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山口 匡

ヤマグチ タダシ  (Tadashi Yamaguchi)

基本情報

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千葉大学 フロンティア医工学センター 教授
(兼任)工学研究院 教授
(兼任)医学部附属病院 超音波センター 教授
学位
博士（工学）(千葉大学)
J-GLOBAL ID
200901007599937458
researchmap会員ID
1000357236
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経歴

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学歴

 3

主要な委員歴

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論文

 157
  • Kenji YOSHIDA, Masaaki Omura, Shinnosuke Hirata, Tadashi YAMAGUCHI
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2025年3月7日  
    Abstract This study investigates the dependence of the translational velocity of lipid-coated microbubbles in an ultrasound field on the viscosity of the surrounding Newtonian fluid. Plane burst waves with a center frequency of 7.34 MHz were used to uniformly drive microbubbles with a radius of 1.4 ± 0.3 m (mean ± standard deviation) in a flow channel. Bubbles were detected using the Doppler method using pulse waves with a center frequency of 5.2 MHz, and the velocities of individual bubbles were analyzed by tracking them in consecutive images. Examinations were conducted at various viscosities from 1 to 3 mPa∙s. The experimentally determined velocity–viscosity relationship qualitatively agreed with numerical simulations. This was written as a power-law dependence and used as a calibration curve to evaluate the local viscosity coefficient for the trajectories of individual bubbles. We succeeded in demonstrating viscosity imaging by multiplying the obtained viscosity coefficient with the bubble trajectories, convoluted with the point spread function of ultrasound imaging.
  • Miyu Nagaoka, Koichi Ito, Shinnosuke Hirata, Kenji YOSHIDA, Tadashi YAMAGUCHI
    Japanese Journal of Applied Physics 2025年2月14日  査読有り最終著者責任著者
    Abstract We conducted a fundamental study to elucidate the relationship between acoustic and electrical properties in the context of liver steatosis. The speed of sound, attenuation coefficient, conductivity, and relative permittivity were measured in rat livers with varying degrees of fat deposition. Fat deposition result in a decrease in the speed of sound, an increase in the attenuation coefficient, and reductions in conductivity and relative permittivity. However, no linear correlation was observed between these properties and fat content or droplet size individually. However, a notable correlation between changes in acoustic and electrical properties was identified when the structural and organizational effects of fat were considered in combination. Especially, attenuation changes were found to correlate with corresponding changes in electrical properties. These findings underscore the importance of comprehensively considering structural factors, such as fat droplet size and distribution, to better understand the physical mechanisms underlying the relationship between acoustic and electrical properties.
  • Masaaki Omura, Kunimasa Yagi, Ryo Nagaoka, Kenji Yoshida, Tadashi Yamaguchi, Hideyuki Hasegawa
    Ultrasonics 149 107589-107589 2025年1月30日  査読有り
    Hemorheological properties, such as erythrocyte aggregation can be assessed by ultrasonic backscatter coefficient analysis. In this study, a data-acquisition sequence with dual-frequency (dual-f) excitation was proposed to expand the ultrasonic frequency bandwidth with high-frame-rate imaging. The approach was experimentally validated using ex vivo porcine blood measurements and in vivo human imaging. The center frequency of the excitation wave was alternated between 7.8 (f1) and 12.5 (f2) MHz in the frequency spectral analysis using the reference phantom method. The frequency spectra revealed that the dual-f sequence achieved a bandwidth of 4.5-15 MHz at -20 dB, almost equivalent to those achieved with conventional single-frequency excitation (5.0-15 MHz) with a short-duration wave at 10 MHz (mono-f) in reference media with the sufficient condition of signal-to-noise ratio. The aggregation and disaggregation states of porcine blood suspended in high-molecular-weight dextran were determined by the isotropic diameter and packing factor using the structure factor size estimator. The discrimination performance of the dual-f approach increased, owing to the broadband frequency responses, in contrast with the limited performance of mono-f due to a low signal-to-noise ratio. This approach incorporating dual-f sequence is beneficial for obtaining robustly frequency spectra of hemorheological properties from in vivo scenarios.
  • Akiho Isshiki, Kisako Fujiwara, Takayuki Kondo, Kenji Yoshida, Tadashi Yamaguchi, Shinnosuke Hirata
    Journal of Medical Ultrasonics 52(1) 5-15 2024年11月23日  査読有り
    Abstract Purpose Early detection and quantitative evaluation of liver steatosis are crucial. Therefore, this study investigated a method for classifying ultrasound images to fatty liver grades based on echo-envelope statistics (ES) and convolutional neural network (CNN) analyses. Methods Three fatty liver grades, i.e., normal, mild, and moderate-to-severe, were defined using the thresholds of the magnetic resonance imaging-derived proton density fat fraction (MRI-PDFF). There were 10 cases of each grade, totaling 30 cases. To visualize the texture information affected by the deposition of fat droplets within the liver, the maps of first- and fourth-order moments and the heat maps formed from both moments were employed as parametric images derived from the ES. Several dozen to hundreds of regions of interest (ROIs) were extracted from the liver region in each parametric image. A total of 7680 ROIs were utilized for the transfer learning of a pretrained VGG-16 and classified using the transfer-learned VGG-16. Results The classification accuracies of the ROIs in all types of the parametric images were approximately 46%. The fatty liver grade for each case was determined by hard voting on the classified ROIs within the case. In the case of the fourth-order moment maps, the classification accuracy of the cases through hard voting mostly increased to approximately 63%. Conclusions The formation of parametric images derived from the ES and the CNN classification of the parametric images were proposed for the quantitative diagnosis of liver steatosis. In more than 60% of the cases, the fatty liver grade could be estimated solely using ultrasound images.
  • Jungtaek Choi, Jeffrey A. Ketterling, Jonathan Mamou, Cameron Hoerig, Shinnosuke Hirata, Kenji Yoshida, Tadashi Yamaguchi
    Sensors 24(22) 7118-7118 2024年11月5日  査読有り最終著者責任著者
    The objective of this work is to address the need for versatile and effective tissue characterization in abdominal ultrasound diagnosis using a simpler system. We evaluated the backscattering coefficient (BSC) of several tissue-mimicking phantoms utilizing three different ultrasonic probes: a single-element transducer, a linear array probe for clinical use, and a laboratory-made annular array probe. The single-element transducer, commonly used in developing fundamental BSC evaluation methods, served as a benchmark. The linear array probe provided a clinical comparison, while the annular array probe was tested for its potential in high-frequency and high-resolution ultrasonic observations. Our findings demonstrate that the annular array probe meets clinical demands by providing accurate BSC measurements, showcasing its capability for high-frequency and high-resolution imaging with a simpler, more versatile system.
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