Hidetake Yabuuchi

Position / Professor

Certifications / MD, PhD, Radiological Diagnostic Specialist

Highest Education / Department of Medicine, Kyushu University School of Medicine

Research Interests / Diagnostic Imaging of lung, breast, head and neck

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japanese Radiological Society, Japanese Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

Message / I will teach functional imaging of CT and MRI to analyze perfusion, diffusion, and metabolic function of the human body. I will also provide directions for researches using these function imaging. We welcome ambitious students who will play leading roles in this field in future.

Hidetaka Arimura

Position / Professor

Certifications / Medical Physicist (Certified by Japan Society of Medical Physics, 2004-Present), Type-I Radiation Protection Supervisor (1998)

Highest Education / PhD in engineering from Kyoto Institute of Technology in 1996

Research Interests / medical physics, medical image analysis, image-based radiation therapy, radiomics

Affiliated Academic Societies / American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Japan Society of Medical Physics, Japanese Society of Radiological Technology Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers Medical Imaging and Information Sciences, etc.

Message / Please explore what we have not known by coming up with novel ideas and by developing a logical way of thinking, and develop what we have not developed for clinical practices. A way of thinking by viewing-trees as well as forests.

Laboratory / Hidetaka Arimura Laboratory

Shingo Baba

Position / Professor

Certifications / MD., Ph.D.

Highest Education / Graduate School of Medical Sciences Kyushu University

Research Interests / Nuclear Medicine, Radionuclide therapy

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japanese Radiological Society, Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine

Message / Nuclear medicine diagnosis as well as radionuclide therapy is a field that is expected to grow in the future. I am engaged in research that will lead to technical fundamentals and clinical applications in the practice of nuclear medicine.

Toshioh Fujibuchi

Position / Professor

Certifications / Radiological technologist, Medical physicist

Highest Education / Graduate School of Comprehensive Human Sciences University of Tsukuba, Majors of Medical Sciences, Ph.D. (Doctorate of Medical Science)

Research Interests / Radiation protection

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japanese Society of Radiological Technology, Japan Health Physics Society, Japanese Society of Radiation Safety Management, Japan Society of Medical Physics, The Japanese Society of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Message / Main research subjects in our Laboratory radiation protection in medical field. Ex.) Radiation protection and dosimetry for medical field using Monte Carlo simulation, Development of real time monitoring device for medical staff, and education about radiological technology.

Previous project：　https://arp.kyushu-u.ac.jp/dxrpp/

Masatoshi Kondo

Position / Professor

Certifications / Ph.D, Radiological Technologist, Type-I Radiation Protection Supervisor

Highest Education / Graduate School of Health Sciences, Kumamoto University

Research Interests / Image quality assessment on CT/MRI, Quantitative evaluation of clinical CT/MRI images

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japanese Society of Radiological Technology, Medical Imaging and Information Sciences

Message / I love to work for patients through the research on image quality and quantitative evaluation on CT and MRI images. I hope that the research activities connect to the globalization of Japanese radiological technologists.

Hiroyuki Arakawa

Position / Associate Professor

Certifications / Type-I Radiation Protection Supervisor, Medical Physicist

Highest Education / Ph. D in science from Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences, Kyushu Univ.

Research Interests / Development of devices for the quality assurance and control of brachytherapy, Development of dynamic radiation detectors and simulation methods

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japan Society of Radiological Technology, Japan Society of Medical Physics, Physical Society of Japan, Japan Society of Health Physics, Plasma and Fusion Science Society of Japan

Message / Research and development of useful medical devices is aimed at based on knowledge and technology from a wide range of fields. Motivated students who want to take on the challenge of developing new equipment are welcome.

Makoto Sakai

Position / Associate Professor

Certifications / Ph.D, Medical Physicist, The First-class Radiation Protection Supervisor

Highest Education / Graduate School of Engineering The University of Osaka

Research Interests / Radiation measurement, Particle radiotherapy

Affiliated Academic Societies / The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Japan Society of Medical Physics, Japanese Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology, Japanese Society of Neutron Capture Therapy, IEEE

Message / With a background in engineering, I have also been involved in research in medical physics and biology. Moving forward, I aim to further advance interdisciplinary research that bridges medicine and engineering. I would be delighted to collaborate with others in the pursuit of new knowledge across these fields.

Laboratory / SAKAI Laboratory

Tsukasa Kojima

Position / Lecturer

Certifications / Ph.D., Radiological Technologist, Medical Physicist, Type-I Radiation Protection Supervisor, Certified X-ray CT Technologist

Highest Education / Department of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University

Research Interests / Development and clinical application of diagnostic imaging technologies

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japanese Society of Radiological Technology, Japan Society of Medical Physics

Message / I research ways to improve the diagnostic accuracy of CT and MRI, which are essential imaging devices in modern medicine.

Nobukazu Tanaka

Position / Assistant Professor

Certifications / Ph.D., Radiological Technologist, Type-I Radiation Protection Supervisor, Medical Physicist

Highest Education / Department of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University

Research Interests / X-ray image evaluation

Affiliated Academic Societies / Japanese Society of Radiological Technology, Japan Society of Medical Physics, Medical Imaging and Information Sciences

Message / My research is mainly the quantitative assessment of medical exposure and image quality of digital X-ray imaging systems.

Yui Kanzaki

Position / Assistant professor

Certifications / Radiological technologist, Radiological Technologist certified in screening mammography

Highest Education / Department of Health Sciences, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University

Research Interests / Image analysis / evaluation

Affiliated Academic Societies / The Japan Association of Radiological Technologists　 Japanese Society of Radiological Technology

Message / Using X-ray images, I have evaluated the image quality of the images. I am planning to research in mammary imaging from now on.