• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.155-158
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• 2001

A new method for simultaneous multiple transmit focusing using orthogonal weighted FM chirp is proposed. Weighted chirp signals focused at different depths are transmitted at the same time. These chirp signals are mutually orthogonal in the approximate sense that the autocorrelation function of each signal has a narrow mainlobe width and low sidelobe levels, and the crosscorrellation function of any pair of the signals has smaller values than the sidelobe levels of each autocorrelation function. This means that each weighted chirp signal can be separately compressed into a short pulse, focused individually and combined with other focused beams to form a frame of image. Theoretically, any two chirp signals defined in two nonoverlapped frequency bands are mutually orthogonal. In the present work, however, a fractional overlap of adjacent frequency bands, by up to 25%, were permitted to design more chirp signals within a given transducer bandwidth. The crosscorrelation values due to the frequency overlap could be reduced by alternating the direction of frequency sweep of the adjacent chirp signals. The simulation results show that this method can improve the lateral resolution of image without sacrifice in the frame rate compared with the conventional pulse system.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제62권7호
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• pp.987-993
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• 2013

Integrity of the control and instrumental cables in nuclear power plant is important to maintain the stability of the nuclear power plants. In order to diagnose the integrity of the cables, the diagnostic methods based on reflectometry have been studied. The reflectometry is a non-destructive method and it is applicable to diagnose the live cables. We introduce a Gaussian enveloped linear chirp reflectometry to diagnose the cables in the nuclear power plants. In this paper, we estimate the instantaneous frequency of the Gaussian enveloped linear chirp signal by using the weighted robust least squares filtering to localize the impedance discontinuities in the class 1E instrumental cable.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2001년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집(4)
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• pp.151-154
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• 2001

In this Paper, a new harmonic imaging technique is proposed and evaluated experimentally. In the proposed method, a weighted chin signal with a hanning window is transmitted. The RF samples obtained on each array element are individually compressed by correlating with the reference signal defined as the 2nd harmonic (2f0) component of a transmitted chirp signal generated in a square-law system. The proposed method uses the compressed 2f0 component to form an image, for which the crosscorrelation term with f0 component should be suppressed below at least -60dB. After experiment, the 6dB pulse width and peak sidelobe level of the compressed 2f0 component were 0.7us and -60dB, respectively. This result shows that the proposed method can successfully eliminate the f0 component with a single transmit-receive event and therefore is more efficient than the conventional pulse inversion (PI) method in terms of frame rate. We also observed that the 2nd harmonic compont starts to decrease for source pressure higher than 210kPa in water, which implies that SNR of the 2nd harmonic imaging using short pulses cnanot be incresed beyond a certain limit.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1640-1641
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• 2007

In this paper, an experiment of weighted robust least squares frequency estimation for the Gaussian envelope chirp signal which is used in the time-frequency domain reflectometry system was carried out. By incorporating the forgetting factor to the frequency estimator, the weighted robust least squares filter achieved good enough frequency estimation performance for the chirp signal and it can be adopted to implement not only low cost time-frequency domain reflectometry but also real-time time-frequency domain reflectometry implementation.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.61-72
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 펄스 압축 방식을 사용하여 기본주파수 성분을 효과적으로 제거하는 새로운 고조파 영상 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법에 의한 시스템은 가중 쳐프 신호를 송신하고 각 어레이 소자에 수신된 RF 샘플은 송신신호의 고조파 성분에 정합된 상관기를 통과함으로써 고조파 성분만을 선택적으로 펄스 압축한다. 이 때. 기본주파수 성분과 고조파 성분의 상호상관 값은 -50㏈ 이하로 억제하였다. 제안된 기법은 한번의 송수시 과정으로 기본주파수 성분을 효과적으로 제거하여 프레임 율이 기존의 펄스 반전 방식보다 우수한 방식과 우수한 해상도와 신호 대 잡음비 (SNR : Signal to Noise Ratio)를 갖는 고조파 영상을 구현하기 위해 펄스 반전을 적용한 후 펄스 압축을 수행하는 방식으로 구성된다 일반적인 펄스 송신 방식에서는 고조파 성분은 송신음압의 크기가 어느 임계값 이상이 되면 더 이상 증가하지 않고 포화되기 때문에 SNR이 제한되는 단점이 있다. 그러나 제안된 기법은 송신 가중 쳐프 신호의 길이를 늘림으로써 고조파 영상의 SNR을 임의로 증가시킬 수 있다 새로운 시스템의 성능을 컴퓨터를 이용한 모의실험과 실제실험을 통하여 검증하였다