• Journal of Oral Medicine and Pain
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.401-410
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• 2005

본 연구는 온열요법이 표층부 혈류량과 피부 온도에 미치는 영향을 평가하기 위해, 건강한 성인 20명(남성: 10명, 여성: 10명)을 대상으로 습열요법과 초음파요법 적용전후의 전이부 표층부 혈류량과 피부 온도를 각각 laser doppler flowmetry와 접촉식온도계를 사용하여 측정함으로써 다음과 같은 결론을 얻었다. 1. 습열요법과 초음파요법 모두에서, 표층부 혈류량과 피부 온도는 적용전보다 적용후에 유의하게 증가하였다. 2. 습열요법을 시행한 경우, 초음파요법에 비해 적용직후 표층부 혈류량과 피부 온도의 증가량이 유의하게 더 컸으며, 증가된 상태도 더 오래 유지되었다. 3. 온열요법 적용전 표층부 혈류량과 피부 온도는 남성이 여성에 비해 더 높았다. 4. 온열요법 적용전후 표층부 혈류량과 피부 온도의 변화량은 남녀간의 유의한 차이가 없었다.

• 대한정형외과 초음파학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.31-39
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• 2008

초음파을 통하여 신생아 고관절의 형태와 안정성 여부를 관찰 할 수 있음이 알려진 이후 2개의 상반된 견해가 형성되었다. 신생아기에 관찰되는 관절 불안정이 치료를 필요로 하는 중요 병리라는 의견은 신생아기 비구이형성이 중요한 역할을 한다는 의견과 상충되어 왔다. Graf방법같이 신생아 비구이형성을 포함하여 치료의 필요성 여부를 판단하면 고관절 불안정성만을 기준으로 한 경우보다 치료와 추시를 하는 빈도가 훨씬 더 높았었다. 현재는 기술적 검사 방법의 발달과 질환의 적절한 이해로 그 차이는 크지 않은 것으로 여겨지고 있어 여러 방법은 유사한 결과를 보이고 있다. 중요한 것은 방법의 선택이 아니라 표준화한 검사를 할 수 있는 충분한 경험과 이해를 가지고 있어야 한다는 것이다. 이를 위하여 고관절 이형성증(DDH)의 진단에서의 여러 초음파 검사 방법과 의의, 치료시의 유용성에 대하여 논의 하였다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.55-59
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• 2014

Sarcopenia, or reduced muscle mass and volume, is due to various factors such as senile change, neuronal degeneration, drug, malignancy, and sepsis. Sarcopenia with the aging process has been evidenced by the decline in muscle mass by 0.5 to 1% per year with 3-5% reduction in muscle strength for 10 years between the ages of 40 and 50, and a 1-2% of decline of mass every year in people aged 60-70. Therefore, early diagnosis and understanding the mechanism of sarcopenia are crucial in the prevention of muscle loss. However, it is still difficult to image changes of muscle microstructure due to a lack of techniques. In this study, we developed an animal model using denervated rats to induce a rapid atrophy in the tibialis anterior (TA) and imaged its structural changes using optical coherence tomography (OCT) along with histologic and ultrasound analyses. Ultrasound showed changes of overall muscle size. Histology revealed that the atrophic TA muscle displayed an increased size variability of muscle fiber and inflammatory changes. Three dimensional OCT imaged the changes of perimysial grid and muscle fiber structure in real time without sacrifice. These observed advantages of multimodal imaging using OCT and ultrasound would provide clinical benefits in the diagnosis of sarcopenia.

• 대한수의학회지
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• 제47권3호
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• pp.341-347
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• 2007

Pancreatic pseudocyst is one of the most common pancreatic mass lesions developed following acute or chronic pancreatitis. Two dogs were presented with nonspecific clinical signs such as abdominal pain, vomiting and depression and diagnosed as pancreatic pseudocysts through percutaneous ultrasound-guided aspiration. Pancreatic pseudocyst may contain pancreatic juice, so leads the deteriorate state of patient through pertinent inflammation and autodigestion of pancreas. In this study, the clinical signs and pancreatic lesion were improved after aspiration. Percutaneous ultrasound-guided aspiration can provide the diagnostic information through cytology and lipase and amylase concentration, and be selected as the first choice for treatment.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1992년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.26-28
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• 1992

Texture analysis, one of the mage processing techniques, using statistical characteristics is applied to the ultrasound images, which are then classified into each types through neural network. This is a method to be used to diagnose ultrasound images automatically and objectively. First tone kinds of texture analysis techniques proposed already are used to classify ultrasound images and compared in terms of classification rate, and then a new technique if proposed which is invariant to multiplicative gain changes and image resolution.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제29권1E호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

The difference in echogenicity between cancerous and normal tissues is not quite distinguishable in ultrasound B-mode imaging. However, tumor or cancer in breast or prostate tends to be stiffer than the surrounding normal tissue. Thus, imaging the stiffness contrast between the two different tissue types is helpful for quantitative diagnosis, and such a method of imaging the elasticity of human tissue is collectively referred to as ultrasound elasticity imaging. Recently, elasticity imaging has established itself as an effective diagnostic modality in addition to ultrasound B-mode imaging. The purpose of this paper is to present various elasticity imaging methods that have been reported up to now and to describe their principles of operation and characteristics.

• 한국임상수의학회지
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• 제40권3호
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• pp.221-224
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• 2023

A two-year-old spayed female Maltipoo dog was presented with a two-month duration of glaucoma in the right eye. On the first presentation, menace response and dazzle reflex were absent in the right eye, but it was present in the left eye. Slit-lamp biomicroscopy showed buphthalmia, mild corneal edema, and conjunctival and episcleral hyperemia in the right eye. The intraocular pressures were 70 mmHg and 30 mmHg in the right and left eyes, respectively. On the gonioscopic and high-resolution ultrasound examinations, both the iridocorneal angle and ciliary cleft were completely closed in the right eye. However, gonioscopy revealed an opened iridocorneal angle even with some broader base of pectinate ligament fiber, but high-resolution ultrasound showed a narrowed ciliary cleft and increased contact of the iris base with the limbal cornea in the left eye. Based on these results, a diagnosis of primary angle-closure glaucoma was made in both eyes. This case report highlighted the importance of evaluating the ciliary cleft with high-resolution ultrasound as a critical diagnostic and prognostic role in canine glaucoma.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권3호
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• pp.526-537
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• 2024

Monitoring fetal growth in utero is crucial to anomaly diagnosis. However, current computer-vision models struggle to accurately assess the key metrics (i.e., head circumference and occipitofrontal and biparietal diameters) from ultrasound images, largely owing to a lack of training data. Mitigation usually entails image augmentation (e.g., flipping, rotating, scaling, and translating). Nevertheless, the accuracy of our task remains insufficient. Hence, we offer a U-Net fetal head measurement tool that leverages a hybrid Dice and binary cross-entropy loss to compute the similarity between actual and predicted segmented regions. Ellipse-fitted two-dimensional ultrasound images acquired from the HC18 dataset are input, and their lower feature layers are reused for efficiency. During regression, a novel region of interest pooling layer extracts elliptical feature maps, and during segmentation, feature pyramids fuse field-layer data with a new scale attention method to reduce noise. Performance is measured by Dice similarity, mean pixel accuracy, and mean intersection-over-union, giving 97.90%, 99.18%, and 97.81% scores, respectively, which match or outperform the best U-Net models.

• 대한정형외과 초음파학회지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.132-137
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• 2014

고해상도 초음파 테크닉과 작은 탐촉자들이 개발되면서 표층에 위치하는 작은 구조물들에 대한 검사가 가능하게 되었고, 이로 인하여 초음파는 손목 질환의 진단과 치료에 유용한 도구가 되었다. 초음파를 이용할 때에는 이러한 기술적인 부분 뿐만 아니라 해부학적인 구조와 임상 양상을 잘 이해하여 적용하는 것이 중요하다. 손목의 통증 부위에 따른 대표적인 질환들에 대해 초음파의 접근방법 및 유용성을 정리해보고자 하였다.

• Clinical Pain
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.15-19
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• 2021

There are many wrist and hand diseases in which ultrasound can help in the diagnosis and treatment. Because many small structures are located, identifying anatomical locations and pathways is especially important. In De Quervain's syndrome, it is necessary to find tendon lesions located in the first compartment of the wrist. If injection therapy is required, administer the regimen accurately within the tendon sheath through ultrasound. In carpal tunnel syndrome, there are several methods to diagnose a disease by measuring cross-sectional area of the median nerve. Ultrasound has the advantage of administering injection therapy without damaging the nerve. Intersection syndrome can be diagnosed by observing swelling and hypoechoic appearances at the point where the tendons of the first compartment cross over the second compartment of the wrist. Ultrasound-guided injection is also safe and efficient. If there is a trigger finger lesion, the most representative findings is to observe a nodular hypoechoic thickening of the involved A1 pulley. When injection therapy is performed, it is effective to administer medication between pulley and flexor tendons as much as possible to reduce pressure on the attached structures.