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Medical Bioelectromagnetics Lab (Saito Lab)
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A lab that applies microwaves to medicine and studies how electromagnetic waves interact with the human body.
AboutAbout the lab
Healing and sensing with microwaves.
The lab studies technology that uses microwaves in medicine, as well as the effects of electromagnetic waves on the human body.
For thermal therapy, which takes advantage of the sensitivity of cancer cells to heat, the lab has developed thin antennas.
It also works on developing surgical devices that use microwave energy.
Using numerical human body models, the lab evaluates how much electromagnetic energy the body absorbs, for example during tablet use or MRI scanning.
Key terms
- Microwave
- A type of radio wave. It produces a thermal effect when it hits living tissue, and this lab uses it in treatment and surgical devices.
- Thermal therapy
- Also known as hyperthermia. A treatment that takes advantage of the sensitivity of cancer cells to heat by warming the tumor.
- Tissue-equivalent electromagnetic phantom
- A tissue-mimicking material given the same electrical properties as living tissue. It is used in experiments in place of the body.
NewsLab news
A student received the Best Student Paper Award at the Asian Workshop on Antenna and Propagation
A student received the Best Presentation Award at the Technical Group on Broadcasting Technology of the Institute of Image Information and Television Engineers
A student received the Outstanding Presentation Award at the Kanto Hyperthermia Research Meeting
Prof. Saito and colleagues received the Results Deployment Promotion Award in the SCOPE program of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications
ResearchResearch themes
The lab develops medical technologies that use microwaves and evaluates how much electromagnetic energy the human body absorbs. Its work ranges from building devices for cancer treatment and surgery to developing the tissue-equivalent phantoms used in experiments.
*Illustrative imageAntennas for cancer thermal therapy
The survival rate of cancer cells drops sharply when they are heated to about 42–45°C. Using the thermal effect that microwaves have on living tissue, the lab has developed fine-diameter antennas that heat only the tumor to therapeutic temperature. It has also carried out clinical treatment jointly with a hospital radiology department.
*Illustrative imageMicrowave surgical instruments
Energy devices such as electrosurgical knives heat tissue to high temperatures in a short time to cut it and stop bleeding, and they are essential equipment in surgery. To address their drawbacks, the lab is developing devices that use microwave energy. In procedures on animals, the hemostasis device achieved rapid hemostasis.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating electromagnetic absorption in the human body
As smartphones and tablets have spread, the use of electromagnetic technologies in medicine has also grown. Together with the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, the lab developed a high-resolution numerical model of a pregnant woman and has evaluated electromagnetic exposure during tablet use and MRI scanning.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping tissue-equivalent electromagnetic phantoms
To study electromagnetic absorption and antenna characteristics experimentally, a tissue-mimicking phantom with the same electrical properties as living tissue is needed. Because these properties vary depending on whether the tissue is human or animal, which organ it is, and which frequency is used, the lab has made phantoms suited to each purpose.
MembersFaculty
The lab's members are faculty, visiting professors, postdoctoral researchers, administrative assistants, and doctoral, master's, and undergraduate students.As of 2026
- ProfessorKazuyuki Saito
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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: “Metallic lens antenna Bell Labs 1946” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Antennas for cancer thermal therapy: “Hyperthermia Treatment For Cancer, Sonotherm 1000 by Labthermics” Gracefairchildfisher / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Microwave surgical instruments: “Operating room” John Crawford (Photographer) / Public domain (cropped)
- Evaluating electromagnetic absorption in the human body: “MRI-Philips” Jan Ainali / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Developing tissue-equivalent electromagnetic phantoms: “Network Analyzer Calibration ( )” National Institute of Standards and Technology / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (高橋研究室): “Microwave Antenna ( )” Faisal Akram from Dhaka, Bangladesh / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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