Since Colon capsule endoscopy (CCE) was approved for reimbursement under the national health insurance system of Japan in January 2014. Dialysis patients are potentially susceptible to bleeding because of the fragile ...
Purpose: Magnetic targeting refers to the attachment of therapeutic agents to magnetizable particles such as magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) and then applying magnetic fields to concentrate them to the targeted region s...
Purpose: To present an application of the anisotropic diffusion (AD) method to improve the accuracy of the functional images of perfusion parameters such as cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV) and m...
Purpose: To investigate the usefulness of magnetic particle imaging (MPI) for predicting the therapeutic effect of magnetic hyperthermia (MH). Materials and Methods: First, we performed phantom experiments to investig...
X-ray fluoroscopy has been used not only for diagnoses but also for treatment, as in interventional radiology. The aim of this study is to assess the usefulness of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) using the subtraction...
Anterior cingulated cortex (ACC) is involved in “the state in which patients do not care much about pain despite its presence” which is a goal of psychosomatic treatment. To investigate the absolute concentration of...
Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) has been clinically employed in Japan, and its usefulness in the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has been reported by many researchers. In the present study, the convex punctu...