Izumi Nishidate
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Biography
Izumi Nishidate is working as an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Bio-Applications and Systems Engineering, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology. His research spans the interdisciplinary fi elds of Biomedical Optics with particular emphasis on the development of new techniques for medical measurement, imaging and diagnosis. His major areas of activity include diffuse refl ectance spectroscopy, spectral imaging, analysis of light transport in biological tissues and functional imaging of various organs. He received his PhD (2004) degree in Mechanical Systems Engineering, from Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan. He has authored/co-authored over 200 refereed journal articles, book chapters and conference/symposia proceeding articles.