Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics最新文献
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.9781/ijimai.2022.11.009
R. G. Crespo
{"title":"Editor's Note","authors":"R. G. Crespo","doi":"10.9781/ijimai.2022.11.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.9781/ijimai.2022.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"11 1","pages":"231"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74713971","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Details of Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics (YRAMP) was introduced. In addition, several questionnaire surveys on medical physics education (MPE) or medical physicist training system (MPTS) in Japan have been conducted, none have targeted the current status and issues of MPE and MPTS. The purpose of this study was to investigate those from the perspective of researchers and students under 35-year-old (y.o.). The questionnaire survey was conducted between 14th September to 14th October 2021, for 112 members of the Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics via Google Forms. The questionnaire was in two parts: MPE (Part1) and MPTS (Part2). Three subparts were constructed in Part1: Classroom lecture, Clinical training, Education course accredited by Japanese Board of Medical Physicist Qualification. Out of a total of 126 questions, 38 were mandatory to be answered. No personal information was collected. Ninety-three members (83.0%) were answered. The age structure of the respondents was as follows: 18-21, 22-26, 27-30, and 31-35 y.o.=5.4%, 36.6%, 39.8%, and 18.2%. Of the respondents, 74.2% and 11.8% answered that they first heard of "medical physics" or "medical physicist" when they were undergraduate students and in high school or younger, respectively. In Classroom lecture, 61.3%, 17.2%, and 21.5% of the respondents answered that they were "satisfied" or "moderately satisfied", "dissatisfied" or "moderately dissatisfied", and "Not sure" with the current MPE, respectively. In Clinical training, Education course, and MPTS, 58.1%, 21.5%, and 20.4% of the respondents answered that they were "satisfied" or "moderately satisfied", "dissatisfied" or "moderately dissatisfied", and "Not sure", respectively. In both MPE and MPTS, approximately 88% and 51% of the respondents answered that "holding lectures and study sessions for high school and undergraduate students" and "utilizing YouTube" would be useful in promoting MPE and MPTS in Japan, respectively. The results of the questionnaire survey will provide useful data for MPE and MPTS in Japan.
{"title":"[Introduction of Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics and Questionnaire Survey on Medical Physics Education and Medical Physics Training System in Japan for Young Researchers in 2021].","authors":"Hiraku Iramina, Masashi Kinjo, Sodai Tanaka, Masato Tsuneda, Hideaki Hirashima","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.2_88","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.2_88","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Details of Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics (YRAMP) was introduced. In addition, several questionnaire surveys on medical physics education (MPE) or medical physicist training system (MPTS) in Japan have been conducted, none have targeted the current status and issues of MPE and MPTS. The purpose of this study was to investigate those from the perspective of researchers and students under 35-year-old (y.o.). The questionnaire survey was conducted between 14th September to 14th October 2021, for 112 members of the Young Researchers' Association of Medical Physics via Google Forms. The questionnaire was in two parts: MPE (Part1) and MPTS (Part2). Three subparts were constructed in Part1: Classroom lecture, Clinical training, Education course accredited by Japanese Board of Medical Physicist Qualification. Out of a total of 126 questions, 38 were mandatory to be answered. No personal information was collected. Ninety-three members (83.0%) were answered. The age structure of the respondents was as follows: 18-21, 22-26, 27-30, and 31-35 y.o.=5.4%, 36.6%, 39.8%, and 18.2%. Of the respondents, 74.2% and 11.8% answered that they first heard of \"medical physics\" or \"medical physicist\" when they were undergraduate students and in high school or younger, respectively. In Classroom lecture, 61.3%, 17.2%, and 21.5% of the respondents answered that they were \"satisfied\" or \"moderately satisfied\", \"dissatisfied\" or \"moderately dissatisfied\", and \"Not sure\" with the current MPE, respectively. In Clinical training, Education course, and MPTS, 58.1%, 21.5%, and 20.4% of the respondents answered that they were \"satisfied\" or \"moderately satisfied\", \"dissatisfied\" or \"moderately dissatisfied\", and \"Not sure\", respectively. In both MPE and MPTS, approximately 88% and 51% of the respondents answered that \"holding lectures and study sessions for high school and undergraduate students\" and \"utilizing YouTube\" would be useful in promoting MPE and MPTS in Japan, respectively. The results of the questionnaire survey will provide useful data for MPE and MPTS in Japan.</p>","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"42 2","pages":"88-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40406479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Neutrons are uncharged particles and exhibit strong ability to penetrate matter. Various charged particles and gamma rays are emitted from nuclear reactions induced by neutrons passing through the matter. It is important to consider contributions of neutrons for estimating such quantities used in radiation protection as absorbed dose, equivalent dose and effective dose. In this article basic knowledge of neutron is briefly summarized concerned with physical properties of neutrons, neutron reactions, neutron sources, fluence to karma conversion coefficient, absorbed dose, equivalent dose, effective dose.
{"title":"[Basic Knowledge of Neutron: Physics].","authors":"Keisuke Maehata","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.2_67","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.2_67","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Neutrons are uncharged particles and exhibit strong ability to penetrate matter. Various charged particles and gamma rays are emitted from nuclear reactions induced by neutrons passing through the matter. It is important to consider contributions of neutrons for estimating such quantities used in radiation protection as absorbed dose, equivalent dose and effective dose. In this article basic knowledge of neutron is briefly summarized concerned with physical properties of neutrons, neutron reactions, neutron sources, fluence to karma conversion coefficient, absorbed dose, equivalent dose, effective dose.</p>","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"42 2","pages":"67-72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40409066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The purpose of this article is to introduce achievement and philosophy on studies of SPECT reconstruction algorithms which Dr. Eiichi Tanaka dedicated himself to carrying out. The method that Dr. Tanaka suggested first (in 1974) was to reconstruct analytically a section image from the projection data convoluted the correction functions. The correction functions were optimized to yield a maximum 'signal-to-noise ratio'. In 1983 and 1984, two image reconstruction algorithms, WBP and RPC were suggested assuming a uniform attenuation in the object. Dr. Tanaka understood intuitively that these methods had few noise and distortions in reconstructed images. WBP was an approximate solution, but three type analytically methods were reported by Tretiak O, et al., Bellini S, et al., and Inoyue T, et al. In 1995, Metz CE, et al. and Kudo H, et al. succeeded independently each other in finishing a general theory of the analytic absorption Radon Conversion by using parameter "n". The relations among the above three analytically methods and WBP were explained, beautifully. The important thing in the study is a flexible idea such as catching a problem as the issue of black box or reverse and the result to be concise and elegant.
{"title":"[Achievement and Philosophy of Studies on SPECT Reconstruction Algorithms].","authors":"Hinako Toyama","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.1_33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.1_33","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this article is to introduce achievement and philosophy on studies of SPECT reconstruction algorithms which Dr. Eiichi Tanaka dedicated himself to carrying out. The method that Dr. Tanaka suggested first (in 1974) was to reconstruct analytically a section image from the projection data convoluted the correction functions. The correction functions were optimized to yield a maximum 'signal-to-noise ratio'. In 1983 and 1984, two image reconstruction algorithms, WBP and RPC were suggested assuming a uniform attenuation in the object. Dr. Tanaka understood intuitively that these methods had few noise and distortions in reconstructed images. WBP was an approximate solution, but three type analytically methods were reported by Tretiak O, et al., Bellini S, et al., and Inoyue T, et al. In 1995, Metz CE, et al. and Kudo H, et al. succeeded independently each other in finishing a general theory of the analytic absorption Radon Conversion by using parameter \"n\". The relations among the above three analytically methods and WBP were explained, beautifully. The important thing in the study is a flexible idea such as catching a problem as the issue of black box or reverse and the result to be concise and elegant.","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"4 1","pages":"33-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88228530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Report of the 9th Korea-Japan Joint Meeting on Medical Physics/122nd Scientific Meeting of Japan Society of Medical Physics].","authors":"S. Fukuda","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.1_48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.1_48","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"22 1","pages":"48-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78488985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
At present scintillation gamma camera plays key role in nuclear medicine as planner and tomographic single photon imaging modality. The basic technology of gamma camera made remarkable progress carried out by many researchers and engineers from around 1970 to 1980 and reached some matured stage as analog signal processing. Among them Dr. E. Tanaka made key contribution through the proposal of "Ideal arithmetics for position computer" (1969) and its implementation by the delay line time conversion (1970). These works triggered other unique position computing method applied to gamma camera products. This article reviews these technological progresses and outlines the next advances of gamma camera in the digital computer era.
{"title":"[Ideal Arithmetics for Scintillation Camera Position Computer and Its Implementation: Progresses Around 1970 to 1980].","authors":"M. Kakegawa","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.1_17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.1_17","url":null,"abstract":"At present scintillation gamma camera plays key role in nuclear medicine as planner and tomographic single photon imaging modality. The basic technology of gamma camera made remarkable progress carried out by many researchers and engineers from around 1970 to 1980 and reached some matured stage as analog signal processing. Among them Dr. E. Tanaka made key contribution through the proposal of \"Ideal arithmetics for position computer\" (1969) and its implementation by the delay line time conversion (1970). These works triggered other unique position computing method applied to gamma camera products. This article reviews these technological progresses and outlines the next advances of gamma camera in the digital computer era.","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"72 1","pages":"17-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80226817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Portugal, Hungary, South Africa, and Thailand].","authors":"Kunio Doi","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.4_215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.4_215","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"42 4","pages":"215-230"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10452798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article gives a commentary on the development of positron emission tomography scanners based on Positology which was proposed by Dr. Eiichi Tanaka. Circular detector rings of an equally spaced detector arrangement have a problem of linear sampling density distributions in the projections. The problem can be solved by Positology in which a continuously rotating detector ring of an unequally spaced detector arrangement obtained by computer iterative searching provides a fine and uniform sampling density distribution. The imaging performance of multilayer positron emission tomography scanners for extended sources is evaluated analytically. The analysis is simplified by "rotation transform," by which three-dimensional photon detection problems are solved by two-dimensional treatment. Event rates of singles, unscattered true coincidence, and single- and double-scattered coincidence are formulated for a uniform cylindrical phantom. Positron emission tomography scanners based on Positology, named Positologica, were developed for brain, whole-body and animal study. A high resolution stationary PET scanner, SHR-1200 was also developed for brain study.
{"title":"[Development of Positron Emission Tomography Scanners Based on Positology].","authors":"N. Nohara","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.1_23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.1_23","url":null,"abstract":"This article gives a commentary on the development of positron emission tomography scanners based on Positology which was proposed by Dr. Eiichi Tanaka. Circular detector rings of an equally spaced detector arrangement have a problem of linear sampling density distributions in the projections. The problem can be solved by Positology in which a continuously rotating detector ring of an unequally spaced detector arrangement obtained by computer iterative searching provides a fine and uniform sampling density distribution. The imaging performance of multilayer positron emission tomography scanners for extended sources is evaluated analytically. The analysis is simplified by \"rotation transform,\" by which three-dimensional photon detection problems are solved by two-dimensional treatment. Event rates of singles, unscattered true coincidence, and single- and double-scattered coincidence are formulated for a uniform cylindrical phantom. Positron emission tomography scanners based on Positology, named Positologica, were developed for brain, whole-body and animal study. A high resolution stationary PET scanner, SHR-1200 was also developed for brain study.","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"54 1","pages":"23-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88369407","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Beautiful Mountains in Switzerland].","authors":"Kunio Doi","doi":"10.11323/jjmp.42.1_55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11323/jjmp.42.1_55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":13394,"journal":{"name":"Igaku butsuri : Nihon Igaku Butsuri Gakkai kikanshi = Japanese journal of medical physics : an official journal of Japan Society of Medical Physics","volume":"40 1","pages":"55-62"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75422458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}