Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Makoto Koga

Biography

Makoto Koga is currently working as a Researcher at Department of Radiology and Radiation Oncology, Akita University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan. Dr. Makoto Koga’s areas of expertise include diagnostic radiology, radiation oncology, nuclear medicine and interventional radiology. Current areas of research include Craniocervical junction venous system, Diagnosis and treatment of intracranial dural arteriovenous fistula, Conebeam-CT of spinal vascular disease, Breast imaging using MRI, Tumor imaging using F-18 FDG-PET, Interventional radiology, especially transcatheter embolization of pulmonary AVM, MR mammography of breast cancer, Radiation oncology and Radiation protection.

Research Interest

Esophageal cancer; Chemoradiotherapy; Toxicity; Prognostic factor; Radiation Oncology