Department of Radiology Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine

research

The mission of our department is to pursue cutting-edge, highly effective and compliant clinical research for the discovery of health care advancements across multiple radiology specialties. On-going research projects are as follows:

1) MR imaging diagnosis of pancreatobiliary diseases: Clinical application of cine-dynamic MRCP with spatially selective inversion recovery pulse

2) Functional imaging of pancreatobiliary system: Evaluation by multiparametric MR imaging

3) Computer assisted diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma using dynamic CT

4) Correlation of imaging features and pathological features of patients with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors

5) The affecting factors of fractional flow reserve using coronary CT (FFRCT) before and after administration of nitroglycerin

6) The correlation between aortic ejection fraction using four-dimensional ECG-gating CT and factors suggesting aortic stiffness

7) Image quality of ultralow-dose neck and chest CT using a Tin filter

8) Lung perfused blood volume images using dual source CT

9) Preoperative portal embolization for major hepatectomy: Assessment of approach sites between percutaneous transhepatic vs trans-ileocecal

 approach

education and training

A dedicated educational program is provided to medical students and Radiology residents.
Our program committee seeks to identify your individual areas of interest and talents and helps you achieve your professional goals.

Educational Program for Medical Students

1)Lecture of diagnostic imaging and interventional radiology in addition to imaging anatomy, physiology, and the principles of imaging modalities in the 4th year.

2)Radiology-related clinical practice for 2 weeks for each group in the 5th year.

3)Clinical clerkships for 6 weeks for each group in the 6th year.

Training Program in Clinical Resident Training Systems

1)Applicants can select 1-3 months training programs. In these programs, clinical residents can learn how to read, interpret and report imaging findings of X-ray, CT, and MRI under the guidance of experienced radiologists.

2)Clinical residents can participate in vascular as well as non-vascular IR with interventional radiologists.

Training Program for Radiology Residents

1)This program is planned to enable residents to successfully pass the radiology board examination held after completing 3 years and 5 years of radiology training.

2)Radiology residents can learn diagnostic processes in each imaging modality including detection and characterization of various diseases in the whole body, and can acquire the ability to be a general radiologist.

3)Radiology residents can experience various interventional procedures first hand under the guidance of expert interventional radiologists.

4)After the completion of 5 years training, radiology residents can be highly accomplished radiologists with subspecialities.