Yutaka Aoyagi

Yutaka Aoyagi was born in Miyagi, Japan, in 1950. He received the Medical License degree from the Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan, in 1978. In 1992, he became Director of the Department of Radiology, and in 2002, he became Professor with the Department of Radiology, Ichikawa General Hospital, Tokyo Dental College, Ichikawa, Japan. His subjects of interest include the radiation oncology (especially head and neck cancer, esophageal cancer, and gynecological cancer) and the hyperthermic oncology. He is currently involved in research dealing with fundamental experiments of interstitial hyperthermia for clinical applications and with clinical effects of interstitial hyperthermia and interstitial brachytherapy.