• Annals of Rehabilitation Medicine
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• 제39권6호
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• pp.957-963
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• 2015

Objective To compare the pain-reducing effect of forest bathing alone versus forest bathing in combination with stretching and strengthening exercises in patients with chronic posterior neck pain. Methods Sixty-four subjects with posterior neck pain that had lasted more than 3 months were enrolled. They were randomly divided into a forest bathing alone (FBA) group and a forest bathing with exercise (FBE) group; each group included 32 subjects. All subjects from both groups walked every morning in the forest for about 2 hours for 5 days. In the afternoon, the FBE group did a stretching and strengthening exercise for about 4 hours; the FBA group had free time in the woods. Visual analog scale (VAS) on one day, VAS over the previous week, neck disability index (NDI), EuroQol 5D-3L VAS (EQ VAS) and index (EQ index), McGill pain questionnaire (MPQ), the number of trigger points in the posterior neck region (TRPs), and the range of motion of the cervical spine were evaluated on the first and last day of the program and compared between the two groups. Results The number of TRPs were significantly reduced in the FBE group compared with the FBA group (p=0.013). However, the other scales showed no significant difference between the two groups. Conclusion When patients with chronic posterior neck pain underwent a short-term forest bathing (less than 7 days) program, FBE was more effective in the reduction of the number of TRPs than FBA. However, all other pain measurement scales we evaluated showed no statistically significant difference between the two protocols.

• Korean Journal of Acupuncture
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.1-18
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• 2019

Objectives : The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture treatment for recovery of patients with vertebral compression fracture(VCF). Methods : We searched ten English and Chinese and seven Korean database up to April 2018. Randomised controlled trials(RCTs), quasi-RCTs, non-radomised Controlled Trials(CCTs) were eligible. Quasi-RCTs and CCTs were assessed only for safety assessment. Pain and adverse events were primary outcome of this review. Quality of life, dysfunction, patient satisfaction, incidence of new vertebral compression fracture were regarded as secondary outcomes. The risk of bias was assessed by two independent authors using the Cochrane risk of bias tool. Level of evidence was tabulated using the GRADE methods. Results : Of 1656 screened, 15 RCTs, 1 quasi-RCT and 3 CCTs were included. Number of participants per study ranged from 45 to 135. Most of the studies had unclear or high risk of bias and considerable heterogeneity in terms of type of intervention, comparison and time-points for outcome measurement. Compared to usual care alone, acupuncture combined with usual care showed short-term favorable results for pain relief in patients with VCF(5 studies, n=252, MD -1.05 point on a 0 to 10 point scale, 95% CI -1.45 to -0.65, $I^2=74%$). Four studies reported mild and temporary adverse events, and no serious adverse events were reported. One study descriptively reported that acupuncture was effective for improving quality of life without providing numerical outcomes. There were no reports of patient satisfaction and incidence of new VCF. Conclusions : Level of evidence is very low for the effectiveness and safety of acupuncture for pain, harms and other clinical outcomes in patients with VCF. Included studies suffered from incomplete reporting, high or unclear risk of bias and substantial heterogeneity between studies. Future high-quality RCTs are needed to assess whether acupuncture is beneficial for recovery of patients with VCF.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.359-365
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• 2021

A heavy particle accelerator is a device that accelerates particles using high energy and is used in various fields such as medical and industrial fields as well as research. However, secondary neutrons and particle fragments are generated by the high-energy particle beam, and among them, the neutrons do not have an electric charge and directly interact with the nucleus to cause radiation of the material. Quantitative evaluation of the radioactive material produced in this way is necessary, but there are many difficulties in actual measurement during or after operation. Therefore, this study compared and evaluated the generated radioactive material in the concrete shield for protons and carbon ions of specific energy by using the simulation code FLUKA. For the evaluation of each energy of proton beam and carbon ion, the reliability of the source term was secured within 2% of the relative error with the data of the NASA Space Radiation Laboratory(NSRL), which is an internationally standardized data. In the evaluation, carbon ions exhibited higher neutron flux than protons. Afterwards, in the evaluation of radioactive materials under actual operating conditions for disposal, a large amount of short-lived beta-decay nuclides occurred immediately after the operation was terminated, and in the case of protons with a high beam speed, more radioactive products were generated than carbon ions. At this time, radionuclides of ⁴⁴Sc, ³H and ²²Na were observed at a high rate. In addition, as the cooling time elapsed, the ratio of long-lived nuclides increased. For nonparticulate radionuclides, ³H, ²²Na, and for particulate radionuclides, ⁴⁴Ti, ⁵⁵Fe, ⁶⁰Co, ¹⁵²Eu, and ¹⁵⁴Eu nuclides showed a high ratio. In this study, it is judged that it is possible to use the particle accelerator as basic data for facility maintenance, repair and dismantling through the prediction of radioactive materials in concrete according to the cooling time after operation and termination of operation.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제28권10호
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• pp.133-153
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• 2023

본 논문에서 우리는 뇌 신호 측정 기술 중 하나인 뇌전도를 활용한 새로운 접근방식을 제안한다. 전통적으로 연구자들은 감정 상태의 분류성능을 향상시키기 위해 뇌전도 신호와 생체신호를 결합해왔다. 우리의 목표는 뇌전도와 결합된 생체신호의 상호작용 효과를 탐구하고, 뇌전도+생체신호의 조합이 뇌전도 단독사용 또는 임의로 생성된 의사 무작위 신호와 결합한 경우에 비해 감정 상태의 분류 정확도를 향상시킬 수 있는지를 확인한다. 네 가지 특징추출 방법을 사용하여 두 개의 공개 데이터셋에서 얻은 데이터 기반의 뇌전도, 뇌전도+생체신호, 뇌전도+생체신호+무작위신호, 및 뇌전도+무작위신호의 네 가지 조합을 조사했다. 감정 상태 (작업 대 휴식 상태)는 서포트 벡터 머신과 장단기 기억망 분류기를 사용하여 분류했다. 우리의 결과는 가장 높은 정확도를 가진 서포트 벡터 머신과 고속 퓨리에 변환을 사용할 때 뇌전도+생체신호의 평균 오류율이 뇌전도+무작위신호와 뇌전도 단독 신호만을 사용한 경우에 비해 각각 4.7% 및 6.5% 높았음을 보여주었다. 우리는 또한 다양한 무작위 신호를 결합하여 뇌전도+생체신호의 오류율을 철저하게 분석했다. 뇌전도+생체신호+무작위신호의 오류율 패턴은 초기에는 깊은 이중 감소 현상으로 인해 감소하다가 차원의 저주로 인해 증가하는 V자 모양을 나타냈다. 결과적으로, 우리의 연구 결과는 뇌파와 생체신호의 결합이 항상 유망한 분류성능을 보장할 수 없음을 시사한다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제51권4호
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• pp.531-550
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• 2023

Purpose: The unique nature of life-and-death healthcare services sets them apart from other service industries. While many studies exist on the relationship between healthcare services and customer satisfaction, most of them focus on mildly ill patients, ignoring the differences between critically ill and non-seriously ill patients. This study discusses the actual quality of healthcare services for patients who are facing life-threatening illnesses and are on life support, as well as their right to protection and dignity. Methods: The survey conducted to 149 patients with the four major illnesses: cancer, heart disease, brain disease and rare and incurable disease, those who have experiences with senior general hospitals. Results: The basic statistics of this study are adequate to represent the four major critical illnesses, and the reliability and validity of this study's hypotheses, which were measured by multiple items, were analyzed, and the internal consistency was judged to be high. In addition, it was found that the convergent validity was good and the discriminant validity was also secured. When examining the goodness of fit of the hypotheses, the SRMR, which is the standardized root mean square of residuals that measures the difference between the covariance matrix of the data variables and the theoretical covariance matrix structure of the model, met the optimal criteria. Conclusion: The academic implications of this study are differentiated from other studies by moving away from evaluating the quality of healthcare services for mildly ill patients and focusing on the rights and dignity of patients with life-threatening illnesses in four senior general hospitals. In terms of academic implications, this study enriches the depth of related studies by demonstrating the right to protection and dignity as a factor of patient-centeredness based on physical environment quality, interaction quality, and outcome quality, which are presented as sub-factors of healthcare quality. We found that the three quality factors classified by Brady and Cronin (2001) are optimized for healthcare quality assessment and management, and that the results of patients' interaction quality assessment can be used to provide a comprehensive quality rating for hospitals. Health and human rights are inextricably linked, so assessing the degree to which rights and dignity are protected can be a superior and more comprehensive measurement tool than traditional health level measures for healthcare organizations. Practical implications: Improving the quality of the physical environment and the quality of outcomes is an important challenge for hospital managers who attract patients with life and death conditions, but given the scale and economics of time, money, and human inputs, improving the quality of interactions and defining them as performance indicators in hospital quality management is an efficient way to create maximum value in the short term.

• 한국안광학회지
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.47-52
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• 2012

목적: 본 연구는 장시간 3D TV 시청 경험과 단시간 TV 시청 경과에 따른 시청피로를 평가하기 위함이다. 방법: 98명의 성인(여자12 명과 남자86명)으로 실시하였으며, 이들의 나이는 $33.5{\pm}5.5$세(22세~51세)였다. 대상자는 52인치 2D와 3D LED TV(shutter glasses 방식)를 2.7 m 거리에서 대상자가 주로 착용하는 안경 또는 콘택트렌즈를 착용한 상태에서 65분간 2D TV와 3D TV를 각각 시청하게 하였다. 시청피로도 평가를 위해 3D와 2D를 시청하는 동안 11개 항목, 눈의 당김, 눈의 통증, 눈건조, 눈의 따끔거림, 눈물, 눈부심, 흐림, 복시, 눈피로, 두통, 어지럼 등을 0에서 3의 점수로 평가하였다. 결과: 시청피로의 평균점수는 3D 시청시작 후 5분, 25분, 45분, 65분에서 각각 $2.08{\pm}2.14$, $3.19{\pm}3.02$, $3.40{\pm}3.37$, $3.53{\pm}3.07 $으로 나타났고, 2D 시청 시작 후는 각각$0.40{\pm}1.03$, $0.22{\pm}0.70$, $0.22{\pm}0.58$, 그리고 $0.17{\pm}0.52$으로 나타났다. 3D TV 시청 시 시청피로가 2D TV 시청 시 피로 보다 전체 영역에서 유의적인 수준에서 높게 나타났다(paired t-test, p < 0.001). 3D TV 시청 피로는 65분간 유의적인 수준에서 증가하였으며(RM-ANOVA, p < 0.001), 25분까지는 유의적 수준에서 증가하였고(paired t-test, p < 0.001), 그 후부터 서서히 증가하였다. 시청경험과 시청피로에 있어서 눈부심, 복시, 흐림, 어지럼은 시청 경험의 증가할수록 감소하였으나 (ANOVA, all F(1, 96) = 4.500, all p <0.05) 다른 증상에 있어서는 유의한 차이가 없었다(F(1,96) = 0.033, all p >0.05) 결론: 3D TV 시청에 있어서 시청피로는 2D에서 보다 높았으며, 25분까지 증가하였다. 3D 시청 경험과 자각증상 정도와의 관계에 있어서는 자각증상에 따라 다르게 나타났다.

• 대한간호학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.227-248
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• 1990

The study was conceived in relation to a concern over the growing gap between the needs of chronic patients and the availability of care from the current health care system in Korea. Patients with agonizing chronic pain, discomfort, despair and disability are left with helplessly unprepared families with little help from the acute care oriented health care system after discharge from hospital. There is a great need for the development of an alternative means of quality care that is economically feasible and culturally adaptible to our society. Thus, the study was designed to demonstrate the effectiveness of home heath care as an alternative to bridge the existing gap between the patients' needs and the current practice of health care. The study specifically purports to test the effects of home care on health expenditure, readmission, job retention, compliance to health care regime, general conditions, complications, and self-care knowledge and practices. The study was guided by the operations research method advocated by the Primary Health Care Operations Research Institute(PRICOR) which constitutes 3 stages of research : namely, problem analysis solution development, and solution validation. The first step in the operations research was field preparation to develop the necessary consensus and cooperation. This was done through the formation of a consulting body at the hospital and a steering committee among the researchers. For the stage of problem analysis, the Annual Report of Seoul National University Hospital and the patients records for last 5 years were reviewed and selective patient interviews were conducted to find out the magnitude of chronic health problems and areas of unmect health care needs to finally decide on the kinds of health problems to study. On the basis of problem analysis, the solution development stage was devoted to home care program development asa solution alternative. Assessment tools, teaching guidelines and care protocols were developed and tested for their validity. The final stage was the stage of experimentation and evaluation. Patients with liver diseases, hemiplegic and diabetic conditions were selected as study samples. Discharge evaluation, follow up home care, measurement and evaluation were carried out according to the protocols of care and measurement plan for each patient for the period of 6 months after discharge. The study was carried out for the period from Jan. 1987 to Dec. 1989. The following are the results of the study presented according to the hypotheses set forth for the study ; 1. Total expenditures for the period of study were not reduced for the experimental group, however, since the cost per hospital visit is about 4 times as great as the cost per home visit, the effect of cost saving by home care will become a reality as home care replaces part of the hospital visits. 2. The effect on the rate of readmission and job retention was found to be statistically nonsignificant though the number of readmission was less among the experimental group receiving home care. 3. The effect on compliance to the health care regime was found to be statistically significant at the 5% level for hepatopathic and diabetic patients. 4. Education on diet, rest and excise, and medication through home care had an effect on improved liver function test scores, prevention of complications and self - care knowledge in hepatopathic patients at a statistically significant level. 5. In hemiplegic patient, home care had an effect on increased grasping power at a significant level. However. there was no significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the level of compliane, prevention of complications or in self-care practices. 6. In diabetic patients, there was no difference between the experimental and control groups in scores of laboratory tests, appearance of complications, and self-care knowledge or self -care practices. The above findings indicate that a home care program instituted for such short term as 6 months period could not totally demonstrate its effectiveness at a statistically significant level by quantitative analysis however, what was shown in part in this analysis, and in the continuous consultation sought by those who had been in the experimental group, is that home health care has a great potential in retarding or preventing pathological progress, facilitating rehabilitative and productive life, and improving quality of life by adding comfort, confidence and strength to patients and their families. For the further studies of this kind with chronic patients it is recommended that a sample of newly diagnosed patients be followed up for a longer period of time with more frequent observations to demonstrate a more dear- cut picture of the effectiveness of home care.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.123-131
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 국내 의료기관 종사자 중 핵의학과 종사자 일부를 선정하여 방사성동위원소에 의한 체내오염 여부와 정도를 정량적으로 측정한 후 그 결과에 근거하여 선량을 평가하였다. 선량평가를 위해 서울시내에 소재하는 대형병원 3곳의 핵의학과 종사자 25명을 측정 대상자로 선정한 후 각 개인의 소변시료를 채취하여 측정하였다. 시료는 주 1회 채취하였으며 종사자에 따라 6~10회에 걸쳐 각 회당 100~200 mL 정도의 양을 채취한 후 고순도게르마늄반도체검출기를 사용하여 시료를 측정 하였다. 측정된 결과에 근거하여 방사성동위원소의 섭취량을 평가하였고 예탁유효선량을 평가하는 도구로 IMBA 전산프로그램을 사용하였다. IMBA 프로그램으로 평가가 불가능한 반감기가 매우 짧은 $^{99m}Tc$, $^{123}I$ 등과 같은 핵종에 의한 선량은 국제원자력기구에서 권고하는 방법을 적용하여 선량을 평가하였다. 채취한 소변시료를 대상으로 방사성핵종을 계측, 분석한 결과 $^{99m}Tc$, $^{123}I$, $^{131}I$, $^{201}Tl$ 핵종 등이 검출되었고 양전자방출단층 촬영에 사용되는 $^{18}F$ 핵종도 검출되었다. 계측된 결과로부터 평가된 예탁유효선량은 0~5 mSv의 분포를 보였으나 대부분 1mSv 미만으로 나타났다. 1 mSv를 초과한 종사자는 모두 3명으로 이들 모두는 선원의 분배와 취급에 직접적으로 참여한 종사자들이었고 간호사의 경우 1 mSv를 초과한 사람이 한 사람도 발생하지 않았다. 그러나 보다 정확하고 상세한 결과를 도출하기 위해서는 계절적 요인을 구분하기 위한 장기적인 연구가 필요하며 측정대상자의 수를 확대할 필요가 있을 것으로 판단된다. 현재로서는 대부분의 핵의학과 종사자들은 방사성 핵종에 의한 체내오염 정기 감시를 실시할 필요가 없을 것으로 여겨지며 그에 따른 방사선학적인 건강상의 영향도 우려할 필요가 없는 것으로 판단되지만 불필요한 소량의 피폭이라도 줄이기 위해서는 주기적으로 작업환경을 측정하거나 공기 중 방사성핵종 농도 감시를 가능한 한 자주 실시하는 것이 바람직 할 것으로 판단된다.

• 대한인간공학회지
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• 제35권4호
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• pp.293-305
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• 2016

Objective: This study aims to measure cognitive load levels by analyzing the EEG of Koreans and foreigners, when they read a Korean text with care selected by level from the grammar and vocabulary aspects, and compare the cognitive load levels through quantitative values. The study results can be utilized as basic data for more scientific approach, when Korean texts or books are developed, and an evaluation method is built, when the foreigners encounter them for learning or an assignment. Background: Based on 2014, the number of the foreign students studying in Korea was 84,801, and they increase annually. Most of them are from Asian region, and they come to Korea to enter a university or a graduate school in Korea. Because those foreign students aim to learn within Universities in Korea, they receive Korean education from their preparation for study in Korea. To enter a university in Korea, they must acquire grade 4 or higher level in the Test of Proficiency in Korean (TOPIK), or they need to complete a certain educational program at each university's affiliated language institution. In such a program, the learners of the Korean language receive Korean education based on texts, except speaking domain, and the comprehension of texts can determine their academic achievements in studying after they enter their desired schools (Jeon, 2004). However, many foreigners, who finish a language course for the short-term, and need to start university study, cannot properly catch up with university classes requiring expertise with the vocabulary and grammar levels learned during the language course. Therefore, reading education, centered on a strategy to understand university textbooks regarded as top level reading texts to the foreigners, is necessary (Kim and Shin, 2015). This study carried out an experiment from a perspective that quantitative data on the readers of the main player of reading education and teaching materials need to be secured to back up the need for reading education for university study learners, and scientifically approach educational design. Namely, this study grasped the difficulty level of reading through the measurement of cognitive loads indicated in the reading activity of each text by dividing the difficulty of a teaching material (book) into eight levels, and the main player of reading into Koreans and foreigners. Method: To identify cognitive loads indicated upon reading Korean texts with care by Koreans and foreigners, this study recruited 16 participants (eight Koreans and eight foreigners). The foreigners were limited to the language course students studying the intermediate level Korean course at university-affiliated language institutions within Seoul Metropolitan Area. To identify cognitive load, as they read a text by level selected from the Korean books (difficulty: eight levels) published by King Sejong Institute (Sejonghakdang.org), the EEG sensor was attached to the frontal love (Fz) and occipital lobe (Oz). After the experiment, this study carried out a questionnaire survey to measure subjective evaluation, and identified the comprehension and difficulty on grammar and words. To find out the effects on schema that may affect text comprehension, this study controlled the Korean texts, and measured EEG and subjective satisfaction. Results: To identify brain's cognitive load, beta band was extracted. As a result, interactions (Fz: p =0.48; Oz: p =0.00) were revealed according to Koreans and foreigners, and difficulty of the text. The cognitive loads of Koreans, the readers whose mother tongue is Korean, were lower in reading Korean texts than those of the foreigners, and the foreigners' cognitive loads became higher gradually according to the difficulty of the texts. From the text four, which is intermediate level in difficulty, remarkable differences started to appear in comparison of the Koreans and foreigners in the beginner's level text. In the subjective evaluation, interactions were revealed according to the Koreans and foreigners and text difficulty (p =0.00), and satisfaction was lower, as the difficulty of the text became higher. Conclusion: When there was background knowledge in reading, namely schema was formed, the comprehension and satisfaction of the texts were higher, although higher levels of vocabulary and grammar were included in the texts than those of the readers. In the case of a text in which the difficulty of grammar was felt high in the subjective evaluation, foreigners' cognitive loads were also high, which shows the result of the loads' going up higher in proportion to the increase of difficulty. This means that the grammar factor functions as a stress factor to the foreigners' reading comprehension. Application: This study quantitatively evaluated the cognitive loads of Koreans and foreigners through EEG, based on readers and the text difficulty, when they read Korean texts. The results of this study can be used for making Korean teaching materials or Korean education content and topic selection for foreigners. If research scope is expanded to reading process using an eye-tracker, the reading education program and evaluation method for foreigners can be developed on the basis of quantitative values.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제29권1호
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• pp.43-51
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• 2020

군락 광합성 모델의 도출을 위하여 생육 챔버가 필요하며, 이를 위한 광합성의 효율적인 측정 방법이 필요하다. 본 연구의 목적은 내부 환경 제어가 가능한 생육 챔버를 이용하여 광도 및 이산화탄소 농도 변수를 갖는 로메인상추(Lactuca sativa L.)의 군락 광합성 곡선을 도출하는 방법을 확립하는 것이다. 실험에 사용한 상추는 식물공장 모듈에서 재배되었으며, 군락 광합성을 측정하기 위하여 아크릴로 제작된 생육 챔버(1.0x0.8x0.5m)를 이용하였다. 첫 번째로, 다음의 두 방법을 적용하여 측정된 군락 광합성 속도를 통해 각 방법의 시정수를 계산하여 비교하였다. 즉, 1) CO₂ 농도를 고정(1,000μmol·mol^-1) 하고 광도를 변화(340, 270, 200, and 130μmol·m^-2·s^-1) 시키거나, 2) 광도를 고정(200μmol·m^-2·s^-1)하고 CO₂ 농도를 변화(600, 1,000, 1,400, and 1,800μmol·mol^-1) 시켰다. 두 번째로, 1)과 2)의 방식을 적용하여 군락 광합성을 측정했을 때, 특정 광도(200μmol·m^-2·s^-1)와 특정 CO₂ 농도(1,000μmol·mol^-1)에서 측정된 군락 광합성 속도 값을 비교하였다. 실험 결과 CO₂ 농도를 변화시키는 방식의 시정수는 광도를 변화시키는 방식에 비해 3.2배 큰 값을 나타내었다. 광도를 변화시키며 측정할 때 군락 광합성 속도는 1분 이내에 안정되었고, CO₂ 농도를 변화시킬 경우에는 6분 이상의 시간이 소요되었다. 따라서 광도를 변화시키는 측정 방식이 생육 챔버를 이용하여 작물의 군락 광합성 속도를 측정할 때 적합한 방식임을 확인하였다.