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Comparison of Bone Mineral Density with Pencil Beam and Fan Beam DXA Machine

  • Park, Jeong-Hoon;Lee, Jae-Mun;Youn, Je-Woong;Suh, Tae-Suk;Lee, Heung-Kyu
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.425-426
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    • 2002
  • The bone densitometer is to investigate the bone mineral content and density for the osteoporosis assessment by using dual energy X-ray photons. For the clinical verification of the ISOL's OSTEO plus, the clinical study was performed with healthy and non-menopausal 30 female volunteers. The fan-beam DXA machine (Lunar, Expert) was chosen as a reference. After correlation analysis of their bone mineral densities, a strong correlation was obtained. From the results, it is claimed that the new forearm bone densitometer is clinically useful in osteoporosis diagnosis.

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Profile and Dose Distribution for Therapeutic Heavy Ion Beams

  • Sasaki, Hitomi;Komori, Masataka;Kohno, Toshiyuki;Kanai, Tatsuaki;Hirai, Masaaki;Urakabe, Eriko;Nishio, Teiji
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.211-213
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this work is acquiring some parameters of therapeutic heavy ion beams after penetrating a thick target. The experiments were performed using a pencil-like $\^$12/C beam of about 3 mm in diameter from NIRS-HIMAC, and the data were taken at several points of the target thickness for $\^$12/C beam of 290 MeV/u and 400 MeV/u. By the simultaneous measurements using some detectors, the atomic number of each fragment particle was identified, and the beam profile, the dose distribution and the LET spectrum for each element were derived.

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Evaluation of Hitachi 3D Treatment Planning version 1.6

  • Fukuda, Shigekazu;Yokohama, Noriya;Maruyama, Ichiro;Kume, Kyo;Kagiya, Go;Yamamoto, Kazutaka
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Medical Physics Conference
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    • 2002.09a
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    • pp.298-299
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    • 2002
  • WERC (Wakasa Wan Energy Research Center) has started the proton cancer therapy since June 2002. We use Hitachi 3D treatment planning (version 1.6) that can calculate the proton dose distribution by use of the pencil beam algorithm as well as the broad beam algorithm practically fast. This treatment planning software satisfies almost functions required in the proton therapy and includes some advanced techniques such as the 3D region glowing function that can search the target region three-dimensionally based on the CT-values. In this paper, we will introduce this planning system and present our evaluation from point of view of both clinical usage and QA.

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Prediction technology on the source location of acoustic emission signal (음향방출 신호원의 위치추정 기법)

  • 이성재;김정석;강명창;정연식;정규동
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers Conference
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    • 2003.04a
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    • pp.293-298
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    • 2003
  • This study deals with the source location method of defect which can be occurred in structure. The existing methods was very difficult to be applied to predict it because of using very complex numerical formula. The triangulation method which was proposed in his study can predict the source location predicted easily with small amount of data. Wave arrival time data can be directly converted into source-sensor distance is known. For this purpose, the propagation velocity was measured by Rayleigh wave, and the propagation behavior was analyzed. For the consideration of jointed part in structure, the source location method was applied to the welded workpiece. The signal propagation velocity was measured in welding part for the purpose of application to the part and the revised algorithm of source location was proposed.

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An Experimental Study on Measurement of Contact Force of Head/Disk Interface Using Acoustic Emission Sensor (AE 센서를 이용한 헤드/디스크 틈새의 텁촉력 측정에 관한 실험적 연구)

  • Kim, Ji-Hoon;Kim, Do-Hyung;Hwang, Pyung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers Conference
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    • 1998.10a
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    • pp.278-284
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    • 1998
  • In order to measure the real contact force between head and disk on hard disk drive quantitatively, many technique of measurement have been developed. Acoustic Emission Sensor can be used for detect elastic energy of head/disk contact as arms value. In this study using pencil breaking test is proposed for finding contact force using transfer function between calibrated force and real contact force. And real AE data of subambient and tripad slider shows bending and torsional mode and their energy are dominant in hard disk and head contact.

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The Relationship between Children's Literacy and Writing with a Computer (유아의 문식성과 컴퓨터로 쓰기와의 관계에 대한 연구)

  • Yang, Yeon Yim;Kim, Young Sil
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.301-313
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    • 2001
  • This study explored the linkage between literacy and writing with a computer in three-to five-year-old children. The 57 subjects were closely observed as they produced written language forms using the word processing program, Araeha Hangul. Stages of writing with a computer were developed to assess the children's computer-writing. While writing with a computer, children invented letters, words, and sentences in an experimental and playful way. Children's writing with computer improved with age. There was a positive correlation between writing with a computer and writing with a pencil. In this way, computer writing was found to be part of written language development.

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Commissioning and Validation of a Dedicated Scanning Nozzle at Samsung Proton Therapy Center

  • Chung, Kwangzoo;Han, Younyih;Ahn, Sung Hwan;Kim, Jin Sung;Nonaka, Hideki
    • Progress in Medical Physics
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.267-271
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    • 2016
  • In this study, we present the commissioning and validation results of a dedicated scanning nozzle. The dedicated scanning nozzle is installed in one of the two gantry treatment rooms at Samsung Proton Therapy Center. Following a successful completion of the acceptance test, the commissioning process including the beam data measurement for treatment planning system has been conducted. Extended measurements have been conducted as a validation of the clinical performance of the nozzle and various quality assurance protocols have been prepared.

Diagnostic Calculation of Trace Calcium Ions in Food Using a DNA doped Sensor

  • Yang, Young-Kyun;Ly, Suw-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.197-203
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    • 2013
  • The diagnostic assay of calcium ion was sought using a modified sensor with square-wave stripping voltammetry (SWSV) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). In this study, simple graphite pencil was used as working, reference, and auxiliary electrodes. By coating the working electrodes with DNA, their sensitivity was very much improved, and good results were yielded. Moreover, clean seawater was used as an electrolyte solution instead of acid and base electrolytes to lessen the expenses involved in the experiment. The analytical optimum conditions were also examined. These conditions were attained at the low detection limit of $0.6ugL^1$. After that, the results were applied to drinking water of milk contain.

Voltammetric Assay of Silver Ions in Frog's Tissue

  • Ly, Suw-Young;Lee, Jin-Hui;Lee, Chang-Hyun
    • Journal of the Korean Applied Science and Technology
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.139-145
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    • 2013
  • The electrochemical analysis of silver ion was performed using cyclic voltammetry (CV) and square-wave (SW) stripping voltammetry, and electrode cell systems were fabricated with graphite pencil electrode (GE) of working, reference and counter electrodes. Also electrolyte was the use of sea water as electrolyte solutions instead of ionic controlled solutions. The optimum analytical conditions for the cyclic and stripping parameters were determined using GE. The results approached the microgram working ranges of SW(ug/L) and CV(ug/L) Ag, and the optimum conditions were applied to frog's tissue and the food samples.

Design and Fabrication of a W-band FMCW Radar for the Metal Target Detection Under the Ground Clutter Environment (지면 클러터 환경에서 금속표적감지를 위한 W-대역 FMCW 레이더의 설계 및 제작)

  • Park Jung-Dong
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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    • v.7 no.3 s.18
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    • pp.93-100
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we describe the design, fabrication, and test results of a W-band FMCW radar for the metal target detection under the ground clutter environment. In order to detect metal targets on the ground, we used a single cassegrain antenna with the beamwidth of $1.45^{\circ}$ which forms pencil-beam footprint on the ground. A log envelope detector was applied to improve radar performance in the severe ground clutter known as Weibull and log normal clutter. The designed FMCW radar can acquire altitude information from the ground clutter with $\sigma_0=-23dB$ at the height of 160m. The fabricated W-band FMCW radar transmits 11 dBm power and the dynamic range of the receiver is from -106dBm to -30dBm. The performances of the fabricated sensors were tested out in the fields and detected a car target of 200m apart on the grass.