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Noritaka Yusa, Professor
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The Yusa-Yoshioka Lab studies nondestructive testing and materials evaluation to maintain the integrity of structures. It develops techniques that use electromagnetic phenomena and vibration to examine internal damage without destroying the object. The lab also works on signal and image processing, probabilistic signal analysis, and, through that, the development of models for optimizing structural maintenance. Its methods are roughly half experiments and half numerical analysis, and it also develops analog games for energy and environmental education.
Shigeo Matsuyama, Professor
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The Matsuyama-Kada Lab studies techniques that use ion beams and neutron beams from accelerators to "see," "measure," and "evaluate" matter, life, and the space environment. It works on quantum imaging, which turns elements and luminescence in microscopic regions into images, and on accelerator-based neutron sources and detection technology. The lab studies everything from device development to measurement and data analysis, including evaluating the effects of radiation on devices and materials for use in space. Research is mainly carried out at the Fast Neutron Laboratory of Tohoku University, and many of the instruments were built in the course of writing bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses.
Yohei Kikuchi, Associate Professor
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The Kikuchi Lab studies medical imaging technologies that use radiation and quantum beams, such as X-ray CT, image-guided surgery, and PET. Medical imaging is indispensable to modern medicine, and it is becoming increasingly important not only for diagnosis but also for treatments that cure without cutting. The lab understands hardware and software together as a single "system" and develops technologies to improve its performance. It also conducts interdisciplinary research that integrates the sciences and humanities, incorporating perspectives from neuroscience and psychology to evaluate and optimize the technologies it develops.
Miho Shidahara, Associate Professor
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The Shidahara Lab studies techniques and evaluation methods for medical engineering (including nuclear medicine) that use radiation and radioisotopes. The lab aims to contribute to future medicine by developing methods that are highly practical and useful. It works on techniques that improve the quantitative accuracy of biological functions observed with quantum technologies. It is also advancing techniques that simulate medical examinations on a computer, as well as the evaluation of medical radiation exposure associated with diagnosis and treatment.
Keitaro Hitomi, Professor
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The Hitomi-Nogami Lab studies sensors for using radiation in medicine and engineering. People are surrounded by radiation from space, food, and the ground, but it cannot be perceived by the human senses. To "see" radiation, the lab works on developing sensors that detect gamma rays in particular. Centered on making things, which is fundamental to engineering, the lab grows semiconductor crystals with its own hands and finishes them into sensors.
Seongyun Kim, Professor
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The lab studies technologies for separating and extracting nuclides from the high-level radioactive liquid waste generated when spent nuclear fuel is reprocessed. Sorting "nuclear waste" and recovering the valuable components is thought to reduce the volume of radioactive waste and lower its toxicity. The lab is also studying the use of the separated radioisotopes (RIs) as raw materials for radiopharmaceuticals used in cancer treatment. The lab aims to reduce environmental burden while using resources and energy efficiently.
Ryuta Kasada, Professor
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The lab investigates atomic-scale lattice defects that form inside materials. Using methods such as three-dimensional atom probe, transmission electron microscopy, and positron annihilation, the lab studies defects in crystals. Research topics listed for the faculty members include analysis of lattice defects in reactor pressure vessel steel that has suffered neutron damage, and irradiation effects on fusion reactor materials. The lab is also introduced as the Materials Irradiation Engineering research division of the Institute for Materials Research.
Ryuta Kasada, Professor
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The lab researches and develops "materials for extreme environments," which are key to realizing fusion reactors. A fusion reactor has a complex extreme environment in which high temperature, high pressure, and radiation overlap, and this is the wall standing in the way of its realization. The lab creates nano-oxide-particle dispersion strengthened alloys that withstand high temperature and radiation, and evaluates their properties with state-of-the-art equipment. The lab is building a materials engineering foundation that can contribute not only to fusion reactors but also to the safety of nuclear power plants.
Eiji Akiyama, Professor
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The Akiyama-Koyama Lab studies hydrogen embrittlement in structural materials used in buildings, automobiles, nuclear power, and more. When hydrogen enters a metal under stress, a type of fracture known as hydrogen embrittlement occurs. The lab investigates how hydrogen enters metals through corrosion and how it behaves inside them, in order to clarify the mechanisms of fracture. Based on these findings, the lab works on methods for evaluating hydrogen embrittlement and on developing materials that resist environments such as corrosive ones.
Dai Aoki, Professor
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The Aoki-Miyake Lab studies the physics of compounds containing actinide elements such as uranium, as well as rare-earth elements. The lab creates new materials and explores the unprecedented quantum properties that emerge in them. In these materials, electrons interact strongly with one another, giving rise to a state known as a heavy-fermion system, in which electrons behave as if they were very heavy. The lab handles everything in-house, from growing crystals to measurements under extreme conditions such as ultralow temperatures, high magnetic fields, and high pressure.
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