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Specializes in the project of "Optical Tomography."
Comes work often on off days, but also to enjoy playing tennis.

Last Update: 98/05/27

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Yukio YAMADA, Director of Department , Ph.D.

Dept. Material Science and Bioengineering,

Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (MEL),

AIST, MITI/Japan

Research Fields

Optical Tomography
Light-tissue interaction
Biothermal engineering

Biomechanics division

Major Publications / Achievements

• Y. Yamada, Y. Hasegawa, and H. Maki, "Simulation of time-resolved optical computer tomography imaging," Optical Engineering, Vol. 32, pp. 634-641, 1993.
• Y. Yamada, Y. Hasegawa, and Y. Yamashita, "Simulation of fan-beam type optical computed-tomography imaging of strongly scattering and weakly absorbing media," Applied Optics, Vol. 32, pp. 4808-4814, 1993.
• K. Furutsu and Y. Yamada, "Diffusion approximation for a dissipative random medium and the application," Phys. Rev. E, Vol. 50, pp. 3634-3640, 1994.
• M. R. Jones, A. Tezuka, and Y. Yamada, "Thermal tomographic detection of inhomogeneities," J. of Heat Transfer, ASME Transaction, Vol. 117, pp. 969-975, 1995.
• Y. Yamada, "Light-Tissue Interaction and Optical Imaging in Biomedicine," Annual Review of Heat Transfer, Vol. VI, pp. 1-59, Begell House, Nov, 1995.
• I. Oda, H. Eda, Y. Tsunazawa, M. Takada, Y. Yamada, G. Nishimura, and M. Tamura, "Optical tomography by the temporally extrapolated absorbance method," Applied Optics, Vol. 35,. pp. 169-175, 1996.
• S. Kumar, K. Mitra and Y. Yamada, "Hyperbolic damped-wave models for transient light-pulse propagation in scattering media," Applied Optics, Vol. 35, pp. 3372-3378, 1996.
• I. W. Kwee, Y. Tanikawa, S. G. Proskurin, S. R. Arridge, D. T. Delpy, and Y. Yamada, "Nullspace regularization and MAP reconstruction in the ill-posed inverse imaging problem," Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 2925, pp. 43-54, 1996.
• Y. Yamada, H. Ishiguro, M. Yamashita, T. Tanaka, M. Takeuchi, and H. Kawamura, "Rise of Tissue Temperature Induced by Reduced Blood Perfusion Caused by External Pressure," Adv. in Exp. Med. and Biol., Vol. 388, Oxygen Transport to Tissue XVII, pp. 391-397, Plenum Press, New York, 1996
• Y. Yamada and Y. Hasegawa, "Time-Dependent FEM Analysis of Photon Migration in Biological Tissues," JSME Int. J., Series B., Vol. 39, pp. 754-761, 1996.
• Y. Yamada, Awards of Minister of Science and Technology, "Optical Tomography," Apr. 16, 1996.
• Y. Tanikawa-Takahashi, D. Imai, S. Mizuno, H. Maki, O. Shinozaki, Y. Yamada, "Design and fabrication of a solid simplified head phantoms," SPIE Proc., Vol. 2979, pp. 429-436, 1997.
• S. Takahashi, D. Imai, Y. Tanikawa-Takahashi, and Y. Yamada, "Fundamental 3D FEM analysis of light propagation in head model toward 3D Optical Tomography," SPIE Proc., Vol. 2979, pp. 250-260, 1997.
• M. R. Jones, S. G. Proskurin, Y. Yamada, Y. Tanikawa, "Application of the zooming method in near-infrared imaging," Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol. 42, pp. 1993-2009, 1997.

Contact

Email:

yamada@mel.go.jp

Post:

Namiki 1-2, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8564 Japan (Please include our division name!)

TEL:

+81-XXX-XX-7065 (direct)

FAX:

+81-XXX-XX-7167

Office:

21-2102, North-West Bdg. 2F, AIST Tsukuba Research Center 'C' Block
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CV

1998.5-present

Director, Department of Material Science and Bioengineering, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory (current position)

1993.4-present

Adjunct Professor of Science University of Tokyo.

1993.4

Chief, Biomechanics Section, Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

1991.4

Chief, Thermal Engineering Section, , Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

1983.8-1984.8

Visiting Researcher, Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, California, USA

1983.1

Ph.D. degree given from Tokyo Institute of Techonology

1974.4

Joined at Mechanical Engineering Laboratory

1973.3

M.S. degree from Tokyo Institute of Techonology, Mechanical Engineering

1970.3

B.S. degree from Tokyo Institute of Techonology, Mechanical Engineering

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