Our October webinar featured Nobuki Kudo, Ph.D. from Hokkaido University, Japan presenting:
"High-Speed Photography of Cavitation Bubbles: micro- and nanobubbles, and drop chain"
This session was moderated by Shin Yoshizawa, Ph.D., from Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.
Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering
Faculty of Information Science and Technology
Hokkaido Univ., Sapporo Japan
Nobuki Kudo received a PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1987 from Hokkaido University. After that, he worked at Toshiba Corporation and engaged in the development of an extracorporeal shockwave lithotriper. In 1995, he returned to Hokkaido University as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Engineering, and he was an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Information Science and Technology from 2009 to 2022. His research interests include therapeutic ultrasound, ultrasound field visualization, and ultrasound safety. Specifically, he has a strong interest in therapeutic bubbles. He has carried out various studies to elucidate bubble dynamics under ultrasound irradiation and the interaction of bubbles with their surrounding cells and vessels using high-speed observation techniques. He is now a Research Fellow at the same laboratory at Hokkaido University and spends his days on high-speed observation.
About the Moderator
Shin Yoshizawa, Ph.D., is a professor of Communication Engineering at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan. His research interests include cavitation-enhanced HIFU therapy, sonodynamic therapy, ultrasound guidance of HIFU therapy, lithotripsy, and nonlinear acoustics. He has been an expert on dynamics of acoustic cavitation for 20 years. He has been collaborating with medical doctors and industries on the development of an ultrasound-guided cavitation-enhanced HIFU system and the clinical studies treating pancreatic cancer, and recently founded a startup company for its implementation. He is a CTO in the company. He is also an expert member of IEC TC 87.