominantly used in the articles that presented statistical analyses. We found that the use of statistical methods in APS has increased over the last 6 years. It seems that researchers have been paying more attention to the proper use of statistics in recent years. It is expected that these positive trends will continue in APS.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.339-346
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• 2020

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the image quality, diagnostic efficacy, and radiation dose associated with the use of a cadmium telluride (CdTe) detector, compared to charge-coupled device (CCD) and complementary metal oxide semiconductor(CMOS) detectors. Materials and Methods: Lateral cephalographs of a phantom (type 1) composed of synthetic polymer filled with water and another phantom (type 2) composed of human skull macerated with polymer coating were obtained with CdTe, CCD, and CMOS detectors. Dosimeters placed on the type 2 phantom were used to measure radiation. Noise levels from each image were also measured. McNamara cephalometric analysis was conducted, the dentoskeletal configurations were assessed, and a subjective evaluation of image quality was conducted. Parametric data were compared via 1-way analysis of variance with the Tukey post-hoc test, with a significance level of 5%. Subjective image quality and dentoskeletal configuration were described qualitatively. Results: A statistically significant difference was found among the images obtained with the 3 detectors(P<0.05), with the lowest noise level observed among the images obtained with the CdTe detector and a higher subjective preference demonstrated for those images. For the cephalometric analyses, no significant difference (P>0.05) was observed, and perfect agreement was seen with regard to the classifications obtained from the images acquired using the 3 detectors. The radiation dose associated with the CMOS detector was higher than the doses associated with the CCD (P<0.05) and CdTe detectors(P<0.05). Conclusion: Considering the evaluated parameters, the CdTe detector is recommended for use in clinical practice.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제27권3호
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• pp.31-41
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• 2004

남,여 ADHD환자별 뇌혈류 상태를 비교분석하기 위하여 SPECT 영상을 획득하고, 유의수준에 따른 클러스터(cluster)의 분포변화와 혈류량 증가율과 감소율의 변화를 조사하였다. 남자 어린이 ADHD환자군 51명과 정상군 8명, 여자 어린이 ADHD환자군 13명과 정상군 4명에 대하여. Multi SPECT3 camera를 이용하여 $^{99m}Tc-ECD$를 정맥 주사후 30분에 영상을 획득하고, 뇌혈류 상태를 통계적 파라미터 지도작성법(SPM)으로 분석하였다. 정상 어린이군에 대한 남,여 환자군의 뇌혈류 증가와 감소부위의 분포를 통계적 유의수준 P<0.001부터 P<0.05 범위에서 나타내었다. 남자 어린이 ADHD환자군에서 유의수준 P<0.02에서부터 P<0.05까지 대상회전(post. cingurate gyrus)에서만 혈류가 증가되었다. 증가율의 변화는 유의수준에 영향을 받지 않았으며, 정상군보다 환자군은 평균 15.84%가 증가되었다. 여자의 경우, P<0.003에서 소뇌후엽 중앙상부, P<0.005에서 소뇌 중앙후엽과 좌측 대뇌변연엽(limbic lobe)에서 혈류증가 클러스터가 나타났다. P<0.009에서 P<0.01까지는 좌측대뇌 측두엽에서, P<0.02에서는 우측 대뇌측두엽과 좌측 대뇌 두정엽에서 혈류증가 클러스터가 나타났으며, 각 클러스터에서 평균 $24.68{\sim}31.25%$의 혈류증가율을 나타내었다. 남자 ADHD 질환군의 혈류 감소는 P<0.004에서 좌측의 대뇌 도이랑(Insula gyrus), P<0.005에서는 우측 대뇌 측두엽, P<0.007에서는 우측대뇌 전두엽, P<0.009에서 P<0.01까지는 좌측 대뇌전두엽 그리고 P<0.02에서는 대뇌전두엽 중앙이랑에서 혈류감소 클러스터가 나타났다. 혈류 감소율은 유의 수준에 의해 영향을 받지 않았으며 평균 $15.21{\sim}16.64%$의 감소율을 나타내었다. 여자어린이 ADHD환자에서는 P<0.001에서 좌측 대뇌렌즈핵(lentiform nucleus)에서만 감소되었으며, P<0.003에서는 좌우 대뇌렌즈핵에서 모두 감소되었고 P<0.005에서 P<0.01까지는 좌우의 렌즈핵 외 좌측 대뇌 측두엽이랑등 3개의 감소 클러스터가 나타났다. P<0.03에서는 좌측 대뇌두정엽과 전두엽에서 감소되었고, 평균 $30.57{\sim}30.84%$의 혈류감소율을 나타내었다. 혈류감소율은 유의수준의 변화에 영향을 받지 않았다. ADHD환자의 뇌혈류증가, 감소율이 남자보다 여자환자에서 2배 정도가 많았고, 혈류 증가와 감소클러스터분포의 차이가 있는 것으로 나타나, ADHD환자의 분석은 남, 여별로 구분하여야 할 필요가 있다고 판단된다.