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Quality Assurance of Air Kerma Strength for Ir-192 High Dose Rate Source (Ir-192 고선량률 선원에 대한 공기커마강도의 품질보증)

  • Kim, Jong-Eon;Yoon, Chun-Sil;Kim, Sung-Hyun
    • Journal of radiological science and technology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.147-151
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    • 2007
  • AAPM TG43 report has recommended to measure air kerma strength with the strength of source. Main purpose of this study is to verify the accuracy of air kerma strength provided by manufacturer. Materials for this study were MAX-4001 Electrometer, HDR 1000 Plus of the corporation of standard imaging, and 6 french bronchial Applicator with 1000 mm. we measured ionization current in 10-90 mm range from the bottom of the central axis of chamber. The reference point of calibration displayed by the maximum ionization current in the ionization current curve was measured, and air kerma strength was computed from the maximum ionization current. we acquired 50 mm distance to correspond with the maximum ionization current in the ionization current curve. Its distance has perfectly fitted to the source reference point of calibration certificate of UW-ADCL. Air kerma strength computed value has measured about 0.5% more than calibration value provided by manufacturer. Air kerma strength of calibration certificate provided by manufacturer has acquired reliable results. This study shows that considering the move error of dwell position of source and the dead space length in well-type chamber is a good way to get an accurate result.

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Assessing the Action Plans in the Control Area(Soyang Reservoir) of Non-point Source Pollution (비점오염원 관리지역(소양호) 목표수질 달성도 평가)

  • Choi, Jaewan;Kang, Min-Ji;Ryu, Jichul;Kim, Dong-Il;Lim, Kyung-Jae;Shin, Dong-Seok
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.23 no.5
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    • pp.839-852
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    • 2014
  • The Ministry of Environment (MOE) has made more effort in managing point source pollution rather than in nonpoint source pollution in order to improve water quality of the four major rivers. However, it would be difficult to meet water quality targets solely by managing the point source pollution. As a result of the comprehensive measures established in 2004 under the leadership of the Prime Minister's Office, a variety of policies such as the designation of control areas to manage nonpoint source pollution are now in place. Various action plans to manage nonpoint source pollution have been implemented in the Soyang-dam watershed as one of the control areas designed in 2007. However, there are no tools to comprehensively assess the effectiveness of the action plans. Therefore, this study would assess the action plans (especially, BMPs) designed to manage Soyang-dam watershed with the WinHSPF and the CE-QUAL-W2. To this end, we simulated the rainfall-runoff and the water quality (SS) of the watershed and the reservoir after conducting model calibration and the model validation. As the results of the calibration for the WinHSPF, the determination coefficient ($R^2$) for the flow (Q, $m^3/s$) was 0.87 and the $R^2$ for the SS was 0.78. As the results of the validation, the former was 0.78 and the latter was 0.67. The results seem to be acceptable. Similarly, the calibration results of the CE-QUAL-W2 showed that the RMSE for the water level was 1.08 and the RMSE for the SS was 1.11. The validation results(RMSE) of the water level was 1.86 and the SS was 1.86. Based on the daily simulation results, the water quality target (turbidity 50 NTU) was not exceeded for 2009~2011, as results of maximum turbidity in '09, '10, and '11 were 3.1, 2.5, 5.6 NTU, respectively. The maximum turbidity in the years with the maximum, the minimum, and the average of yearly precipitation (1982~2011) were 15.5, 7.8, and 9.0, respectively, and therefore the water quality target was satisfied. It was discharged high turbidity at Inbuk, Gaa, Naerin, Gwidun, Woogak, Jeongja watershed resulting of the maximum turbidity by sub-basins in 3years(2009~2011). The results indicated that the water quality target for the nonpoint source pollution management should be changed and management area should be adjusted and reduced.

Development of Runoff and Sediment Auto-calibration Tool for HRSM4BMP Model (HRSM4BMP 모형 유출/유사 자동 보정 툴 개발)

  • Kum, Donghyuk;Ryu, Jichul;Choi, Jaewan;Kang, Hyunwoo;Jang, Chun Hwa;Shin, Dong Suk;Lee, Jae Kwan;Lim, Kyoung Jae
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.29-35
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    • 2013
  • Recently, various Best Management Practices (BMPs) have been applied at a field to reduce soil erosion. Hourly Runoff and Sediment Model for Best Management Practices (HRSM4BMP) model could be used to evaluate soil erosion reduction for various agricultural BMPs at fields. Runoff and sediment yield from source areas have to be predicted with greater accuracies to evaluate sediment reduction efficiently with BMPs. To achieve this, the best parameters related with runoff and sediment modules of the HRSM4BMP model should be identified with proper calibration processes. Although manual calibration is often utilized in calibrating runoff and sediment using the HRSM4BMP, objective calibration method would be recommended. The purpose of the study was to develop an automatic calibration tool of the HRSM4BMP model with PARASOL method. This automatic calibration tool was applied to Bangdongri, Chuncheon-si to evaluate its calibration performance. The $R^2$, NSE and RMSE value for runoff estimation were 0.92, 0.92, $0.3m^3$, and for sediment yield estimation were 0.94, 0.94, 0.0027 kg. As shown in this result, automatic calibration tool of HRSM4BMP model would be used to determine the best parameters and can be used to simulate runoff and sediment yield with acceptable accuracies.

Reports on the Meetings of ISO/TC108 Mechanical Vibration and Shock and ISO/TC108/SC3 Use and Calibration of Shock Measuring Instruments Tokyo, Nov. 4-8, 2002

  • Kim, Kwang-Joon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2003.05a
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    • pp.468-474
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    • 2003
  • 1. Schedule for the meetings of ISO/TC108 Mechanical vibration and shock and ISO/TC108/SC3 Use and calibration of shock measuring instruments 2. Minutes for the seventh meeting of ISO/TC108/WG23 Mechanical vibration and shock - Resilient mounting systems - Information for the application of source and receiver isolation (omitted)

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Manufacture of a Gamma-ray Source using the Neutron Activation and Determination of a HPGe Detector Efficiency (중성자 방사화법을 이용한 감마선원 제조 및 HPGe 검출기 효율 결정)

  • Seo, Bum-Kyoung;Lee, Kil-Yong;Yoon, Yoon-Yeol;Lee, Kune-Woo
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.29 no.1
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    • pp.17-23
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    • 2004
  • In order to save time and money needed in the purchase commonly used gamma-ray standard sources, a new radioactive standard source was manufactured by the neutron activation of some regent in the research reactor HANARO. The source was manufactured with an aqueous solution by mixing and dissolving the irradiated reagents. The manufactured source was compared with a commercial standard source. It was confirmed that it could be used as an efficiency calibration source. Also, in order to compare the variation of efficiency due to the volume difference for various containers used in radioactivity assay, the efficiency variation as a function of sample volume was investigated.

Development of a simple laboratory-made radioactive source to check the integrity of a gamma spectrometry system with HPGe detector (HPGe 검출기를 사용한 감마분광분석계의 점검선원 개발)

  • Lee, Mo Sung
    • Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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    • v.38 no.2
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    • pp.119-123
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    • 2013
  • A simple laboratory-made radioactive source to check the integrity of a gamma spectrometry system with HPGe detector was developed. The check source consists of radium-riched soil which was ground in size of less than 0.154mm and contained in air tight cylinderical vial, and provides photons with 12 distinct energies. The spectra of the check source were measured once a month during one year, analyzed the charactreictics of their peaks. When the gamma spectrometry system was in normal state, the areas and FWHMs of the gamma rays with more than 3% gamma emission rate in radium and its decay products was constant within standard deviation 2% and 3%, respectively, except 77 keV peak. And it was found that this check source can play a sufficient role to check the integrity of a gamma spectrometry system using 10 peaks in the range of 77 to 2202 keV.

Calibration and Design of amulatory digital urodynamic study system (휴대용 디지털 요역동학검사장비의 설계와 Calibration)

  • Yoon, Dae-Young;Kim, Keo-Sik;Seo, Jeong-Hwan;Kim, Kyeong-Seop;Song, Chul-Gyu;Yang, Young-Kwang;Lee, Sang-Ok
    • Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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    • 2004.11c
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    • pp.313-315
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    • 2004
  • Urodynamic study system is widely used for neurogenic bladder patients in various clinical setting. Generally they include 2 pressure sensors from bladder and rectum, and 1 EMG sensor. The rectal pressure catheter is often the source of data error because of gas passage and the fall out of the catheter from anus, and source of discomfort in ambulatory urodynamic system. This study is to design and calibrate the ambulatory digital urodynamic study system that can discard the rectal pressure catheter, which can make patients more comfortable and doctors can get more physiologic data. As a first step, we compared our new system with Dantec $Duet^{(r)}$ urodynamic system (Dantec, Denmark) and wanted to see the possibility of our new system.

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A Position Measurements of Moving Object in 2D Plane (2차원 평면상에서 이동하는 물체의 위치측정)

  • Ro, Jae-Hee;Lee, Yong-Jung;Choi, Jae-Ha;Ro, Young-Shick;Lee, Yang-Burm
    • The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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    • v.48 no.12
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    • pp.1537-1543
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    • 1999
  • In this paper, PSD(Position Sensitive Detector) sensor system that estimates position for moving objects in 2D plane is developed. PSD sensor is used to measure the position of an incidence light in real-time. To get the position of light source of moving target, a new parameter calibration algorithm and neural network technique are proposed and applied. Real-time position measurements of the mobile robot with light source is examined to validate the proposed method. It is shown that the proposed technique provides accurate position estimation of the moving object.

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The study on the combustion characteristics of a planar flame burner as a calibration source of laser diagnostics (연소진단 검정원으로써 평면화염 버너의 연소특성 연구)

  • Gil,Yong-Seok;Jeong, Seok-Ho;Lee, Byeong-Jun;Han, Jae-Won
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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    • v.20 no.10
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    • pp.3355-3360
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    • 1996
  • To provide standard data of temperature and species concentration in a flame for calibrating the laser based combustion diagnostics, we investigated combustion characteristics of a flat flame burner(Mckennar Product). For various stoichiometric ratios we measured temperature and concentration of OH in the premixed methane/air flame with Coherent anti-Stokes Raman spectroscopy and laser induced fluorescence technique, respectively. Assuming the chemical equilibrium condition at the measured temperature, the mole fraction of the OH radical in the flame was obtained and compared with numerical analysis.