Published Book

(1) Yasuda K: “Integration of Positron Emission Tomography into Radiation Therapy: With a focus on the Head and Neck Cancer” Japanese Journal of Clinical Radiology 2018 Sep; 63(9):961-967

International Collaborative Papers  

(1) Fujima N, Hirata K, Shiga T, Li R, Yasuda K, Onimaru R, Tsuchiya K, Kano S, Mizumachi T, Homma A, Kudo K, Shirato H. Integrating quantitative morphological and intratumoural textural characteristics in FDG-PET for the prediction of prognosis in pharynx squamous cell carcinoma patients. Clinical Radiology 2018 Sep 21; 73 (12): 1059.e1–1059.e8, [Epub ahead of print] [Overseas journal] *, i),○

(2) Prayongrat A, Kobashi K, Ito Y M, Katoh N, Tamura M, Dekura Y, Toramatsu C, Khorprasert C, Amornwichet N, Alisanant P, Shirato H, Shimizu S. The normal tissue complication probability model-based approach considering uncertainties for the selective use of radiation modality in primary liver cancer patients. Radiotherapy and Oncology 135 (2019) 100-106 [Overseas journal] i)

(3) Fujima N, Homma A, Harada T, Shimizu Y, Tha KK, Kano S, Mizumachi T, Li R, Kudo K, Shirato H. The utility of MRI histogram and texture analysis for the prediction of histological diagnosis in head and neck malignancies. Cancer Imaging 2019 Feb 4;19(1):5. doi: 10.1186/s40644-019-0193-9. [Overseas journal] *, i),○

(4) Kato F, Kudo K,Yamashita H, Baba M, Shimizu A, Oyama-Manabe N, Kinoshita R, Li R, Shirato H. Predicting metastasis in clinically negative axillary lymph nodes with minimum apparent diffusion coefficient value in luminal A-like breast cancer. Breast Cancer. 2019 doi: 10.1007/s12282-019-00969-0. [Overseas journal] *, i),ii), ○

(5) Kwon J, Sutherland K, Makarova A, Matsuura T, Hashimoto T, Peng H, Toshito T, Umegaki K, Shirato H, Shimizu S Investigation of energy absorption by clustered gold nanoparticles. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms, 429, 34-41. 2018 [Overseas journal] ○

(6) Takayanagi T, Uesaka T, Kataoka M, Unlu MB, Umegaki K, Shirato H, Xing L, Matsuura T, “A novel range verification method using ion-acoustic wave generated from spherical gold markers for particle beam therapy: a simulation study”, in revision, Scientific Reports (2018). [Overseas journal] ○

(7) Nishikawa Y, Yasuda K, Okamoto S, Ito Y M, Onimaru R, Stiga T, Tsuchiya K, Watanabe S, Takeuchi W, Kuge Y, Peng H, Tamaki N, Shirato H. Local relapse of nasopharyngeal cancer and Voxel-based analysis of FMISO uptake using PET with semiconductor detectors. Radiat Oncol. 2017 Sep 6;12(1):148. doi: 10.1186/s13014-017-0886-9 [Overseas journal] *, i) ○

(8) Bilen, Bukem, Belkis Gokbulut, Ulku Kafa, Emre Heves, Mehmet Naci Inci, and Mehmet Burcin Unlu. “Scanning Acoustic Microscopy and Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy for Characterization of Atherosclerotic Plaques.” Scientific Reports 8, no. 1 (2018): 14378. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(9) Uluc, Nasire, Mehmet Burcin Unlu, Gultekin Gulsen, and Hakan Erkol. “Extended photoacoustic transport model for characterization of red blood cell morphology in microchannel flow.” Biomedical Optics Express 9, no. 6 (2018): 2785-2809. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(10) Demirkan, Irem, Mehmet Burcin Unlu, and Bukem Bilen. “Determining Sodium Diffusion through Acoustic Impedance Measurements using 80 MHz Scanning Acoustic Microscopy: Agarose Phantom Verification.” Ultrasonics (2018). [Overseas journal] *, i)

Other Original Papers – major papers only

Japanese Journals (including those in English)

(1) Onimaru R, Onishi H, Ogawa G, Hiraoka M, Ishikura S, Karasawa K, Matsuo Y, Kokubo M, Shioyama Y, Matsushita H, Ito Y, Shirato H. Final report of survival and late toxicities in the Phase I study of stereotactic body radiation therapy for peripheral T2N0M0 non-small cell lung cancer (JCOG0702). Jpn J Clin Oncol. 2018 Oct 1. doi: 10.1093/jjco/hyy141. [Japanese journal]

(2) Morita R, Abo D, Soyama T, Sakuhara Y, Kajiyama M, Kudo K. Spontaneous recovery of multiple hepatic artery aneurysms with segmental arterial mediolysis. Interventional Radiology 2018 In press [Japanese journal]

Overseas Journals

(1) Inoue T, Katoh N, Ito YM, Kimura T, Nagata Y, Kuriyama K, Onishi H, Yoshitake T, Shioyama Y, Iizuka Y, Inaba K, Konishi K, Kokubo M, Karasawa K, Kozuka T, Tanaka K, Sakakibara-Konishi J, Kinoshita I, Shirato H. Stereotactic body radiotherapy to treat small lung lesions clinically diagnosed as primary lung cancer by radiological examination: A prospective observational study. Lung Cancer. 2018 Aug;122:107-112. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2018.05.025. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(2) Katoh N, Onishi H, Uchinami Y, Inoue T,Kuriyama K, Nishioka K, Shimizu S, Komiyama T, Miyamoto N, Shirato H. Real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy and general stereotactic body radiotherapy for adrenal metastasis in patients with oligometastasis. Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment 2018. Accepted [Overseas journal] *, i)

(3) Kikuchi Y, Naya M, Oyama-Manabe N, Manabe O, Sugimori H, Kudo K, Kato F, Aikawa T, Tsutsui H, Tamaki N, Shirato H. Assessment of Coronary Flow Velocity Reserve in the Left Main Trunk Using Phase-contrast MR Imaging at 3T: Comparison with 15O-labeled Water Positron Emission Tomography. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2018 Jul 26. doi: 10.2463/mrms.mp.2018-0003. [Overseas journal]

(4) Fujima N, Hirata K, Shiga T, Yasuda K,Onimaru R, Tsuchiya K, Kano S, Mizumachi T, Homma A, Kudo K, Shirato H. Semi-quantitative analysis of pre-treatment morphological and intratumoral characteristics using 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography as predictors of treatment outcome in nasal and paranasal squamous cell carcinoma. Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2018 Sep;8(8):788-795. doi: 10.21037/qims.2018.09.09. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(5) Oyama-Manabe N, Manabe O, Naya M, Kudo K, Tamaki N: Quantitative evaluation of myocardial ischemia with dynamic perfusion CT. Annals of Nuclear Cardiology, in press [Overseas journal]

(6) Oyama-Manabe N, Yabusaki S, Manabe O, Kato F, Kanno-Okada H, Kudo K: IgG4-related cardiovascular disease from the aorta to coronary artery: utility of multidetector CT and PET/CT in diagnosis and follow-up. Radiographics 2018 Oct 5:180049. doi: 10.1148/rg.2018180049. [Epub ahead of print] [Overseas journal]

(7) Aoike S, Sugimori H, Fujima N, Suzuki Y, Shimizu Y, Suwa A, Ishizaka K, Kudo K. Three-dimensional Pseudo-continuous Arterial Spin-labeling Using Turbo-spin Echo with Pseudo-steady State Readout: A Comparison with Other Major Readout Methods. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2018 in press [Overseas journal]

(8) Sato Y, Nishiofuku H, Yasumoto T, Nakatsuka A, Matsuo K, Kodama Y, Okubo H, Abo D, Takaki H, Inaba Y, Yamakado K. Multicenter Phase II Clinical Trial of Sorafenib Combined with Transarterial Chemoembolization for Advanced Stage Hepatocellular Carcinomas (Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer Stage C): STAB Study. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2018 Aug;29(8):1061-1067. [Overseas journal]

(9) Sakuhara Y, Nishio S, Hattanda F, Soyama T, Takahashi B, Abo D, Mimura H. Initial experience with the use of tris-acryl gelatin microspheres for transcatheter arterial embolization for enlarged polycystic liver. Clin Exp Nephrol. 2019 Feb 15. [Overseas journal]

(10) Shimada S, Kamiyama T, Yokoo H, Orimo T, Wakayama K, Nagatsu A, Kakisaka T, Kamachi H, Abo D, Sakuhara Y, Taketomi A. Hepatic hypertrophy and hemodynamics of portal venous flow after percutaneous transhepatic portal embolization. BMC Surg. 2019 Feb 18;19(1):23. [Overseas journal]

(11) Hirayama S, Matsuura T, Ueda H, Fujii Y, Fujii T, Takao S, Miyamoto N, Shimizu S, Fujimoto R, Umegaki K, Shirato H. An analytical dose-averaged LET calculation algorithm considering the off-axis LET enhancement by secondary protons for spot-scanning proton therapy. Med Phys. 2018 Jul;45(7):3404-3416. doi: 10.1002/mp.12991. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(12) Demirkiran, Aytac, Agah Karakuzu, Hakan Erkol, Hamdi Torun, and Mehmet B. Unlu. “Analysis of microcantilevers excited by pulsed-laser-induced photoacoustic waves.” Optics Express 26, no. 4 (2018): 4906-4919. [Overseas journal]

(13) Sanli, Canberk, Esra Aytac Kipergil, and Mehmet Burcin Unlu. “Simple analytic model for radiotherapeutic X-ray induced acoustic signal as a function of absorption parameters.” arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.05956 (2018). [Overseas journal]

(14) Lee, J., Cui, Y., Wu, J., Sun, X., Billy W. Loo, J., Diehn, M., and Li, R., Prognostic value and molecular correlates of a CT-based quantitative pleural contact index in early stage NSCLC. Eur Radiol, 2018; 28(2):736-746 [Overseas journal]

(15) Lee J, Li B, Cui Y, Sun X, Wu J, Zhu H, Yu J, Gensheimer MF, Loo BW Jr, Diehn M, and Li R. A quantitative CT imaging signature predicts survival and complements established prognosticators in stage I non-small cell lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2018 Nov 15;102(4):1098-1106 (Special issue on ‘Imaging for Radiation Oncology’). [Overseas journal]

(16) Wu J, Cui Y, Sun X, Cao G, Li B, Ikeda DM, Kurian AW, and Li R. Intratumoral spatial heterogeneity by perfusion MR imaging predicts recurrence-free survival in locally advanced breast cancer treated with neoadjuvant chemotherapy. Radiology. 2018 Jul; 288(1):26-35 (Highlighted in an accompanying Editorial) [Overseas journal]

(17) Cui Y, Li B, Pollom EL, Horst KC, Li R, Integrating radiosensitivity and immune gene signatures for predicting benefit of radiotherapy in breast cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2018 Oct 1;24(19):4754-4762 [Overseas journal]

(18) Wu J, Li X, Teng X, Rubin DL, Napel S, Daniel BL, Li R.  MR imaging and molecular features associated with tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research. 2018 Sep 3;20(1):101. [Overseas journal]

(19) Nam H, Guo M, Lee K, Li R, Han B, Xing L, Lee R, Yu H, Gao H, Tensor Framelet based iterative image reconstruction algorithm for low-dose multislice helical CT, PLOS One, In press. 2019 [Overseas journal]

(20) Zhao W, Vernekohl D, Han F, Han B, Peng H, Yong Yang, Min JK, and Xing L. A unified material decomposition framework for quantitative dual- and triple-energy CT imaging. Medical Physics (Accepted). 2018 Jul;45(7):2964-2977. doi: 10.1002/mp.12933. Epub 2018 May 18. [Overseas journal]

(21) Wei Zhao, Dengwang Li, Kai Niu, Wenjian Qin, Hao Peng, and Tianye Niu, Robust beam hardening artifacts reduction for computed tomography (CT) using spectrum modeling. IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging (Accepted). [Overseas journal]

(22) Pengyuan Qi, Zhitao Dai, Jun Zhang, Hong Quan and Peng H, Investigation of the radiosensitization effect of FePt nanopaticles cluster with Monte Carlo simulation. Nuclear Science and Techniques (Accepted). [Overseas journal]

(23) Mizumoto M, Murayama S, Akimoto T, Demizu Y, Fukushima T, Ishida Y, Oshiro Y, Numajiri H, Fuji H, Okumura T, Shirato H, Sakurai H. Preliminary results of proton radiotherapy for pediatric rhabdomyosarcoma: a multi-institutional study in Japan. Cancer Med. 2018 May;7(5):1870-1874. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1464. Epub 2018 Mar 31. [Overseas journal]

(24) Kayama T, Sato S, Sakurada K, Mizusawa J, Nishikawa R, Narita Y, Sumi M, Miyakita Y, Kumabe T, Sonoda Y, Arakawa Y, Miyamoto S, Beppu T, Sugiyama K, Nakamura H, Nagane M, Nakasu Y, Hashimoto N, Terasaki M, Matsumura A, Ishikawa E, Wakabayashi T, Iwadate Y, Ohue S, Kobayashi H, Kinoshita M, Asano K, Mukasa A, Tanaka K, Asai A, Nakamura H, Abe T, Muragaki Y, Iwasaki K, Aoki T, Watanabe T, Sasaki H, Izumoto S, Mizoguchi M, Matsuo T, Takeshima H, Hayashi M, Jokura H, Mizowaki T, Shimizu E, Shirato H, Tago M, Katayama H, Fukuda H, Shibui S; Japan Clinical Oncology Group. Effects of Surgery With Salvage Stereotactic Radiosurgery Versus Surgery With Whole-Brain Radiation Therapy in Patients With One to Four Brain Metastases (JCOG0504): A Phase III, Noninferiority, Randomized Controlled Trial. J Clin Oncol. 2018 Jun 20:JCO2018786186. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2018.78.6186. [Overseas journal]

(25) Onodera Y, Nam JM, Horikawa M, Shirato H, Sabe H. Arf6-driven cell invasion is intrinsically linked to TRAK1-mediated mitochondrial anterograde trafficking to avoid oxidative catastrophe. Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 11;9(1):2682. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05087-7. [Overseas journal] *, i), ii)

(26) Aoike S, Sugimori H, Fujima N*, Suzuki Y, Shimizu Y, Suwa A, Ishizaka K, Kudo K. Three-dimensional Pseudo-continuous Arterial Spin-labeling Using Turbo-spin Echo with Pseudo-steady State Readout: A Comparison with Other Major Readout Methods. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2018 Oct 12. [Epub ahead of print] [Overseas journal]

(27) Manabe O, Naya M, Oyama-Manabe N, Koyanagawa K, Tamaki N: The role of multimodality imaging in takotsubo cardiomyopathy. J Nucl Cardiol 2018, doi:10,1007/s12350-018-1312-x, [Epub ahead of print] [Overseas journal]

(28) Fujimori M, Kamishima T, Kato M, Seno Y, Sutherland K, Sugimori H, Nishida M, Atsumi T. Composite assessment of power Doppler ultrasonography and MRI in rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study of predictive value in radiographic progression after one year. Br J Radiol. 2018 Jun;91(1086):20170748. doi: 10.1259/bjr.20170748. Epub 2018 Apr 10. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(29) Onuma T, Kamishima T, Shimamura T, Kawamura N, Yamashita K, Sutherland K, Takeda H. Longitudinal CT study of sarcopenia due to hepatic failure after living donor liver transplantation. Quant Imaging Med Surg. 2018 Feb;8(1):25-31. doi: 10.21037/qims.2018.01.07. [Overseas journal] *, i)

(30) Aono S, Ishizaka K, Tha KK, Takamori S, Aoike S, Fujiwara T. [Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Rotator Cuff: Influence of Arm Position]. Nihon Hoshasen Gijutsu Gakkai Zasshi. 2018;74(4):335-343. doi: 10.6009/jjrt.2018_JSRT_74.4.335. [Japanese journal] *, i)