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Dosimetric characteristics of an independent collimator system using measurements performed quarter fields. (Tungsten eyeball shield block의 임상적용에 관한 고찰)

  • Jeong, Deok-Yang;Lee, Byoung-Koo;Hwang, Woong-Koo
    • The Journal of Korean Society for Radiation Therapy
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 2002
  • During radiation therapy with electron beam to eyelid, we must keep the minimal dose on eyeball as possible. especially in the treatment of Sebaceous gland carcinoma, Squamouse cell ca., and basal cell ca. of eyelid and low grade MALToma etc. But if radiation field covered the upper & lower eyelid, it makes a cataract on lens of treated eye, in late complications. Now we reports the advantages of Tungsten eyeball shielding block compare to previously used lead block. with BOLX-I material, we made a eyeball model and measured the absorbed dose of 6MeV & 9MeV electron hem at 6 point of eyeball model with TLD chip. And compare the absorbed dose to previously lead block and other types of Tungsten eyeball shielding block.

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Monosaccharides from industrial hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) woody core pretreatment with ammonium hydroxide soaking treatment followed by enzymatic saccharification

  • Shin, Soo-Jeong;Han, Sim-Hee;Park, Jong-Moon;Cho, Nam-Seok
    • Journal of Korea Technical Association of The Pulp and Paper Industry
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    • v.41 no.5
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    • pp.15-19
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    • 2009
  • Ammonia soaking treatment was introduced for hemp woody core pretreatment to increase enzymatic saccharification of polysaccharides. Portions of the xylan, cellulose, and lignin were removed by aqueous ammonia soaking, which improved the enzymatic saccharification of cellulose and xylan. Following ammonia soaking, 37% ($50^{\circ}C$-6 day treatment) to 61% ($90^{\circ}C$-16 h treatment) of the cellulose was converted to glucose and 33% ($50^{\circ}C$-6 day treatment) to 48% ($90^{\circ}C$-16 h treatment) of the xylan to xylose. Cellulose responded better to enzymatic saccharification than did xylan after the ammonia soaking treatment. Aqueous ammonia soaking pretreatment was more effective than electron beam irradiation for increasing enzymatic saccharification of xylan and cellulose in hemp woody core.

Effect of Irradiation of Red Radish Seeds on the Seed Viability and Functional Properties of Sprouts

  • Waje, Catherine K.;Park, Ju-Hwan;Kim, Gui-Ran;Kim, Yu-Ri;Han, Bum-Soo;Lee, Yeon-Kyung;Moon, Kwang-Deog;Kwon, Joong-Ho
    • Food Science and Biotechnology
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.390-395
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    • 2009
  • Red radish seeds were irradiated at doses up to 8 kGy using electron beam (e-beam) and gamma ray ($\gamma$-ray). The seed viability and functional properties (carotenoid, chlorophyll, ascorbic acid, and total phenol) of sprouts grown from these irradiated seeds were evaluated. High germination percentage ($\geq$97%) was observed in seeds irradiated at $\leq$5 kGy, but the yield ratio and sprout length significantly decreased with increased irradiation dose. Irradiation at $\geq$6 kGy resulted in curling of the sprout roots. Sprouting enhanced the functional properties of red radish seeds as indicated by the increased carotenoid, chlorophyll, ascorbic acid, and total phenol contents during germination. However, radiation treatment hampered the growth of seeds resulting in underdeveloped sprouts with decreased carotenoid, chlorophyll, ascorbic acid, and total phenol contents. In general, e-beam and $\gamma$-ray irradiation of red radish seeds showed similar effects on the seed viability and functional properties of sprouts. Postharvest storage reduced the functional quality of sprouts.

The Effects of the CT Voltages on the Dose Calculated by a Commercial RTP System (CT 관전압이 상용 전산화치료계획장치의 선량계산에 미치는 영향)

  • 강세권;조병철;박희철;배훈식
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.23-29
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    • 2004
  • The relationship between the dose calculated with a radiotherapy treatment planning system (RTPS) and CT number verses the relative electron density curve was investigated for various CT voltages and beam qualifies. We obtained the relationship between the CT numbers and electron densities of the tissue equivalent materials for various CT voltages and beam qualifies. At lower CT voltages, the higher density materials, like cortical bone, showed larger CT numbers and the soft tissues showed no variations. We peformed a phantom study in a RTPS, where a phantom consisted of lung and bone legions in water. We calculated the dose received behind the lung and bone regions for 6 MV photon beams, in which the regions below the lung, water and bone received higher doses in this listed order. The result was the same for 10 MV photon beams. For the clinical application, the doses were calculated for the lung and pelvis. No difference was observed when using different electron density conversion tables with various CT voltages from a same CT. A relative dose difference of 1.5% was obtained when the CT machine for the density conversion table was different from that for the CT image for planning.

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A Study on Dose Distribution of Small Irradiation Field in the Electron Therapy (전자선 치료에 있어서 작은 조사면적의 선량분포에 관한 고찰)

  • Kim, Sung-Kyu;Shin, Sei-One;Kim, Myung-Se
    • Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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    • v.8 no.2
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    • pp.114-120
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    • 1991
  • In electron therapy, low melting point alloy is used for shaping of the field. Electron field shaping material affect the output factor as well as the collimator system. The output factors of electron beams for shaped fields from NELAC-1018 were measured using ionization chamber of Farmer type in water phantom. The output factors of electron beams depend on the incident energy, inherent collimator system and the size of shaped field. Obtained results were followings. 1. In the smaller applicator, output varied extremely according to extent of collimator opening. 2. The higher energy, the output is less varied according to treatment field at small field.

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A Commissioning of 3D RTP System for Photon Beams

  • Kang, Wee-Saing
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.119-120
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    • 2002
  • The aim is to urge the need of elaborate commissioning of 3D RTP system from the firsthand experience. A 3D RTP system requires so much data such as beam data and patient data. Most data of radiation beam are directly transferred from a 3D dose scanning system, and some other data are input by editing. In the process inputting parameters and/or data, no error should occur. For RTP system using algorithm-bas ed-on beam-modeling, careless beam-data processing could also cause the treatment error. Beam data of 3 different qualities of photon from two linear accelerators, patient data and calculated results were commissioned. For PDD, the doses by Clarkson, convolution, superposition and fast superposition methods at 10 cm for 10${\times}$10 cm field, 100 cm SSD were compared with the measured. An error in the SCD for one quality was input by the service engineer. Whole SCD defined by a physicist is SAD plus d$\sub$max/, the value was just SAD. That resulted in increase of MU by 100${\times}$((1_d$\sub$max//SAD)$^2$-1)%. For 10${\times}$10 cm open field, 1 m SSD and at 10 cm depth in uniform medium of relative electron density (RED) 1, PDDs for 4 algorithms of dose calculation, Clarkson, convolution, superposition and fast-superposition, were compared with the measured. The calculated PDD were similar to the measured. For 10${\times}$10 cm open field, 1 m SSD and at 10 cm depth with 5 cm thick inhomogeneity of RED 0.2 under 2 cm thick RED 1 medium, PDDs for 4 algorithms were compared. PDDs ranged from 72.2% to 77.0% for 4 MV X-ray and from 90.9% to 95.6% for 6 MV X-ray. PDDs were of maximum for convolution and of minimum for superposition. For 15${\times}$15 cm symmetric wedged field, wedge factor was not constant for calculation mode, even though same geometry. The reason is that their wedge factor is considering beam hardness and ray path. Their definition requires their users to change the concept of wedge factor. RTP user should elaborately review beam data and calculation algorithm in commissioning.

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A study of hydrogen embrittlement behavior in E.B welded 250,300 grade 18% Ni maraging steel (전자비임 용접한 250 및 300 Grade 18% Ni Maraging 강의 수소취화 거동에 관한 연구)

  • 윤한상;정병호
    • Journal of Welding and Joining
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.53-59
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    • 1987
  • The effect of applied stress, current density and heat-treatment after welding on the time to fracture, fracture behavior was investigated by the method of constant load tensile testing under catholic charging with hydrogen in E.B. welded 250,300 Grade 18% Ni Maraging steel sheet. The main results obtained are as follows: 1. All specimen showed the characteristic delayed failure and the time to fracture showed decreasing tendency with the increase in current density and applied stress. 2. Hydrogen embitterment susceptibility of notched specimen after solution-treatment and aging after welding was more increased than that of aged smooth specimen and as welded specimen. 3. Fracture surface showed a typical intergranular fracture on the border, a dimple pattern in the center of specimen and some quasi-cleavage fracture between the intergranular and the dimple.

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Analysis of Enhancement in Phosphor Performance induced by Surface Treatments

  • Jeon, Duk-Young;Bukesov, Sergey A.;Kim, Jin-Young;Park, Zin-Min;Lee, Dong-Chin
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2003.07a
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    • pp.370-373
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    • 2003
  • A search for a new phosphor composition of excellent performance in systematic ways requires lots of research efforts, and often turns out to be very timeconsuming and difficult. Thus, usually practical ways are taken to improve the performance of phosphors. A few examples of practical surface treatments on phosphors such as $In_2O_3$ coating on $ZnGa_2O_4:Mn$, phosphoric acid treatment on ZnS:Ag,Cl, and base KOH treatment with ultrasonication on ZnS:Ag,Cl are presented. The reasons for the improvement of luminescence intensity or degradation properties after these treatments are discussed based upon careful analyses on the surface of the phosphors and a proposed model on charge carriers generated by electron beam excitation.

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A Study on the Silicidation of Thick Co/Ti Bilayer (두꺼운 이중층 Co/Ti 막의 실리사이드화에 관한 연구)

  • 이병욱;권영재;이종무;김영욱
    • Journal of the Korean Ceramic Society
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    • v.33 no.9
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    • pp.1012-1018
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    • 1996
  • To investigate the final structures and reactions of silicides a somewhat thick Ti monolayer Co monolayer and Co/Ti bilayer films were deposited on single Si(100) wafer by electron beam evaporation followed by heat treatment using RTA system in N2 ambient. TiO2 film formed between Ti and TiSi2 layers due to oxgen or moisture in the Ti monolayer sample. The final layer structure obtained after the silicidation heat-treatment of the Co/Ti bilayer sample turned out to be TiSi2/CoSi2/Ti-Co-Si alloy/CoSi2/Si sbustrate. This implies that imperfect layer inversion occurred due to the formation of Ti-Co-Si intermediate phase.

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Effects of Cooking Method and Temperature on the Lipid Oxidation of Electron-Beam Irradiated Hanwoo Steak. (가열방법 및 온도가 전자선 조사한 한우 steak의 지질산화에 미치는 영향)

  • Park T. S.;Shin T. S.;Lee J. I.;Park G. B.
    • Journal of Life Science
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    • v.15 no.5 s.72
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    • pp.840-846
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    • 2005
  • This study was carried out to investigate the effect of electron beam irradiation and cooking temperature on physico-chemical characteristics and lipid oxidation of beef. A total of six beef carcasses ($280\∼300 kg$) that were quality grade $1^{+}$(marbling score No.7, meat color No.4, maturity No.1, texture No.1) was purchased at the commercial slaughter house. The carcasses were transported and washed using high pressure water, and pasteulized with $ 50\% $ ethyl alcohol in the laboratory. After the carcasses were deboned and trimmed, loin and round were taken out to make steak (1.5cm thickness) or ground beef respectively. Samples were wrap or vacuum packaged and irradiated with 0, 3, 4.5, 6 and 7.5 kGy using electron-beam accelerator at Samsung Heavy Industries Ltd. Co. (in Taejun). Irradiated samples were cooked with different methods(electronic pan and gas oven) and temperatures ($ 60^{\circ}C, 70^{\circ}C and 80^{\circ}C$) and used to measure fatty acid composition, TBARS, cholesterol oxide products and panel test scores. The content of saturated fatty acids increased by increasing heating temperature in oven boiling steak (OBS) and pan boiling steak (PBS), and there was no difference by electron-beam irradiation. Both irradiated and non-irradiated treatment were high as the heating temperature increased in TBARS by heating temperature in PBS (p < 0.05) and the amount of Malonaldehyde (MA), standard of fat deterioration, was increased in OBS (p < 0.05). Non-irradiated and 3, 6 kGy treatment produced about 2 fold amount of MA at $ 60^{\circ}C $ compared with $ 80^{\circ}C $. In comparison with PBS, OBS produced much amount of MA and a bit different from non-irradiated treatment but did not show no tendency. As irradiation levels and heating temperature increased, the amount of cholesterol oxides products was increased and also pan-heating method, direct heating method, significantly increased the degree of oxidation compared with oven-heating method, indirect heating method (p < 0.05).