Division of Medical Physics, Department of Radiation Oncology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine

About our laboratory

Tohoku University medical physics program started in 2011 with two departments (Radiation Oncology and Radiation therapy). At present (2015), our medical physics group consist of three faculty members, five master course students and five Ph.D. course students. Although only four years have passed since our group started, our medical physics group is rapidly growing. Our university is equipped with a state-of-the-art facility and is developing the cutting-edge technologies for radiotherapy. If you have interest on the research in our group, please feel free to contact us.

News

2022-10-20：The English book “Artificial Intelligence in Radiation Therapy (IPEM-IOP Series in Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Biology)” co-authored by Assistant Prof. Kadoya has been published.
2022-10-20： Mr. Kajikawa (D4) received the best reviewer President's award bronze prize from 124th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Medical Physics.
2022-10-20：「News」（The 124th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Medical Physics）was updated.
2022-09-28：「Achievement」was updated.
2022-09-28：「Achivement」Research paper of Ms.Takahashi(Assistant Technical Staff)「Evaluation of Accuracy of Deformable Image Registration with Newly Developed Treatment Planning Support Software for Thoracic Images」was published in Jpn. J. Radiol. Technol.
2022-09-28：「Achievement」Research paper of Mr.Ieko(D4)「Assessment of a computed tomography-based radiomics approach for assessing lung function in lung cancer patients」was published in Phys Med.
2022-07-21：「News」(The 1st meeting of MRgRT ) was updated.
2022-07-21：「Achievement」(2021, 2022) was updated.
2022-05-16：「Members」 was updated.
2021-11-17：Prof. Kadoya received the best reviewer Award from Journal of Radiation Research (JASTRO).
2021-11-17：「News」(KJMP2021）was updated. Ms. Mouri(M2) was Awarded the Young Investigator Award.
2021-11-17：「Achievement」Thesis of Mr. Ishida(M2) 「Evaluation of performance of pelvic CT-MR deformable image registration using two software programs」 was published in J Radiat Res.
2021-09-03：「News」(AAPM2021）was updated.
2021-07-02：「Achievement」Research paper of Mr. Sugai (M2) 「Impact of feature selection methods and subgroup factors on prognostic analysis with CT-based radiomics in non-small cell lung cancer patients」 was published in Radiation Oncology.
2021-07-02：「Achievement」Research paper of Assistant Prof. Kadoya 「Development of a physical geometric phantom for deformable image registration credentialing of radiotherapy centers for a clinical trial」 was published in J Appl Clin Med Phys.
2021-07-02：「Achievement」Research paper of Mr. Kimura (D3)「Error detection model developed using a multi-task convolutional neural network in patient-specific quality assurance for volumetric-modulated arc therapy」was published in Medical Physics.
2021-07-02：「Achievement」Research paper of Assistant Prof. Tanaka 「Evaluation of the dosimetric impact of heart function-based volumetric modulated arc therapy planning in patients with esophageal cancer」 was published in Radiological Physics and Technology.
2021-05-20：「News」(The 121st Scientific Meeting of the Japan Society of Medical）was updated.
2021-04-06：「Members」 was updated.
2021-02-09：「Achievement」was updated.
2021-02-09：Assistant Professor Kadoya has been appointed to the international advisory board of “Physics in Medicine & Biology”, an authoritative international academic journal on medical physics.
2021-02-09：「Achievement」Mr. Kimura (D2) obtained the grant of foundation of promotion cancer research (Research title “Development of patient QA verification system using deep learning in radiotherpay) (Total research funding: 500,000 yen).
2021-01-18：「Achievement」Research paper of Mr. Tomori (D4)「Systematic method for a deep learning-based prediction model for gamma evaluation in patient-specific quality assurance of volumetric modulated arc therapy」was published in Med Phys.
2021-01-18：「Achievement」Research paper of Mr. Kajikawa (D2) 「Dose distribution correction for the influence of magnetic field using a deep convolutional neural network for online MR-guided adaptive radiotherapy」 was published in Phys Med.
2021-01-18：「Achievement」was updated.
2020-12-10：「News」(Tohoku University Medical Physics seminar ) was updated.
2020-12-10：「Achievement」Thesis of Mr. Miyasaka(D4) 「Comparison of predictive performance for toxicity by accumulative dose of DVH parameter addition and DIR addition for cervical cancer patients」 was published in J Radiat Res.
2020-09-02：「Achievement」 Research paper of Assistant Prof. Kadoya 「Evaluation of four-dimensional cone beam computed tomography ventilation images acquired with two different linear accelerators at various gantry speeds using a deformable lung phantom」 was published in Phys. Med.
2020-09-02：「Achievement」 Research paper of Mr. Sugawara (D4) 「Development of a dynamic deformable thorax phantom for the quality management of deformable image registration」 was published in Phys. Med.
2020-09-02：「Members」 was updated.
2020-06-03：「Members」 was updated.
2020-06-03：「Achievement」was updated.
2020-04-30：「Members」 was updated.
2020-04-30：「Achievement」 Research paper of Mr. Kimura (D2) 「Error Detection Using a Convolutional Neural Network With Dose Difference Maps in Patient-Specific Quality Assurance for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy」 was published in Phys. Med.
2020-04-08：「Achievement」Mr. Parishan who studied for a short period (6 months) from Iran 「The effects of a transverse magnetic field on the dose enhancement of nanoparticles in a proton beam: a Monte Carlo simulation.」was published from Physics in Medicine & Biology.
2020-04-08：「Achievement」Assistant Prof. Kadoya 「Homology-based radiomic features for prediction of the prognosis of lung cancer based on CT-based radiomics.」was published from Medical Physics.
2020-04-08：「Achievement」 Research paper of Mr. Nakajima (D4) 「Variations between dose-ventilation and dose-perfusion metrics in radiotherapy planning for lung cancer」 was published in Adv Radiat Oncol.
2020-02-28：「News」(The 32st Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology) was updated.
2020-02-28：「Achievement」 Assistant Prof. Kadoya 「Deep learning based radiomics for prognostic prediction in lung cancer patients」was published from Medical Imaging Technology.
2020-02-28：「Achievement」 Research paper of Mr. Nakajima (D4) 「Evaluation of the effect of user-guided deformable image registration of thoracic images on registration accuracy among users.」 was published in Med Dosim.
2020-02-28：「Achievement」 Assistant Prof. Kadoya 「Modern medical imaging technology: AI and radiotherapy」was published from Rinsyohousyasen.
2020-02-28：「Achievement」 Assistant Prof. Kadoya with Kyoto Univ and Tokyo (PI. Prof. Mizowaki) Women's Medical Univ (PI. Prof. Nishio) obtained the public AMED grant (Research title “Development and Industrialization of radiotherapy planning support system realizing 4D irradiation field optimization) (Total research funding: approximately 180,000,000 yen).
2020-01-06：「News」(Tohoku University Medical Physics seminar ) was updated.
2019-11-05：「News」(EPSM&AOCMP 2019)as updated.
2019-11-05：「News」(Peter MacCallum Cancer Center) was updated.
2019-10-01：「Mr. Matsuda (D1) received scholarship of AOCMP 2019 from JSMP : Development of convolutional neural network-based automated segmentation using evolutionary algorithm on prostate MR images)
2019-10-01：「News」(ASTRO2019) was updated.
2019-10-01：「News」(VC Cancer-Vancouver) was updated.
2019-10-01：「Achievement」Paper of assistant prof. Kadoya 「Evaluation of a 3D-printed heterogeneous anthropomorphic head and neck phantom for patient-specific quality assurance in intensity-modulated radiation therapy」was published from Radiol Phys Technol.
2019-08-05：「News」(Tohoku university Medical physics skill up traning)was updated.
2019-08-05：「Members」 was updated.
2019-08-05：「News」(AAPM2019）was updated.
2019-08-05：「Achievement」Thesis of Mr. Kajikawa (D1) 「A convolutional neural network approach for IMRT dose distribution prediction in prostate cancer patients」 was published in J Radiat Res.
2019-08-05：「News」(MR in RT 2019) was updated.
2019-08-05：「News」(Tohoku University Division of Medical Physics seminar）was updated.
2019-06-05：「Achievement」Paper of assistant prof. Kadoya 「Factual survey of the clinical use of deformable image registration software for radiotherapy in Japan」was published from J Radiat Res.
2019-06-05：「News」(The 117th Scientific Meeting of the japan Society of Medical Physics)was updated.
2019-06-05：「Members」 was updated.
2019-04-24：「Achievement」Thesis of B.S. Tanaka 「Investigation of thoracic four-dimensional CT-based dimension reduction technique for extracting the robust radiomic features.」 was published in Phys Med.
2019-04-24：「Achievement」The Ichiro Kanehara for the Promotion of Medical Sciences and Medical Care (Shohei Tanaka) 200,000yen
2019-04-24：「News」(The 32nd Annual Meeting of High-precision External Beam Radiotherapy Group / JASTRO) was updated.
2019-04-24：「Achievement」Thesis of assistant prof. Kadoya 「Automated noncoplanar treatment planning strategy in radiosurgery of multiple cranial metastases : HyperArc and CyberKnife dose distributions」was published in Med Dosim.
2019-04-24：「Achievement」Thesis of International collaboration research of assistant prof. Kadoya 「The VAMPIRE challenge : A multi-institutional validation study of ventilation imaging.」 was published in Med Phys.
2019-04-24：「Achievement」”Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research” Research Name “Development of prediction system for patient prognosis and treatment effect using high dimensional image features” (Representative : Kota Abe) 500,000yen
2019-04-24：「Achievement」”Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research” Research Name “Development of system to evaluate local control and contingency events with high accuracy in stereotactic radiation therapy” (Representative : Yoshiyuki Katsuta) 500,000yen
2019-04-24：「News」(The 7th Rdiation therapy and Physics seminar / JASTRO) was updated.
2019-04-24：「News」( Desktop 3D printer 「Objet 30 Prime」was introduced.) updated.
2019-04-24：「Member」was updated.
2019-04-24：「Achievement」was updated.
2018-12-12：「News」（AOCMP2018）was updated.
2018-12-12：「News」（JASTRO2018）was updated.
2018-10-17：「News」（JSRT2018）was updated.
2018-10-17：「Members」 was updated.
2018-10-17：Mr. Tomori (D2) received memorial plaque from Medical Physics　 (「News」was updated.)
2018-10-17：International student (Mohammad Reza Parishan) came to our laboratory from Shiraz University in Iran (「News」was updated.)
2018-08-27：「News」(AAPM2018)was updated.
2018-08-27：「Achievement」was updated.
2018-08-27：「Research」was updated.
2018-08-27：「Medical Physicist」was updated.
2018-07-12：「News」 (WC2018) was updated.
2018-05-01：「News」(The 115th Scientific Meeting of the Japan Society of Medical Physics) was updated.
2018-05-01：「Members」 was updated.
2018-02-28：「News」(The 31st Annual meeting of High-precision External Beam Radiotherapy Group/JASTRO) was updated.
2017-08-30：「News」(AAPM2017）was updated.
2017-08-07：「Achievement」was updated.
2017-08-07：「News」(CMPFG the 47th regular meeting (The 8th Overnight Seminar )）was updated.
2017-07-04：「News」(CMPFG46th regular meeting）was updated.
2017-05-31：「Members」 was updated.
2017-05-31：「News」(The 113th Scientific Meeting of the Japan Society of Medical Physics) was updated.
2017-05-31：「News」(The 5th Japan-Taiwan Radiation Oncology Symposium) was updated.
2017-05-31：「News」(The 19th Annual meeting of Brachytherapy Group / JASTRO) was updated.
2017-02-07：「News」( 2016 Tohoku University - Nigata University joint radiation therapy seminar）was updated.
2017-02-07：「Achievement」was updated.
2016-12-06：「News」(The 29th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society for Radiation Oncology）was updated.
2016-11-04：「News」（2016 Tohoku University Division of Medical Physics seminar）was updated.
2016-09-15：「News」(43th CMPFG regular meeting (7th Overnight Seminar))was updated.
2016-08-10：「News」(AAPM2016)was updated.
2016-06-23：「News」(CMPFG42Th regular meeting)was updated.
2016-04-20：「Members」was updated. 「Achievement」was updated.
2015-12-24：「News」(2nd Tohoku University Medical Physics skill up seminar ）was updated.
2015-11-24：「News」(JASTRO 28）was updated.
2015-10-27：「News」(2015 Tohoku University Medical Physics seminar ）was updated.
2015-10-13：「News」(40Th CMPFG regular meeting）was updated.
2015-10-13：.Mr. Saito, Mr. Nakajima, Mr. Fujiwara (M2) passed the examination of certified Japanese medical physicist.
2015-09-28：「News」(110th Scientific meeting of the Japan society of medical physics）was updated.
2015-08-19：Dr. Kadoya received a Tohoku University grant of clinical translational research for young investigator (From 2015.07 to 20167.3, a grant of 2015 = 2100000 yen).　The research title is "Development of new lung cancer radiotherapy using 4D-CT ventilation imaging".
2015-08-06：「News」(NIRS Medical Physics seminar and CMPFG overnight seminar）was updated.
2015-07-23：「News」(AAPM2015）was updated.
2015-07-09：Two papers of Dr. Kadoya and Mr. Nakajima were accepted as oral presentations and three papers of Mr. Sugawara, Mr. Katsuta and Mr. Nakajima were accepted as poster presentations in AAPM 2015 (July 12-16, in Anaheim, CA, USA)
2015-07-09：English homepage is opened.