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Clinical Medical Physics Lab
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A lab that advances medical physics research from the front lines of radiation therapy at a university hospital.
AboutAbout the lab
Solving problems in clinical treatment with science and engineering
The Clinical Medical Physics Lab consists of medical physicists who work at the cutting edge of radiation therapy at Hokkaido University Hospital.
Research is carried out close to the clinical setting, where intensity-modulated radiation therapy, proton therapy, and real-time tumor-tracking radiation therapy, which follows moving organs, are performed.
Ideas born in the clinic are tested through experiments and simulations in the lab, with the aim of advancing radiation therapy and developing medical devices.
The faculty members in charge belong to Hokkaido University Hospital.
Key terms
- Medical physicist
- A professional who uses knowledge of physics and engineering to support radiation therapy planning and the quality of equipment
- Intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT)
- A treatment that delivers radiation while finely varying its intensity, concentrating the dose on the tumor and reducing the dose to the surrounding normal tissue
- Treatment planning
- Deciding, for each patient before treatment, from which directions and how much radiation to deliver
ResearchResearch themes
The lab believes that solving problems in clinical practice with knowledge and technology from science and engineering leads to the next new discoveries. Research is conducted close to the treatment setting at the hospital, and ideas born there are tested through experiments and simulations.
*Illustrative imageTesting ideas from the clinic through experiments
The lab conducts research in areas close to the treatment setting at the hospital. Ideas born there are tested through experiments and simulations in the lab, with the aim of advancing radiation therapy and developing medical devices.
*Illustrative imageJudging treatment plan quality with numbers
The quality of an intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatment plan, and the time needed to make it, vary with the knowledge and experience of the person who creates it. Together with students of the Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, the lab is building a system that gives each patient's treatment plan quantitative criteria for judgment and reduces dependence on the planner.
*Illustrative imageComparing proton therapy and X-ray therapy
As treatment options such as X-ray therapy and proton therapy increase, it is becoming important to judge in advance which treatment to use, based on indicators such as the secondary cancer incidence rate and normal tissue complication probability (NTCP). Along with good treatment plans, the lab considers developing methods to produce such data quickly to be an important research theme in clinical medical physics.
MembersFaculty
- Assistant ProfessorRyusuke Suzuki
- Assistant ProfessorMasaya Tamura
- Assistant ProfessorTakahiro Kanehira
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Alat radiasi” YuddiW / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Testing ideas from the clinic through experiments: “Ghanaian Radiotherapists at work” Chris Sam / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Judging treatment plan quality with numbers: “Imrt-plan” MBq / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Comparing proton therapy and X-ray therapy: “Tiefendosiskurven” MBq Disk Bew ; SVG-Umsetzung Cepheiden / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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