• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.327-330
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• 2006

We investigated the usefulness of $NbO_{x}$ nanopillars as an etching mask of dry etching for the formation of Si nanodot arrays. The $NbO_{x}$ nanopillar arrays were prepared by the anodic aluminum oxidation process of Al and Nb thin films. The etch rate and etch profile of $NbO_{x}$ nanopillar arrays were examined by varying the experimental conditions such as the concentration of etch gas, coil rf power, and dc bias voltage in the reactive ion etch system using the inductively coupled plasma. As the concentration of $Cl_{2}$ gas increased, the etch rate of $NbO_{x}$nanopillars decreased. With increasing coil rf power and dc bias voltage, the etch rates were found to increase. The etch characteristics and etch mechanism of $NbO_{x}$ nanopillars were investigated by varying the etch time under the selected etch conditions.

• Journal of the Korean Magnetic Resonance Society
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.25-36
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• 2003

The performance of radio frequency (RF) coils, used in MRI units, is determined by the image uniformity and the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). Birdcage and surface coils are commonly used. A birdcage coil provides a good image uniformity while a surface coil produces a high SNR. In this study, therefore, a staircase coil was designed from a standard version of a birdcage coil, with some structural changes to increase SNR while maintaining image uniformity. In phantom experiments, the improvement of the image to uniformity and the SNR increase of the staircase coil compared with the values for the birdcage coil were about 3.5% and 35%, respectively. In clinical experiment, the SNR increase of the staircase coil, compared with the value for the birdcage coil was about 40% in bone, muscle and blood-vessel tissues. These results show that the performance of the staircase coil was very improved over the standard birdcage coil in terms of SNR, and that image uniformity was maintained. Therefore, the staircase coil designed by this study should be useful in experimental and clinical l.5T MRI systems, and this coil offers an alternative method of quadrature detection.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1989 no.05
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• pp.51-54
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• 1989

In last several years, a number of volume localization techniques, such as ISIS, VSE, SPARS and STEAM etc., have been developed for the MR spectroscopy. These localizing techniques, however, require application of several RF pulses for the 3-D volume selection and suffer from T1 and T2 decays due to relatively long RF excitation time. In this paper, we propose a single-shot RF pulse localization technique to achieve the localized 3-D volume selection. This technique combines the cylindrical volume selection technique with a radial gradient coil with single-shot RF pulse and the oscillating selection gradient technique, so thai it minimizes the volume selection time. We report some experimental results obtained with the proposed method which appears promising for 3-D volume imaging and localized spectroscopy.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.62 no.8
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• pp.1120-1124
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• 2013

Our objective of this study was to reduce radio frequency coil (RF) control time at 3 T MRI systems. A compressed method is proposed with a convex optimization and pseudo-inverse method in multi-channel RF coils. After applying the proposed methods, fields are homogenized with less field data. Even with 80% compression, the fields are well homogenized and localized, indicating that mapping requires only 20% of the original data. Detailed values are compared between each compressed result in and outside the region of interest at 3 T.

• Proceedings of the KOSOMBE Conference
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• v.1996 no.11
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• pp.161-164
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• 1996

An actively-shielded $r^{2}$-gradient coil has been developed for brain localized MRI or MRS. Spatial localization is very useful for spatial volume selection in MRI or MR Spectroscopy(MRS). The radial(or $R^{2}-$) gradient coil is useful in reducing the artifact or in improving the SNR by selecting the volume with less number of RF pulses. It is, however, difficult to implement the coil with a gradient intensity strong enough to use it for practical whole-body MRI system. For example, the smallest volume size for selection is just 6 cm in diameter with a 250 Ampere of current driving for a whole-body system (in case of 70-cm-diameter). In this study, an asymetric $r^{2}$-coil with a small diameter of 35 cm has been designed and implemented for brain localized MRI or MRS. An 8-rod high-pass-type birdcage RF coil has also been implemented. The coil set has been developed for 1.0 Tesla Medison MRI system and its performance has been verified experimentally.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.416-420
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• 2008

In EMAT field, spiral RF coils are much more widely used when compared with solenoid coils. In the field of the magnetostrictive strip transducers for long range ultrasonic testing of cylindrical structures, however, solenoid coils has been used. This seems to be attributed to the difficulty in fabricating low frequency (i.e., large size) spiral coils. In this paper, we describe a method for fabricating spiral coil magnetostrictive strip guided wave transducers from FFC (flexible flat cable). It is demonstrated through a comparison experiment that the spiral coil transducer has much superior performance (sensitivity, SNR, and guided wave direction control capability) than the previous transducer with solenoid coils.

• Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.95-95
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• 2002

목적： 기존의 척추용 코일은 phased array 코일을 주로 많이 사용하여 왔다. Phased array 코일은 여러개의 표면 코일로 구성되어 있어 RE 자기장의 영역이 표면코일과 비슷하다. 그래서, 척추 영상을 얻기 위해서는 다른 부위의 핵 스핀을 포화시키는 불편함이 있다. 기존의 표면 코일보다 RF penetration depth가 적은 theta coil을 이용하여, 척추에 적합한 코일을 개발했다. 대상 및 방법： theta coil을 길게 제작하여 척추에 적합하게 하였다. 코일의 길이는 약 35cm, 폭은 16cm이다. 수신 전용으로 하기 위해서, 다이오드를 이용하여 detune 회로를 포함하였다. 기존의 코일과 비교하기 위해 theta coil과 GE사의 척추용 코일로부터 각각 영상을 획득하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.10
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• pp.17-23
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• 2003

In this study, microscale, high-performance, solenoid-type RF chip inductors were investigated. The size of the RF chip inductors fabricated in this work was 1.0${\times}$0.5${\times}$0.5㎣. The materials (96% Al2O3) and shape (I-type) of the core were determined by a Maxwell three-dimensional field simulator to maximize the performance of the inductors. The copper (Cu) wire with 40${\mu}{\textrm}{m}$ diameter was used as the coils. High frequency characteristics of the inductance (L), quality-factor (Q), and capacitance (C) of developed inductors were measured using an RF Impedance/Material Analyzer (HP4291B with HP16193A test fixture). The inductors developed have inductances of 11 to 39 nH and quality factors of 28 to 50 over the frequency ranges of 250MHz to 1 GHz, and show results comparable to those measured for the inductors prepared by CoilCraf $t^{Tm}$ that is one of the best chip inductor company in the world. The simulated data predicted the high-frequency data of the L, Q, and C of the inductors developed well.l.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.96-100
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• 2012

In high static field magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) systems, $B_0$ fields of 7 T and 9.4 T, the impressed RF field shows larger inhomogeneity than in clinical MRI systems with B0 fields of 1.5 T and 3.0 T. In multi-channel RF coils, the magnitude and phase of the input to each coil element can be controlled independently to reduce the non-uniformity of the impressed RF $B_1^+$ field. The convex optimization technique has been used to obtain the optimum excitation parameters with iterative solutions for homogeneity in a selected ROI(Region of Interest). To demonstrate the technique, the multichannel transmission line coil was modeled together with a human head phantom at 400 MHz for the 9.4 T MRI system and $B_1^+$ fields are obtained. In this paper, all the optimized $B_1^+$ in each isolated ROIs are combined to achieve significantly improved homogeneity over the entire field of view. The simulation results for 9.4 T MRI systems are discussed in detail.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1925-1926
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 UHF TV방송 전 대역 Ch.14(473MHz)$\sim$Ch.69(803MHz)까지의 모든 채널에서 동작하는 유도결합구조의 RF동조회로를 설계하였다. 기존 자기결합구조의 RF동조회로는 PCB 양면을 사용하여야 하고 수작업으로 Air Coil 간격을 조절해야만 한다. 부품의 집적화와 양산 효율성 측면에서 자기결합구조의 단점을 해결할 수 있도록 하기 위해 본 논문에서 제안한 유도결합구조는 수동부품인 칩인덕터와 칩커패시터 및 가변용량 다이오드만을 사용하여 RF동조회로를 설계하였다. 칩인덕터는 Air Coil에 비해 낮은 소자 Q값을 가진다. 상대적으로 낮은 Q값을 갖는 칩인덕터를 사용하기 때문에 이를 보완하기 위해 Peaking용 칩인덕터를 설계 디자인에 적용하였다. 가변형 대역통과필터로 동작하기 위해 자기결합구조와 동일하게 가변용량 다이오드를 이용하였다. UHF TV방송 전 대역(470$\sim$806MHz)에서 -2.88 $\sim$ -3.97dB의 삽입손실 특성 및 -8dB 이상의 반사손실 특성과 330MHz의 중심주파수 변화 범위를 갖는다. 현재 상용중인 지상파 튜너에 적용되고 있는 자기결합구조의 RF동조회로를 대치하여 적용될 수 있을 것이다.