This study was conducted to obtain basic information for the use of the ATP fluorescence detection method in consideration of the most common and frequent contamination situation that occurs in laboratories dealing with fire blight causing bacterium, Erwinia amylovora. ATP luminescence measurements (Relative Light Unit, RLU) were tested against these pathogen cells (CFU/cm2) which were artificially introduced on the disinfected surface of a bench floor of a biosafety cabinet (Class 2 Type A1), on a part of the disinfected surface of a lab experimental bench, on a part of the disinfected floor, and on a part of the disinfected floor of an acryl chamber for bioaerosol studies in a biosafety laboratory (BSL 2 class) using two different ATP bioluminometers. RLU values were not much increased with the bacterial cells from 2.15 × 102/cm2 to 2.15 × 106/cm2. RLU values varied among the four different surfaces tested. RLU values measured from the same number of bacterial cells differed little between the two different ATP bioluminometers used for this study. RLU values obtained from bacterial cells higher than 2.15 × 107/cm2 indicated the presence of bacterial contamination on the four different surfaces tested. The R2 values obtained based on the correlation data for the RLU values in response to different E. amylovora cell numbers (CFU/ cm2) on the surfaces of the four test spots ranged from 0.9827 to 0.9999.

규소(Si)는 지각의 구성 원소 중 두 번째로 흔히 존재하는 원소로, 3개의 안정동위원소, 28 Si (92.23%), 29 Si (4.67%), 30Si (3.10%)를 가진다. 규소 동위원소는 규소의 생지화학적 순환에 대한 지시자로 고환경 및 고기후 복원을 위해 전 세계에서 널리 연구되고 있다. 그러나 국내에서는 아직까지 생물 기원 규소에 대한 규소 동위원소 연구가 전 무한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 대형 규조류 시료에 대한 규소 동위원소 분석을 위해 기존 보고된 알칼리 용융법을 정리하고 생물 기원 규소 분석에 가장 적합한 규소 분리법을 구축하고자 하였다. 해당 시료를 고온 알칼리 용융을 통해 완전 용해시킨 후 시료 내 규소를 AG® 50W-X8 양이온 교환수지를 이용하여 효과적으로 분리하였다. 분리된 시료에 대한 신뢰성 검증을 위하여 Si 동위원소 표준물질(NBS-28) 및 USGS 암석 표준시료(AGV-2, GSP-2, BHVO-2)에 대한 분석을 함께 실시하였으며, 분석된 시료 모두 기존 연구결과와 오차범위 내에서 일치하는 값을 나타내었다. 본 연구에서 개발한 규소 동위원소 분석법은 향후 국내의 지구과학 및 관련 연구 발전에 많은 도움을 줄 것으로 기대된다.

농식품과 생산환경에서 대장균 오염여부를 휴대 전화에서 실시간으로 결과를 확인할 수 있는 IoT 기반 스마트 대장균 검출 장치를 개발하였다. 개발된 대장균 검출기는 온도 조절부, UV 램프, 고해상도 카메라 및 검출 여부를 판단할 수 있는 소프트웨어로 구성된 장치이다. 검출기의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 온도, 대장균 검출 시간 및 검출 한계를 측정하였는데, 개발 된 장치의 설정 온도와 실제 온도의 차이는 약 1.0oC 이내 였다. 또한 검출시간은 1 CFU / 100 mL일 때 15 시간이었고, 대장균 오염농도가 증가할수록 검출시간이 감소하였다. 개발된 스마트 대장균 검출기를 기구, 장갑, 관개 수, 종자 및 채소를 포함한 다양한 시료에 적용했을 때, 대장균의 검출율은 식품공전 법으로 분석하였을 때보다 높았다. 따라서 개발된 대장균 검출기술은 농식품 및 생산환경에서 대장균을 효율적으로 검출할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

This study investigated the effects of the post annealing temperatures on the electrical and interfacial properties of a metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector(MSM-PD) device. The interdigitate type MSM-PD devices had the structure Al(500 nm) / Ti(200 nm) / poly-Si(500 nm). Structural analyses of the MSM-PD devices were performed by employing X-ray diffraction(XRD), scanning electron microscopy(SEM) and transmission electron microscope(TEM). Electrical characteristics of the MSM-PD were also examined using current-voltage(I-V) measurements. The optimal post annealing condition for the Schottky contact of MSM-PD devices are 350℃-30minutes. However, as the annealing temperature and time are increased, electrical characteristics of MSM-PD device are degraded. Especially, for the annealing conditions of 400℃-180minutes and 500℃-30minutes, the I-V measurement itself was impossible. These results are closely related to the solid phase reactions at the interface of MSM-PD device, which result in the formation of intermetallic compounds such as Al3Ti and Ti7Al5Si12.

The aim of this study was to set up the optimal exposure condition according to detector type considering image quality (IQ) with radiation dose in chest digital radiography. We used three detector type such as flat-panel detector (FP) and computed radiography (CR), and charge-coupled device (CCD). Entrance surface dose (ESD) was measured at each exposure condition combined tube voltage with tube current using dosimeter, after attaching on human phantom, it was repeated 3 times. Phantom images were evaluated independently by three chest radiologists after blinding image informations. Standard exposure condition using each institution was 117 kVp-AEC at FP and 117 kVp-8 mAs at CR, and 117 kVp-8 mAs at CCD. Statistical analysis was performed by One way ANOVA (Dunnett T3 test) using SPSS ver. 19.0. In FP, IQ scores were not significant difference between 102 kVp-4 mAs and 117 kVp-AEC (28.4 vs. 31.1, p=1.000), even though ESD was decreased up to 50% (62.3 μGy vs. 125.1 μGy). In CR, ESD was greatly decreased from 117 kVp-8 mAs to 90 kVp-8 mAs without significant difference of IQ score (p=1.000, 24.6 vs. 19.5). In CCD, IQ score of 117 kVp-8 mAs was similar with 109 kVp-8 mAs (29.6 vs. 29.0), with decreasing from 320.8 μGy to 284.7 μGy (about 11%). We conclude that optimal x-ray exposure condition for chest digital radiography is 102 kVp-4 mAs in FP and 90 kVp-8 mAs in CR, and 109 kVp-8 mAs in CCD.

A image defect detecting vision system for the automatic optical inspection of wafer has been developed. For the successful detection of various kinds of defects, the performance of two threshold selection methods are compared and the improved Otsu method is adopted so that it can handle both unimodal and bimodal distributions of the histogram equally well. An automatic defect detection software for practical use was developed with the function of detection of ROI, fast thresholding and area segmentation. Finally each defect pattern in the wafer is classified and grouped into one of user-defined defect categories and more than 14 test wafer samples are tested for the evaluation of detection and classification accuracy in the inspection system.

The purpose of the study was to evaluation of the radiation dose reduction using various automatic exposure control (AEC) systems in different manufactures multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT). We used three different manufacturers for the study: General Electric Healthcare, Philips Medical systems and Siemens Medical Solutions. The general scanning protocol was created for the each examination with the same scanning parameters as many as possible. In the various AEC systems, the evaluation of reduced-dose was evaluated by comparing to fixed mAs with using body phantom. Finally, when we applied to AEC for three manufacturers, the radiation dose reduction decreased each 35.3% in the GE, 58.2% in the Philips, and 48.6% in the Siemens. This applies to variety of the AEC systems which will be very useful to reduce the dose and to maintain the high quality.

C. Harris와 M. Stephens에 의하여 제안된 Harris 모서리 검출기는 영상처리 분야에서 널리 사용되고 있는 특징추출 알고리즘이다. Harris 모서리 검출기는 지역적 신호의 상호관계를 기반으로 회전과 비율, 조명 및 영상의 잡음에 대하여 매우 강력한 검출 성능을 보여준다. 하지만 검출된 모서리들은 독립된 점이 아니라 영역형태로 출력되기 때문에 특징점으로 사용하기에 무리가 있으므로 각 영상의 상태와 여러 환경변수가 고려된 후처리가 필수적으로 필요하다. 이런 문제점은 영상 정합 환경에서 치명적인 오류를 유발할 수 있으므로 본 논문에서는 영상의 상태와 환경의 변화에도 모범적인 특징점을 추출할 수 있도록 모서리의 단일응답특성, 통계적 분포 및 분할기반 문턱치화를 포함한 새로운 모서리 검출 방식을 제안한다.

The COREA (COsmic ray Research and Education Array in Korea) project aims to build a ground array of particle detectors distributed over Korean Peninsular, through collaborations of high school students, educators, and university researchers, in order to study the origin of ultra high energy cosmic rays. COREA array will consist of about 2000 detector stations covering several hundreds of km2 area at its final configuration and detect electrons and muons in extensive air-showers triggered by high energy particles. During the intial phase COREA array will start with a small number of detector stations in Seoul area schools. In this paper, we have studied by Monte Carlo simulations how to select detector sites for optimal detection efficiency for proton triggered air-showers. We considered several model clusters with up to 30 detector stations and calculated the effective number of air-shower events that can be detected per year for each cluster. The greatest detection efficiency is achieved when the mean distance between detector stations of a cluster is comparable to the effective radius of the air-shower of a given proton energy. We find the detection efficiency of a cluster with randomly selected detector sites is comparable to that of clusters with uniform detector spacing. We also considered a hybrid cluster with 60 detector stations that combines a small cluster with Δι≈100m and a large cluster with Deltaι≈1km . We suggest that it can be an ideal configuration for the initial phase study of the COREA project, since it can measure the cosmic rays with a wide range energy, i.e., 1016eV≤E≤1019eV , with a reasonable detection rate.

We have developed a control electronics system for an infrared detector array of KASINICS (KASI Near Infrared Camera System), which is a new ground-based instrument of the Korea Astronomy and Space science Institute (KASI). Equipped with a 512×512 InSb array (ALADDIN III Quadrant, manufactured by Raytheon) sensitive from 1 to 5μm, KASINICS will be used at J, H, Ks, and L-bands. The controller consists of DSP(Digital Signal Processor), Bias, Clock, and Video boards which are installed on a single VME-bus backplane. TMS320C6713DSP, FPGA(Field Programmable Gate Array), and 384-MB SDRAM(Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) are included in the DSP board. DSP board manages entire electronics system, generates digital clock patterns and communicates with a PC using USB 2.0 interface. The clock patterns are downloaded from a PC and stored on the FPGA. UART is used for the communication with peripherals. Video board has 4 channel ADC which converts video signal into 16-bit digital numbers. Two video boards are installed on the controller for ALADDIN array. The Bias board provides 16 dc bias voltages and the Clock board has 15 clock channels. We have also coded a DSP firmware and a test version of control software in C-language. The controller is flexible enough to operate a wide range of IR array and CCD. Operational tests of the controller have been successfully finished using a test ROIC (Read-Out Integrated Circuit).

1. 닭고기에서 4종의 플루오로퀴놀론계 합성항균제(ofloxacin, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin)를 액상추출법으로 추출하여 형광검출기와 HPLC를 이용하여 동시 정량분석하는 방법을 확립하였으며 분석조건으로서 컬럼은 Symmetry C18(250×4.6 mm id, 5 ㎛), 이동상은 0.4% triethylamine 및 0.4% phospholic acid 수용액, methanol 및 acetonitrile 혼합용액(800:100:100, v/v/v)을 사용하였으며, 형광검출기는 여기파장 278 nm, 측정파장 456 nm으로 그리고 유속은 1.0 ml/min., 주입량은 50 ㎕로 하였다. 확립된 분석조건으로 측정한 ofloxacin, norfloxacin, ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin 표준품의 표준곡선식에서 모두 상관계수 0.999이상의 양호한 직선성을 보였으며, 첨가한 닭고기의 크로마토그람에서도 각각의 nfwlfquf 분리시간대에 방해 피크 없이 양호한 분리도를 나타내었다. 0.05~0.2 ㎍/g 첨가한 시료에서 평균 회수율은 ofloxacin 92.0~95.4%, norfloxacin 84.2~87.3%, ciprofloxacin 78.3~82.2%, enrofloxacin 91.3~95.3%이었으며 변이계수(CV)는 2.7~9.4%이었다.4종의 동시분석법의 검출한계 및 정량한계는 각각 ofloxacin 23.5 ppb, 35.3 ppb, norfloxacin 3.4 ppb, 5.1 ppb, ciprofloxacin 3.0 ppb, 4.5 ppb, enrofloxacin 2.5 ppb, 3.8 ppb 수준이었다. 2. 인천 지역에서 돛구한 닭고기 총 1,523수를 EEC-4-plate법으로 검사한 결과 양성반응을 보인 닭고기는 15수(육계 10, 토종닭 5)였으며, HPLC를 이용한 정밀검사결과 육계 5수에서 ciprofloxacin이 불검출~0.04 ppm, enrofloxacin이 0.01~0.69 ppm수준으로 검출되었으며, 토종닭 5수에서는 ciprofloxacin이 0.02~0.12 ppm, enrofloxacin이 0.36~6.79 ppm수준으로 검출되었다.