• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권12호
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• pp.4576-4582
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• 2023

The Korea retrospective dosimetry (KREDOS)-electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) group undertook an intercomparison investigation utilizing hydroxyapatite. This analysis involved four institutions: the Korea Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Dongnam Institute of Radiological and Medical Sciences, Korean Association for Radiation Application, and Radiation Health Institute of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power. Following the irradiation of the hydroxyapatite sample, the recorded build-up was analyzed. To validate the reliability of the EPR dosimetry findings and enhance its operational performance, a hydroxyapatite dose-response curve was plotted and dosimetry was performed for a blind sample. The proficiency of each laboratory was assessed by employing an interlaboratory comparison methodology. This involved a comparative analysis of the measurement results by calculating the relative bias, z-score, and En value. The results submitted by the participating laboratories demonstrated satisfactory ratings for doses of 1.006, 3.999, and 6.993 Gy. Following the second intercomparison, efforts to optimize their hydroxyapatite-EPR dosimetry systems are underway in the participating laboratories. The current assessment of hydroxyapatite dose yielded the foundational data required to establish the parameters of dental dosimetry. In future, the third intercomparison experiment will be conducted for exploring other materials.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2000

목적: 전자상자성 공명(Electron Paramagnetic Resonance EPR)을 사용하여, 현재 상용되고 있는 세가지 상자성 자기공명 조영제, Gd-DTPA, Gd-DTPA-BMA, Gd-DOTA의 전자스핀 이완시간 $T_{le}$를 결정하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법: 본 연구에 사용된 상자성 자기공명 조영제는 Gd-DTPA(Magnevist), Gd-DTPA-BMA(OMNISCAN), Gd-DOTA(Dotarem)이다. 이들 자기공명 조영제들은 2:1 부피 비율의 메탄올과 물의 혼합용액에 희석하여 저온의 glassy상태에서 EPR스펙트럼을 얻었으며, 또한 주어진 영 자기장 갈라지기 (zero-field splitting, ZFS)변수를 $3{\times}3$ 텐서량으로 계산하는 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 프로그램 'GEN'을 사용하여, 이들 조영제들에 대한 각각 다른 ZFS변수를 가지는 시뮬레이션 스펙트럼을 만들었다. 이 결과들과 McLachlan의 평균이완율 이론을 적용하여 전자스핀 이완시간이 결정되었다. 결과: 상자성 자기공명 조영제 Gd-DTPA, Gd-DTPA-BMA, Gd-DOTA의 전자 횡축 스핀이완시간($T_{2e}$)은 각각 0.113ns, 0.147ns, 1.81ns, g-value는 1,9737, 1.9735, 1.9830, 전자스핀 이완시간($T_{le}$)는 18.70ns, 33.40ns, $1.66{\mu}s$로 결정되었다. 결론: 실험 결과로부터 상자성 자기공명 조영제의 ZFS변수가 클수록 짧은 전자스핀 이완시간 $T_{le}$를 가진다는 일반적인 사실을 재 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구에 사용된 3가지 자기 공명 조영제들 중에는 화학적으로 환상구조 배위자를 갖는 Gd-DOTA가 가장 긴 전자스핀 이완시간 $T_{le}$를 가지는 것으로 나타나서 일반적으로 환상구조 배위자를 갖는 조영제들이 선상구조 배위자를 갖는 조영제에 비해 전자적인 성질은 우수한 것으로 나타났고 결론적으로 상자성 조명제가 물분자의 자기이완시간에 미치는 영향을 평가하고 고효율 상자성 자기 공명 조영제 개발에는 정확한 ZFS변수 결정이 매우 중요하다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of Photoscience
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.385-387
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• 2002

Direct EPR evidence of the photo-generation of superoxide radicals ( $O_2$$^{-.}$) was obtained by using spin trapping techniques in spinach photosystem II (PSII) membranes. $O_2$$^{-.}$ was detected by following the formation of 5-diethoxyphosphoryl-5-methyl-1 -pyrroline-N-oxide (DEPMPO) superoxide adducts, DEPMPO-OOH. The significant increase of the EPR signal amplitude of DEPMPO-OOH in N$H_2O$H-, CaC $l_2$- and NaCl-treated PSII membranes showed that the oxygen-evolving system has a close relation to the $O_2$$^{-.}$ production. PSII membranes with inactivated donor side could not prevent the $O_2$$^{-.}$ production efficiently. Treatments on PSII donor side also influence the maximum level and the kinetics of Chlorophyll (Chi) a fluorescence. Results suggested that manganese cluster and extrinsic proteins might affect Chi a fluorescence in ways different from that happens at the acceptor side of PSII.SII.SII.

• BMB Reports
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• 제29권2호
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• pp.169-174
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• 1996

Yeast cytochrome c (cyt c) was modified at cysteine-102 with a thiol-specific spin label and its interaction with liposomes containing acidic phospholipids was studied by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. Association of cyt c with liposomes resulted in a significant reduction in the mobility of the spin label and a fraction of cyt c even seemed to be immobilized. Based on a large spectral change upon binding and the proximity of the spin-label to lysine-86 and -87, we propose these two residues to be the potential binding site at neutral pH. The interaction is electrostatic in nature because the spectral changes were reversed by addition of anions. Dissociation of the bound cyt c by anions, however, became less effective as the lipid/protein ratio increased. This suggests a repulsive lateral interaction among the bound cyt c. Unlabeled cyt c molecules added to preformed cyt c-liposome complex displaced the bound (spin labeled) cyt c and the process was competitive and reversible.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.251-254
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• 2012

The electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) of the $Eu^{2+}$ ion in $SrCl_2$:Eu single crystal has been investigated using an X-band spectrometer. The angular dependence of magnetic resonance positions for the $Eu^{2+}$ impurity ion in the crystallographic aa-plane is analyzed with effective spin-Hamiltonian. The EPR spectra of the isolated $Eu^{2+}$ center merged to each other. The hyperfine splitting of the isolated $Eu^{2+}$ center due to the $^{151}Eu$ nucleus is approximately 35 G. Three kinds of $Eu^{2+}$ centers except the isolated $Eu^{2+}$ center, $Eu^{2+}$ pairs, $Eu^{2+}$ triples, and other $Eu^{2+}$ clusters, are split from the fitting of the integrated experimental spectrum with the Gaussian curve. The calculated spectroscopic splitting parameters of the $Eu^{2+}$ pairs, $Eu^{2+}$ triples, and other $Eu^{2+}$ clusters in $SrCl_2$:Eu crystal are $g_1$ = 2.06, $g_2$ = 1.94, and $g_3$ = 1.93, respectively.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제34권12호
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• pp.3547-3552
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• 2013

Single crystal EPR and optical studies of a mixed ligand zinc(II) complex doped with VO(II) ion is carried out to establish the structural properties. The angular variation of vanadyl hyperfine lines indicates a single site, with spin Hamiltonian parameters as: $g_{xx}=1.985$, $g_{yy}=1.979$, $g_{zz}=1.943$; $A_{xx}=8.71$, $A_{yy}=6.41$ and $A_{zz}=17.80$ mT. By comparing the direction cosines of principal g and A values with the direction cosines of metalligand bonds, it has been confirmed that the vanadyl ion has entered the lattice interstitially. The exact interstitial position of VO(II) in host lattice has been calculated using the fractional coordinates of atoms in the host lattice out of many assumptions. The EPR and optical data have been confirmed to obtain various bonding parameters, from which the nature of the bonding in the complex is discussed. FT-IR confirms the formation of structure of host lattice.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• 제30권6호
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• pp.709-715
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• 2006

The effects of thermal cycle condition and applied stress on the intergranular corrosion in austenitic 316 type stainless steels were investigated. Specimens were solution-treated at 1100$^{\circ}C$ for one hour and then sensitized in the temperature range of $500{\sim}800^{\circ}C$ by holding $2{\sim}300s$ with a various applied stresses of $0{\sim}8kg/mm^2$. Degree of sensitization. DOS %, was measured through polarization curve by electrochemical DL-EPR test. Microstructural observations were also conducted DOS % increased with an increase of sensitization temperature and/or holding time. Increase of applied stress resulted in increase of DOS % and more corroded surface because of acceleration of intergranular corrosion and fine grain size due to the stress. Cr depleted zone near grain boundary was observed. The amount of depletion was profounded with an increase of sensitization temperature, holding time and applied stress. $M_{23}C_6$ carbides were precipitated discontinuously at grain boundary. However, its amount was relatively small in the thermal cycle condition of 800$^{\circ}C$, 300sec and 4kg/mm$^2$.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.673-675
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• 2004

The tetranuclear copper(II) cluster compound $[Cu_4OCl_6(C_{14}H_{12}N_2)_4]$ has been synthesized by hydrothermal reaction and studied by X-ray diffraction. The four copper(II) atoms locate four capsheaves of a tetrahedral skeletal structure and a oxygen atom as interstitial atom occupies the center position of the same tetrahedron, and each edge of the Cu-Cu tetrahedron is bridged by one ${\mu}_2$-Cl anion. The copper atom possesses slightly distorted trigonal bipyramidal geometry with three ${\mu}_2$-Cl atoms in equatorial position and the interstitial O atom and one N atom from 3-benzyl-benzimidazole ligand occupying axial position. The Cu-Cu distances are in the range of 3.0986-3.1162 ${\AA}$. The EPR spectrum suggested that the copper(II) ground state $d_{x2-y2}$ and the coordination geometry was trigonal bipyramidal.

• 자원리싸이클링
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.62-67
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• 2014

금속캔은 리싸이클링이 용이한 포장용기로서 금속 폐캔을 효율적으로 리싸이클링하는 것은 자원재활용 측면에서 매우 중요한 일이다. 금속캔은 EPR 해당 품목으로서 재질에 따라 스틸캔과 알루미늄캔으로 분류되는데, 국내의 경우에는 스틸캔이 80% 가량을 차지하고 있다. 본 고에서는 2008년부터 최근 5년간 금속 폐캔 발생량과 재활용 현황 및 처리방법을 알루미늄캔과 스틸캔별로 조사하였다. 2012년 금속캔의 재활용을 중량비로 살펴보면 스틸캔이 80.8%, 알루미늄캔은 81.8%였으며 금속캔 전체로는 81.1%의 재활용율을 기록하였다.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.1769-1772
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• 2002

Previous $^{19}F\;and\;^{1,2}H$ electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) study of fluorometmyoglobin (MbF) in frozen-solution state provided sensitive tools sensing subtle structural changes of the heme that are not obtainable from X-ray. [Fann et al., J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1995, 117, 6019] Because of the intrinsic inhomogeneouse EPR line broadening effect of MbF in frozen-solution state, detection of the intrinsic inhomogeneouse EPR line broadening effect of MbF in frozen-solution state, detection of the electronic and geometrical changes of the heme ring itself and the proximal histidine by using $^{14}N$ CW ENDOR was interfered. In the present study, hyperfine-sensitive $^{14}N$ Mims ENDOR technique of pulsed-EPR was employed to probe the changes. With two different $\tau$ values of 128 and 196 ns, $^{14}N$ ENDOR signals of the heme and proximal histidine were completely resolved at $g'_{II}(=g_e=2)$. This study present that X-band $^{14}N$ Mims ENDOR sequence can sensitively detect the small changes of the spin densities and p orbital populations of the proximal and the heme nitrogens, caused by ligand and pH variation of the distal site.