• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.541-546
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• 2012

Objective : The prefabrication of customized cranioplastic implants has been introduced to overcome the difficulties of intra-operative implant molding. The authors present a new technique, which consists of the prefabrication of implant molds using three-dimensional (3D) printers and polymethyl-methacrylate (PMMA) casting. Methods : A total of 16 patients with large skull defects (>100 $cm^2$) underwent cranioplasty between November 2009 and April 2011. For unilateral cranial defects, 3D images of the skull were obtained from preoperative axial 1-mm spiral computed tomography (CT) scans. The image of the implant was generated by a digital subtraction mirror-imaging process using the normal side of the cranium as a model. For bilateral cranial defects, precraniectomy routine spiral CT scan data were merged with postcraniectomy 3D CT images following a smoothing process. Prefabrication of the mold was performed by the 3D printer. Intraoperatively, the PMMA implant was created with the prefabricated mold, and fit into the cranial defect. Results : The median operation time was $184.36{\pm}26.07$ minutes. Postoperative CT scans showed excellent restoration of the symmetrical contours and curvature of the cranium in all cases. The median follow-up period was 23 months (range, 14-28 months). Postoperative infection was developed in one case (6.2%) who had an open wound defect previously. Conclusion : Customized cranioplasty PMMA implants using 3D printer may be a useful technique for the reconstruction of various cranial defects.

• 대한소아치과학회지
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• 제27권4호
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• pp.490-493
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• 2000

정중과잉치는 과잉치중 가장 흔한 양상이며, 여러 가지 합병증이 생길 수가 있다. 이러한 합병증이 있음에도 불구하고 항상 발견 즉시 외과적 발거를 하는 것이 최선의 방법은 아니다. 여러 가지 상황을 고려하여 외과적 발거를 연기해야할 경우가 있으며 이때 정확한 진단이 필수적이다. 진단은 주로 방사선학적 검사에 의존하게 되며 정중과잉치의 수, 위치, 방향의 판단에 중요하다. 그간 정중과잉치의 진단에 이용되었던 방사선 사진은 각각의 장단점이 있다. $SCANORA^{(R)}$(Soredex, Finland)는 narrow beam radiology와 spiral tomograph의 원리를 이용한 다기능 두부촬영장치이다. 정중과잉치의 정확한 위치를 결정하기 위해 tube shift technique을 이용한 방법이 주로 사용되고 있으나 $SCANORA^{(R)}$를 이용해 비교적 간단하고 정확히 진단할 수 있었기에 보고하는 바이다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.123-130
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• 2008

목적 : 본 논문에서는 자기공명영상 데이터 획득 시 객체의 움직임이 병렬 자기공명영상에 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 일반적으로 병렬 자기공명영상 방법의 경우 데이터 획득 시간이 일반 자기공명영상 방법보다 짧기 때문에 움직임에 강인하다고 알려져 있다. 그러나 생체내의 비자발적인 장기 운동 등과 같은 불가피한 움직임이 포함된 경우 병렬 영상의 움직임 아티펙트는 일반적인 영상에 비하여 더 심각할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 실제 환경에서 나타날 수 있는 다양한 움직임 종류를 정의하고, 이러한 움직임이 발생하였을 때 병렬 자기공명영상에 나타나는 영향을 일반적인 영상방법과 비교하여 살펴보았다. 대상 및 방법 : 병렬 자기공명영상 데이터를 획득할 때 발생하는 움직임에 의한 영향을 확인하기 위하여 실제 환경에서 발생할 수 있는 5가지 움직임 종류를 정의하였다. 즉 움직임-1과 2는 서로 다른 크기와 주기를 갖는 주기적인 움직임이고, 움직임-3과 4는 일정 시간 (segment) 단위로 운동하는 선형적인 움직임이다. 마지막으로 움직임-5는 비 주기 랜덤 운동이다. 사용된 영상 방법은 직각 좌표 기반 영상과 나선 주사 (비 직각 좌표) 영상으로 각각에 대해 병렬 영상법과 일반적인 영상법을 적용하여 움직임 효과를 살펴 보았다. 결과 : 본 논문에서 정의한 움직임 종류에 대한 병렬 자기공명영상에서의 움직임 효과를 알아보았다. 움직임-3과 4와 같이 병렬 자기공명영상에 의하여 움직임이 감소하는 경우 움직임 아티팩트는 일반 자기공명영상에 비하여 줄어들었다. 그러나 움직임-1과 2와 같이 주기적으로 진동할 경우 병렬 영상의 왜곡이 일반 자기공명영상에 비하여 더 크게 나타났다. 움직임-5와 같이 랜덤 한 경우 일반 자기공명영상과 병렬 자기공명영상이 서로 유사하게 나타났다. 결론 : 본 논문에서는 자기공명영상 데이터 획득 시 객체의 움직임이 병렬 자기공명영상에 미치는 영향에 대하여 연구하였다. 그 결과 병렬 자기공명영상을 통해 움직임이 줄어드는 경우를 제외한 다른 움직임 종류에 대해서는 병렬 자기공명영상보다 일반 자기공명영상이 더 좋은 화질을 나타내었다.

• 천문학회보
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• 제42권2호
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• pp.75.1-75.1
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• 2017

Ram pressure due to the intracluster medium (ICM) is known to play a crucial role in removing the cool gas content of a galaxy on a short timescale, potentially driving a star forming galaxy to evolve into a red passive population. Although many HI imaging studies find clear evidence of diffuse atomic gas stripping from cluster galaxies, it is still debatable whether the ram pressure can also strip dense molecular gas. NGC 4522, a Virgo spiral, undergoing strong ram pressure stripping, is one of the few cases where extraplanar CO emission together with stripped HI gas and $H{\alpha}$ knots has been identified, providing an ideal laboratory to study the molecular gas stripping event and the extraplanar star formation activity. The aim of this work is to investigate the origin of extraplanar molecular clouds near NGC 4522 (e.g. stripped or forming in situ), and to probe a relation between the molecular gas surface density and the star formation rate (i.e. the Kennicutt-Schmidt law) at sub-kpc scale, especially in the extraplanar space, using ALMA Cycle 3 CO data and $H{\alpha}$ data of NGC 4522. We present the results from our ALMA observations, and discuss possible scenarios for the origin of extraplanar molecular clouds and to characterize the star formation activity associated with stripped gas outside the galactic disk.

• 천문학회보
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• 제39권1호
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• pp.45.2-45.2
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• 2014

We carry out the first survey for globular clusters (GCs) of three galaxies in cosmic voids using Hubble Space Telescope (HST) Advanced Camera for Survey archival F606W and F814W images. While all sample galaxies are classified as early-type galaxies based on ground-based imaging, the high resolution HST images reveal that they are actually spiral galaxies. We identify the point sources with red colors typical for GCs as GC candidates in the color-magnitude diagrams. As a result, we find a significant number of GC candidates. The spatial and radial distribution of GCs show central concentration on each galaxy region. Their mean colors are similar to that of the Milky Way and M31 GCs. The void GCs are somewhat bluer by, and than cluster and field GCs in early-type galaxies with similar luminosity to our samples, but the discrepancy is not significant. We also estimate the specific frequencies of GCs in these galaxies and the values are consistent with those in field and cluster galaxies with similar luminosity. From these results, we suggest that the formation process of void GCs is similar to that of GCs in other environments. The further implications will be discussed.

• 천문학회보
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• 제43권2호
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• pp.34.1-34.1
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• 2018

We investigate the properties of bright galaxies with various morphological types in Abell 1139 and Abell 2589, using the pixel color-magnitude diagram (pCMD) analysis. The 32 bright member galaxies ($Mr{\leq}-21.3mag$) are deeply imaged in the g and r bands in our CFHT/MegaCam observations, as a part of the KASI-Yonsei Deep Imaging Survey of Clusters (KYDISC). We examine how the features of their pCMDs depend on galaxy morphology and infrared color. We find that the g - r color dispersion as a function of surface brightness (${\mu}r$) shows better performance in distinguishing galaxy morphology, than the mean g - r color does. The best set of parameters for galaxy classification appears to be a combination of the minimum color dispersion at ${\mu}r{\leq}21.2mag\;arcsec-2$ and the maximum color dispersion at $20.0{\leq}{\mu}r{\leq}21.0mag\;arcsec-2$: the latter reflects the complexity of stellar populations at the disk component in a typical spiral galaxy. Moreover, the color dispersion of an elliptical galaxy appears to be correlated with its WISE infrared color ([4.6]-[12]). This indicates that the complexity of stellar populations in an elliptical galaxy is related to its recent star formation activities. From this observational evidence, we infer that gas-rich minor mergers or gas interactions may have usually occurred during the recent growth of massive elliptical galaxies.

• 천문학회보
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• 제44권2호
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• pp.39.3-39.3
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• 2019

Ram pressure stripping due to the intracluster medium (ICM) is an important environmental process, which causes star formation quenching by effectively removing cold interstellar gas from galaxies in dense environments. The evidence of diffuse atomic gas stripping has been reported in several HI imaging studies. However, it is still under debate whether molecular gas (i.e., a more direct ingredient for star formation) can be also affected and/or stripped by ram pressure. The goal of this thesis is to understand the impact of ram pressure on the molecular gas content of cluster galaxies and hence star formation activity. To achieve this, we conducted a series of detailed studies on the molecular gas properties of three Virgo spiral galaxies with clear signs of active HI gas stripping (NGC 4330, NGC 4402, and NGC 4522) based on high-resolution CO data obtained from the Submillimeter Array (SMA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). As a result, we find the evidence that the molecular gas disk also gets affected by ram pressure in similar ways as HI even well inside of the stellar disk. In addition, we detected extraplanar 13CO clumps in one of the sample, which is the first case ever reported in ram pressure stripped galaxies. By analyzing multi-wavelength data (e.g., Hα, UV, HI, and CO), we discuss detailed processes of how ram pressure affects star formation activities and hence evolution of cluster galaxies. We also discuss the origin of extraplanar 13CO, and how ram pressure can potentially contribute to the chemical evolution of the ICM.

• 천문학회보
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• 제45권1호
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• pp.60.2-60.2
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• 2020

In the hierarchical framework, galaxies grow through mergers and accretion. Those mechanisms leave faint features, such as stellar streams, shells and smooth stellar halos in the outskirts of galaxies. In order to search for those features in the nearby galaxies, we are conducting a KMTNet Nearby Galaxy Survey using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network. We present a deep and wide-field imaging of NGC 5236, a barred spiral galaxy. In one-dimensional surface brightness profiles, we reach 28, 29 mag/arcsec2 in the R- and B-band, respectively. We find that the outer disk of NGC 5236 can be well described with a single exponential profile up to 17 kpc (~3.8 Reff) indicating that the excess light due to the stellar halo is not clearly detected. B-R color gradually increases towards the outskirts of the galaxy. It may reveal that stellar properties in the outskirts are marginally distinctive from those in the central part.

• Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.711-716
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• 2001

Objectives : Three-dimensional computed tomographic angiography(3D-CTA) is recently developed diagnostic imaging modality. We have studied this noninvasive method for possible role in replacing conventional angiography( CA) in the detection of aneurysms of the circle of Willis in patients with subarachnoid hemorrahge(SAH). Methods : We studied retrospectively, the 100 patients with SAH or unruptured aneurysms admitted to our hospital from October 1997 to December 1998. Among there, 85 patients underwent CTA, 82 patients underwent CA and 67 patients underwent both of CTA and CA. 3D-CTA was obtained using maximum intensity projection(MIP) and shaded-surface display(SSD) reconstruction. Results : Total 107 aneurysms were detected in 92 patients, and 64 aneurysms were detected in 67 patients underwent both CTA and CA. In five cases of those 67 cases, aneurysms were detected by CA but not by 3D-CTA. The detection rate of aneurysms(91.8%) and the detection rate of parent artery in cases of anterior communicating artery aneurysms(86.9%) with total 3D-CTA were relatively compatible with that of CA. But 3D-CTA was not enough in detection of posterior communicating artery aneurysms, internal carotid artery aneurysms as well as small sized aneurysm(<3mm). Conclusion : We consider CTA is valuable in as a screening test for cerebral aneurysm and follow-up test. And it is also valuable in early surgery for patients with aneurysmal rebleeding because of simple, quick, non-invasive method.

• 한국가시화정보학회지
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.38-45
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• 2016

Separation of particles based on different sizes, detection of pathogenic bacteria and isolation of leukocytes from whole blood are typical applications of spiral or helical microchannels. The present study focuses on developing a CD4+ T-cell counting device for monitoring HIV/AIDS patients with the aid of a helical minichannel used for a sample cartridge. For the experiment, $10{\mu}m$ sized microbeads were used for visualization with a fluorescence imaging system. Alignment of microbeads was investigated in a stationary and spinning sample cartridge filled with glycerol-water mixtures of different densities. The helical minichannel was spun using a DC motor controlled by an Arduino board with a Bluetooth shield. It was found that when the sample cartridge was made stationary, no bead alignment was achieved for a medium with density (0% and 20% glycerol) lower than that of the beads, but when it was spun at 2000-3000 rpm for 1-4 min, an alignment was obtained at the top of the channel facilitating optical detection and enumeration of those microbeads. Since an alignment of microbeads was achieved for a medium with density as that of blood plasma, the same approach can be applied for aligning and counting CD4+ T-lymphocytes in whole blood samples collected from patients.