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    A clinical study of curative partial breast irradiation for stage I breast cancer using carbon ion radiotherapy

    Our institute initiated carbon ion radiotherapy research for patients with stage I breast cancer in April 2013. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the treatment outcome of cases treated outside clinica...

    Kumiko Karasawa, Tokuhiko Omatsu, Shintaro Shiba, Daisuke Irie in Radiation Oncology (2020)

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    Intra- and inter-operator reproducibility of US point shear-wave elastography in various organs: evaluation in phantoms and healthy volunteers

    This study was conducted in order to assess the intra- and interoperator reproducibility of shear-wave speed (SWS) measurement on elasticity phantoms and healthy volunteers using ultrasound-based point shear-w...

    Riwa Kishimoto, Katsuhiko Kikuchi, Atsuhisa Koyama, Jeff Kershaw in European Radiology (2019)

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    Diffusion-tensor-based method for robust and practical estimation of axial and radial diffusional kurtosis

    A new method that can estimate diffusional kurtosis image (DKI), estimated DKI (eDKI), parallel and perpendicular to neuronal fibres from greatly limited image data was designed to enable quick and practical a...

    Yasuhiko Tachibana, Takayuki Obata, Hiroki Tsuchiya, Tokuhiko Omatsu in European Radiology (2016)

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    First experience of carbon-ion radiotherapy for early breast cancer

    Breast cancer is increasingly being detected at earlier stages, and partial breast irradiation for patients with low-risk-group tumor has come to be applied in the US and Europe as an alternative to whole-bre...

    Hiroko Akamatsu, Kumiko Karasawa, Tokuhiko Omatsu in Japanese Journal of Radiology (2014)

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    Imaging characteristics of metastatic chordoma

    Our aim was to describe the incidence and sites of metastatic chordomas and show their characteristic computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) findings.

    Riwa Kishimoto, Tokuhiko Omatsu, Azusa Hasegawa in Japanese Journal of Radiology (2012)

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    Intravenous pyogenic granuloma of the finger

    Intravenous pyogenic granuloma is a rare solitary form of lobular capillary hemangioma that usually occurs in the veins of the neck and upper extremities. We report two cases of intravenous pyogenic granuloma ...

    Tamotsu Kamishima, Akiko Hasegawa, Kanako C. Kubota in Japanese Journal of Radiology (2009)

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    Alveolar hydatid disease of the adrenal gland: computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging findings

    Echinococcosis is a parasitic infection of humans caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus. Primary alveolar echinococcosis of the adrenal gland is rare. We report a case of alveolar hydatid diseas...

    Tamotsu Kamishima, Toru Harabayashi, Syuhei Ishikawa in Japanese Journal of Radiology (2009)

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    Evaluation of the vascular supply to regions of the pancreas on CT during arteriography

    Background: To evaluate the vascular supply of regions of the pancreas on computed tomography (CT) during arteriography with selective catheterization. Methods: Thirteen patients were inc...

    Yusuke Sakuhara, Yoshihisa Kodama, Daisuke Abo, Yu Hasegawa in Abdominal Imaging (2008)

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    Wavelet compression on detection of brain lesions with magnetic resonance imaging

    The purpose of this report is to assess clinically acceptable compression ratios on the detection of brain lesions at magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Four consecutive T2-weighted and the corresponding T1-weight...

    Satoshi Terae MD, Kazuo Miyasaka, Kohsuke Kudoh in Journal of Digital Imaging (2000)