• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.103-109
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• 2006

A target for a high-brightness microfocus x-ray tube, which is based on carbon nanotubes (CNT) as electron source, is designed. The x-ray tube has the following specifications: brightness of $1\times10^{11}phs/s.mm^2. mrad^2$, spot size $\~5{\mu}m$, and average x-ray energy of $20\~40 keV$. In order to meet the specifications, the design parameters of the target, such as configuration, material, thickness of the target as well as the required beam current, were optimized using computer code MCNPX. The design parameters were determined from the calculation of both x-ray spectrum and intensity distribution for a transmission type configuration. For the thin transmission type target to withstand vacuum pressure and localized thermal loading, the structural stability and temperature distribution were also considered. The material of the target was selected as molybdenum(Mo) and the optimized thickness was $7.2{\mu}m$ to be backed by $150{\mu}m$ beryllium (Be). In addition, the calculations revealed that the maximum temperature of the transmission target can be maintained within the limits of stable operation.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.14 no.6
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• pp.725-731
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• 2020

A radiation spectroscopy detector using a spherical scintillator was designed, and a system was developed to track the position of a radiation source using several detectors. The position tracking algorithm was designed based on the theory that the number of radiations decreases according to the inverse square law of distance, and the position of the radiation source was calculated by measuring the number of radiations generated from the radiation sources at various positions. The radiation generated from the radiation source is detected by different coefficients in each detector, and the difference between these detected coefficients varies in proportion to the inverse square of the distance. Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission (GATE) simulation was performed to verify and evaluate the performance of the designed radiation source position tracking system, and radiation generated from radiation sources placed at different positions was counted with each detector. The number of measured radiations was tracked through the radiation source position tracking algorithm, and the error between the actual radiation source position and the position calculated by the algorithm was evaluated. The error between the position of the actual radiation source and the calculated position was measured as an average of 0.11% on the X-axis and 0.37% on the Y-axis, and it was verified that the position can be measured very accurately.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.252-257
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• 2005

A high-brightness electron beam source for a microfocus X-ray tube has been fabricated using a carbon-nanotube (CNT) field emitter. The electron source consists of cathode that includes a CNT field emitter, a beam-extracting grid, and an anode that accelerates that electron beam. The microfocus X-ray tube requires an electron beam with the diameter of less than 5 $\mu$m and beam current of higher than 30 $\mu$A at the position of the X-ray target. To satisfy the requirements, the geometries of the field emitter tips and the electrodes of the gun was optimized by calculating the electron trajectories and beam spatial profile with EGUN code. The CNT tips were fabricated with successive steps: a tungsten wire with the diameter of 200 $\mu$m was chemically etched and was subsequently coated with CNTs by chemical vapor deposition. The experiments of electron emission at the fabricated CNT tips were performed. The design characteristics and basic experimental results of the electron source are reported.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.14-28
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• 1985

The development of mono energetic photon sources using $K_{\alpha}$ fluorescence X-ray of pure material was carried out in the energy range below 100 keV. The monoenergetic photons are very useful in the calibration of the radiation measuring instruments and can be produced as the $K_{\alpha}$ fluorescence X-ray by irradiating the bremsstrahlung to the thin pure metal foils called ‘radiators’. In this experiment, several radiators such as $_{47}Ag,\;_{50}Sn,\;_{68}Er,\;_{70}Yb,\;and\;_{82}Pb$ provide the wide monoenergetic photon energy ranging from 20 keV to 80 keV. By the spectrometry with HpGe LEPS, spectral purity factors which measure the monochrometicity for the $K_{\alpha}$ fluorescence X-ray, were determined as $0.64{\sim}0.94$. Dosimetry for the purpose of the determination of the exposure rate with a 600cc thin window ionization chamber, which was calibrated by the standard free-air ionization chamber, was performed. Exposure rates ranging $8.3{\sim}232.5mR/h$ was obtained according to the $K_{\alpha}$ fluorescence X-ray energy for each radiator.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.39 no.1
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• pp.30-37
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• 2014

Recently High-Definition Reference Korean-Man (HDRK-Man) and High-Definition Reference Korean-Woman (HDRK-Woman) were constructed in Korea. The HDRK phantoms were designed to represent respectively reference Korean male and female to calculate effective doses for Korean by performing Monte Carlo dose calculation. However, the Monte Carlo dose calculation requires detailed knowledge on computational human phantoms and Monte Carlo simulation technique which regular researchers in radiation protection dosimetry and practicing health physicists do not have. Recently the UFPE (Federal University of Pernambuco) research group has developed, and opened to public, an online Monte Carlo dose calculation system called CALDOSE_X(www.caldose.org). By using the CALDOSE_X, one can easily perform Monte Carlo dose calculations. However, the CALDOSE_X used caucasian phantoms to calculate organ doses or effective doses which are limited for Korean. The present study developed an online reference Korean dose calculation system which can be used to calculate effective doses for Korean.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.45 no.2
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• pp.79-88
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• 2012

The increased brightness and focused X-ray beams now available from laboratory X-ray sources facilitates a variety of powder diffraction experiments not practical using conventional in-house sources. Furthermore, the increased availability of 2-dimensional area detectors, along with implementation of improved software and customized sample environmental cells, makes possible new classes of in-situ and time-resolved diffraction experiments. These include phase transitions under variable pressure- and temperature conditions and ion-exchange reactions. Examples of in-situ and time-resolved studies which are presented here include: (1) time-resolved data to evaluate the kinetics and mechanism of ion exchange in mineral natrolite; (2) in-situ dehydration and thermal expansion behaviors of ion-exchanged natrolite; and (3) observations of the phases forming under controlled hydrostatic pressure conditions in ion-exchanged natrolite. Both the quantity and quality of the in-situ diffraction data are such to allow evaluation of the reaction pathway and Rietveld analysis on selected dataset. These laboratory-based in-situ studies will increase the predictability of the follow-up experiments at more specialized beamlines at the synchrotron.

• Journal of the Korean Vacuum Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.403-408
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• 2011

To develop the MFX (Micro-Focus X-ray) tube, the trajectories of electrons emitted from the field emission cathode was simulated using SIMION program. Regardless of starting position of the electron in emitter, we found out the fact that there is the optimum extractor voltage Ve, which can focus the electron beam on one place. Extractor voltage Ve varies depending on the source voltage Vs, but the ratio of two voltages (Ve/Vs) is always constant, its value was 99.4%. When the ratio of two voltages (Ve/Vs) was 99.4%, the beam diameter in the cross-over point was $1.2{\mu}m$. Because the focal spot size in MFXG (Micro-Focus X-ray Generator) can not be less than the cross-over diameter within MFX tube, it is important to find out the conditions that can make a smaller beam diameter. Therefore, the above results is considered to be a very important ones in the development of the MFXG.

• Bulletin of the Korean Space Science Society
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• 1992.10a
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• pp.20-20
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• 1992

격변 변광성의 일종인 DQ Her형 별(Intermediate Polar Star; IP)이 자기장에서 방출하는 가시광선은 자전주기에 따라 그 강도가 변한다. 이러한 쌍성계에서 백색 왜성인 주성의 주번에 자기력 선을 따라 정도의 물질이 주계열성인 반성으로부터 accretion 된다. 이 물질은 주성 표면에서 충격파로 생긴 X-선원에 의해 reemission 되는 데, 이런 현상적인 모델을 만들어 관측적으로 나타나는 자전주기에 따른 가시광선의 강도 변화를 설명하였다. 이런 결과가 IP 에서 방출되는 가시광선 관측의 분석과 이런 종류의 쌍성계가 가지는 궤도기울기, accretion rate, 공전축에 대한 자전축의 기울기, interaction radius 등의 물리적 상수를 결정하는 데 응용될 수 있음을 보이려고 한다.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.638-644
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• 2018

In this paper, we develop a measurement system that uses 3D Scintillator and NaI(TI) Detector to 3-dimensionally identify the location of multiple radiation sources in moving vehicle loads. The radiation measurement system consists of radiation measurement (plastic scintillator), 2-channel Pulse Counter Board, nuclide analysis (NaI(TI) detector) and 1 channel MCA Board. The source locator algorithm calculates the coordinate value of the ratio of the CPS value($1/r^2$) of the source according to the angle(${\theta}$) in inverse proportion to the square of the distance(X, Y) through the SVM classification. The coordinate values are input every predetermined period of the spectrum, and after analyzing the spectrum per unit cycle, the position of the nuclide at the time is calculated by determining whether or not the nuclide is present in the remaining part except for the background area. As a result of the position discrimination test, the error within the international standard of ${\pm}1m$ was shown. Thus, the utility of the proposed system has been demonstrated.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07d
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• pp.2619-2621
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• 2004

감마선 또는 x-선 등 방사선을 이용한 구조물 진단은 산업전반에 걸쳐 널리 이용되고 있다. 기존의 x-선이나 Ir-192의 감마선 등을 이용한 비파괴검사는 용접부의 확인이나 구조물의 내부 결점 확인과 같이 국부적인 진단에는 유용하나 석유화학산업에서 반응물의 분리 또는 정제 등에 많이 사용되고 있는 증류탑의 내부진단 실험에는 적합하지 않다. 증류탑은 목적에 따라 직경이 $3{\sim}10m$, 높이 $10{\sim}100m$에 달하는 대형 장치로서 내부의 이상현상에 대한 정확한 진단은 공정 전체의 가동효율 최적화에 결정적인 영향을 끼친다. 밀봉 감마선원으로부터 방출된 방사선의 투과율 변화를 증류탑의 반대편에 설치한 방사선 검출기로 측정하여 수직밀도분포(vertical density profile)를 구하여 증류탑의 내부현상에 대한 정확한 정보를 얻을 수 있는데 이러한 작업을 자동으로 수행할 수 있도록 한 것이 자동 증류탑 검사장치이다. 증류탑 진단장치는 크게 방사선 계측 및 데이터 전송회로, 방사선원부와 방사선검출부의 구동장치 및 구동회로, 데이터 수집 및 제어장치 둥으로 구성되어 있으며, 증류탑 검사를 자동화하여 진단결과의 신뢰도와 재현성을 향상시켰다. 본 논문은 방사선원과 방사선 검출장치의 위치를 자동으로 제어하면서 방사선 계측결과를 전송시키는 장치의 개발에 관한 내용으로서 개발된 장치의 소개와 산업현장 적용의 예를 소개함으로써 기존의 비파괴검사기술로는 진단할 수 없는 대형 증류탑의 진단에 효과적인 방사선 응용 계측장치임을 보이고자 한다.