Research Outline

一Radiation informatics, which captures and makes use of radiation, is the study of extracting information that has been hidden by radiation and that has not been understood (recognized) by humans in a useful form and making it useful information for humans. From the broad perspective of humanity, the earth, and the world. We aim to realize “happiness through radiation” in a broad sense. Research keywords are radiation, imaging, invisible light, photon counting, imaging devices, neutrons, and compound semiconductors.

As an input device for AI and machine learning, and for further use in XR and Metaverse

一The world of radiation imaging is also changing. The era of simply displaying transmissive images that are expected to be visible to the human eye in a visually pleasing manner has passed, and higher-order information extraction, such as material identification using wavelength information, is now being performed. Physically accurate data” is becoming more important than ever as an input device for AI and machine learning that handles invisible and invisible information. Direct-conversion photon/charge-counting X-ray imaging devices that fully use compound semiconductors have been studied for a wide range of radiation as a device to realize this. In addition, to utilize the new information obtained from these devices to benefit people, we are also researching three-dimensional representation using XR (cross-reality) and utilizing invisible information as a meta-verse.

X-ray imaging devices that directly convert the generated electric charge into digital form are realized.

The Electronics Research Institute, where I serve as deputy director in conjunction with the Faculty of Informatics, is working on “nanovision science,” a new academic field that aims at innovative image engineering that handles photons and electrons individually in the nano range. Until now, photons and electrons have been handled in a collective statistical manner, but this research is advancing to the handling of individual photons and electrons, as typified by photon counting. I consider X-rays and γ-rays to be a type of light in the broad sense of the term, and we have developed the “photon counting imaging device that handles photons one by one” that I have been studying into a “photon and charge counting X-ray imaging device that directly converts the generated electric charge into digital form. The new device is an X-ray imaging device that directly converts the generated charge into a digital form. This is a fusion of information processing and electronics with a thorough knowledge of radiation. As a result, this device has become a powerful input device for advancing new radiation informatics research and is leading the world.

Also utilizes electronics and materials engineering, and collaborates with researchers in medicine and the humanities and social sciences

一Radiation informatics is the study of connecting people to information they could not previously recognize and making it useful to them through informatics in the broadest sense. To this end, we also utilize electronics and materials engineering to create devices and systems from materials. We also collaborate with researchers in medicine, the humanities, and sociology. I believe that this is a very broad academic field. The results of our research are widely returned to society through companies such as ANSeeN Inc., a Shizuoka University venture company. Although it is a cutting-edge technology today, I believe it will one day become a “very common” and even “too commonplace to be forgotten” technology. However, the communication between people and the information obtained there will continue to expand and deepen. On the other hand, as we continue to research as much as we can, we are deriving from it one after another, challenging neutron imaging and generators to obtain its specific imaging characteristics and also developing real-time three-dimensional processing technology as the backbone of new entertainment technology for Vtubers We are also developing real-time 3D processing technology as the backbone of new entertainment technology for Vtubers. In the broad and profound world of informatics, we invite you to join us in greatly expanding our research.

Takayanagi Memorial Hall, which introduces the achievements of Kenjiro Takayanagi, the father of television.

一When tracing the roots of informatics, one cannot forget television. The University has the Takayanagi Memorial Hall, commemorating Kenjiro Takayanagi, who invented the electronic television at the Hamamatsu Higher Technical School, the predecessor of the University, and is widely open to the public. The museum exhibits the progress of television research, from the original “イ(pronunciation as i)” drawn in black ink on the mica plate used for the first filming (from 1926) to the dynamically preserved television set from the period when “television” was simply a mechanical device for science to the general media “television” to the latest 8K. The hall also houses (not open to the public) the postwar laboratory notebooks of Prof. Takayanagi. Digital archiving of valuable paper and analog video materials is underway. In addition to the technological analysis from an engineering perspective, we have been conducting joint research with a professor from the Department of Information Society on the impact of television on society, including informatics, and we are again surprised at the magnitude of the impact of the informatization of television on the world today. I am also surprised at how much the information technology of television has impacted the world today. Why don’t you feel you can help guide your research to make the future a dreamy and happy world?
Our laboratory plays a central role in supporting the exhibits, etc., and we will guide you in cooperation with Assistant Professor Kase.