Mitsuhiro Nakamura
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About
Mitsuhiro Nakamura is a distinguished medical physicist whose research has made significant contributions to the field of stereotactic radiosurgery and adaptive radiotherapy, with a particular focus on geometric accuracy, motion management, and image-guided delivery systems. His landmark 2009 study on frameless stereotactic radiosurgery using a 6D robotic couch system — garnering 119 citations — provided critical insights into the positional uncertainties inherent in the Novalis platform, helping to establish rigorous accuracy benchmarks that have informed clinical practice worldwide. Building on this foundation, Nakamura contributed to an influential multi-institutional comparative study in 2016 examining real-time adaptive radiotherapy across robotic, gimbaled, multileaf collimator, and couch-tracking systems, which accumulated 95 citations and demonstrated the dosimetric superiority of adaptive approaches in managing tumor motion. More recently, his work has turned to evaluating intrafractional head motion during intracranial radiosurgery with thermoplastic frameless masks, addressing practical clinical challenges in patient immobilization. Taken together, Nakamura's body of work reflects a career dedicated to improving the precision and safety of stereotactic treatments, offering researchers and clinicians alike a rigorous empirical foundation for advancing radiation therapy technology.
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