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Medical Physics Lab
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A medical physics lab that uses physics and engineering to make radiation therapy more accurate and safer.
AboutAbout the lab
Applying physics and engineering to radiation therapy.
Medical physics is an academic field that applies the knowledge and techniques of physics and engineering to medicine to help maintain and improve human health.
The lab pursues research and education especially in the medical physics of radiation, and develops research that centers on AI to help promote health.
The lab aims to train medical physicists who can handle everything from introducing radiation therapy equipment to treatment planning and quality management, as well as medical physics researchers.
The lab works together with the medical physics group of the Department of Radiation Oncology at the university hospital.
Key terms
- Medical physicist
- A professional who uses expertise in physics and engineering to support the accuracy and safety of treatment, such as in radiation therapy
- Radiomics
- Research that extracts large numbers of fine numerical features, invisible to the eye, from medical images and uses them to predict outcomes such as the course of a disease
- Real-time tumor tracking irradiation
- A method of delivering radiation while following the position of a tumor that moves with breathing and other motion
- Dose distribution
- The distribution of where in the body, and how much, radiation was delivered
ResearchResearch themes
The lab works on quality management in radiation therapy, big-data analysis known as radiomics, collaboration with radiation biology, and imaging.
*Illustrative imageImproving the Quality of Radiation Therapy in Clinical Trials
From a medical physics perspective, the lab supports clinical trials by drafting trial protocols, conducting accreditation tests for participating institutions, and managing the quality of enrolled cases.
*Illustrative imagePredicting Prognosis with Radiomics
Using data from more than 800 lung cancer patients collected from partner institutions, the lab has predicted local recurrence, distant metastasis, and pneumonitis. It continues radiomics research on a variety of diseases.
*Illustrative imageKnowing the Dose Delivered Inside the Body
The lab uses AI to process the low-quality images taken daily for patient positioning during treatment, making it possible to calculate the dose distribution inside the body. The aim is to clarify the relationship between the dose actually delivered and tumor response and adverse events.
*Illustrative imageNoninvasive Motion Tracking
For real-time tumor tracking irradiation, the lab is developing a method in which AI learns from treatment planning data and applies a patient-specific model, and a method that extracts the respiratory waveform directly from images.
MembersFaculty
- ProfessorMitsuhiro Nakamura
- Program-Specific Assistant ProfessorYukako Kishigami
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- Top image: “Flowchart of the standard radiomics model” Chaddad, A.; Kucharczyk, M.J.; Cheddad, A.; Clarke, S.E.; Hassan, L.; Ding, S.; Rathore, S.; Zhang, M.; Katib, Y.; Bahoric, B.; Abikhzer, G.; Probst, S.; Niazi, T. / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Improving the Quality of Radiation Therapy in Clinical Trials: “Radiation therapy” Dina Wakulchik from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Predicting Prognosis with Radiomics: “CT Brain Scan” Goleisureintl / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Knowing the Dose Delivered Inside the Body: “Direct-reading dosimeter” Prolineserver / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Noninvasive Motion Tracking: “Radium radiotherapy machine 1951” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
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