AYUMU MATANI

Last Updated :2024/05/07

Affiliations, Positions
Brain, Mind and KANSEI Sciences Reserch Center, Professor
Web Site
https://isp.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/
E-mail
matanihiroshima-u.ac.jp
Self-introduction
I study brain functional imaging and control on the basis of instrumentation, signal processing, electronics, and information and communication technologies.

Basic Information

Major Professional Backgrounds

  • 2020/04/01, Hiroshima University, Center for Brain, Mind and Kansei Sciences Reserch, Professor
  • 2012/04/01, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Associate Professor
  • 1999/04/01, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, Associate Professor
  • 1998/04/01, The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Engineering, Assistant Professor
  • 1995/01/01, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Assistant
  • 1991/04/01, Osaka Gas Co. Ltd., R&D Center, Researcher

Educational Backgrounds

  • Osaka University, 1989/04, 1991/03
  • Osaka University, 1985/04, 1989/03

Academic Degrees

  • Osaka University
  • Osaka University

Educational Activity

  • [Master's Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Integrated Health Sciences
  • [Doctoral Program] Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences : Division of Integrated Health Sciences

Research Keywords

  • brain function imaging, brain function control

Affiliated Academic Societies

  • The Society of Instrument and Control Engineers, Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Japan Biomagnetism and Bioelectromagnetics Society, IEEE, Society for Neuroscience

Educational Activity

Course in Charge

  1. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , First Semester, Lecture on Brain Function Imaging
  2. 2024, Graduate Education (Master's Program) , Second Semester, Lecture on Brain Function Imaging

Research Activities

Academic Papers

  1. The neuroanatomy of social trust predicts depression vulnerability, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 12(1), 20221006
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  2. Transduction of the Geomagnetic Field as Evidenced from Alpha-band Activity in the Human Brain, eNeuro, e0483-18, 2019
  3. Continuity of optimal solution functions and their conditions on objective functions, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 25(4), 2050-2060, 2015
  4. Transcranial Extracellular Impedance Control (tEIC) Modulates Behavioral Performances, PLoS ONE, 9, e0102834, 2014
  5. Accuracy of Estimating Strengths of Dipole Moments from a Small Number of Magnetoencephalographic Trial Data., Brain Topogr., 27, 635-647, 2014
  6. Transcranial Extracellular Impedance Control (tEIC) Modulates Behavioral Performances, PLOS ONE, 9, e0102834, 2014
  7. Diazepam Ttreatment Blocks the Elevation of Hippocampal Activity and the Accelerated Proliferation of Hippocampal Neural Stem Cell after Focal Cerebral Ischemia in Mice, J. Neurosci. Res., 91(11), 1429-1439, 2013
  8. Language Comprehension Dependent on Emotional Context: A Magnetoencephalography Study, Neuroscience Research, 72(1), 50-58, 2012
  9. Involvement of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 signaling in activity-related proliferation of adult hippocampal neural stem cells, European Journal of Neuroscience, 36, 2273-2283, 2012
  10. Phase-interpolated Averaging for Analyzing Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography Epochs, IEEE Trans, on Biomedical Engineering, 58(1), 71-80, 2011
  11. Neuroimaging Study on Brain Asymmetries in Situs Inversus Totalis, Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 288, 72-78, 2010
  12. Phase-compensated Averaging for Analyzing Electroencephalography and Magnetoencephalography Epochs, IEEE Trans., on Biomedical Engineering, 57(5), 1117-1123, 2010
  13. Influence of Coherence Between Multiple Cortical Columns on Alpha Rhythm: A Computational Modeling Study, Human Brain Mapping, 31(5), 703-715, 2010
  14. Masked Immediate-repetition-priming Effect on the Early Lexical Process in the Bilateral Anterior Temporal Areas Assessed by Neuromagnetic Responses, Neuroscience Research, 68(2), 114-124, 2010
  15. Point Source Reconstruction Principle of Linear Inverse Problems, Inverse Problems, 26(11), 115016, 2010
  16. Early Neural Activation for Lexico-semantic Access in the Left Anterior Temporal Area Analyzed by an fMRI-assisted MEG Multidipole Method, NeuroImage, 44(3), 1093-1102, 2009
  17. Speech Comprehension Assessed by Electroencephalography: A New Method using M-sequence Modulation, Neuroscience Research, 57(2), 314-318, 2007
  18. Influence of Seamlessness between Pre- and Poststimulus Alpha Rhythms on Visual Evoked Potential, NeuroImage, 32(3), 1221-1225, 2006
  19. Phase Series Echography with Prior Waveform Distortion for Evaluating Posterior Waveform Distortion, IEEE Trans., on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, 53(11), 2019-2025, 2006
  20. Spatiotemporal MEG pattern analysis using a virtual beamformer, ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN JAPAN PART II-ELECTRONICS, 88(6), 27-33, 2005
  21. Extraction of a Plasma Time-activity Curve from Dynamic Brain PET Images Based on Independent Component Analysis, IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, 52(2), 201-210, 2005
  22. Right-lateralized Neural Activation during Inner Speech Repeated by Cues, NeuroReport, 15(15), 2341-2345, 2004
  23. Hierarchical Clustering and Filtering in Half-inverse Space for MEG and/or EEG Hypothesis-free Analysis, IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing, 51(2), 350-361, 2003
  24. Tele-echo System: A Rreal-time Telemedicine System using Medial Ultrasound Image Sequence, Telemedicine Journal, 6(1), 63-67, 2000
  25. A Compression and Transmission System of Ultrasonic Image Sequence for Telemedicine, Telemedicine Journal, 5(4), 385-389, 1999
  26. An Optimization Method for Ultrasonic Beamforming with a Synthetic Aperture, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 37(5), 3013-3017, 1998
  27. 3D Dynamic Echocardiography with a Digitizer, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 37(5), 3097-3100, 1998
  28. A Method for 3D Measurement with High Resolution using Ultrasound Spherical Waves, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 36(5), 3255-3259, 1997
  29. Blood Vessel Visualization using a Micromotor Type Intravascular Ultrasound Endscope, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 36(5), 3250-3254, 1997
  30. Doppler Signal Processing of Blood Flow using a Wavelet Transform, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 35(5), 3131-3134, 1996
  31. A System for Superimposing a 3-dimensional Stereoscopic Motion Echo Image of the Heart onto the Chest, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 35(5), 3121-3125, 1996
  32. Functional Localization of Bilateral Auditory Cortices using an MRI-linked Whole Head Magnetoencephalography (MEG) System, Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology, 94(3), 183-190, 1995
  33. Three-dimensional Imaging by Spherical Pulsed Wave of Ultrasound, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 34(5), 2857-2860, 1995
  34. Visualizaiotn of Blood Flow with Two-dimensional Moving Target Indication, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 34(9), 5006-5010, 1995
  35. A New Superconducting Gradiometer Complex for Vector Detection of Weak Magnetic Field, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys., 30(8), 1535-1537, 1991

Publications such as books

  1. 2011, Magnetoencephalography, Epoch Filters: Analyses of Phase–Related Phenomena of MEG, Scholarly Book, Joint work, A. Matani, A. Ihara, Y. Terazono, N. Fujimaki, and H. Umehara, 151-174

Invited Lecture, Oral Presentation, Poster Presentation

  1. Significant influence of task-irrelevant stimuli on task performance, A. Matani, Neuroscience 2021, 2021/11/08, Without Invitation, English
  2. Humans-like other animals-may sense Earth's magnetic field, Science, 2019/03, Without Invitation, Japanese, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  3. Maverick scientist thinks he has discovered a magnetic sixth sense in humans, 2016/01, Without Invitation, English, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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  4. An experimental design method for ERP/ERF recordings, A. Matani, Biomagnetic Sendai 2017, 2017, Without Invitation, English
  5. Detection of human geomagnetic sense by using event-related potential, Y. Mizuhara, A. Matani, S. Shimojo, and J. Kirschvink, Biomagnetic Sendai 2017, 2017, Without Invitation, English
  6. Human Magnetoreception - An EEG Approach (I), C.X. Wang, A. Matani, S. Shimojo, D. Wu, I.A. Hilburn, Y. Mizuhara, K. Matsuda, Y. Fuse, A. Hotta, M.Y. Green, C.P. Cousté, J.N.H. Abrahams, S.E. Bernstein, and J.L. Kirschvink, 16th HFSP Awardees Meeting, 2016, Without Invitation, English
  7. Human Magnetoreception - An EEG approach (II), A. Matani, Y. Mizuhara, K. Matsuda, Y. Fuse, A. Hotta, C.X. Wang, S. Shimojo, D. Wu, I.A. Hilburn, and J.L. Kirschvink, 16th HFSP Awardees Meeting, 2016, Without Invitation, English
  8. A Psychophysical and Neuro-Engineering Approach to Human Magnetoreception, J.L. Kirschvink, A. Matani, S. Shimojo, C.X. Wang, D. Wu, I.A. Hilburn, K. Matsuda, Y. Fuse, A. Hotta, Y. Mizuhara, C.P. Cousté, and J.N.H. Abrahams, 9th Conference on Orientation and Navigation, Birds, Humans, and Other Animals, 2016, Without Invitation, English
  9. An attempt to physiologically measure human magnetoreception, A. Matani, S. Shimojo, and J.L. Kirschvink, Neuroscience 2015, 2015, Without Invitation, English
  10. Modulating EEG source activities in the frontal cortex by using tEIC increases learning rate during decision making, M. Watanabe, A. Hotta, and A. Matani, Neuroscience 2015, 2015, Without Invitation, English
  11. A psychophysical and neuroengineering approach to human magnetoreception, S. Shimojo, A. Matani, and J.L. Kirschvink, 15th HFSP Awardees Meeting, 2015, Without Invitation, English
  12. Brain function modulation by transcranial extracellular impedance control (tEIC), A. Matani, M. Nakayama, M. Watanabe, Y. Furuyama, A. Hotta, and S. Hoshino, Neuroscience 2014, 2014, Without Invitation, English
  13. Accuracy of a source estimation based on modified l1-norm minimization, N. Fujimaki, Y. Terazono, A.S. Ihara, T. Hayakawa, and A. Matani, Abstracts of the 19th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2014, Without Invitation, English
  14. Synchronization of EEG under Very Low Current Transcranial Random Noise Stimulation, A. Matani, Proceedings of the 35th International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2013, Without Invitation, English
  15. Iterative phase-interpolated averaging supports the evoked model for MEG generation, A. Matani, N. Takamune, Y. Terazono, T. Nogai, N. Fujimaki, and H. Umehara, Abstracts of the 18th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2012, Without Invitation, English
  16. Accuracy of neural-source strengths estimated from a small number of MEG trial data, F. Fujimaki, Y. Terazono, A. Ihara, Q. Wei, A. Matani, T. Hayakawa, and H. Umehara, Abstracts of the 18th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2012, Without Invitation, English
  17. Epoch filters for analyzing synchronization phenomena in EEG and MEG, A. Matani, Neuroscience 2011, 2011, Without Invitation, English
  18. Influence of Visual Stimulus Size and Top-down Effect on Phase Resetting of Alpha Rhythm: An EEG/MEG Model-based Study, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, Y. Miyawaki, M. Okada, and T. Murata, Abstracts of the 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2010, Without Invitation, English
  19. Language Comprehension Influenced by Emotional Context: an MEG Study, A. Ihara, Q. Wei, A. Matani, N. Fujimaki, H. Yagura, T. Nogai, and T. Murata, Abstracts of the 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2010, Without Invitation, English
  20. Phase-related Phenomena in MEG Analyzed by Phase-compensated Averaging, A. Matani, Y. Naruse, T. Hayakawa, T. Nogai, Y. Terazono, N. Fujimaki, and T. Murata, Abstracts of the 17th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2010, Without Invitation, English
  21. Phase Series Analysis for Averaging EEG/MEG Epochs, A. Matani, Y. Naruse, Y. Terazono, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Neuroscience 2008, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  22. Influence of Visual Stimulus Size on Phase Resetting of Alpha Rhythm-EEG/MEG Modeling Study, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, Y. Miyawaki, and M. Okada, Neuroscience 2008, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  23. Neural Substrate for Assistance by Top-down Information in Recognizing Degraded Visual Word Stimuli, T. Hayakawa, Y. Terazono, A. Matani, and N. Fujimaki, Neuroscience 2008, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  24. Phase Series Analysis: Another Averaging Method for Analyzing ERF/ERP, A. Matani, Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  25. Multiple Alpha Generators Model for MEG/EEG: Mechanism of ERS/ERD, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, Y. Miyawaki, and M. Okada, Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  26. Early Neural Activation Related to Lexico-semantic Access in the Left Anterior Temporal Area, N. Fujimaki, T. Hayakawa, A. Ihara, Q. Wei, S. Munetsuna, Y. Terazono, and A. Matani, Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  27. Nonlinear Minimum Norm Method for Bioelectromagnetic Inverse Problems Robust Against Forward Calculation Erros, Y. Terazono, A. Matani, and N. Fujimaki, A, Abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2008, Without Invitation, English
  28. Role for Horizontal Connection in Multiple Alpha Generators Model for MEG/EEG, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, Y. Miyawaki, and M. Okada, Neuroscience 2007, 2007, Without Invitation, English
  29. Electroencephalography-based Brain-computer Interface Using Auditory Attention to Digitally Modulated Music, A. Matani, J. Enoki, and Y. Naruse, Neuroscience 2007, 2007, Without Invitation, English
  30. Speech Comprehension Assessed by Electroencephalography: A New Method using M-sequence Modulation, S. Koyama, H. Takeichi, A. Matani, and A. Cichocki, Neuroscience 2006, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  31. Semantic Contextual Effects on Neural Activities Related to Word Processing during a Categorical Decision Task, T. Hayakawa, N. Fujimaki, Y. Terazono, and A. Matani, Neuroscience 2006, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  32. Spontaneous Activity-dependent Changes of Visual Responses and Functional Roles of Endogenous Brain States, A. Matani, and Y. Naruse, Meeting Program of EABS&BSJ 2006, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  33. Can Semantic Priming Effects and Categorization Results be Recognized from MEG Spatio-Temporal Pattern?, A. Matani, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, 12th Annual Meeting Human Brain Mapping, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  34. Properties of Influences of Prestimulus Alpha Phase on Visual evoked Field and Reaction Time, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Abstracts of the 15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  35. Semantic Contextual Effects on Neural Activities Related to Processing during a Categorical Decision Task, T. Hayakawa, N. Fujimaki, Y. Terazono, and A. Matani, Abstracts of the 15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  36. Neuromagnetic Responses to Visually Presented Words with Masked Repetition Priming, N. Fujimaki, T. Hayakawa, A. Ihara, S. Munetsuna, and A. Matani, Abstracts of the 15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  37. Dynamic Neural Activation during Lexical Judgments Analyzed with an fMRI-Constrained MEG Multi-Dipole Method, N. Fujimaki, T. Hayakawa, A. Ihara, Q. Wei, S. Munetsuna, A. Matani, and Y. Okabe, Abstracts of the 15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  38. On Voxel-wise Orthonormal Leadfield Matrix, A. Matani, Y. Naruse, Y. Terazono, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Abstracts of the 15th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2006, Without Invitation, English
  39. Phase Response Analysis for Electroencephalogram of Language Priming, A. Matani, M. Nishino, Y. Naruse, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation, 2005, Without Invitation, English
  40. A Study About the Relationship Between the Phase Angle of Rhythm at Stimulus Onset and Visual Evoked Potential Through Ringing, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Neuroscience 2005, 2005, Without Invitation, English
  41. Analysis of Language Priming in Cognition Level Using MEG Pattern Analysis, A. Matani, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Neuroscience 2005, 2005, Without Invitation, English
  42. Neuromagnetic Responses to Visually Presented Words with Masked Repetition Priming, N. Fujimaki, T. Hayakawa, S. Munetsuna, and A. Matani, Neuroscience 2005, 2005, Without Invitation, English
  43. Semantic Contextual Effects on Neural Activities Related to Word Processing During a Categorical Decision Task, T. Hayakawa, N. Fujimaki, Y. Terazono, and A. Matani, Neuroscience 2005, 2005, Without Invitation, English
  44. Minimum Leadfield-Variance Beamformer with Voxel-Wise Orthonormal Leadfield, A. Matani, Y. Terazono, T. Hayakawa, S. Munetsuna, and N. Fujimaki, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, 2005, Without Invitation, English
  45. MEG Latency Difference Measurement for Priming Experiments, A. Matani, T. Hayakawa, S. Munetsuna, and N. Fujimaki, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2004, Without Invitation, English
  46. Magnetic Responses to Visually Presented Words with Masked Repetition Priming, N. Fujimaki, T. Hayakawa, S. Munetsuna, and A. Matani, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2004, Without Invitation, English
  47. Analysis of Phase-Sorted Single Trials at Peak Alpha Frequency, Y. Naruse, A. Matani, Y. Miyawaki, T. Hayakawa, and N. Fujimaki, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2004, Without Invitation, English
  48. Fidelity-Linearity Optimization for Bioelectromagnetic Inverse Problem, Y. Terazono and A. Matani, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2004, Without Invitation, English
  49. Modification of ICA for Extracting Blood Vessel-Related Component in Nuclear Medicine: Contrast Function and Nonnegative Constraints, M. Naganawa, Y. Kimura, and A. Matani, Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Independent Component Analysis and Blind Signal Separation, 2003, Without Invitation, English
  50. Artifact Reduction Filtering Method for CT Images, A. Matani and K. Terakawa, Proceedings of the 24th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2002, Without Invitation, English
  51. Lantency Identification in Echo Perception by a New MEG Measure, A. Matani and S. Kuno, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2002, Without Invitation, English
  52. Biomagnetic Inverse Solution using Combined-norm and Pointwise Nomalization, Y. Terazono and A. Matani, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001, Without Invitation, English
  53. Extraction of Vessel Related Information without Blood Sampling using Modified Independent Component Analysis in PET, M. Naganawa, A. Matani, and Y. Kimura, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001, Without Invitation, English
  54. Bone Mechanical Strength Estimation from Micro X-ray CT Image, A. Matani and K. Terakawa, Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2001, Without Invitation, English
  55. Micro X-ray CT Image Processing to Evaluate Bone Mechanical Strength, A. Matani, Proceedings of the 21th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2000, Without Invitation, English
  56. PCA Analysis of ITD Auditory Evoked Field, Y. Masuda, M. Naganawa, A. Matani, and K. Chihara, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2000, Without Invitation, English
  57. Biomagnetic Inverse Analysis Based on Decorrelation, A. Matani and M. Naganawa, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 2000, Without Invitation, English
  58. A High-speed Image Acquisition using Ultrasonic Ring Array Probe, M. Nambu, M. Doi, A. Matani, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, Computers in Cardiology, 1999, Without Invitation, English
  59. The Frontal 3-D Imaging for PTCA using Ultrasonic Ring Array Probe, M. Nambu, A. Matani, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, Computers in Cardiology, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  60. Evaluation of a Trabecular Structure using a Multiresolution Analysis, A. Matani, T. Okamoto, and K. Chihara, Proceedings of the 20th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  61. The Frontal 3-D Imaging for PTCA using a Ring Array Probe, M. Nambu, A. Matani, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, International Archives of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  62. A Method to Support Tele-diagnosis using Augmented Reality, T. Kuroda, A. Matani, and K. Chihara, International Symposium on Computational Medicine III, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  63. Pilot Study of LHe Circulation Systems for Biomagnetometers, T. Takeda, T. Takae, A. Matani, T. Owaki, and H. Endo, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  64. AVS Based Brain Activity Analysis System with a Real Head Shape, A. Uchida, H. Endo, T. Holroyd, A. Matani, and T. Takeda, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  65. Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Accommodation Related MEG, T. Takeda, A. Matani, T. Owaki, K. Hashimoto, and H. Endo, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  66. Measurement of MEG Related to Stereoscopic Perception, T. Owaki, K. Asano, A. Matani, and T. Takeda, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  67. A Modified Beamfroming for Estimagting Current Distribution in the Brain, A. Matani, T. Takeda, T. Owaki, and H. Endo, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1998, Without Invitation, English
  68. Intravascular Forward Viewing using a Ultrasound Ring-array Probe, A. Matani, A. Kondo, M. Nambu, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing, 1997, Without Invitation, English
  69. 3-D Ultrasound Imaging with Echocardiogram and a 3D Positioner, O. Oshiro, E. Tanoshima, A. Matani, and K. Chihara, Proceedings of the 19th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1997, Without Invitation, English
  70. The Tele-echography System for Remote Ultrasound Diagnosis, A. Matani, T. Umeda, I. Kanaya, Y. Ban, O. Oshiro, S. Yamaguchi, H. Sunahara, Q. Chen, K. Sato, K. Chihara, T. Mikami, and A. Kitabatake, Abstract of the 3rd International Conference on the Medical Aspects of Telemedicine, 1997, Without Invitation, English
  71. A Method for Intravascular Ultrasound Frontal Viewing, A. Matani, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, Acoustical Imaging, 1997, Without Invitation, English
  72. 3D Visualization of Myocardial Motion and Blood Flow using Cine-MR Images, O. Oshiro, A. Matani, K. Chihara, T. Mikami, and A. Kitabatake, Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996, Without Invitation, English
  73. System for Superimposing a Medical Image within the Subject, A. Matani, Y. Ban, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, A, Proceedings of the 18th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 1996, Without Invitation, English
  74. Intravascular Ultrasound Imaging Systems Reconstructing a Cross Sectional and Frontal Image, O. Oshiro, H. Tojo, S. Matsumoto, A. Matani, K. Chihara, M. Asao, and T. Furukawa, Abstract of the 8th Congress of the International Cardiac Doppler Society, 1995, Without Invitation, English
  75. Ultrasonic Doppler Signal Processing using a Wavelet Analysis, A. Matani, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, Abstract of the 8th Congress of the International Cardiac Doppler Society, 1995, Without Invitation, English
  76. Clinical Application of the Whole Head MEG: Auditory Evoked Response in Patients with Intracranial Structural Lesions, N. Nakasato, S. Fujita, A. Matani, I. Tamura, S. Fujiwara, and T. Yoshimoto, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1995, Without Invitation, English
  77. Short Latency Somatosensory Evoked Field for Tibial Nerve Stimulation: Rotation of Dipole Pattern over the Whole Head, S. Fujita, N. Nakasato, A. Matani, I. Tamura, and T. Yoshimoto, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1995, Without Invitation, English
  78. Source Localization of Two Dipoles in a Phantom using a Whole Cortex 64-channel SQUID Biomagnetometer System, A. Matani, Y. Yoshida, N. Nakasato, S. Fujita, and I. Tamura, Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1995, Without Invitation, English
  79. An Application of a Virtual Reality Technique to Echocardiogram, A. Matani, Y. Ban, O. Oshiro, and K. Chihara, Proceedings of the 2nd Joint Workshop on Multimedia Communications, 1995, Without Invitation, English
  80. The Whole Head Magnetoencephalogram: Localization of Bilateral Sources for Unilaterally Stimulated Auditory Evoked Response, N. Nakasato, S. Fujiwara, T. Yoshimoto, S. Fujita, A. Matani, H. Izuma, and I. Tamura, Electroencephalogr Clin Neurophysiol, 1993, Without Invitation, English
  81. Use of Tangential Signals in SQUID System for Biomagnetism, K. Shirae, H. Furukawa, A. Matani, M. Yoshida, S. Kiyono, and K. Yamashita, Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Biomagnetism, 1991, Without Invitation, English
  82. Multichannel DC SQUID System with Two Stage Configuration, H. Furukawa, S. Fujita, A. Matani, M. Yoshida, and K. Shirae, Physica B, 1990, Without Invitation, English
  83. DC SQUID with Variable Thickness Bridge, H. Furukawa, S. Fujita, A. Matani, M. Yoshida, and K. Shirae, Physica B, 1990, Without Invitation, English

Awards

  1. 2014/03, Human Frontier Science Program(HFSP), Research Grant Awardees (201403), Human Frontier Science Program(HFSP)
  2. 2012/07, IEEE Senior Member (2012.07), IEEE

Social Activities

History as Committee Members

  1. Program Committee, 2008, The 16th International Conference on Biomagnetism