• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.523-528
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• 2013

The beam position monitor (BPM) is an essential component for the PEFP 100-MeV linac's commissioning. A prototype stripline-type linac BPM was designedfor this purpose. The electrode aperture is 20 mm in diameter, and the electrode is 25 mm long, so it can be installed between Drift Tube Linac (DTL)101 and DTL102, which is the shortest distance. One end of the electrode is connected to the Sub Miniature Type A (SMA) feed through for signal measurement, and the other end is terminated as a short. The signal amplitude of the fundamental component was calculated and compared with that of the second harmonic component. The designed BPM was fabricated and a low-power RF test was conducted. In this paper, the design, fabrication and low power test of the BPM for the PEFP linac are presented.

• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제46권4호
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• pp.160-169
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• 2021

Background: Dual-energy X-ray images (DEI) can distinguish or improve materials of interest in a two-dimensional radiographic image, by combining two images obtained from separate low and high energies. The concepts of DEI performance describing the performance of double-exposure DEI systems in the Fourier domain been previously introduced, however, the performance of double-exposure DEI itself in terms of various parameters, has not been reported. Materials and Methods: To investigate the DEI performance, signal-difference-to-noise ratio, modulation transfer function, noise power spectrum, and noise equivalent quanta were used. Low- and high-energy were 60 and 130 kVp with 0.01-0.09 mGy, respectively. The energy-separation filter material and its thicknesses were tin (Sn) and 0.0-1.0 mm, respectively. Noise-reduction (NR) filtering used the Gaussian-filter NR, median-filter NR, and anti-correlated NR. Results and Discussion: DEI performance was affected by Sn-filter thickness, weighting factor, and dose allocation. All NR filtering successfully reduced noise, when compared with the dual-energy (DE) images without any NR filtering. Conclusion: The results indicated the significance of investigating, and evaluating suitable DEI performance, for DE images in chest radiography applications. Additionally, all the NR filtering methods were effective at reducing noise in the resultant DE images.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
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• 제20권7호
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• pp.1039-1048
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• 2007

Two experiments were conducted to determine whether leptin is a metabolic signal for gonadotropin secretion in ewes. In the first experiment, twenty-eight cyclic Chal ewes were assigned randomly to an energy restricted, no leptin group (ERNL) (60% of maintenance; n = 14) and an energy normal, no leptin group (ENNL) (100% of maintenance; n = 14) for 71 days (6 estrous cycles). Estrus was synchronized with seven consecutive injections of $PGF_{2{\alpha}}$ Biweekly, body weight (BW) and body condition score (BCS) were determined and blood samples were collected to measure plasma leptin concentration. Blood samples were also taken to determine plasma progesterone concentration twice weekly. After each PG injection from the second injection to the end of experiment, four ewes were selected and blood samples were collected at 20 minutes and at hourly intervals for 3 h to detect plasma LH and FSH concentration. In the second experiment, after the ceasing of the estrous cycle caused by energy restriction, six acyclic ewes were selected and randomly allotted to two groups (n = 3) and received the following treatment for four days. Ewes in an energy restricted, leptin group (ERL) were fed with a ration which provided 60% of maintenance energy requirements and intravenously injected with $4{\mu}g$ leptin/kg BW daily. Ewes in an energy excess, no leptin group (EENL) were fed with a ration that provided 180% (120%+60%) of maintenance energy requirements and intravenously injected with 1 ml saline daily. In both groups, blood samples were collected at 20 minutes and at hourly intervals for 3 h before feeding on d 0 and d 5, and for 3 h before and after injections as above on d 2 and d 4 to detect plasma LH and FSH concentration. In the first experiment, BW and BCS from the $2^{nd}$ estrous cycle, and leptin from the $3^{rd}$ estrous cycle to the end of the experiment significantly (p<0.05) decreased. In ERNL ewes, mean plasma concentrations of FSH significantly (p<0.01) decreased from the $4^{th}$ estrous cycle to d 71 and LH pulsatile secretion was suppressed on d 71, so that, mean plasma concentrations of LH (p<0.05), LH pulse frequency (p<0.01) and LH pulse amplitude (p<0.05) significantly decreased. In the second experiment, injection of leptin significantly increased mean circulating concentrations of LH (p<0.05), LH pulse frequency (p<0.01), LH pulse amplitude (p<0.05) and mean circulating concentrations of FSH (p<0.01) and leptin (p<0.01). High energy intake significantly (p<0.05) stimulated pulsatile secretion of LH and leptin secretion (p<0.01), but non-significantly increased plasma FSH concentration. The results of this study indicate that leptin is a metabolic signal for the GnRH-LH/FSH axis in feed-restricted fat-tailed ewes.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.241-247
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• 2001

ABR(auditory brainstem response) is one of the audiometry which measures objective hearing threshold level by acquiring electric evoked potentials emanated from auditory nerve system responding to an auditory stimulation. However, the obtained potentials which are largely interfered by power line noise, have extremely low SNR, thus ensemble average algorithm is generally used. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of iteration number in ensemble average on the reduction of the power line noise. The power line noise was modeled to be a 60 Hz sinusoidal signal and the energy of the modeled signal was calculated when it was averaged. It was verified by simulation that the energy had the periodic zero points for each stimulation rate, and 60 Hz signal induced by the power line was applied to the developed ABR system to confirm that the period of zero energy point was the same with that of the simulation. By the properly selected iteration number, power line noise could be reduced and more reliable ABR could be acquired.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.20-39
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• 2020

This paper considers a downlink multi-carrier cooperative non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) transmission, where no direct link exists between the far user and the base station (BS), and the communication between them only relies on the assist of the near user. Firstly, the BS sends a superimposed signal of the far and the near user to the near user, and then the near user adopts simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) to split the received superimposed signal into two portions for energy harvesting and information decoding respectively. Afterwards, the near user forwards the signal of the far user by utilizing the harvested energy. A minimum data is required to ensure the quality of service (QoS) of the far user. We jointly optimize power allocation, subcarrier allocation, time allocation, the power allocation (PA) coefficient and the power splitting (PS) ratio to maximize the number of data bits received at the near user under the energy causality constraint, the minimum data constraint and the transmission power constraint. The block-coordinate descent method and the Lagrange duality method are used to obtain a suboptimal solution of this optimization problem. In the final simulation results, the superiority of the proposed NOMA scheme is confirmed compared with the benchmark NOMA schemes and the orthogonal multiple access (OMA) scheme.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.446-452
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 실외용 움직임 감지에 적합한 K대역 마이크로파 움직임 감지 센서를 활용한 에너지 절감형 LED 모듈을 제안하였다. 헤어핀 형태의 마이크로스트립 공진기를 이용한 발진기를 설계하여 안정성을 높이고 제작이 쉽도록 하였다. 신호의 방사를 위해 송수신 2채널 패치 배열 안테나를 개발하여 적용하였다. 수신된 신호로부터 도플러 천이 값을 획득하기 위해 윌킨슨 전력분배기 및 링 하이브리드 혼합기를 개발하여 적용하였다. 신호의 안정성 및 원치 않는 외부잡음으로부터 보호하기 위해 쉴드 캔을 제작하여 장착하였다. 제안된 움직임 감지 센서를 실증용 LED 모듈에 장착하여 에너지 절감 성능을 모의실험을 통하여 검증하였다.

• 한국광학회지
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.130-134
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• 1995

이득 선폭이 넓고 가공이 쉬원 고출력 제이저의 증폭 이득 매질로 유리한 Nd:glass 이득 매질의 소신호 이득 계수를 측정하고 이 Nd:glass를 이용하여 제작한 cavity-dumping형 레이저의 출력 특성을 조사하였다. 소신호 이득 계수를 측정하기 위해 Nd:glass, Pockels cell, 편광분할기 등을 포함하는 공진기를 구성하였으며, 측정된 소신호 이극 계수는 전기 입력 에너지가 100J일 때 $0.088 cm_{-1}$ 공진기의 왕복 내부 손실은 56%였다. Cavity-dumping형 레이저 공진기는 곡률반경이 2m인 두개의 전반사경과 Nd:glass, Pickels cell, 편광분할기, $\lambda/4$ plate 등으로 구성되었으며 제작된 레이저의 출력 에너지는 전기 입력 에너지가 140J일 때, 최대 0.85J이었고 출력 레이저 펄스폭은 8ns였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2016년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.252-255
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• 2016

심음은 가장 쉽게 추출, 보관이 가능하고 가장 빨리 심장 질환을 진단하는데 도움을 줄 수 있기에 많이 사용되고 있다. 심음은 청진, 전자 청진을 통하여 얻어지는데 질환의 판정을 위해서는 전문의 많은 경험에 의존하고 있고, 자동 진단을 위한 장비는 매우 고가이며, 이를 위하여 심음의 정량화 과정이 선행되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 심음의 한 종류인 심잡음을 심장 질환 별로 추출하여 정량화하여 자동 진단에 도움을 주고자 하였다. 심잡음은 심잡음 에너지율을 계산하여 정량화에 이용하였다. 추출된 심잡음 에너지의 파워 스펙트럼은 심장 질환별로 분류 가능한 형태학적 특징을 나타내었다.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.204-208
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• 2010

Local wall thinning in pipelines affects the structural integrity of industries like nuclear power plants (NPPs). In the present study, a pulsed eddy current (PEC) differential probe with two excitation coils and two Hall-sensors was fabricated to measure the wall thinning in insulated pipelines. A stainless steel test sample was prepared with a thickness that varied from 1 mm to 5 mm and was laminated by plastic insulation to simulate the pipelines in NPPs. The excitation coils in the probe were driven by a rectangular current pulse, the difference of signals from two Hall-sensors was measured as the resultant PEC signal. The peak value of the detected signal is used to describe the wall thinning. The peak value increased as the thickness of the test sample increased. The results were measured at different insulation thicknesses on the sample. Results show that the differential PEC probe has the potential to detect wall thinning in an insulated NPP pipelines.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제1권5호
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• pp.525-528
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• 2017

High-energy, high-power, quasi-continuous wave (QCW) operation of double-clad Yb fiber lasers incorporating an incoherent signal combiner is reported. We constructed four efficient, high-power Yb fiber lasers, each of which produced rectangular pulses at 1080 nm with a pulse energy greater than 15 J, and a pulse duration of 10 ms at a repetition rate of 10 Hz, corresponding to an average power of over 150 W and a peak power of over 1.5 kW for ~200 W of incident pump power at 915 nm. These laser outputs were combined by a homemade incoherent fiber signal combiner with low loss, yielding a maximum peak power of ~6.0 kW in a beam with $M^2{\approx}12.5$. The detailed laser characteristics and prospects for further power scaling in QCW operation are discussed.