Contributions
2025
| PLOS One | AI-based prediction of recurrence after carbon ion radiotherapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer | Yuhei Miyasaka*2,Hanae Yoshida*4,Naoko Okano*2 ,Hirofumi Shimada*2,Nobuteru Kubo*2,Hidemasa Kawamura*2,Tatsuya Ohno*2 |
| Anticancer Research | Inter-Fractional Variation of Linear Energy Transfer Profiles during Carbon-Ion Radiotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer | Yukihiko Yoshimatsu*1, Takahiro Oike*2, Makoto Sakai*5, Yuhei Miyasaka*2, Hanae Yoshida*4,Tatsuya Ohno*2 |
| Clinical and Translational Radiation Oncology | Prediction of local recurrence after carbon-ion radiotherapy for early-stage non-small cell lung cancer using machine learning | Keishiro Mochida*2,Yuhei Miyasaka*2,Nobuteru Kubo*2,Hanae Yoshida*4, Naoko Okano*2,Hidemasa Kawamura*2,Tatsuya Ohno*2 |
| International Journal of Particle Therapy | Analysis of LET profile and treatment outcome of pancreatic cancer in carbon ion radiotherapy | Soichiro Sakamoto*1,Takahiro Oike*2, Daijiro Kobayashi*1, Yuhei Miyasaka*2, Makoto Sakai*2, Masahiko Okamoto*1, Shintaro Shiba*3, Kento Tomizawa*1, Hanae Yoshida*4, Mutsumi Tashiro*2, Tatsuya Ohno*2 |
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- Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine
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- Gunma University Heavy Ion Medical Center
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- Shonan Kamakura General Hospital
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- Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group
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- Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University
2024
| Medical Physics | Markerless Tracking of Tumor and Tissues: A Motion Model Approach | Ling Fung Cheung, Shinichirou Fujitaka, Takaaki Fujii, Naoki Miyamoto*1, Seishin Takao*1 |
| Journal of Radiation Research | A simulation study of MR-guided proton therapy system using iron-yoked superconducting open MRI: a conceptual study | Yusuke Fujii, Hideaki Ueda*1, Taisuke Takayanagi, Kentaro Nishioka*1, Takashi Mori*1, Takayuki Hashimoto*1, Hidefumi Aoyama*1, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Taeko Matsuura*1 |
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- Hokkaido University
2022
| Physical Review Accelerator and Beams | Concept of scanning magnet with distributed winding coils for particle beam therapy | Takahiro Yamada, Kazuya Nagashima, Takuya Nomura, Seiji Soeda and Noriaki Hino |
| Medical Physics | Deformed dose restoration to account for tumor deformation and position changes for adaptive proton therapy | Koichi Miyazaki, Yusuke Fujii, Takahiro Yamada, Takahiro Kanehira*1, Naoki Miyamoto*1, Taeko Matsuura*1, Koichi Yasuda*1, Yusuke Uchinami*1, Manami Otsuka*1, Hidefumi Aoyama*1, and Seishin Takao*1 |
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- Hokkaido University
2021
| Journal of radiation research | Validation of dose distribution for liver tumors treated with real-time-image gated spot-scanning proton therapy by log data based dose reconstruction | Takahiro Yamada, Seishin Takao*1, Hidenori Koyano*1, Hideaki Nihongi, Yusuke Fujii, Shusuke Hirayama, Naoki Miyamoto*1, Taeko Matsuura*1, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Norio Katoh*1, Isao Yokota*1, Hiroki Shirato*1, Shinichi Shimizu*1 |
| Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics | Physical and biological beam modeling for carbon beam scanning at Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center | Shinichiro Fujitaka, Yusuke Fujii, Hideaki Nihongi, Satoshi Nakayama, Masaaki Takashina*3, Noriaki Hamatani*3, Toshiro Tsubouchi*3, Masashi Yagi*3, Kazumasa Minami*3, Kazuhiko Ogawa*3, Junetsu Mizoe*3, Tatsuaki Kanai*3 |
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- Hokkaido University
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- Nagoya City University West Medical Center
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- Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center
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- University of Tsukuba
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- Kyoto University
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- Chiba Institute of Technology
2020
| Scientific reports | On‑line range verifcation for proton beam therapy using spherical ionoacoustic waves with resonant frequency | Taisuke Takayanagi, Tomoki Uesaka*1, Yuta Nakamura*1, Mehmet Burcin Unlu*1, Yasutoshi Kuriyama*5, Tomonori Uesugi*5, Yoshihiro Ishi*5, Nobuki Kudo*1, Masanori Kobayashi*6, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Satoshi Tomioka*1, Taeko Matsuura*1 |
| Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A | Evaluation of dispersion functions derived from fluctuation of the bending magnetic field of a synchrotron | Futaro Ebina, Fumiaki Noda, Satoshi Totake, Takuya Nomura, Kento Miyahara, Noriyosu Hayashizaki |
| Journal of applied clinical medical physics | Difference in LET‐based biological doses between IMPT optimization techniques: Robust and PTV‐based optimizations | Shusuke Hirayama, Taeko Matsuura*1, Koichi Yasuda*1, Seishin Takao*1, Takaaki Fujii, Naoki Miyamoto*1, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Shinichi Shimizu*1 |
| Academic journal “Accelerator” Vol.17, No.2 published by Particle Accelerator Society of Japan | Development and Implementation of Compact Accelerator Systems Dedicated for Proton Beam Therapy | Takamichi Aoki, Futaro Ebina |
| Hitachi Review Technology & Innovation Foresights 2020 | Novel Variable-energy Accelerator for Particle Beam Therapy https://www.hitachi.com/rev/archive/2020/r2020_03/24/index.html#sec01 |
Takamichi Aoki, Toshimitsu Hae, Takayoshi Seki, Yuto Nakashima, Chishin Hori |
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- Hokkaido University
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- Nagoya City University West Medical Center
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- Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center
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- University of Tsukuba
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- Kyoto University
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- Chiba Institute of Technology
2019
| Scientific reports | A novel range-verifcation method using ionoacoustic wave generated from spherical gold markers for particle-beam therapy: a simulation study | Taisuke Takayanagi, Tomoki Uesaka*1, Masanori Kitaoka*1, Mehmet Burcin Unlu*1, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Hiroki Shirato*1, Lei Xing*1, Taeko Matsuura*1 |
| Nuclear Inst. and Methods in Physics Research, A | Variable-energy isochronous accelerator with cotangential orbits for proton beam therapy | Chishin Hori, Takamichi Aoki, Takayoshi Seki |
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- Hokkaido University
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- Nagoya City University West Medical Center
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- Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center
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- University of Tsukuba
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- Kyoto University
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- Chiba Institute of Technology
2018
| Medical Physics | An analytical dose‐averaged LET calculation algorithm considering the off‐axis LET enhancement by secondary protons for spot‐scanning proton therapy | Shusuke Hirayama, Taeko Matsuura*1, Hideaki Ueda*1, Yusuke Fujii, Takaaki Fujii*1, Seishin Takao*1, Naoki Miyamoto*1, Shinichi Shimizu*1, Rintaro Fujimoto, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Hiroki Shirato*1 |
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- Hokkaido University
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- Nagoya City University West Medical Center
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- Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center
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- University of Tsukuba
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- Kyoto University
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- Chiba Institute of Technology
2017
| Journal of applied clinical medical physics | A simplified Monte Carlo algorithm considering large-angle scattering for fast and accurate calculation of proton dose | Taisuke Takayanagi, Shusuke Hirayama, Shinichiro Fujitaka, Rintaro Fujimoto |
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- Hokkaido University
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- Nagoya City University West Medical Center
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- Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center
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- University of Tsukuba
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- Kyoto University
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- Chiba Institute of Technology
2016
| Physica Medica | Optimization and evaluation of multiple gating beam delivery in a synchrotron-based proton beam scanning system using a real-time imaging technique | Takahiro Yamada, Naoki Miyamoto*1, Taeko Matsuura*1, Seishin Takao*1, Yusuke Fujii, Yuka Matsuzaki, Hidenori Koyano*1, Masumi Umezawa, Hideaki Nihongi, Shinichi Shimizu*1, Hiroki Shirato*1, Kikuo Umegaki*1 |
| Medical Physics | Dual ring multilayer ionization chamber and theory-based correction technique for scanning proton therapy | Taisuke Takayanagi, Hideaki Nihongi, Hideaki Nishiuchi, Masahiro Tadokoro, Yuki Ito, Chihiro Nakashima, Shinichiro Fujitaka, Masumi Umezawa, Koji Matsuda, Takeji Sakae*4, Toshiyuki Terunuma*4 |
| Academic journal Vol. 136 No.5 published by The institute of electrical Engineers of Japan | Development of a Compact Synchrotron for Proton Beam Therapy | Futaro Ebina, Masumi Umezawa, Hideaki Nishiuchi, Takamichi Aoki, Kazuo Hiramoto, Koji Matsuda, Kikuo Umegaki*1, Michihiro Furusaka*1 |
| Medical Physics | Evaluation of the influence of double and triple Gaussian proton kernel models on accuracy of dose calculations for spot scanning technique | Shusuke Hirayama, Taisuke Takayanagi, Yusuke Fujii, Rintaro Fujimoto, Shinichiro Fujitaka, Masumi Umezawa, Yoshihiko Nagamine, Masahiro Hosaka, Keisuke Yasui*2, Chihiro Omachi*2, Toshiyuki Toshito*2 |
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- Hokkaido University
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- Nagoya City University West Medical Center
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- Osaka Heavy Ion Therapy Center
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- University of Tsukuba
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- Kyoto University
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- Chiba Institute of Technology