International Collaborative Papers

1. Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Meibom SK, Mercier GA, Truong MT, Hirata K, Yasuda K, Kano S, Homma A, Kudo K, Sakai O: Prediction of the local treatment outcome in patients with oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma using deep learning analysis of pretreatment FDG-PET images. BMC Cancer. 2021 Aug 6;21(1):900. doi:10.1186/s12885-021-08599-6. PMID:34362317
2. Fujima N, Shimizu Y, Yoshida D, Kano S, Mizumachi T, Homma A, Yasuda K, Onimaru R, Sakai O, Kudo K, Shirato H: Multiparametric Analysis of Tumor Morphological and Functional MR Parameters Potentially Predicts Local Failure in Pharynx Squamous Cell Carcinoma Patients. J Med Invest. 2021(Nov); 68(3.4):354-361. doi:10.2152/jmi.68.354. PMID:34759158
3. Aikawa, M., Y. Hanada, D. Ichinkhorloo, H. Haba, S. Takács, F. Ditrói, and Z. Szűcs. 2022. “Production Cross Sections of 47Sc via Alpha-Particle-Induced Reactions on Natural Calcium up to 29 MeV.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 515: 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2022.01.008.
4. Ichinkhorloo, Dagvadorj, Masayuki Aikawa, Zolbadral Tsoodol, Tomohiro Murata, Michiya Sakaguchi, Yukiko Komori, Takuya Yokokita, and Hiromitsu Haba. 2021. “Production Cross Sections of Dysprosium, Terbium and Gadolinium Radioisotopes from the Alpha-Particle-Induced Reactions on Natural Gadolinium up to 50 MeV.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 499 (July): 46–52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2021.04.018.
5. Sakaguchi, Michiya, Masayuki Aikawa, Naoyuki Ukon, Yukiko Komori, Hiromitsu Haba, Naohiko Otuka, and Sándor Takács. 2021. “Activation Cross Section Measurement of Alpha-Particle Induced Reactions on Natural Neodymium.” Applied Radiation and Isotopes 176: 109826. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2021.109826.
6. Takács, S., F. Ditrói, Z. Szűcs, K. Brezovcsik, H. Haba, Y. Komori, M. Aikawa, et al. 2021. “Cross Section Measurement of Alpha-Particle-Induced Reactions on NatSb.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 505 (October): 24–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2021.08.008.
7. Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Onoue K, Weber PC, Hubbell RD, Setty BN, Sakai O: Utility of deep learning for the diagnosis of otosclerosis on temporal bone CT. Eur Radiol. 2021 Jul;31(7):5206-5211. doi:10.1007/s00330-020-07568-0.
8. Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Meibom SK, Mercier GA, Salama AR, Truong MT, Sakai O*. Prediction of the treatment outcome using machine learning with FDG-PET image-based multiparametric approach in patients with oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma. Clin Radiol.2021
9. Onoue K, Fujima N, Andreu-Arasa VC, Setty BN, Sakai O: Cystic cervical lymph nodes of papillary thyroid carcinoma, tuberculosis and human papillomavirus positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: utility of deep learning in their differentiation on CT. Am J Otolaryngol. 2021 Sep-Oct;42(5):103026. doi:10.1016/j. amjoto.2021.103026. Epub 2021 Apr 9. PMID:33862564
10. Nakamura Y, Takayanagi T, Uesaka T, Unlu MB, Kuriyama Y, Ishi Y, Uesugi T, Kobayashi M, Kudo N, Tanaka S, Umegaki K, Tomioka S, Matsuura T. Technical Note: Range verification of pulsed proton beams from fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator by means of time-of-flight measurement of ionoacoustic waves. Med Phys. 2021 Sep;48(9):5490-5500. doi: 10.1002/mp.15060. Epub 2021 Jul 20. PMID: 34173991.
11. Fundamental study on quality assurance (QA) procedures for a real-time tumor tracking radiotherapy (RTRT) system from the viewpoint of imaging devices. Suguru Kimura, Naoki Miyamoto, Kenneth L Sutherland, Ryusuke Suzuki, Hiroki Shirato, Masayori Ishikawa, Journal of applied clinical medical physics 22(7) 165-176 2021年7月
12. Li X, Sawamura D, Hamaguchi H, Urushibata Y, Feiweier T, Ogawa K, Tha KK. Microscopic Fractional Anisotropy Detects Cognitive Training-Induced Microstructural Brain Changes. Tomography. 2022 Jan 1;8(1):33-44. doi: 10.3390/tomography8010004.
13. Collins JD, Rowley H, Leiner T, Reeder S, Hood M, Dekkers I, Tha K, Gulani V, Kopanoglu E; ISMRM MR Safety Committee. Magnetic Resonance Imaging During a Pandemic: Recommendations by the ISMRM Safety Committee. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2021 Dec 20. doi: 10.1002/jmri.28006.
14. Tha KK, Kikuchi Y, Ishizaka K, Kamiyama T, Yoneyama M, Katscher U. Higher Electrical Conductivity of Liver Parenchyma in Fibrotic Patients: Noninvasive Assessment by Electric Properties Tomography. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2021 Nov;54(5):1689-1691. doi: 10.1002/jmri.27701.
15. Abe N , Yuichiro Fujieda Y, Tha KK, Narita H, Aso K, Karino K, Kanda M, Kono M, Kato M, Amengual O, Atsumi T. Aberrant functional connectivity between anterior cingulate cortex and left insula in association with therapeutic response to biologics in inflammatory arthritis. Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism 2022, in press.
16. Sato R, Kudo K, Udo N, Matsushima M, Yabe I, Yamaguchi A, Tha KK, Sasaki M, Harada M, Matsukawa N, Amemiya T, Kawata Y, Bito Y, Ochi H, Hirai T: A diagnostic index based on quantitative susceptibility mapping and voxel-based morphometry may improve early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease of Alzheimer’s Disease submitted to European Radiology. European Radiology. 2022 Feb 8. doi: 10.1007/s00330-022-08547-3. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35137303
17. Yamada K, Kenichiro M, Ito YM, Inage F, Isoe T, Yokota N, Sugita O, Sato N, Tha KK, Iwasaki N, Arato T, Sudo H. Exploratory clinical trial on the safety and capability of dMD-001 in lumbar discherniation: Study protocol for a first-in-human pilot study. Contemp Clin Trials Commun. 2021 Jun 29;23:100805. doi: 10.1016/j.conctc.2021.100805.
    The analysis of Period1 gene expression in vivo and in vitro using a micro PMT system.
18. Hamada K, Ishii Y, Yoshida Y, Nakaya M, Sato Y, Kanai M, Kikuchi Y, Yamaguchi T, Iijima N, Sutherland K, Hamada T. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2021 Nov 5;577:64-70. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.08.084. Epub 2021 Sep 3. PMID: 34507067
    Period1 gene expression in the olfactory bulb and liver of freely moving streptozotocin-treated diabetic mouse.
19. Kanou H, Nagasawa K, Ishii Y, Chishima A, Hayashi J, Haga S, Sutherland K, Ishikawa M, Ozaki M, Shirato H, Hamada K, Hamada T. Biochem Biophys Res Commun. 2021 Jun 30;560:14-20. doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.04.049. Epub 2021 May 6. PMID: 33965785
20. Anussara Prayongrat, Natchalee Srimaneekarn, Sira Sriswasdi, Yoichi M Ito, Norio Katoh, Masaya Tamura, Yasuhiro Dekura, Chie Toramatsu, Chonlakiet Khorprasert, Napapat Amornwichet, Petch Alisanant, Yuichi Hirata, Anthony Hayter, Hiroki Shirato, Shinichi Shimizu, Keiji Kobashi. Assessment of the confidence interval in the multivariable normal tissue complication probability model for predicting radiation-induced liver disease in primary liver cancer. Journal of Radiation Research, Volume 62, Issue 3, May 2021, Pages 483–493.
21. Sira Jampa-ngern, Keiji Kobashi, Shinichi Shimizu, Seishin Takao, Keiji Nakazato, Hiroki Shirato. Prediction of liver D for proton beam therapy using deep learning and contour-based data augmentation. Journal of Radiation Research, Volume 62, Issue 6, November 2021, Pages 1120–1129.
22. Wu J, Li C, Gensheimer M, Padda S, Kato F, Shirato H, Wei Y, Schönlieb CB, Price SJ, Jaffray D, Heymach J, Neal JW, Loo BW Jr, Wakelee H, Diehn M, Li R. Radiological tumor classification across imaging modality and histology. Nat Mach Intell. 2021 Sep;3:787-798. doi: 10.1038/s42256-021-00377-0.
23. Baba K, Kusumoto T, Okada S, Ogawara R, Kodaira S, Raffy Q, Barillon R, Ludwig N, Galindo C, Peaupardin P, Ishikawa M., “Quantitative estimation of track segment yields of water radiolysis species under heavy ions around Bragg peak energies using Geant4-DNA,” Sci Rep. 11(1):1524. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-81215-6 (2021). [Corresponding author]
24. Matsuya Y, McMahon SJ, Butterworth KT, Naijo S, Nara I, Yachi Y, Saga R, Ishikawa M, Sato T, Date H, Prise KM., "Oxygen enhancement ratios of cancer cells after exposure to intensity modulated x-ray fields: DNA damage and cell survival," Phys Med Biol., doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/abf011 (2021).
25. Stephen F Kry, Jessica Lye, Catharine H Clark, Nicolaus Andratschke, Alexis Dimitriadis, David Followill, Rebecca Howell, Mohammad Hussein, Masayori Ishikawa, Satoshi Kito, Tomas Kron, Jonny Lee, Jeff Michalski, Angelo Filippo Monti, Nick Reynaert, Paige Taylor, Karen Venables, Ying Xiao, Joerg Lehman, “Report dose-to-medium in clinical trials where available; a consensus from the Global Harmonisation Group to maximize consistency,” Radiotherapy and oncology 159, pp. 106-111 (2021)
26. Mei Horikawa, Hisataka Sabe, Yasuhito Onodera, Strategies for all-at-once and stepwise selection of cells with multiple genetic manipulations, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, Volume 582, 2021, Pages 93-99, ISSN 0006-291X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2021.10.016.
27. Mei Horikawa, Hisataka Sabe, Yasuhito Onodera, Dual roles of AMAP1 in the transcriptional regulation and intracellular trafficking of carbonic anhydrase IX, Translational Oncology, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2022, 101258, ISSN 1936-5233, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tranon.2021.101258.
28. Takao Haitani, Minoru Kobayashi, Sho Koyasu, Shusuke Akamatsu, Tatsuya Suwa, Yasuhito Onodera, Jin-Min Nam, Phuong Thi Lien Nguyen, Toshi Menju, Hiroshi Date, Osamu Ogawa, Hiroshi Harada, Proteolysis of a histone acetyl reader, ATAD2, induces chemoresistance of cancer cells under severe hypoxia by inhibiting cell cycle progression in S phase, Cancer Letters, Volume 528, 2022, Pages 76-84, ISSN 0304-3835, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canlet.2021.12.028.

Other Original Papers –

Japanese Journals (including those in English)

1. Prediction of target position from multiple fiducial markers by partial least squares regression in real-time tumor-tracking radiation therapy. Kanako Ukon, Yohei Arai, Seishin Takao, Taeko Matsuura, Masayori Ishikawa, Hiroki Shirato, Shinichi Shimizu, Kikuo Umegaki, Naoki Miyamoto, Journal of radiation research 62(5) 926-933 2021 Sep. 13.
2. Yusuke Uchinami, Norio Katoh, Daisuke Abo, Hiroshi Taguchi, Koichi Yasuda, Kentaro Nishioka, Takeshi Soyama, Ryo Morita, Naoki Miyamoto, Ryusuke Suzuki, Takuya Sho, Masato Nakai, Koji Ogawa, Tatsuhiko Kakisaka, Tatsuya Orimo, Toshiya Kamiyama, Shinichi Shimizu, Hidefumi Aoyama, Treatment outcomes of stereotactic body radiation therapy using a real-time tumor-tracking radiotherapy system for hepatocellular carcinomas. Hepatology research : the official journal of the Japan Society of Hepatology 51(8) 870-879 2021 August.
3. Takahiro Yamada, Seishin Takao, Hidenori Koyano, Hideaki Nihongi, Yusuke Fujii, Shusuke Hirayama, Naoki Miyamoto, Taeko Matsuura, Kikuo Umegaki, Norio Katoh, Isao Yokota, Hiroki Shirato, Shinichi Shimizu, Validation of dose distribution for liver tumors treated with real-time-image gated spot-scanning proton therapy by log data based dose reconstruction. Journal of radiation research 62(4) 626-633 2021 Jul. 10.

Overseas Journals

1. Nakajima K, Homma M, Suzuki M, Yokouchi Y, Matsuda T, Takakura H, Kuge Y, Ogawa M: Reduction of tumor hypoxia by anti-PD-1 therapy assessed using pimonidazole and [18F]FMISO. Nucl Med Biol. (in press)
2. Bo T, Yasui H, Shiga T, Shibata Y, Fujimoto M, Suzuki M, Higashikawa K, Miyamoto N, Inanami O, Kuge Y: Eribulin improves tumor oxygenation demonstrated by 18F-DiFA hypoxia imaging, leading to radio-sensitization in human xenograft models. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2022; 49(3): 821-833.
3. Mizuno Y, Kimura K, Onoe S, Shukuri M, Kuge Y, Akizawa H: Influence of Linker Molecules in Hexavalent RGD Peptides on Their Multivalent Interactions with Integrin αvβ3. J Med Chem. 2021; 64(21): 16008-16019.
4. Yamaguchi S, Hirata K, Okamoto M, Shimosegawa E, Hatazawa J, Hirayama R, Kagawa N, Kishima H, Oriuchi N, Fujii M, Kobayashi K, Kobayashi H, Terasaka S, Nishijima KI, Kuge Y, Ito YM, Nishihara H, Tamaki N, Shiga T: Determination of Brain Tumor Recurrence using 11C-methionine Positron Emission Tomography after Radiotherapy. Cancer Sci. 2021; 112(10): 4246-4256.
5. Hirata K, Manabe O, Magota K, Furuya S, Shiga T, Kudo K: A Preliminary Study to Use SUVmax of FDG PET-CT as an Identifier of Lesion for Artificial Intelligence. Front Med (Lausanne). 2021 Apr 28; 8:647562. doi:10.3389/fmed.2021.647562. eCollection 2021. PMID:33996855
6. Tsuneta S, Oyama-Manabe N, Hirata K, Harada T, Aikawa T, Manabe O, Ohira H, Koyanagawa K, Naya M, Kudo K: Texture analysis of delayed contrast-enhanced computed tomography to diagnose cardiac sarcoidosisJpn. J Radiol. 2021 May; 39(5):442-450. doi:10.1007/s11604-020-01086-1. Epub 2021 Jan 22. PMID:33483941
7. Komoriyama H, Kamiya K, Kobayashi Y, Tsuneta S, Konishi T, Sato T, Iwano H, Nagai T, Wakasa S, Kudo K, Anzai T: 4-Dimensional Flow Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Changes in Blood Flow Dynamics After Surgery for Discrete Subaortic Stenosis. Circ J. 2021 May 25;85(6):954. doi:10.1253/circj. CJ-20-1248. Epub 2021 Apr 3. PMID:33814528
8. Koga M, Inoue M, Tanaka K, Satow T, Fukuda T, Ihara M, Itabashi R, Kudo K, Yamagami H, Toyoda K: [Cerebrovascular imaging to facilitate stroke reperfusion therapy in Japan]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku. 2021 Aug 30;61(8):517-521. doi:10.5692/clinicalneurol.cn-001603. Epub 2021 Jul 17. PMID:34275955
9. Yoshikawa M, Kudo K, Harada T, Harashima K, Suzuki J, Ogawa K, Fujiwara T, Nishida M, Sato R, Shirai T, Bito Y: Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping versus R2*-based Histogram Analysis for Evaluating Liver Fibrosis: Preliminary Results. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2021 Sep 4. doi:10.2463/mrms.mp.2020-0175. Online ahead of print. PMID:34483224
10. Bito Y, Harada K, Ochi H, Kudo K: Low b-value diffusion tensor imaging for measuring pseudorandom flow of cerebrospinal fluid. Magn Reson Med. 2021 Sep ;86(3):1369-1382. doi:10.1002/mrm.28806. Epub 2021 Apr 23. PMID:33893650
11. Kobayashi Y, Sato T, Nagai T, Hirata K, Tsuneta S, Kato Y, Komoriyama H, Kamiya K, Konishi T, Omote K, Ohira H, Kudo K, Konno S, Anzai T: Association of high serum soluble interleukin 2 receptor levels with risk of adverse events in cardiac sarcoidosis. ESC Heart Fail. 2021 Sep 12. doi:10.1002/ehf2.13614. Online ahead of print. PMID:34514715
12. Furuya S, Naya M, Manabe O, Hirata K, Ohira H, Aikawa T, Koyanagawa K, Magota K, Tsujino I, Anzai T, Kuge Y, Oyama-Manabe N, Kudo K, Shiga T, Tamaki N: 18F-FMISO PET/CT detects hypoxic lesions of cardiac and extra-cardiac involvement in patients with sarcoidosis. J Nucl Cardiol. 2021 Oct;28(5):2141-2148. doi:10.1007/s12350-019-01976-6. Epub 2019 Dec 9. PMID: 31820409
13. Uchiyama Y, Hirata K, Watanabe S, Okamoto S, Shiga T, Okada K, Ito YM, Kudo K: Development and validation of a prediction model based on the organ-based metabolic tumor volume on FDG-PET in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Ann Nucl Med. 2021 Nov; 35(11):1223-1231. doi:10.1007/s12149-021-01664-x. Epub 2021 Aug 11. PMID:34379284
14. Ishi Y, Harada T, Kameda H, Okada H, Yokota I, Okamoto M, Sawaya R, Motegi H, Yamaguchi S, Terasaka S, Kudo K, Fujimura M: Variations and natural history of primary intraparenchymal lesions associated with neurofibromatosis type 2. Neuroradiology. 2021 Nov 23. doi:10.1007/s00234-021-02809-5. Online ahead of print. PMID:34812918
15. Aoike T, Fujima N, Yoneyama M, Fujiwara T, Takamori S, Aoike S, Ishizaka K, Kudo K: Development of three-dimensional MR neurography using an optimized combination of compressed sensing and parallel imaging. Magn Reson Imaging. 2021 Dec 27;87: 32-37. doi: 10.1016/j.mri.2021.12.002. Online ahead of print.
16. Tsuruta C, Hirata K, Kudo K, Masumori N, Hatakenaka M: DWI-related texture analysis for prostate cancer: differences in correlation with histological aggressiveness and data repeatability between peripheral and transition zones. Eur Radiol Exp. 2022 Jan 12;6(1):1. doi: 10.1186/s41747-021-00252-y. PMID: 35018507
17. Uchida Y, Kan H, Inoue H, Oomura M, Shibata H, Kano Y, Kuno T, Usami T, Takada K, Yamada K, Kudo K, Matsukawa N: Penumbra Detection With Oxygen Extraction Fraction Using Magnetic Susceptibility in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke. Front Neurol. 2022 Feb 11; 13:752450. doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.752450. eCollection 2022. PMID: 35222239
18. Yamaguchi A, Kudo K, Sato R, Kawata Y, Udo N, Matsushima M, Yabe I, Sasaki M, Harada M, Matsukawa N, Shirai T, Ochi H, Bito Y: Efficacy of Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping with Brain Surface Correction and Vein Removal for Detecting Increase Magnetic Susceptibility in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Magn Reson Med Sci. 2022 Mar 10. doi: 10.2463/mrms.mp.2021-0015. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35264494
19. Tanaka K, Miwa K, Takagi M, Sasaki M, Yakushiji Y, Kudo K, Shiozawa M, Tanaka J, Nishihara M, Yamaguchi Y, Fujita K, Honda Y, Kawano H, Ide T, Yoshimura S, Koga M, Hirano T, Toyoda K: Increased Cerebral Small Vessel Disease Burden With Renal Dysfunction and Albuminuria in Patients Taking Antithrombotic Agents: The Bleeding With Antithrombotic Therapy 2. J Am Heart Assoc. 2022 Mar 5;e024749. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.121.024749. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35253443.
20. Kobayashi S, Osanai T, Fujima N, Hamaguchi A, Sugiyama T, Nakamura T, Hida K, Fujimura M. Efficacy of the MRA-based road mapping of the para-aortic access route before mechanical thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke. Cerebrovasc Dis Extra. 2022 Mar 17. doi: 10.1159/000524112. Online ahead of print.
21. Aikawa, Masayuki, Takuto Maehashi, Dagvadorj Ichinkhorloo, Shuichiro Ebata, Yukiko Komori, and Hiromitsu Haba. 2021. “Activation Cross Sections of Deuteron-Induced Reactions on Praseodymium up to 24 MeV.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B 498: 23–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2021.04.011.
22. Aikawa, Masayuki, Yukina Hanada, He Huang, and Hiromitsu Haba. 2021. “Activation Cross Sections of Proton-Induced Reactions on Praseodymium up to 30 MeV.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms 508: 29–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nimb.2021.10.006.
23. Hashimoto T, Demizu Y, Numajiri H, Isobe T, Fukuda S, Wakatsuki M, Yamashita H, Murayama S, Takamatsu S, Katoh H, Murata K, Kohno R, Arimura T, Matsuura T, Ito YM; Particle therapy using protons or carbon ions for cancer patients with cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIED): a retrospective multi-institutional study. Jpn J Radiol. 2021 Nov 15. doi: 10.1007/s11604-021-01218-1.
24. Tsutsumi K, Nakaya U, Koshino Y, Tateno M, Matsumoto K, Tanaka M, Yokoyama M, Horie T, Samukawa M, Kamishima T, Tohyama H. Feasibility of an Ultrasound-Based Method for Measuring Talar Displacement during the Anterior Drawer Stress Test Using a Telos Device: A Preliminary Study. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Feb 18;19(4):2367. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19042367. PMID: 35206561 Free PMC article.
25. Kikuchi M, Kamishima T, Abe H, Onishi R, Takashima R, Hirano M. Older rural people's perception of connectedness through a communication application: A qualitative descriptive study.　Nurs Health Sci. 2022 Mar;24(1):163-173. doi: 10.1111/nhs.12908. Epub 2022 Jan 13. PMID: 34851009
26. Tsushima N, Kano S, Suzuki T, Idogawa H, Yoshida D, Yasuda K, Otsuka M, Aoyama H, Homma A. Salvage surgery improves the treatment outcome of patients with residual/recurrent maxillary sinus cancer after superselective intra-arterial cisplatin infusion with concomitant radiation therapy. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol. 2022 Feb;279(2):899-905. doi: 10.1007/s00405-021-06822-5. Epub 2021 Apr 18. PMID: 33866400
27. Yoshimura T, Nishioka K, Hashimoto T, Fujiwara T, Ishizaka K, Sugimori H, Kogame S, Seki K, Tamura H, Tanaka S, Matsuo Y, Dekura Y, Kato F, Aoyama H, Shimizu S. Visualizing the urethra by magnetic resonance imaging without usage of a catheter for radiotherapy of prostate cancer. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2021 Apr 26;18:1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.phro.2021.03.002. eCollection 2021 Apr. PMID: 34258400.
28. Kano S, Tsushima N, Suzuki T, Hamada S, Yokokawa T, Idogawa H, Yasuda K, Minatogawa H, Dekura Y, Aoyama H, Homma A. Predictors of the need for prophylactic percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy in head and neck cancer patients treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy. Int J Clin Oncol. 2021 Jul;26(7):1179-1187. doi: 10.1007/s10147-021-01889-w. Epub 2021 Jun 4.PMID: 34086112
29. Yoshimura T, Nishioka K, Hashimoto T, Seki K, Kogame S, Tanaka S, Kanehira T, Tamura M, Takao S, Matsuura T, Kobashi K, Kato F, Aoyama H, Shimizu S. A treatment planning study of urethra-sparing intensity-modulated proton therapy for localized prostate cancer. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2021 Oct 8;20:23-29. doi: 10.1016/j.phro.2021.09.006. eCollection 2021 Oct. PMID: 34693040.
30. Arakawa Y, Sasaki K, Mineharu Y, Uto M, Mizowaki T, Mizusawa J, Sekino Y, Ono T, Aoyama H, Satomi K, Ichimura K, Kinoshita M, Ohno M, Ito Y, Nishikawa R, Fukuda H, Nishimura Y, Narita Y; Brain Tumor Study Group and Radiation Therapy Study Group of the Japan Clinical Oncology Group. A randomized phase III study of short-course radiotherapy combined with Temozolomide in elderly patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma; Japan clinical oncology group study JCOG1910 (AgedGlio-PIII). BMC Cancer. 2021 Oct 15;21(1):1105. doi: 10.1186/s12885-021-08834-0.PMID: 34654402 Free PMC article. Clinical Trial.
31. Miyazaki T, Myojin M, Hosokawa M, Aoyama H, Okahara S, Takahashi H. Endoscopic resection as an independent predictive factor of local control in patients with T1bN0M0 esophageal squamous cell carcinoma treated with chemoradiotherapy: a retrospective study. Radiat Oncol. 2022 Jan 20;17(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s13014-021-01972-6. PMID: 35057830 Free PMC article.
32. Tamura H, Kobashi K, Nishioka K, Yoshimura T, Hashimoto T, Shimizu S, Ito YM, Maeda Y, Sasaki M, Yamamoto K, Tamamura H, Aoyama H, Shirato H. Dosimetric advantages of daily adaptive strategy in IMPT for high-risk prostate cancer. J. Appl. Clin. Medical Phys. 2022 Jan 19:e13531. doi: 10.1002/acm2.13531. Online ahead of print. PMID: 35045211
33. Fujii Y, Ueda H, Umegaki K, Matsuura T. An initial systematic study of the linear energy transfer distributions of a proton beam under a transverse magnetic field. Med Phys. 2022 Mar;49(3):1839-1852. doi: 10.1002/mp.15478. Epub 2022 Feb 11. PMID: 35124798.
34. Kentaro Nishioka, Kento Gotoh, Takayuki Hashimoto, Takashige Abe, Takahiro Osawa, Ryuji Matsumoto, Isao Yokota, Norio Katoh, Rumiko Kinoshita, Koichi Yasuda, Toshiaki Makabe, Takeaki Yoshimura, Seishin Takao, Nobuo Shinohara, Hidefumi Aoyama, Shinichi Shimizu, Hiroki Shirato. Are simple verbal instructions sufficient to ensure that bladder volume does not deteriorate prostate position reproducibility during spot scanning proton therapy? BJR|Open 2021;3:20210064.
35. Kai Ikeda, Haoran Liu, Naoki Miyamoto, Mai Thanh Nguyen, Hiroki Shirato, Tetsu Yonezawa. Preparation of Biopex-Supported Gold Nanoparticles as Potential Fiducial Markers for Image-Guided Radiation Therapy. ACS applied bio materials 5(3) 1259-1266 2022 Mar. 21.
36. Koki Kasamatsu, Sodai Tanaka, Koichi Miyazaki, Seishin Takao, Naoki Miyamoto, Shusuke Hirayama, Kentaro Nishioka, Takayuki Hashimoto, Hidefumi Aoyama, Kikuo Umegaki, Taeko Matsuura. Impact of a spatially dependent dose delivery time structure on the biological effectiveness of scanning proton therapy. Medical physics 49(1) 702-713 2022 Jan.
37. Sodai Tanaka, Naoki Miyamoto, Yuto Matsuo, Takaaki Yoshimura, Seishin Takao, Taeko Matsuura. First experimental results of gated proton imaging using x-ray fluoroscopy to detect a fiducial marker. Physics in medicine and biology 66(18) 2021 Sep. 9.
38. Risa Hayashi, Koichi Miyazaki, Seishin Takao, Kohei Yokokawa, Sodai Tanaka, Taeko Matsuura, Hiroshi Taguchi, Norio Katoh, Shinichi Shimizu, Kikuo Umegaki, Naoki Miyamoto. Real-time CT image generation based on voxel-by-voxel modeling of internal deformation by utilizing the displacement of fiducial markers. Medical physics 48(9) 5311-5326 2021 September.
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