• Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.151-157
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• 2014

A nationwide survey on radiation safety management in Korean animal hospitals was conducted. By 2013, 53 radiation generators were registered as veterinary medical devices (41 X-ray generators and 12 computed tomography scanners). Additionally there were six approved laboratories for radiation equipment and protection facility, and five approved laboratories for radiation exposure of employees, respectively. By March 2013, 2,030 out of 3,829 animal hospitals operated radiation-generating devices. Among these devices, 389 (19.2%) out of 2,030 were not labeled with the model name and 746 (36.7%) were not labeled with production dates. Thus, most veterinary X-ray generators were outdated (42.6%) and needed replacements. When periodic inspections of 2,018 animal hospitals were performed after revision of the Veterinarians Act in 2011, the hospitals were found to be equipped with appropriate radiation generators and protection facilities. Among 2,545 employees exposed to radiation at the hospitals, 93.9% were veterinarians, 4.3% were animal nurse technicians, and 18% held other positions. Among 169 employees supervised by administrators, none of those had a weekly maximum operating load that exceeded $10mA{\cdot}min$. This study suggests that the radiation safety management system of animal hospitals was general good.

• Journal of radiological science and technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.93-102
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• 2012

Thanks to the rapid increase of the interest in the quality control of the General X-ray systems, this research proposes the direction of the quality control through comparing and inspecting the actual condition of the respective quality control in the Clinic, the educational institution and the hospital. The subjects of the investigation are diagnostic radiation equipment's in the clinic, the educational institution and the hospital around the capital. A test of kVp, mR/mAs out put test and reproducibility of the exposure dose, half value layer, an accordance between the light field and the beam alignment test, and lastly reproducibility of the exposure time. Then the mean difference of the percentage, the CV (Coefficient of Variation, CV) and the attenuated curve which are respectively resulted from the above tests are computed. After that we have evaluated the values according to the regulations on the Diagnostic Radiation Equipment Safety Administration regulations. In the case of the clinic and the educational institution, there were 22 general X-ray devices. And 18.2% of the kVp test, 13.6% of the reproducibility of exposure dose test, 9.1% of the mR/mAs out put test, and 13.6% of the HVL (Half Value Layer) test appeared to be improper. In the case of the hospital, however, there were 28 devices. And 7.1% of the reproducibility of exposure dose, 7.1% of the difference in the light field/ beam alignment, and 7.1% of the reproducibility of the exposure time appeared to be improper. According to the investigation, the hospital's quality control condition is better than the condition in the clinic and the educational institution. The quality control condition of the general X-ray devices in the clinic is unsatisfactory compared to the hospital. Thus, it is considered that realizing the importance of the quality control is necessary.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.359-369
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• 2020

In this paper, we proposed a charge pump (CP) circuit that has a wide operating range while reducing the current mismatch for the PLL that generates the main clock of the CMOS X-Ray detector. The operating range and current mismatch of the CP circuit are determined by the characteristics of the current source circuit for the CP circuit. The proposed CP circuit is implemented with a wide operating current mirror bias circuit to secure a wide operating range and a cascode structure with a large output resistance to reduce current mismatch. The proposed wide operating range cascode CP circuit was fabricated as a chip using a 350nm CMOS process, and current matching characteristics were measured using a source measurement unit. At this time, the power supply voltage was 3.3 V and the CP circuit current ICP = 100 ㎂. The operating range of the proposed CP circuit is △VO_Swing=2.7V, and the maximum current mismatch is 5.15 % and the maximum current deviation is 2.64 %. The proposed CP circuit has low current mismatch characteristics and can cope with a wide frequency range, so it can be applied to systems requiring various clock speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2010.06a
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• pp.216-216
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• 2010

ITO는 n- type 반도체 재료로 Sn의 첨가로 인한 매우 낮은 전기저항과 안정성때문에 널리 사용되고 있는 재료이며 비교적 높은 band gap(3.55Ev)를 가짐으로 인하여 가시광선 영역에서 높은 투과도를 가지는 특징이 있다. 단점으로는 박막 제조 시에 증착시간의 증가함에 따라 음이온 충격 및 온도 상공으로 인한 막의 표면손상이 발생하게 되고 이것은 전기저항이 증가하는 요인으로 작용하는 문제점이 있다. 본 연구에서는 3가지 조성의 ITO박막을 스퍼터 장치를 이용하여 증착하고 그에 따른 전기적, 구조적, 광학적 특성을 분석 하였다. 증착된 ITO성막의 표면분석을 위해 AFM (Atomic Force Microscope)으로 표면 거칠기값 분석, XRD (X-ray diffraction)을 이용 결정성장분석, SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope)으로 표면의 미세구조관찰, 4Point pobe로 면 저항분석, spectrophotometer로 박막의 투과율과 흡수율을 분석하였다. 조성변화와 공정변수에 따른 전기적, 구조적, 광학적 특성변화의 원인분석으로 고효율의 ITO 박막성장 가능성을 조사하였다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.276-283
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• 2019

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the usefulness of automatic exposure control (AEC) by analyzing entrance surface dose (ESD) and entropy on using automatic exposure and manual exposure. The experimental method was to measure the dose by placing a semiconductor dosimeter on the Rando Phantom for the Pelvis, Abdomen, Skull, and Chest regions. The DICOM file was simultaneously acquired and then entropy was analyzed by using Matlab. As a result, when using the automatic exposure control, dose of all sites was lower than manual exposure's dose and entropy was high. In addition, paired t-test was performed for each item and p<0.05 was found in each item. In conclusion, the use of automatic exposure control can be a useful method to contribute to the optimization of the exposure dose and the image quality by reducing the amount of unnecessary radiation amount and information loss that can occur in X-ray examination.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.544-551
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• 2014

This paper suggests an algorithm to measure low-level radiation by radiation measuring devices, and the other algorithm to improve reaction speed of the device to better respond to dramatic changes in radiation amount. The former algorithm to improve the accuracy of measuring low-level radiation takes advantage of a dual window radiation measurement method which is based on accumulated average of pulses gathered by a radiation measuring sensor. The latter algorithm is to enhance reaction speed of a measuring device to more sensitively react to dramatic changes in radiation amount by adopting a dual window radiation measurement method which analyzes data patterns newly put into for six seconds. To verify the suggested algorithms, a hardware-which consists of sensor and high-voltage generator, controller, charger and power supply circuit, wireless communication part, and display part-was used. Tests conducted on the dual window radiation measurement method as used in the suggested algorithm have proved that accuracy improves to measure low-level radiation of 5uSv/h, and linearity also gets better. Other tests were conducted to see whether the suggested algorithm enhances the reaction speed of a radiation measuring device so that the device responds better to dramatically changing radiation amount. The experimental results have shown meaningful changes in numbers after six seconds. Therefore, the conclusions are made that the algorithm enhances the reaction speed of the device.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2002

High energy photon beams from medical linear accelerators produce large scattered radiation by various components of the treatment head, collimator and walls or objects in the treatment room including the patient. These scattered radiation do not provide therapeutic dose and are considered a hazard from the radiation safety perspective. Scattered dose of therapeutic high energy radiation beams are contributed significant unwanted dose to the patient. ICRP take the position that a dose of 500mGy may cause abortion at any stage of pregnancy and that radiation detriment to the fetus includes risk of mental retardation with a possible threshold in the dose response relationship around 100 mGy for the gestational period. The ICRP principle of as low as reasonably achievable (ALARA) was recommended for protection of occupation upon the linear no-threshold dose response hypothesis for cancer induction. We suggest this ALARA principle be applied to the fetus and testicle in therapeutic treatment. Radiation dose outside a photon treatment filed is mostly due to scattered photons. This scattered dose is a function of the distance from the beam edge, treatment geometry, primary photon energy, and depth in the patient. The need for effective shielding of the fetus and testicle is reinforced when young patients ate treated with external beam radiation therapy and then shielding designed to reduce the scattered photon dose to normal organs have to considered. Irradiation was performed in phantom using high energy photon beams produced by a Varian 2100C/D medical linear accelerator (Varian Oncology Systems, Palo Alto, CA) located at the Yonsei Cancer Center. The composite phantom used was comprised of a commercially available anthropomorphic Rando phantom (Phantom Laboratory Inc., Salem, YN) and a rectangular solid polystyrene phantom of dimensions $30cm{\times}30cm{\times}20cm$. the anthropomorphic Rando phantom represents an average man made from tissue equivalent materials that is transected into transverse 36 slices of 2.5cm thickness. Photon dose was measured using a Capintec PR-06C ionization chamber with Capintec 192 electrometer (Capintec Inc., Ramsey, NJ), TLD( VICTOREEN 5000. LiF) and film dosimetry V-Omat, Kodak). In case of fetus, the dosimeter was placed at a depth of loom in this phantom at 100cm source to axis distance and located centrally 15cm from the inferior edge of the $30cm{\times}30cm^2$ x-ray beam irradiating the Rando phantom chest wall. A acryl bridge of size $40cm{\times}40cm^2$ and a clear space of about 20 cm was fabricated and placed on top of the rectangular polystyrene phantom representing the abdomen of the patient. The leaf pot for testicle shielding was made as various shape, sizes, thickness and supporting stand. The scattered photon with and without shielding were measured at the representative position of the fetus and testicle. Measurement of radiation scattered dose outside fields and critical organs, like fetus position and testicle region, from chest or pelvic irradiation by large fie]d of high energy radiation beam was performed using an ionization chamber and film dosimetry. The scattered doses outside field were measured 5 - 10% of maximum doses in fields and exponentially decrease from field margins. The scattered photon dose received the fetus and testicle from thorax field irradiation was measured about 1 mGy/Gy of photon treatment dose. Shielding construction to reduce this scattered dose was investigated using lead sheet and blocks. Lead pot shield for testicle reduced the scatter dose under 10 mGy when photon beam of 60 Gy was irradiated in abdomen region. The scattered photon dose is reduced when the lead shield was used while the no significant reduction of scattered photon dose was observed and 2-3 mm lead sheets refuted the skin dose under 80% and almost electron contamination. The results indicate that it was possible to improve shielding to reduce scattered photon for fetus and testicle when a young patients were treated with a high energy photon beam.

• Journal of the Korean institute of surface engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.125-133
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• 1985

About 1 mm thick nickel electrodeposits were obtained from nickel sulphamate baths at 40 to 60$^{\circ}C$ over the range of current densities form 5 to 25 A/$dm^2$. Deposits from above about 1.2V of cathode overpotential had randomly distributed fine grains due to a higher nucleation rate and hence had a high hardness. A deposit obtained at 0.63 V had the [110] orientation with a field oriented fine structure which yield a relatively high hardness. Deposite obtained at the intermediate overpotentials showed the [100] orientation with coarse field oriented structure whose column width tended to decrease with increasing cathode overpotential, which, in turn, gave rise to an increase in hardness. Residual stresses of the deposits measured by X-ray technique were mostly tensile but did not exceed 80 MPa, and were occasionally very small compressive. The cathode current efficiency was above 90% in all the electrolysis conditions, whereas the anode current efficiency varied from 50 to 90% with current density, bath temperature and nickel chloride concentration, among which the chloride was the most influential.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.237-244
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• 2011

Generally, X-ray examinations for dentistry use low energy radiation. It explains that the radiations are mainly absorbed to a human body because of the weak permeability. We made up some counterplans for decrease in radiation exposure, when guardians and radiologists are overexposed owing to unavoidable circumstances. The equipments for the test are GX-770 and CRANEX TOME CEPH which are used for various exams. Besides we measured the radiations in the projection room and in the control room using model 2026c and 20X6-1800. According to the test, the measurement value in the control room was low dose below $20{\mu}R$, the maximum dose in the projection room was $702.8{\mu}R$ and the measurement value of back dose was higher than lateral one. As the result, if we use a shielding door, it's effective for radioprotection and when we didn't prepare protectors, we should secure appropriate distance and be situated at the side area($90{\sim}135^{\circ}$) on the basis of centeral radiation. That way will provide valuable aid for radioprotection.

• Proceedings of the International Microelectronics And Packaging Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.181-184
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• 2003

Low Energy High flux Plasma Source인 Stationary Plasma thruster (SPT)를 이용하여 폴리이미드의 표면개질 후 접촉각과 표면에너지의 변화를 조사하고 접착력과의 관계를 조사하였다. 이온에너지는 180 eV - 200 eV, 이온전류 밀도는 수백 ${\mu}A/cm^2$, 이온선량은 $5\times10^{15}/cm^2$부터, $10\times^{18}/cm^2$로 $Ar^+,\;N_2^+,\;O_2^+$를 이온 주입시켰다. 표면 처리된 폴리이미드에 대한 접촉각 변화는 dual contact anglemeter로 증류수와 에틸렌글리콜을 이용하여 측정하였고, 표면에너지의 변화량을 구하였다. 접촉각의 변화는 아르곤 이온의 경우는 최저 $35^{\circ}$, 질소와 산소의 경우 $1\times10^{17}/cm^2$에서 각각 $14^{\circ},\;10^{\circ}$정도의 전촉각을 보였으며, $5\times10^{17}/cm^2$이상에서는 측정하기 불가능하였다. 산소 이온빔으로 처리된 PI의 표면을 x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy를 통하여 측정하여본 결과, 친수성기가 많이 형성되었음을 확인할 수 있었다. 접촉각 측정으르부터 PI의 표변에너지는 42.1 mN/m에서 아르곤 이온빔의 처리 시 65.2 mN/m로 산소 이온빔의 처리 시 81.2 mN/m로 각각 1.5배, 1.9배 정도 증대하였다. 산소 이온빔으로 처리된 PI 표면위에 스퍼터링으로 300 nm 정도의 clad layer 형성 후 $20{\mu}m$ 정도의 구리 전기 도금막을 형성하여, peel 강도를 측정한 결과 0.79 kg/cm의 강도를 얻을 수 있었다.