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Quality Assurance of CORVUS Planning System for Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (CORVUS Planning System을 사용한 세기조절방사선치료의 정도관리에 관한 연구)

  • 김성규
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.9-16
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    • 2004
  • The intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) is believed to be on of the best treatment techniques for the goal of radiation therapy: to irradiate fatal dose to tumor region while minimizing dose to critical organs. It is essential to have comprehensive quality assurance program to assure the precision and the accuracy of the treatment due to the characteristic of the IMRT. The quality assurance technique for the Corvus treatment planning system was developed and its effectiveness was tested with the treatment planning of H&N region. Acrylic phantom, film and ionization chamber were used for this study, the discrepancy between the treatment planning and the film measurements showed 0.03 cm and 0.28 cm for the 90% of isodose line in each directions. Dose measurements showed 1% and 1.2% differences for ionization chamber and TLD, respectively. This concluded that the system can be used for clinic.

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The Study for Establishment of Protocol with Quality Assurance (QA) of Hyperthermia Cancer Therapy System in Korea (국내 온열 암 치료 시스템의 품질관리 프로토콜 확립에 대한 연구)

  • Hwang, Jinho;Kay, Chul-Seung
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.668-674
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    • 2020
  • Quality Assurance (QA) is essential to provide effective hyperthermia, but in the case of a problem with a hyperthermia cancer therapy system in Korea, the manufacturers or venders are repairing and maintaining the system. In Korea, if an error occurs in the hyperthermia system, the manufacturer and sales agent are repairing and maintaining it. There is no QA protocol suitable for the domestic situation. This study is based on the QA guidelines recommended by institutions such as European Society for Hyperthermia Oncology (ESHO), Hellenic Society of Oncologic Hyperthermia (HSOH), and the results of questionnaires to hospitals that have hyperthermia cancer therapy systems in Korea. By developing an optimized QA protocol, we aim to reduce the errors and inaccuracies that can occur in during hyperthermia such as measurement of temperature, instrumentation, and heat transfer. In addition, we will visit a hospital with a hyperthermia cancer therapy system in Korea to perform a QA based on this study, and study to specify tolerances and accurate QA set-up parameters using the measured QA results.

Quality of Service Assurance Model for AMR Voice Traffic in Downlink WCDMA System (순방향 WCDMA 채널에서 AMR 음성 트래픽의 품질 보증 모델)

  • Jung, Sung Hwan;Hong, Jung Wan;Lie, Chang Hoon
    • Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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    • v.33 no.2
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    • pp.191-200
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    • 2007
  • We propose the QoS (Quality of Service) assurance model for AMR (Adaptive MultiRate) voice users considering the capacity and service quality jointly in downlink WCDMA system. For this purpose, we introduce a new system performance measure and the number-based AMR mode allocation scheme. The proposed number-based AMR mode allocation can be operated only with the information of total number of ongoing users. Therefore, it can be more simply implemented than the existing power-based allocation. The proposed system performance measure considers the stochastic variations of AMR modes of ongoing users and can be analytically obtained using CTMC (Continuous Time Markov Chain) modeling. In order to validate the proposed analytical model, a discrete event-based simulation model is also developed. The performance measure obtained from the analytical model is in agreement with the simulation results and is expected to be useful for parameter optimization.

A Relationship between Security Engineering and Security Evaluation

  • Tai-hoon, Kim
    • Proceedings of the Korea Information Assurance Society Conference
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.141-144
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    • 2004
  • The Common Criteria (CC) philosophy is to provide assurance based upon an evaluation of the IT product or system that is to be trusted. Evaluation has been the traditional means of providing assurance. It is essential that not only the customer' srequirements for software functionality should be satisfied but also the security requirements imposed on the software development should be effectively analyzed and implemented in contributing to the security objectives of customer's requirements. Unless suitable requirements are established at the start of the software development process, the resulting end product, however well engineered, may not meet the objectives of its anticipated consumers. By the security evaluation, customer can sure about the quality of the products or systems they will buy and operate. In this paper, we propose a selection guide for If products by showing relationship between security engineering and security evaluation and make help user and customer select appropriate products or system.

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Strategy for V2E Performance Assurance Technology Development Using the Kano Model (Kano 모델을 활용한 V2E 성능확보기술 개발 전략)

  • Jang, Jeong Ah;Son, Sungho;Lee, Jung Ki
    • Journal of Auto-vehicle Safety Association
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.75-82
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    • 2022
  • Automated vehicles (AVs) are coming to our roadways. In practice, there are still several challenges that can impede the AV sensors are polluted on various road conditions. In this paper, we propose a strategy for V2E performance assurance technology using Kano model. We are developing the vehicle sensor cleaning system about the three types of commonly used sensors: camera, radar, and LiDAR. Surveys were carried out in 30 AV's experts on quality characteristics about V2E performance assurance technology. As a result, the Kano model developed to verify a major requirement of autonomous vehicle's sensor cleaning system. It is expected that the Kano model will be actively used to verify the importance of V2E development strategy.

The study on the analysis of quality assurance data (품질보증데이터의 분석방법에 대한 고찰)

  • Baik, Jai-Wook
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.21 no.4
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    • pp.621-628
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    • 2010
  • Quality assurance data is used to develop the strategy of the product since it is valuable for reliability assessment of the product. However, manufacturers don't take into account the life of the product but just produce WCR (Warranty Call Rate) which is monthly or quarterly claims per 1000 products in terms of table or graph. In this study we will consider how they analyse that kind of data and suggest an appropriate type of analysis which incorporates the life time of the product. Finally we emphasize that the appropriate type of analysis has to be merged into the.

Development of Prototype Quality Assurance Procedure for Blood Irradiator Using Glass Dosimeter Jig (유리선량계 지그를 이용한 혈액조사기의 정도관리 절차 초안 개발)

  • Jeong, Dong-Hyeok;Kang, Yeong-Rok;Moon, Young-Min;Kim, Hyo-Jin;Kwak, Dong-Won;Kim, Jeung-Kee;Lee, Man-Woo
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.23 no.2
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    • pp.123-126
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    • 2012
  • For the purpose of quality assurance (QA) of the blood irradiator, QA programs for daily, monthly, and yearly were developed. For daily tests, simple items for basically operating the machine are recommended. For monthly and yearly tests, the measurement of dose to assure the dose delivery system are performed by a dosimetry devices (Glass dosimeter jig) developed in this study. The QA program is practical for clinical environment.

Treatment Planning Guideline of EBT Film-based Delivery Quality Assurance Using Statistical Process Control in Helical Tomotherapy (토모테라피에서 통계적공정관리를 이용한 EBT 필름 기반의 선량품질보증의 치료계획 가이드라인)

  • Chang, Kyung Hwan
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.45 no.5
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    • pp.439-448
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the results from statistical process control (SPC) to recommend upper and lower control limits for planning parameters based on delivery quality assurance (DQA) results and establish our institutional guidelines regarding planning parameters for helical tomotherapy (HT). A total of 53 brain, 41 head and neck (H & N), and 51 pelvis cases who had passing or failing DQA measurements were selected. The absolute point dose difference (DD) and the global gamma passing rate (GPR) for all patients were analyzed. Control charts were used to evaluate upper and lower control limits (UCL and LCL) for all assessed treatment planning parameters. Treatment planning parameters were analyzed to provide its range for DQA pass cases. We confirmed that the probability of DQA failure was higher when the proportion of leaf open time (LOT) below 100 ms was greater than 30%. LOT and gantry period (GP) were significant predictor for DQA failure using the SPC method. We investigated the availability of the SPC statistic method to establish the local planning guideline based on DQA results for HT system. The guideline of each planning parameter in HT may assist in the prediction of DQA failure using the SPC statistic method in the future.

The Verification Method for Missing Software Standardization in Weapon System - Focused on Firmware (무기체계 소프트웨어 규격화 누락여부 검증 방안 - 펌웨어 중심으로)

  • Song, Chi-Hoon
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.22 no.3
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    • pp.310-315
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    • 2021
  • In the case of weapon systems used by the military, defense standards are applied for economical and efficient procurement, management, and maintenance. Defense specifications are documents describing procedures and methods for determining whether technical requirements for products and services are consistent and apply to the production of weapon systems, quality assurance, and configuration management. Software is also subject to defense specifications, and is documented and managed in the same way as other defense specifications. Sometimes it happened to be standardized without some(or all) software. In this case, a competitive contract is impossible and it may affect the quality of weapon systems because the manufacturer arbitrarily changes the software without prior approval. So, software standardization is required, but it is very difficult to verify for firmware installed in hardware. This paper proposed a verification method for g software standardization, and we expect it will contribute to the efficient production and quality assurance of weapon systems.

A Study on the Development of a Quality-Driven CIM System (part l: Framework) (품질 지향적 CIM시스템 개발에 관한 연구 (제1부:Freamwork))

  • Kang, Mujin
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.13 no.12
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    • pp.63-69
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    • 1996
  • As the significance of quality in the sense of customer satisfaction is growing, the management of quality becomes one of the main interests in the manufacturing systems research. This paper presents the concept of quality-driven CIM(Computer Integrated Manufacturing) system which is composed of a business process domain and a quality domain. In the business process domain, business functions are integrated by conventional design and manufacturing databases on the one hand, and an integrated quality system is interlinked to them via several quality modules on the other hand. Quality information model connects the business process domain with the quality domain where various types of quality data are stored in the form of quality database. This framework helps a manufacturing enterprise to implement the quality-driven CIM system to achieve its final objective "customer satisfaction".ion".uot;.

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