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Abe K, Takanashi M, Watanabe Y, Tanaka H, Fujita N, Hirabuki N, Yanagihara T. Decrease in N-acetyleaspartate/creatine ratio in the motor area and the frontal lobe in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Neuroradiology 43: 537-541, 2001
Akira M, Sakatani S. Clinical and high-resolution computed tomographic findings in five patients with pulmonary tuberculosis who developed respiratory failure following chemotherapy. Clin Radiol 56: 550-555,2001
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Campbell WL, Peterson MS, Federle MP, Siqueira ES, Slivka A, Grazioli L, Ichikawa T, Oliver JH 3rd, Kim T, Li W. Discrimination of small hepatic hemangiomas from hypervascular malignant tumors smaller than 3 cm with three-phase helical CT. Radiology 219: 699-706,2001
Campbell WL, Peterson MS, Federle MP, Siqueira ES, Slivka A, Grazioli L, Ichikawa T, Oliver JH, Kim T, Li W.Using CT and cholangiography to diagnose biliary tract carcinoma complicating primary sclerosing cholangitis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 177:1095-1100,2001
Cruz M, Murakami T, Tsuda K, Kurachi H, Enomoto T, Kim T, Takahashi S, Nakamura H. Myxoid leiomyoma of the uterus: CT and MRI features. Abdom Imaging 26:98-101,2001
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Fujita N, Tanaka H, Takanashi M, Yoshimura H, Hirabuki N, Nakamura H. The lateral geniculate nucleus: anatomical and functional identification using magnetic resonance imaging. American Journal of Neuroradiology 22:1719-1726, 2001
Fujita N. Extravascular contribution of blood oxygenation level-dependent signal changes: a numerical analysis based on a vascular network model. Magn Reson Med.46: 723-34, 2001
Fujiwara M, Yamada N, Ono Y, et al. Magnetic resonance imaging of old myocardial infarction in young patients with a hystory of Kawasaki disease. Clinical Cardiolgy 24:247-252,2001
Fukuchi K, Inenaga T, Suzuki Y, Horita Y, Hayashida K, Ishida Y. Paraganglioma seen with FDG dual-head gamma camera coincidence imaging after false-negative results of I-123 MIBG imaging. Clin Nucl Med 26: 966-967, 2001
Fukuchi K, Yasumura Y, Hayashida K, Ishida Y. Flow-function mismatch in unstable angina pectoris demonstrated by gated Tl-201 SPECT. Clin Nucl Med 26: 977-978, 2001
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Hayashi M, Teshima T, Tanisada K, Ohno Y, Inue T, Hiraoka M, Yamashita T, Mitsuhashi N, Sumi M and Japanese PCS Working Group. Automatic search for optimal conditions in clinical studies. Anticancer Research 21(2B): 1371-1374, 2001
Hayashida K, Fukuchi K, Inubushi M, Fukushima K, Imakita S, Kimura K. Embolic distribution through patent foramen ovale demonstrated by 99mTc-MAA brain SPECT after Valsalva radionuclide venography. J Nucl Med 42: 859-863, 2001
Hirooka K, Yasumura Y, Ishida Y, Hanatani A, Nakatani S, Komamura K, Hori M, Yamagishi M, Miyatake K. Comparative left ventricular functional and neurohumoral effects of chronic treatment with carvedilol versus metoprolol in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Jpn Circ J 65: 931-936, 2001
Honda O, Johkoh T, Tomiyama N, Kozuka T, Mihara N, Koyama M, Hamada S, Naito H, Nakamura H, Kudo M. High-resolution CT by multidetector-row CT: evaluation of image quality in 11 autopsy lungs an a helical fantom. AJR Am J Roentgenol 177: 875-879, 2001
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Imai A, Teshima T, Ohno Y, Inoue T, Yamashita T, Mitsuhashi N, Hiraoka M, Sumi M and Japanese PCS Working Group. The future demand for and structural problems of Japanese Radiotherapy. Jpn J Clin Oncol 31: 135-141, 2001
Inamura K, Konishi J, Nishitani H, Kousaka S, Matsumura Y, Takeda H, Kondoh H, Status of PACS and technology assessment in Japan. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 66: 5-15, 2001
Inoue T, Inoue T, Yoshida K, Yoshioka Y, Shimamoto S, Tanaka E, Yamazaki H, Shimizutani K, Teshima T, Furukawa S. Phase III trial of high- vs. low-dose-rate interstitial radiotherapy for early mobile tongue cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 51: 171-175, 2001
Ishida Y, Nagata S, Uehara T, Yasumura Y, Fukuchi K, Miyatake K. Clinical analysis of myocardial perfusion and metabolism in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by single photon emission tomography and positron emission tomography. J Cardiol 37: 121-128, 2001
Iwano S, Ishigaki T, Shimamoto K, Inamura K, Maeda T, Ikeda M, Ishiguchi T, Kozuka T, Detection of subtle pulmonary disease on CR chest images: monochromatic CRT monitor vs color CRT monitor. Eur Radiol 11: 59-64, 2001
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Johkoh T, Honda O, Mihara N, Kozuka T, Tomiyama N, Hamada S, Koyama M, Naito H, Nakamura H, Kudo M, Sato N. The pitfalls in the interpretation of mulidetector-row helical CT images at window width and level setting for lung parenchyma. Radiat Med 19: 181-184, 2001
Johkoh T, Honda O, Yamamoto S, Tomiyama N, Koyama M, Kozuka T, Mihara N, Hamada S, Narumi Y, Nakamura H, Kudo M. Evaluation of image quality and spatial resolution of low-dose high pitch multidetector-row helical high-resolution CT in 11 autopsy lungs and a wire phantom. Radiat Med 19: 279-284, 2001
Johkoh T, Kozuka T, Tomiyama N, Hamada S, Honda O, Mihara N, Koyama M, Tsubamoto M, Maeda M, Nakamura H, Fujiwara K. Temporal Subtraction for the Detection of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules on Chest Radiographs: Evaluation of the First Commercially Available Computer-Aided Diagnosis System. Radiology in press.
Johkoh T, Muller NL, Colby TV, Ichikado K, Taniguchi H, Kondoh Y, Fujimoto K, Kinoshita M, Arakawa H, Yamada H, Suga M, Ando M, Koyama M, Nakamura H. Non-Specific Interstitial Pneumonia: Correlation between Thin-Section CT Findings and Pathologic Subgroups in 55 patients. Radiology in press
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Kadota T, Horinouchi T and Kuroda C: Development and aging of the cerebrum: assessment with proton MR spectroscopy. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 22:128-135, 2001
Kawakami S, Sone S, Takashima S, Li F, Yang ZG, Maruyama Y, Honda T, Hasegawa M, Wang JC. Atypical adenomatous hyperplasia of the lung: correlation between high-resolution CT findings and histopathologic features. Eur Radiol 11: 811-814, 2001
Kido S, Tachibana R. Volumetric segmentation of small pulmonary nodules on three-dimensional thin-section computed tomography. Radiology 221(P): 201,2001
Kido S, Tamura S. Computerized classification of interstitial lung abnormalities on chest radiographs with normalized radiographic index and normalized fractal dimension. Eur J Radiol 37: 184-189,2001
Kikuchi K, Murase K, Miki H, Kikuchi T, Sugawara Y,Ikezoe J, Ohue S. Measurement of cerebral hemodynamics with perfusion weighted MR imaging: compared with pre- and post-acetazolamide Xe-133 SPECT in cervical occlusive disease. Am J Neuroradiology 22: 248-254, 2001
Kim EA, Johkoh T, Lee KS, Han J, Fujimoto K, Sadohara J, Yang PS, Kozuka T, Honda O, Kim S. Quantification of ground-glass opacity on high-resolution CT in small peripheral adenocarcinoma of the lung enables to predict histologic subtypes and prognosis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 177: 1417-1422, 2001
Kim EA, Johkoh T, Lee KS, Ichikado K, Koh E-I, Kim TS, Kim EY. Interstitial pneumonia in progressive systemic sclerosis: serial high-resolution CT findings with functional correlation. J Comput Assist Tomogr 25: 757-763, 2001
Kim T, Murakami T, Takamura M, Hori M, Takahashi S, Nakamori S, Sakon M, Tanji Y, Wakasa K, Nakamura H. Pancreastic mass due to chronic pancreatitis: Correlation of CT and MR imaging features with pathologic findings. AJR Am J Roentgenol 177: 367-371,2001
Kondo H, Kanematsu M, Shiratori Y, Itoh K, Murakami T, Hori M, Yasuda I, Matsuo M, Nakamura H, Hoshi H, Moriwaki H. MR Cholangiographywith volume rendering: Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis in patients with choledolithiasis. AJR Am J Roentgenol 176: 1183-1189,2001
Koyama M, Johkoh T, Honda O, Mihara N, Kozuka T, Tomiyama N, Hamada S, Nakamura H. Pulmonary involvement of primary Sjogren syndrome: spectrum of pulmonary abnormalities and computed tomography findings in 60 patients. Journal of Thoracic Imaging 16: 290-296, 2001
Kuwatsuru R, Kadoya M, Ohtomo K, Tanimoto A, Hirohashi S, Murakami T, Tanaka Y, Yoshikawa K, Katayama H. Comparison of gadobenate dimeglumine with gadopentetate dimeglumine for magnetic resonance imaging of liver tumors. Invest Radiol 36: 632-641,2001
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Li F, Sone S, Takashima S, Kiyono K, Yang ZG, Hasegawa M, Kawakami S, Saito A, Hanamura K, Asakura K. Effect of JPEG and wavelet compression of spiral low-dose CT images on detection of small lung cancers. Acta Radiol 42: 156-160, 2001
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Matsushita T, Takashima S, Takayama F, Momose M, Wang JC, IshiyamaT. Secondary MALT lymphoma of submandibular gland: Detection with sonography. J Clin Ultrasound 29: 462-465, 2001
Mitani Y, Hirayama H, Kido S, Hamamoto Y, Ueda K, Matusunaga N. A Gabor filter-based CAD system for coloring diffuse lung opacities in thin section computed tomography. Proc. of 5th Int. Conf. knowledge-Based Intelligent Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies 1340-1344,2001
Mitani Y, Yasuda H, Kido S, Hamamoto Y, Tanaka N, Matsunaga N. Combination of the Gabor and histgram features for classifying diffuse lung opacities in thin-section computed tomography images. Radiology 221(P): 221-222,2001
Mochizuki T, Murase K, Sugawara Y, Higashino H, Kikuchi T, Miyagawa M, Ikezoe J. Twenty-four-hour Tl-201 delayed scan underestimates myocardial viability in patients with acute myocardial infarction after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty. Ann Nucl Med 15: 93-96, 2001
Murakami T, Mochizuki K, Nakamura H. Imaging evaluation of the cirrhotic liver. Semin Liver Dis 21: 213-224,2001
Murakami T, Kim T, Kawata S, Nakamura H. Double arterial phase multi-detector row helical CT in diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma. Medical Imaging International 11: 14-16,2001
Murakami T, Kim T, Takamura M, Hori M, Takahashi S, Federle MP, Tsuda K, Osuga K, Kawata S, Nakamura H, Kudo M. Hypervascular Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Detection with Double Arterial Phase Multidetector Row HelicalCT. Radiology 218: 763-767,2001
Murakami T, Kim T, Takamura M, Shimizu J, Hori M, Dono K, Takachi K, Kato N, Miyazawa T, Sakon M, Monden M, Nakamura H. Evaluation of Regional Liver Damage by Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Superparamagnetic Iron Oxidein Rat Liver. Dig Dis Sci 46: 148-155,2001
Murase K, Fujioka H, Inoue T, Ishimaru Y, Akamune A, Yamamoto Y, Mochizuki T, Ikezoe J. Reproducibility of the brain perfusion index for measuring cerebral blood flow with technetium-99m compounds. Eur J Nucl Med 28: 1640-1646, 2001
Murase K, Kikuchi K, Miki H, Shimizu T, Ikezoe J. Determination of arterial input function using fuzzy clustering for quantification of cerebral blood flow with dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced MR imaging. J Magn Reson Imag 13: 797-806, 2001
Murase K, Shinohara M, Yamazaki Y. Accuracy of deconvolution analysis based on singular value decomposition for quantification of cerebral blood flow using dynamic susceptibility contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging. Phys Med Biol 46: 3147-3160, 2001
Murase K, Yamazaki Y, Shinohara M, Kawakami K, Kikuchi K, Miki H, Mochizuki T, Ikezoe J. An anisotropic diffusion method for denoising dynamic susceptibility contrast- enhanced magnetic resonance images. Phys Med Biol 46: 2713-2723, 2001
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Nagao M, Murase K, Kikuchi T, Ikeda M, Nebu A, Fukuhara R, Sugawara Y, Miki H, Ikezoe J. Fractal analysis of cerebral blood flow distribution in Alzheimer’s disease. J Nucl Med 42: 1446-1450, 2001
Nakagawa H, Iwatsuki K, Yamada M, Hagiwara Y, Moriuchi S, Kadota K: Latent prolactinoma on MRI-selective venous sampling and trans-sphenoidal microsurgical treatment. Neurol Res 23: 691-696, 2001
Nakanishi K, Tanaka H, Sugano N, Sato Y, Ueguchi T, Kubota T, Tamura S, Nakamura H. MR-based three-dimensional presentattion of cartilage thickness in the femoral head. Eur Radiol 11: 2178-83, 2001
Nakanishi K, Yoshikawa H, Ueda T, Araki N, Tanaka H, Aozasa K, Nakamura H. Postradiation sarcomas of the pelvis after treatment for uterine cervical cancer: review of the CT and MR findings of five cases. Skeletal Radiol 30:132-7, 2001
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Paul AK, Tatsumi M, Fujino K, Hashikawa K, Nishimura T. Feasibility of a short acquisition protocol for whole-body positron emission tomography with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose. Eur J Nucl Med 28: 1697-1701, 2001
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Saito A, Takashima S, Takayama F, Kawakami S, Momose M, Matsushita T. Prognostic significance of spontaneous extensive necrosis in non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. J Comput Assist Tomogr 25: 482-486, 2001
Sone S, Li F, Yang ZG, Honda T, Maruyama Y, Takashima S, Hasegawa M, Kawakami S, Kubo K, Haniuda M, Yamanda T. Results of three-year mass screening programme for lung cancer using mobile low-dose spiral computed tomography scanner. Br J Cancer 84: 25-32, 2001
Suganuma N, Kusaka Y, Hosoda Y, Shida H, Morikubo H, Nakajima Y, Akira M, Matsumoto T, Hiraga Y. The Japanese classification of computed tomography for pneumoconiosis with standard films:comparison with the ILO international classification of radiographs for pneumoconiosis. J Occup Health 43: 24-31,2001
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Takagi Y, Okada A, Sando K, Wasa M, Yoshida H, Hirabuki N. On-off study of manganese administration to adult patients undergoing home parenteral nutrition: new indicies of in vivo manganese level. JPEN 25: 87-92, 2001
Takahashi Y, Murase K, Higashino H, Sogabe I, Sakamoto K. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis of images reconstructed by the iterative expectation maximization algorithms. Ann Nucl Med 15: 521-525, 2001
Takamura M, Murakami T, Shibata T, Ishida T, Niinobu T, Kawata S, Shimizu J, Kim T, Monden M, Nakamura H. Microwave coagulation therapy with interruption of hepatic blood in-or outflow: An experimental study. J VascInterv Radiol. 12: 619-622,2001
Takanashi M, Abe K, Yanagihara T, Oshiro Y, Watanabe Y, Tanaka H, Hirabuki N, Nakamura H, Fujita N. Effects of stimulus presentation rate on the activity of primary somatosensory cortex: a functional magnetic resonance imaging study. Brain Res Bull 54: 125-129, 2001
Takashima S, Matsushita T, Takayama F, Kadoya M, Fujimori M, Kobayashi T. Prognostic significance of MR findings in advanced papillary thyroid cancer. Thyroid 11:1153-1159, 2001
Takashima S, Momose M, Ueda M, Shibata A, Takayama F, Yamashita K. MR imaging of lingual thyroid: Comparison to other submucosal lesions. Acta Radiol 42:376-382, 2001
Takashima S, Wang JC, Takayama F, Momose M, Matsushita T, Kawakami S, Saito A, Ishiyama T. Parotid masses: Prediction of malignancy using magnetization transfer and MR findings. Am J Roentgenol 176:1577-1584, 2001
Takayama F, Takashima S, Matsuba H, Kobayashi S, Ito N, Sone S: MR imaging of primary leiomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland. Eur J Radiol 37:36-41, 2001
Takayama F, Takashima S, Wang Q, Arakawa K, Miyashita K, Sone S: MR imaging of primary malignant lymphoma in the larynx. Eur Radiol 11:1079-1082, 2001
Tatsumi M, Kitayama H, Sugahara H, Tokita N, Nakamura H, Kanakura Y, Nishimura T. Whole-body hybrid PET with 18F-FDG in the staging of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. J Nucl Med 42: 601-608; 2001
Tomiyama N, Muller NL, Ellis SJ, Cleverley JR, Okumura M, Miyoshi S, Kusumoto M, Johkoh T, Yoshida S, Mihara N, Honda O, Kozuka T, Hamada S, Nakamura H. Invasive and non-invasive thymoma: distinctive CT features. J Comput Assist Tomogr 25:378-387; 2001
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Wang JC, Takashima S, Takayama F, Kawakami S, Saito A, Matsushita T, Momose M, Ishiyama T. Head and neck lesions: Evaluation with diffusion-weighted echo-planar MR imaging. Radiology 220:621-630, 2001
Wang Q, Takashima S, Sone S, Zheng LM, Wang JC. Prevalence of emphysema in individuals who underwent screening CT for lung cancer in Nagano prefecture in Japan. Respiration 68:352-356, 2001
Wang Q, Takashima S, Takayama F, Wang JC, Kawakami S, Saito A, Matsushita T, Sone S. Detection of occult metastatic lymph nodes in the neck with gray-scale and power Doppler US. Acta Radiol 42:312-319, 2001
Wang, JC, Takashima S, Takayama F, Kawakami S, Saito A, Matsushita T, Matsuba H, Kobayashi S. Tracheal invasion by thyroid carcinoma: prediction by MR imaging. Am J Roentgenol 177:929-936, 2001
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Yamamoto S, Johkoh T, Mihara N, Umeda T, Azuma M, Nakanishi S, Nakamura H. Evaluation of compressed lung CT image quality using quantative analysis. Radiat Med 19: 321-329; 2001
Yamazaki H, Oi H, Matsushita M, Kim T, Tanaka E, Inoue T, Nakamura H, Teshima T, Inoue T. Renal cortical retention on delayed CT and nephropathy following transcatheter arterial chemoembolisation. Brit J Radiol 74: 695-700, 2001
Yang ZG, Sone S, Li F, Takashima S, Maruyama Y, Honda T, Hasegawa M. Visibility of small peripheral lung cancer on chest radiograph: influence of densitometric parameters, CT values and tumor type. Brit J Radiol 74:32-41, 2001
Yang ZG, Sone S, Takashima S, Li F, Honda T, Maruyama Y, Hasegawa M, Kawakami S. High-resolution CT analysis of small peripheral lung adenocarcinomas rvealed on screening helical CT. Am J Roentgenol 176:1399-1407, 2001
Yoshioka Y, Yoshida K, Shimizutani K, Furukawa S, Inoue Ta, Teshima T, Yamazaki H, Tanaka E, Inoue To. Proposal of a new grading system for evaluation of tongue hemiatrophy as a late effect of brachytherapy for oral tongue cancer. Radiotherapy and Oncology 61: 87-92, 2001