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A Method of Stereotactic Radiosurgery Using A Linear Accelerator (Linear Accelerator를 이용한 Stereotactic Radiosurgery 방법)

  • Na, Soo-Kyung;Park, Jai-Ill
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.146-153
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    • 1994
  • A modified irradiation technique utilizing a linear accelerator for radiation surgery within the brain was performed in 41 cases of patients with anteriovenous malformation(AVM), astrocytoma, meningioma. etc. The treatment planning and dosimetry of small field for stereotactic radiosurgery with 10 MV X-ray isocentically mounted linear accelerator will be presented dose with field size, the central axis persent depth dose and the combined moving beam dose distribution. The three dimensional dose planning of stereotactic focusing irradiation on small size tumor region was perfomed with dose planning computer system(Therac 2300) and was verified with film dosimetry. The more the number of strip and the wider the angle of arc rotation, the larger were the dose delivered on tumor and the less the dose to surrounding the normal tissues. In this study, the using machine and method was as fellowing. 1) Apparatus : NELAC-1018 10MV X-ray 2) Strip No. : Select the 5-7 strips 3) Cone and field size are from $1{\times}1cm^2$ to $3.5{\times}3.5cm^2$, and special circular cone designed for the purpose of minimized the risk to normal tissue and those size are $0.7{\~}3.6cm{\phi}$.

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Assessment of metal artifacts in three-dimensional dental surface models derived by cone-beam computed tomography

  • Nabha, Wael;Hong, Young-Min;Cho, Jin-Hyoung;Hwang, Hyeon-Shik
    • The korean journal of orthodontics
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    • v.44 no.5
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2014
  • Objective: The aim of this study was to assess artifacts induced by metallic restorations in three-dimensional (3D) dental surface models derived by cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT). Methods: Fifteen specimens, each with four extracted human premolars and molars embedded in a plaster block, were scanned by CBCT before and after the cavitated second premolars were restored with dental amalgam. Five consecutive surface models of each specimen were created according to increasing restoration size: no restoration (control) and small occlusal, large occlusal, disto-occlusal, and mesio-occluso-distal restorations. After registering each restored model with the control model, maximum linear discrepancy, area, and intensity of the artifacts were measured and compared. Results: Artifacts developed mostly on the buccal and lingual surfaces. They occurred not only on the second premolar but also on the first premolar and first molar. The parametric values increased significantly with increasing restoration size. Conclusions: Metallic restorations induce considerable artifacts in 3D dental surface models. Artifact reduction should be taken into consideration for a proper diagnosis and treatment planning when using 3D surface model derived by CBCT in dentofacial deformity patients.

Clival lesion incidentally discovered on cone-beam computed tomography: A case report and review of the literature

  • Jadhav, Aniket B.;Tadinada, Aditya;Rengasamy, Kandasamy;Fellows, Douglas;Lurie, Alan G.
    • Imaging Science in Dentistry
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    • v.44 no.2
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    • pp.165-169
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    • 2014
  • An osteolytic lesion with a small central area of mineralization and sclerotic borders was discovered incidentally in the clivus on the cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) of a 27-year-old male patient. This benign appearance indicated a primary differential diagnosis of non-aggressive lesions such as fibro-osseous lesions and arrested pneumatization. Further, on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the lesion showed a homogenously low T1 signal intensity with mild internal enhancement after post-gadolinium and a heterogeneous T2 signal intensity. These signal characteristics might be attributed to the fibrous tissues, chondroid matrix, calcific material, or cystic component of the lesion; thus, chondroblastoma and chondromyxoid fibroma were added to the differential diagnosis. Although this report was limited by the lack of final diagnosis and the patient lost to follow-up, the incidental skull base finding would be important for interpreting the entire volume of CBCT by a qualified oral and maxillofacial radiologist.

REGULARITY OF SOAP FILM-LIKE SURFACES SPANNING GRAPHS IN A RIEMANNIAN MANIFOLD

  • Gulliver, Robert;Park, Sung-Ho;Pyo, Jun-Cheol;Seo, Keom-Kyo
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.47 no.5
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    • pp.967-983
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    • 2010
  • Let M be an n-dimensional complete simply connected Riemannian manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by a nonpositive constant $-{\kappa}^2$. Using the cone total curvature TC($\Gamma$) of a graph $\Gamma$ which was introduced by Gulliver and Yamada [8], we prove that the density at any point of a soap film-like surface $\Sigma$ spanning a graph $\Gamma\;\subset\;M$ is less than or equal to $\frac{1}{2\pi}\{TC(\Gamma)-{\kappa}^2Area(p{\times}\Gamma)\}$. From this density estimate we obtain the regularity theorems for soap film-like surfaces spanning graphs with small total curvature. In particular, when n = 3, this density estimate implies that if $TC(\Gamma)$ < $3.649{\pi}\;+\;{\kappa}^2\inf\limits_{p{\in}F}Area(p{\times}{\Gamma})$, then the only possible singularities of a piecewise smooth (M, 0, $\delta$)-minimizing set $\Sigma$ are the Y-singularity cone. In a manifold with sectional curvature bounded above by $b^2$ and diameter bounded by $\pi$/b, we obtain similar results for any soap film-like surfaces spanning a graph with the corresponding bound on cone total curvature.

Effect of Electrode Diameter on Pine Ceramic Pattern Formed by Using Pin-To-Pin Type Electro-Hydrodynamic Printing (핀-핀 형 전극의 전기-수력학 프린팅에서 전극 직경이 미세 세라믹 패턴 형성에 미치는 영향)

  • Lee Dae-Young;Yu Jae-Hun;Yu Tae-U;Hwang Jungho;Kim Yong-Jun
    • Transactions of the Society of Information Storage Systems
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.108-114
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    • 2005
  • The generation of fine relics of suspensions is a significant interest as it holds the key to the fabrication of electronic devices. These processes offer opportunities for miniaturization of multilayer circuits, for production of functionally graded materials, ordered composites and far small complex-shaped components. Some novel printing methods of depositing ceramic and metal droplets were suggested in recent years. In an electro-hydrodynamic printing, the metallic capillary nozzle can be raised to several kilovolts with respect to the infinite ground plate or pin-type electrode positioned a few millimeters from the nozzle tip. Depending on the electrical and physical properties of the liquid, for a given geometry, it Is possible to generate droplets in any one of three modes, dripping, cone-jet and multi-jet. In this experiment, an alumina suspension flowing through a nozzle was subjected to electro-hydrodynamic printing using pin-type electrodes in the cone-jet mode at different applied voltages. The pin-type electrodes of 1, 100, 1000${\mu}m$ in diameter were used to form fine ceramic patterns onto the substrates. Various feature sizes with applied voltages and electrode diameters were measured. The feature sizes increased with the electrode diameter and applied voltages. The feature size was as fine as $30 {\mu}m$.

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Effect of the Temperature Change on the Cone Tip Resistance (지중의 온도변화가 콘 선단저항력에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Rae-Hyun;Lee, Woo-Jin;Yoon, Hyung-Koo;Lee, Jong-Sub
    • Proceedings of the Korean Geotechical Society Conference
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    • 2009.03a
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    • pp.361-367
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    • 2009
  • The criteria such as ASTM recommends that the zero reading process of CPT must be performed in the same temperature condition with underground in order to reduce the effect of temperature. However, this method can not consider the change of temperature occurred during penetration. In this study, ultra small size temperature sensor with 0.5mm in diameter is manufactured to estimate and compensate the effect of temperature by using FBG sensor. The continuous temperature changes are monitored during cone penetration by using FBG temperature sensor installed in cone penetrometer. The temperature compensated tip resistances show the uniform and similar distributions with depth in different with originally measured tip resistance in cohesive soil. This study verifies that the tip resistances measured by previous zero reading method are affected by the change of underground temperature, and suggests the new temperature compensation technique using by FBG temperature sensor.

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Evaluation of Shear Zone in Direct Shear Test Using Elastic, Electromagnetic Waves and Cone Tip Resistance (전단파, 전자기파 및 콘 관입저항력을 이용한 직접전단실험시 전단영역 특성 평가)

  • Byun, Yong-Hoon;Truong, Q. Hung;Tran, M. Khoa;Lee, Jong-Sub
    • Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.43-52
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    • 2011
  • The characteristics of shear zone in granular soils largely affect the stability of geo-structures. The goal of this study is to evaluate shear zone in a direct shear test using shear wave, electrical resistivity, and cone tip resistance. Bender elements and electrical resistivity probe are embedded into the wall of a direct shear box made of transparent acrylic material to estimate the shear wave velocities and the electrical resistivity at shear and non-shear zones. At the point of peak and residual strength, micro cone penetration test which can be available to measure tip resistance has been performed. Experimental results show that the shear wave velocities at upper shear zone increase during shearing while the values remain constant at bottom and lower shear zone. Also, resistivities at lower shear zone depend on relative density while resistivities at bottom remain constant. The results of cone penetration test demonstrate the correlation of the cone tip resistance and small strain shear modulus at shear zone. This study suggests that the application of the modified direct shear box including shear wave, electrical resistivity and the micro cone tip resistance may become effective tools for analyzing the characteristics of a shear zone.

Study on Characteristics of Dose Distribution in Tissue of High Energy Electron Beam for Radiation Therapy (방사선 치료용 고에너지 전자선의 조직 내 선량분포 특성에 관한 연구)

  • Na, Soo-Kyung
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.175-186
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study is directly measure and evaluate about absorbed dose change according to nominal energy and electron cone or medical accelerator on isodose curve, percentage depth dose, contaminated X-ray, inhomogeneous tissue, oblique surface and irradiation on intracavitary that electron beam with high energy distributed in tissue, and it settled standard data of hish energy electron beam treatment, and offer to exactly data for new dote distribution modeling study based on experimental resuls and theory. Electron beam with hish energy of $6{\sim}20$ MeV is used that generated from medical linear accelerator (Clinac 2100C/D, Varian) for the experiment, andwater phantom and Farmer chamber md Markus chamber und for absorbe d dose measurement of electron beam, and standard absorbed dose is calculated by standard measurements of International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) TRS 277. Dose analyzer (700i dose distribution analyzer, Wellhofer), film (X-OmatV, Kodak), external cone, intracavitary cone, cork, animal compact bone and air were used for don distribution measurement. As the results of absorbed dose ratio increased while irradiation field was increased, it appeared maximum at some irradiation field size and decreased though irradiation field size was more increased, and it decreased greatly while energy of electron beam was increased, and scattered dose on wall of electron cone was the cause. In percentage depth dose curve of electron beam, Effective depth dose(R80) for nominal energy of 6, 9, 12, 16 and 20 MeV are 1.85, 2.93, 4.07, 5.37 and 6.53 cm respectively, which seems to be one third of electron beam energy (MeV). Contaminated X-ray was generated from interaction between electron beam with high energy and material, and it was about $0.3{\sim}2.3\%$ of maximum dose and increased with increasing energy. Change of depth dose ratio of electron beam was compared with theory by Monte Carlo simulation, and calculation and measured value by Pencil beam model reciprocally, and percentage depth dose and measured value by Pencil beam were agreed almost, however, there were a little lack on build up area and error increased in pendulum and multi treatment since there was no contaminated X-ray part. Percentage depth dose calculated by Monte Carlo simulation appeared to be less from all part except maximum dose area from the curve. The change of percentage depth dose by inhomogeneous tissue, maximum range after penetration the 1 cm bone was moved 1 cm toward to surface then polystyrene phantom. In case of 1 cm and 2 cm cork, it was moved 0.5 cm and 1 cm toward to depth, respectively. In case of air, practical range was extended toward depth without energy loss. Irradiation on intracavitary is using straight and beveled type cones of 2.5, 3.0, 3.5 $cm{\phi}$, and maximum and effective $80\%$ dose depth increases while electron beam energy and size of electron cone increase. In case of contaminated X-ray, as the energy increase, straight type cones were more highly appeared then beveled type. The output factor of intracavitary small field electron cone was $15{\sim}86\%$ of standard external electron cone($15{\times}15cm^2$) and straight type was slightly higher then beveled type.

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Study on the phase change and engineering properties of soil cement (Soil cement의 응결과정에 따른 상변화 및 역학특성)

  • Kim, Seong-Pil;Chang, Pyoung-Wuck;Cha, Kyung-Seob;Won, Jeong-Youn
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Agricultural Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.195-198
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    • 2003
  • A small amount of cement can be added to the soil with high water content to improve its engineering properties. It is difficult to point out the exact time when liquified state of soil is transformed into semi-plastic or plastic states when high water content soil is hydrated by cement. In this study fall cone penetration are used to explain the phase change and compactable status of soil cement. And engineering properties of soil cement compacted in plastic state are investigated. Results reveal that fall cone penetration depth of 1mm or less is judged to a compactable state of soil-cement. Permeability and CBR values of soil cement increased with mixing ratio increased.

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A Study on Glass-Infiltrated Alumina and Spinel Composite I. Effect of Microstructure and Glass Content on Contant Damage and Strength (유리침윤 알루미나 및 스핀넬 복합체에 관한 연구 I. 미세구조 및 유리함량이 접촉손상 및 강동에 미치는 영향)

  • 정연길;최성철
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.35 no.7
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    • pp.671-678
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    • 1998
  • Hertzian indentation tests with sphere indenters were used to study the mechanical properties of glass-in-filtrated alumina and spinel composites and evaluated the effect of preform microstructure and evaluated the effect of preform microstructure and glass con-tents on contanct damage and strength. The spinel composite showed more brittle behavior than the alumina composite which is verified from indentation stress-strain curve cone cracks and quasi-plastic deformation developed at subsurface. Failure originated from either cone cracks(brittle mode) or deformation zone(quasi-plastic mode) above critical load for cracking(Pc) and yield ({{{{ {P }_{Y } }}) with the brittle mode more dominant in the spinels and the quasi-plastic mode more dominant in the aluminas. Even though brittle mode was dominant in the spinel composites the strength degradation from accumulation of damage above these critical loads was conspicuously small suggesting that the glass-infiltrated composites should be highly damage tolerant to the blunt contacts.

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