• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.197-200
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• 2021

Ramsay Hunt syndrome (RHS) is a disease caused by varicella-zoster virus (VZV) infection that can be diagnosed through clinical symptoms with or without imaging evaluations. The typical features of RHS on imaging evaluation include signal changes and enhancement in the internal auditory canal (IAC) nerves, and the labyrinthine segment of cranial nerve VII (CN VII) and cranial nerve VIII (CN VIII). In some patients, inner ear structure (cochlear and vestibular apparatus) is involved in RHS. Neurologic complications, such as encephalitis and meningitis, are rare in RHS, but are known to occur. Therefore, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is necessary to detect both abnormal signal intensity in the IAC, CN VII, CN VIII, inner and ear structure, and CNS complications. We report an RHS patient with CN VII, VIII, and leptomeningeal enhancement within the cerebellar folia on 10-min delayed, contrast-enhanced (CE), three-dimensional fluid-attenuated inversion recovery (3D-FLAIR) imaging.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제12권5호
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• pp.2124-2141
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• 2018

Recent studies have revealed the efficacy of incorporating delayed channel state information at transmit side (CSIT) in transmission scheme design. This paper focuses on transmit precoder design to maximize the ergodic sum-rate in a two-user Multiple-Input Single-Output (MISO) system with delayed and statistical CSIT. A new transmit strategy which precodes signals in all transmit slots is proposed in this paper, denoted as all time-slots precoding Alternative MAT (AAMAT). There is a common procedure in conventional delayed-CSIT based schemes, which is retransmitting the overheard interferences. Since the retransmitting signal is intended to both users, all previous schemes tend to use only one antenna. We however figure out an improvement in spectral efficiency could be realized if all antennas can be utilized. In this paper, we detail the design of the procoder which enabling all antennas and also we compute a lower bound of the ergodic sum-rate in an ideal condition. In addition, simulation results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed scheme.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.14-20
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 지연혼합에서의 암묵신호분리를 위해 분리행렬의 초기 값을 설정하는 방법을 제안한다. 혼합신호의 상호상관행렬에 대한 고유분리를 분석한 후, 고유벡터의 지연정보를 이용하여 초기 값으로 설정한다. 제안하는 방법을 기존의 주파수영역 독립성분분석 (FDICA: Frequency domain independent component analysis)에 초기 값으로 설정하여 분리 성능을 향상시킨다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 방법이 신호대간섭비 (SIR: Signal to Interference Ratio)가 우수하고 학습곡선의 수렴속도가 개선됨을 보인다.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2020

Purpose: Preterm infants are at high risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has been proposed as a means of predicting neurodevelopmental outcomes in this population. It is controversial whether diffuse excessive high signal intensity (DEHSI) represents damage to the white matter or delayed myelination in preterm infants. This study investigated MRI findings for predicting the severity of neurodevelopmental outcomes and assessing whether preterm infants with DEHSI near term-equivalent age have abnormal neurodevelopmental outcomes. Materials and Methods: Preterm infants (n = 64, gestational age at birth < 35 weeks) undergoing brain MRI near term-equivalent age and subsequent neurodevelopmental outcomes were evaluated between 18 and 24 months of age. The associations of MRI findings and the risk of severe cognitive delay, severe psychomotor delay, cerebral palsy (CP), and neurosensory impairment were analyzed. The associations of DEHSI with risks of severe cognitive delay, severe psychomotor delay, CP, and neurosensory impairment (hearing or visual impairment) were analyzed. Outcome data were evaluated by logistic regression and the Fisher's exact test. Results: There were significant associations between abnormal white matter findings and delayed mental development, delayed psychomotor development, neurosensory impairment, and presence of CP. The presence of DEHSI was not correlated with delayed neurodevelopmental outcomes or presence of CP. In multivariate logistic regression analyses, cystic encephalomalacia, punctate lesion, loss of white matter volume and ventricular dilation were significantly associated with CP. Conclusion: Abnormal MRI findings near term-equivalent age in preterm infants predict adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. No significant association between DEHSI and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes was demonstrated.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권10호
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• pp.57-63
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• 2014

본 논문은 전력소모와 면적을 줄인 지연된 피드-포워드 경로를 갖는 3차 SDM 구조를 제안하였다. 제안한 SDM은 기존의 적분기 2개로 구현된 3차 SDM(Sigma-Delta Modulator) 구조를 개선하였다. 제안된 구조에서는 기존 구조의 둘째 단에 지연된 피드-포워드 경로를 삽입함으로써 첫째 단의 계수 값을 2배로 증가시킬 수 있어 기존구조에 비하여 첫째 단 적분기 커패시터($C_I$)를 1/2로 감소시킬 수 있다. 그러므로 첫째 단 적분기의 부하 커패시턴스가 1/2로 작아지기 때문에 첫째 단 연산증폭기의 출력전류는 51%, 첫째 단의 커패시터 면적은 48% 감소되어 제안한 구조는 전력과 면적을 최적화 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서 제안한 구조를 이용하여 설계된 3차 SC SDM은 $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS 공정에서 공급전압 1.8V, 입력신호 1Vpp/1KHz, 신호대역폭 24KHz, 샘플링 주파수 2.8224MHz 조건으로 시뮬레이션 하였다. 그 결과 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) 88.9dB, ENOB(Effective Number of Bits) 14비트이고 SDM의 전체 전력소모는 $180{\mu}W$이다.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 하계종합학술대회 논문집 V
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• pp.2737-2740
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• 2003

This paper has been studied an algorithm for EMG signal amplitude estimation in noisy environment. The proposed method has the first stage decomposing the row vector from the delayed EMG signal and the second stage computing the eigenvalues by the eigen decomposition from the covariance matrix of the EMG signal matrix. The last stage is the estimation of RMS values from the eigenvalues. The proposed method was effective when the amplitude of the EMG signal is small, which means the signal to noise ratio is low.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.135-140
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• 2017

This paper proposes a signal merging algorithm to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a GPS correlator output to estimate the roll angle of a rotating vehicle in a weak GPS signal environment. Rotation Locked Loop (RLL) algorithm is used to estimate a roll angle using the characteristics that the power of the GPS signal measured at the receiver of a rotating vehicle varies periodically. First, delay times are calculated to synchronize GPS signals using satellites' and receiver's positions and the rotation frequency of a vehicle, and then correlator outputs are delayed in time and merged with each other, resulting in the increase of an SNR in a correlator output. Finally, simulations are conducted and the performance of the proposed algorithm is validated.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.267-270
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• 2014

This paper presents the comparative performance of an adaptive FIR filter for a Delayed LMS algorithm. The delayed error signal was used to obtain a Delayed LMS algorithm to allow efficient pipelining for achieving a small critical path and area efficient implementation. This paper presents hardware efficient results (device utilization parameters) and power consumed. The FPGA families (Artix-7, Virtex-7, and Kintex-7) for a low voltage perspective are shown. The synthesis results showed that the artix-7 CMOS family achieves the lowest power consumption of 1.118 mW with 83.18 % device utilization. Different Precision strategies, such as the speed optimization and power optimization, were imposed to achieve these results. The algorithm was implemented using MATLAB (2013b) and synthesized on the Leonardo spectrum.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.405-410
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• 2014

In this paper, we compare the quality of images reconstructed by a conventional delayed-sum (DS) algorithm and radiation pattern-based DS algorithm. In order to evaluate the quality of images, we apply the target-to-clutter ratio (TCR), which is commonly used in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) image assessment. The radiation pattern-based DS algorithm enhances the TCR of the image by focusing the target signals and preventing contamination of the radar scene. We first consider synthetic data obtained through GprMax2D/3D, a finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) forward solver. Experimental data of a 2-GHz bandwidth stepped-frequency signal are collected using a vector network analyzer (VNA) in an anechoic chamber setup. The radiation pattern-based DS algorithm shows a 6.7-dB higher TCR compared to the conventional DS algorithm.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2005년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.154-158
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• 2005

In this paper, we design optical receiver composed of CDR(clock and data recovery), SA(sense amp), TIA(transimpe dence amplifier), and decision circuit. The optical receiver can be classified to two main block, one is Deserializer composed of CDR and SA, another is PD receiver composed of preamplifier(샴), peak detector, etc. In this paper, we propose CDR using delayed data topology that could improve defects of existing CDR. The optical receiver that is proposed in this paper has the role of translation a 1.25 Gb/s optical signal to $10{\times}125 Mb/s$ array electric signals. This optical receiver is verified by simulator(hspice) using 0.35 um CMOS technology.