FDG Whole-Body PET/MRI in Oncology: a Systematic Review

권현우,Ann-Katharina Becker2,구진모,천기정 대한핵의학회 2017 핵의학 분자영상 Vol.51 No.1

The recent advance in hybrid imaging techniques enables offering simultaneous positron emission tomography (PET)/magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in various clinical fields. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET has been widely used for diagnosis and evaluation of oncologic patients. The growing evidence from research and clinical experiences demonstrated that PET/MRI with FDG can provide comparable or superior diagnostic performance more than conventional radiological imaging such as computed tomography (CT), MRI or PET/CT in various cancers. Combined analysis using structural information and functional/molecular information of tumors can draw additional diagnostic information based on PET/MRI. Further studies including determination of the diagnostic efficacy, optimizing the examination protocol, and analysis of the hybrid imaging results is necessary for extending the FDG PET/MRI application in clinical oncology.

Terminal Care and Religious Counseling in an East Asian Context

Carl Becker 한국노년학회 2001 한국노년학 Vol.21 No.1

From time immemorial, East Asians have wanted to die at home, but their thorough importation of Western socialized medicine has rendered that impossible; now they are fated to die in hospitals. Asia's aging society is deeply in need, not only of new hospice facilities, but of caregivers capable of meeting their patients' psychological needs. This presentation introduces the basics of terminal care, including points essential for successful operation. It specifically explains the kinds of counseling methods, attitudes, and activities that counselors can use to bring meaning to terminal patients' last days. To remove patients' pain, it recommends not only drug, but meditation; to diminish fear of death, counselors can help patients unearth and affirm hopes of a future life from their subconscious. Next we introduce the QOD (Quality of Death) survey as a measure to assure greater satisfaction of both terminal patients and their families. Religious counseling is also essential for the bereaved. If properly recorded, it can prove not only psychologically effective but also economically viable. Finally, the importamce of religious volunteers is emphasized, not only for the patients' benefit, but indeed to revitalize the volunteers' religious faith as well. It is hoped that these various aspects of counseling can contribute to a society where Asian people can spend their last days in the ways they feel most befitting themselves. Prof. Carl B. Becker, Ph.D., D.Litt. (hon.) is a Japanologist and philosopher of religious ethics, known for researching near-death experiences and religious experience in the Far East. Educated at University of Chicago Lab School (to 1967), Principia College (B.A. Philosophy and Religion, 1971), East-West Center, University of Hawaii (M.A. Buddhist Philosophy, 1973; Ph.D. Comparative Philosophy, 1981). From 1981 to 1983, he taught Asian Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, winning campus awards, and the Robert Ashby Award for his articles researching Out-of-Body Experiences. In the Spring of 1983, invited to a Fulbright lectureship at Osaka University, teaching American Thought until 1985, and Japanese Studies until 1986, when he relocated to the University of Hawaii's Curriculum Research and Development Group. In 1988, Becker returned to Japan's Tsukuba University Institute of Philosophy, and again in 1992 to accept a tenured professorship at Kyoto University. Beckers articles are reprinted in: Nagata & Ikemi's Terminal Care in Japan (1984), Bruce Greyson's The Near-Death Experience (1985), Charles Fu's Movements and Issues in World Religions (1987), Larry Samovar's Intercultural Communication, a Reader (1988), and Paul Badham/Arthur Berger's Perspectives on Death and Dying, (1989). Beckers 1983 biography, Japan, My Teacher, My Love, was adopted as a textbook in Japanese colleges, followed by his more academic studies of Christianity: History and Philosonhy, After All: Issues of Life and Death, Danger in Daily Life, Communication, East and West (Eihosha Publishers). English books include Paranormal Experience and Survival of Death (SUNY, 1992), Breaking the Circle: Buddhist Views of Death (SIUC, 1993), At the Border of Death: A Japanese Near-Death Experience (Yomiuri, 1993), and Asian and Jungian Views of Ethics, (Greenwood, 2000). Backer is a founding member of the Japan English Forensics Association, International Association for Near-Death Studies, Mind-Body Research Assn., International Society for Life Information Science, and consultant to Mortality Journal and Journal of Near-Death Studies. His recent work promotes Thanatology and Death Education in Japan. Backer is a published amateur photographer, enjoys cycling and trekking, and lives in the mountains north of Kyoto.

Overall Vibration Values for Reliable Wind Turbines - The New VDI 3834 and the New ISO 10816-21 Guideline Close a Gap - Less Vibration is Better -

Becker, Edwin The Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Enginee 2012 소음 진동 Vol.22 No.4

Condition-based maintenance on wind turbines not only involves maintenance, but also encompasses servicing, inspection, measurement and evaluation of the condition of the unit. The current condition can be evaluated on the basis of machine-specific overall vibration values. Until now, overall vibration values had not been defined for wind turbines. In fact, ISO 10816-3 explicitly excludes wind power plants. The new VDI 3834 closes this gap shown in Sheet 1: Vibration values for wind turbines up to 3 MW. In addition to the new VDI 3834 is the ISO 10816-21 in preparation. The author of the article Dr. Edwin Becker is the nominated expert for Germany.

나의 ‘독일땅 한국-사람’ 이야기

김영자(Young Ja Beckers Kim) 한국여신학자협의회 2018 한국여성신학 Vol.- No.87

Development and Validation of an Energy Management System for an Electric Vehicle with a split Battery Storage System

Becker, Jan,Schaeper, Christoph,Rothgang, Susanne,Sauer, Dirk Uwe The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers 2013 Journal of Electrical Engineering & Technology Vol.8 No.4

Within the project 'e performance' supported by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) an electric vehicle, powered by two lithium-ion battery packs of different capacity and voltage has been developed. The required Energy Management System (EMS) in this system controls the current flows of both packs independently by means of two individual dc-dc converters. It acts as an intermediary between energy storage (battery management systems-BMS) and the drivetrain controller on the vehicle control unit (VCU) as well as the on-board charger. This paper describes the most important tasks of the EMS and its interfaces to the BMS and the VCU. To validate the algorithms before integrating them into the vehicle prototype, a detailed Matlab / Simulink-model was created in the project. Test procedures and results from the simulation as well as experiences and comparisons from the real car are presented at the end.

Death Education and Religion in Schools and Modern Society

Becker, Carl 韓國宗敎敎育學會 2004 宗敎敎育學硏究 Vol.19 No.-

현대 교육은 우리에게 삶의 가장 중요한 순간인 '언제 우리가 누군가를 사랑하고, 언제 우리가 누군가를 잃고, 혹은 언제 우리 스스로 죽음에 대비해야 하는지에 대해 어떻게 생각하고 행동해야 하는가?'에 대해 가르치지 않는다. 과거에는 종교와 가족생활이 그러한 문제들에 대해 가르쳤으나, 오늘날은 최소의 아이들만이 종교를 배우거나 혹은 죽음에 관해 자신의 가족들과 진지하게 대화를 나눈다. 현대인들은 우리 자신의 삶과 죽음에 대해 많은 결정을 내려야 한다. 따라서 죽음에 대한 개인적인 권리와 책임을 가르치는 것은 점점 중요한 교육과정이 될 것이다. 우리가 죽을 것이라는 사실은 우리로 하여금 삶의 각 순간이 가치 있을 수 있음을 느끼게 한다. 죽음을 공부하는 것은 필연적인 것을 위한 대비이며, 어떻게 하면 깊이 있고 의미 있게 물리적이고 정신적인 건강을 유지하는가에 대한 공부이다. 죽음교육은 우리로 하여금 어떻게 살아야 하는가를 생각하도록 하는 삶의 교육이다. 본 논문은 평생교육의 일부로서 죽음교육의 문제를 초등학교의 죽음교육, 중-고등학교의 죽음교육, 대학의 죽음교육, 성인의 죽음교육, 전문 죽음교육의 다섯 가지 차원에서 논의하고자 한다.

A Perspective on Teaching Mathematics in the School Classroom

( Becker Jerry ) 한국수학교육학회 2016 수학교육연구 Vol.20 No.1

WHAT we teach, and HOW students experience it, are the primary factors that shape students` understanding and beliefs of what mathematics is all about. Further, students pick up their sense of mathematics from their experience with it. We have seen the re-sults of the approach to “break the subject into pieces and make students master it bit by bit. As an alternative, we strive to create a teaching environment in which students are DOING mathematics and thereby engender selected aspects of “mathematical culture” in the classroom. The vehicle for doing this is the so-called Japanese Open-ended approach to teaching mathematics. We will discuss three aspects of the open-ended approach - process open, end product open, formulating problems open - and the associated ap-proach to assessing learning.

Cosmic shear measurements with Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data

Becker, M. R.,Troxel, M. A.,MacCrann, N.,Krause, E.,Eifler, T. F.,Friedrich, O.,Nicola, A.,Refregier, A.,Amara, A.,Bacon, D.,Bernstein, G. M.,Bonnett, C.,Bridle, S. L.,Busha, M. T.,Chang, C.,Dodelson, American Physical Society 2016 Physical Review D Vol.94 No.2

<P>We present measurements of weak gravitational lensing cosmic shear two-point statistics using Dark Energy Survey Science Verification data. We demonstrate that our results are robust to the choice of shear measurement pipeline, either NGMIX or IM3SHAPE, and robust to the choice of two-point statistic, including both real and Fourier-space statistics. Our results pass a suite of null tests including tests for B-mode contamination and direct tests for any dependence of the two-point functions on a set of 16 observing conditions and galaxy properties, such as seeing, airmass, galaxy color, galaxy magnitude, etc. We furthermore use a large suite of simulations to compute the covariance matrix of the cosmic shear measurements and assign statistical significance to our null tests. We find that our covariance matrix is consistent with the halo model prediction, indicating that it has the appropriate level of halo sample variance. We compare the same jackknife procedure applied to the data and the simulations in order to search for additional sources of noise not captured by the simulations. We find no statistically significant extra sources of noise in the data. The overall detection significance with tomography for our highest source density catalog is 9.7 sigma. Cosmological constraints from the measurements in this work are presented in a companion paper.</P>

The future role of smart structure systems in modern aircraft

Becker, J.,Luber, W.,Simpson, J.,Dittrich, K. Techno-Press 2005 Smart Structures and Systems, An International Jou Vol.1 No.2

The paper intends to summarize some guidelines for future smart structure system application in military aircraft. This preview of system integration is based upon a review on approximately one and a half decades of application oriented aerospace related smart structures research. Achievements in the area of structural health monitoring, adaptive shape, adaptive load bearing devices and active vibration control have been reached, potentials have been identified, several feasibility studies have been performed and some smart technologies have been already implemented. However the realization of anticipated visions and previously initial timescales announced have been rather too optimistic. The current development shall be based on a more realistic basis including more emphasis on fundamental aircraft strength, stiffness, static and dynamic load and stability requirements of aircraft and interdisciplinary integration requirements and improvements of integrated actors, actuator systems and control systems including micro controllers.

Economic Growth, Inequality and Population Growth

Becker, Gary S. 서울대학교 사회과학연구소 1987 社會科學과政策硏究 Vol.9 No.1