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Seiji Nakagawa, Professor
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The Nakagawa-Ohtsuka Lab uses psychological measurement, neurophysiological measurement, acoustic physical measurement, and computer simulation to study human sensation, perception, and cognition, especially the mechanisms of hearing. Beyond clarifying these mechanisms, the lab also puts a great deal of effort into using the results to develop assistive devices and to optimize audiovisual environments. The lab also works on applied research, including bone-conduction hearing aids, bone-conduction smartphones, and communication devices that are robust against noise. Because the research is interdisciplinary, spanning engineering, medicine, neurophysiology, and experimental psychology, students learn the knowledge and techniques of each field as needed.
Tadashi Yamaguchi, Professor
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The Yamaguchi Lab studies acoustic measurement and technologies for diagnostic and therapeutic support, with quantitative ultrasound diagnosis and tissue characterization as its main fields. Its motto is "to understand the essential relationship between the physical and chemical phenomena being measured and wave phenomena." Using ultrasound from 1 MHz to several hundred MHz, the lab measures the acoustic properties (speed of sound, attenuation, etc.) of various biological tissues and investigates how they relate to tissue composition and structure. Together with multiple institutions and companies, the lab carries out education and research that combine measurement with imaging applications.
Kenji Yoshida, Associate Professor
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The Yoshida Lab studies methods for seeing inside the body using bubbles that serve as ultrasound contrast agents. It proposes a contrast-enhanced ultrasound method that uses nanobubbles, smaller than 1 micrometer in diameter, as the contrast agent, and works from confirming the basic phenomena through to verifying performance. It aims to apply this to imaging of lymphatic vessels and lymph nodes and to methods for investigating how drugs move inside the body. The lab also develops multifunctional contrast agents, in which a single formulation has multiple functions, and verifies the safety of ultrasound cavitation.
Kazuyuki Saito, Professor
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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.
Hideaki Haneishi, Professor
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The lab studies methods of imaging and measuring fine structures, constituents, and metabolism in living bodies using visible and infrared light. It also works on combining optical measurement with measurement by larger-scale equipment such as MRI and CT. Image reconstruction, which recreates tomographic images from a small number of images or from noisy data, is also a subject of its research. The lab builds measurement systems using spectral cameras, Raman spectroscopy, and optical coherence tomography (OCT), and is also developing image analysis methods.
Mikio Suga, Associate Professor
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The Suga Lab aims to improve diagnostic and therapeutic technologies through research on image processing and the development of imaging devices. Building on information engineering and imaging engineering, and collaborating with the fields of medicine and biology, the lab studies biomedical engineering and medical imaging engineering through both theory and experiment. Currently the lab focuses mainly on MRI and PET, developing methods for imaging tissue stiffness and next-generation PET scanners. The lab's motto is "Do interesting research, and have fun doing it! Just try it first."
Kazuya Kawamura, Associate Professor
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The Kawamura Lab researches robot technologies that support treatment in the field of medical and welfare engineering. Its goal is "developing easy-to-use medical and welfare support devices and establishing methods to evaluate them." In designing surgical robots, the lab develops a simulation that reproduces the surgical space based on basic data such as physicians' manual techniques, and uses it to verify the requirement specifications before development. The lab is also developing robots to support WaFLES, a laparoscopic surgery newly established at Chiba University that is performed with the body cavity filled with isotonic solution.
Jose Gomez-Tames, Associate Professor
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NSELab studies neurotechnology that uses electrical and magnetic signals to stimulate, monitor, and modulate neural activity. The lab takes an interdisciplinary approach that combines neural engineering, neuroscience, and computational methods. Its goal is to understand how nerves respond to external stimulation and to build technologies that are effective, precise, and safe. The lab welcomes third-year students in the Medical Engineering Course, as well as students from other universities who wish to join as research students or enter graduate school.
Sumihisa Orita, Professor
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Orita Lab conducts research that connects medicine and engineering, centered on the spine. Students in the lab mainly work on research using machine learning, and the lab also focuses on medical applications of VR and haptics technology. Professor Sumihisa Orita is a surgeon specializing in the spine and also holds a master's degree in engineering. As a result, it is one of the few medical engineering labs that can take a perspective closer to clinical medicine.
Takayuki Okamoto, Assistant Professor
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This lab studies technologies that visualize and quantify the fine 3D structure of biological tissue, based on micro X-ray CT systems and optical coherence tomography (OCT). The lab develops technology on both the hardware and software sides, from building imaging systems to image reconstruction, image quality improvement, and 3D image analysis. In OCT, the lab collaborates with the ophthalmology department of a university hospital and quantifies structural changes in the retina and choroid of diseased eyes. The lab aims not to stop at viewing images, but to turn them into quantitative information for interpreting living bodies.
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