Laboratory of Quantum Beam Science and Medical Engineering
Research Group of Quantum Engineering for Life Science and Medicine
Division of Applied Quantum Science and Engineering
Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University

3/17 Kikkawa, Y.(M2) received The 53th Atomic Energy Society of Japan award for Fellow .

11/23 Takayanagi, K.(D3)、Uesaka, T.(graduate)、Nakamura, Y.(M2) have been published in Scientific Report ”On-line range verification for proton beam therapy using spherical ionoacoustic waves with resonant frequency”.

10/1-10/3 Yokokawa, K.(PD) presented “Reduction of the dosimetric error by using dynamic gating window technique in proton beam spot scanning method” , Hosoda, M.(M2) presented “Effect of proton beam LET on cell cycle of culture cells” at The 33rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Radiation Oncology

9/17-9/19 Abe, K. (M2)presented “A deep learning based recognition method for arbitrarily shaped markers in fluoroscopic images” at The 39th JAMIT Annual Meeting.

Tanaka S, Noto Y, Utsunomiya S, Yoshimura T, Matsuura T and Saito M 2020 “Proton dose calculation based on converting dual-energy CT data to stopping power ratio (DEEDZ-SPR): a beam-hardening assessment” Phys. Med. Biol. in press

Sodai Tanaka, et al., “Gated Proton Imaging Using Fiducial Marker and X-Ray Fluoroscopy”, AMOS 2020 Joint AAPM l COMP Virtual Meeting, 50093, July 12-16

7/12 Takayanagi, K.(D3) presented “Resonant Ionoacoustic Measurement Under Clinical Dose: A Study Toward Online Range Verification ” , Kasamatu, K. (D1) presented “SLD Repair Impact On Treatment Effectiveness of Proton Therapy with Various Cell Specific Parameters” , Nakamura, Y. (M2) presented “Range Verification of Pulsed Proton Beams From An FFA Via Ionoacoustic Measurement” in The American Association of Physicists in Medicine.

6/19 Kasamatu, K.(D1) has been published in Medical Physics:”The impact of dose delivery time on biological effectiveness in proton irradiation with various biological parameters”

6/5 Kasamatu, K. (D1) received the President’s Award Gold at The 119th Scientific Meeting of the Japan Society of Medical Physics.

5/15-6/5 Nakamura, Y.(M2) presented “Range verification of pulsed proton beams from FFA accelerator through ionoacoustic measurements” , Hayashi, R. (M2) presented “Real-time volumetric image generation based on CT image deformation driven by displacement of internal fiducial markers” , Kikkawa, Y.(M2) presented “Image registration with spatially weighted mutual information for patient setup in proton therapy”, Kasamatu, K.(D1) presented “SLD repair impact on prolonged proton irradiation with various cell specific parameters” and Yokokawa, K.(PD) presented ”Dynamic gating window technique for the reduction of dosimetric error in respiratory-gated spot-scanning particle therapy” at The 119th Scientific Meeting of the Japan Society of Medical Physics.