• 2024.6.1 "Simulation of scalar-mode optically pumped magnetometers to search optimal operating conditions" by Yosuke Ito, Tatsuya Goto and Takuma Hori was published as an invited paper in IEICE Transactions on Electronics
  • 2024.5.4-9 Hiroyuki Ueda and Takenori Oida gave presentations at 2024 ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Singapore.
  • 2024.3.1 Professor Kazuyoshi Yoshii has been appointed as the head of the laboratory.
  • 2024.1.24 "Simplified Shielded MEG-MRI Multimodal System with Scalar-mode Optically Pumped Magnetometers as MEG Sensors" by Yosuke Ito, Hiroyuki Ueda, Takenori Oida, Takahiro Moriya, Akinori Saito and Motohiro Suyama was published in arXiv. DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2401.13287
  • 2023.10.26 "Dynamics of magnetization under the spin-lock pulse: general solution of the Bloch equation" by Hiroyuki Ueda and Yosuke Ito was published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2023.3286408
  • 2023.8.28-29 Yosuke Ito gave a presentation at 10th Workshop on Optically Pumped Magnetometers (WOPM2023), Atlanta, USA.
  • 2023.5.24-27 Yosuke Ito and Kantoh Yamashita gave presentations at ISACM and JBBS 2023 OSAKA, Osaka.
  • 2023.5.15-19 Hiroyuki Ueda gave a presentation at IEEE International Magnetics Conference (INTERMAG2023), Sendai.
  • 2023.3.14 Kazuki Namita gave a presentation at International Symposia on Creation of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Devices 2023 and Advanced Quantum Technology for Future 2023, Kyoto.
  • 2022.8.28-9.1 Yosuke Ito, Hiroyuki Ueda, and Kazuki Namita gave presentations at The 22nd International Conference on Biomagnetism (BIOMAG2022), Birmingham, UK.
  • 2022.8.28-29 Yosuke Ito gave a presentation at 9th Workshop on Optically Pumped Magnetometers (WOPM2022), Birmingham, UK.
  • 2022.4.1 The name of this laboratory has been changed to the Biological Function Engineering laboratory.
  • 2022.3.31 Professor Tetsuo Kobayashi has retired. We sincerely appreciate all the support and guidance he has provided us. Thank you very much!
  • 2022.3.8 Kazuki Namita gave a presentation at International Symposium on Creation of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Devices 2022, online.
  • 2021.11.29 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at 4th International Workshop on Photonics applied Electromagnetic Measurements (PEM2021), Online.
  • 2021.6.30 "Vector measurement of pico tesla magnetic fields using an optically pumped magnetometer by varying pump beam direction" by Kazuki Namita, Yosuke Ito and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
    DOI:10.35848/1347-4065/ac0ba6
  • 2021.4.1 Dr. Hiroyuki Ueda was appointed to the Assistant Professor.
  • 2021.3.10 Hiroyuki Ueda and Kazuki Namita gave presentations at International Symposium on Creation of Advanced Photonic and Electronic Devices 2021, Online.
  • 2021.2.26 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at International Joint Meeting 2020 in Kansai, Online.
  • 2021.2.22 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at OIST Mini-Symposium for Quantum Sensors of Magnetic and Inertial Forces, Online.
  • 2021.2.16 Tatsuya Goto received "Excellent Presentation Award From the Fundamentals and Materials Society" from Fundamentals and Materials Society, IEEJ.
  • 2020.9.29 "Magnetic resonance imaging simulation with spin-lock preparations to detect tiny oscillatory magnetic fields" by Hiroyuki Ueda, Yosuke Ito, Takenori Oida, Yo Taniguchi and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
    DOI:10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106910
  • 2020.12.12 The 5th ISMRM-JPC Annual Scientific Meeting ended in success. Thank you for your cooperation and participation!
  • 2020.12.12 Hiroyuki Ueda gave a presentation at The 5th ISMRM-JPC Annual Scientific Meeting (ISMRM JPC 2020).
  • 2020.10.27 "Dependence of stimulus-induced rotary saturation on the direction of target oscillating magnetic fields: A phantom and simulation study" by Tomoyuki Sogabe, Hiroyuki Ueda, Yosuke Ito, Yo Taniguchi and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
    DOI:10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106849
  • 2020.9.29 "Detection of tiny oscillatory magnetic fields using low-field MRI: A combined phantom and simulation study" by Hiroyuki Ueda, Yosuke Ito, Takenori Oida, Yo Taniguchi and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
    DOI:10.1016/j.jmr.2020.106828
  • 2020.8.31 The webstie of the 5th ISMRM-JPC Annual Scientific Meeting has been updated. The meeting has been rescheduled and will be held ONLINE on December 12.
  • 2020.8.8-14 Hiroyuki Ueda gave a presentation at 2020 ISMRM & SMRT Virtual Conference & Exhibition.
  • 2020.8.1-15 Junior Associate Professor Ito and Hiroyuki Ueda gave presentations at ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (CME2020).
  • 2020.5.25 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at The 11th Asian Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering, Online.
  • 2020.5 "A Robust and Accurate Deep-Learning-based Method for the Segmentation of Subcortical Brain: Cross-dataset Evaluation of Generalization Performance" by Naoya Furuhashi, Shiho Okuhata, Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Magnetic Resonance in Medical Sciences.
    DOI:10.2463/mrms.mp.2019-0199
  • 2020.5 The webstie of the 5th ISMRM-JPC Annual Scientific Meeting has been opened. The meeting will take place in Kyoto on December 11 and 12, 2020.
    https://sites.google.com/view/ismrmjpc2020
  • 2020.3 "Neural magnetic field dependent fMRI toward direct functional connectivity measurements: A phantom study" by Yosuke Ito, Masahito Ueno and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Scientific Reports.
    DOI:10.1038/s41598-020-62277-4
  • 2020.2 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at The 18th Conference of Peace through Mind/Brain Science, Hamamatsu.
  • 2019.10 "An Atlas-based Whole-brain Fiber-tracking Method with Automatic Setting of an Optimal Starting Plane in all Parcels" by Shiho Okuhata, Hodaka Miki, Ryusuke Nakai and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Journal of Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering.
    http://neuroscibioeng.com/EN/Y2019/V1/I1/28
  • 2019.9 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at UK-Japan Quantum Sensing and Metrology Research Workshop, Tokyo.
  • 2019.8 Professor Kobayashi gave an invited talk at 7th Workshop on Optically Pumped Magnetometer 2019 (WOPM-2019), Mainz, Germany.
  • 2019.7 Assistant professor Ito gave an invited talk at 41st International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC2019), Berlin, Germany.
  • 2019.6 "Remote detection of magnetic signals with a compact atomic magnetometer module towards human MRI-MPI hybrid systems" by Takenori Oida, Kentaro Kato, Yosuke Ito and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in International Journal on Magnetic Particle Imaging.
    DOI:10.18416/IJMPI.2019.1906001
  • 2019.3 "Temperature characteristics of K-Rb hybrid optically pumped magnetometers with different density ratios" by Sho Ito, Yosuke Ito and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Optics Express.
    DOI:10.1364/OE.27.008037
  • 2019.2 Assistant professor Ito received the Konica Minolta Imaging Science Encouragement Award (Outstanding) from Konica Minolta Science and Technology Foundation.
  • 2018.8 Professor Kobayashi received the James Zimmerman Prize from IFMBE and Biomag2018 at Biomag2018 in Philadelphia.
  • 2018.7 "Dynamics of magnetization under stimulus-induced rotary saturation sequence" by Hiroyuki Ueda, Hiroaki Seki, Yosuke Ito, Takenori Oida, Yo Taniguchi and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
    DOI:10.1016/j.jmr.2018.07.004
  • 2018.6 Hiroyuki Ueda received the research encouraging prize at IEICE Technical Committee on MBE.
  • 2018.3 Dr. Okuhata et al. received the Best poster award at the 20th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society.
  • 2018.2 Assistant professor Ito received the Outstanding paper award (IEEJ-FMS) from Fundamentals and Materials Society, IEEJ.
  • 2018.1 "High-sensitivity multi-channel probe beam detector towards MEG measurements of small animals with an optically pumped K-Rb hybrid magnetometer" by Kazumasa Nishi, Yosuke Ito and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Optics Express.
    DOI:10.1364/OE.26.001988
  • 2017.5 A figure of our paper "A novel method to accomplish simultaneous multilocation magnetic field measurements based on pump beam modulation of an atomic magnetometer" appeared on the front cover of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 53(5).
  • 2017.5 "A novel method to accomplish simultaneous multilocation magnetic field measurements based on pump beam modulation of an atomic magnetometer" by Yuki Mamishin, Yosuke Ito, and Tetsuo Kobayashiwas published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
    DOI:10.1109/TMAG.2017.2659649
  • 2017.3 "An fMRI-EEG integrative method with model selection procedures for reconstruction of multiple cortical activities" by Ryosuke Shiraishi and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering.
    DOI:10.2174/2213385205666170222112317
  • 2017.3 Hiroyuki Ueda received the 11th young investigator award at the 19th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society.
  • 2017.1 Yuki Mamishin received the research encouraging prize 2016 of the Technical committee of Magnetics of IEEJ-FMS.
  • 2016.11 "Remote detected low-field MRI using an optically pumped atomic magnetometer combined with a liquid cooled pre-polarization coil" by Ingo Hilschenz, Yosuke Ito, Hiroaki Natsukawa, Takenori Oida, Tetsuya Yamamoto and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Journal of Magnetic Resonance.
    DOI:10.1016/j.jmr.2016.11.006
  • 2016.7 "Optimal densities of alkali metal atoms in an optically pumped K-Rb hybrid atomic magnetometer considering spatial distribution of spin polarization" by Yosuke Ito, Daichi Sato, Keigo Kamada and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Optics Express
    DOI:10.1364/OE.24.015391
  • 2016.6 "Improvements of a normalized integrative fMRI-MEG method by iterative model selection" by Takafumi Yano, Hiroaki Natsukawa and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Neuroscience & Biomedical Engineering.
  • 2016.4 "Electrostatic field analysis of anisotropic conductive media using voxel-based static method of moments with fast multipole method" by Shoji Hamada was published in European Journal of Computational Mechanics.
  • 2016.3 "Differential measurement using equalized response of optically pumped atomic magnetometers" by Sunao Ichihara, Natsuhiko Mizutani, Yosuke Ito and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in IEEE Transaction on Magnetics.
  • The 20th Congress of Japan Human Brain Mapping Society was successfully closed. We sincerely appriciated all paticipants!
    http://bfe.kuee.kyoto-u.ac./jhbm18/
  • 2015.7 "Cortical Activation Associated with Determination of Depth Order during Transparent Motion Perception: A Normalized Integrative fMRI-MEG Study" by Hiroaki Natsukawa and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Human Brain Mapping.
  • 2015.3 "Noise reduction and signal-to-noise ratio improvement of atomic magnetometers with optical gradiometer configurations" by Keigo Kamada, Yosuke Ito, Sunao Ichihara, Natsuhiko Mizutani and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Optics Express.
  • 2015.2 "Hyperpolarized Xenon Imaging with the SWIFT Approach in Ultra-low Field MRI: A Simulation Study" by Yuki Kaga, Takenori Oida and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Advanced Biomedical Engineering.
  • 2015.1 "Human magnetoencephalogram measurements using newly developed compact module of high-sensitivity atomic magnetometer" by Keigo Kamada, Daichi Sato, Yosuke Ito, Hiroaki Natsukawa, Kazuhisa Okano, Natsuhiko Mizutani and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in Japanese Journal of Applied Physics.
  • 2014.12 "Differential alterations of auditory gamma oscillatory responses between pre-onset high-risk individuals and first-episode schizophrenia" by Mariko Tada, Tatsuya Nagai, Kenji Kirihara, Shinsuke Koike, Motomu Suga, Tsuyoshi Araki, Tetsuo Kobayashi and Kiyoto Kasai was published in Cerebral Cortex.
  • 2014.11 Keigo Kamada received the Outstanding paper award (IEEJ-FMS) from Fundamentals and Materials Society, IEEJ.
  • 2014.11 "Measurements of magnetic field distributions with an optically pumped K-Rb hybrid atomic magnetometer" by Yosuke Ito, Daichi Sato, Keigo Kamada and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in IEEE Transactions on Magnetics.
  • 2014.10 "Actively shielded bias field tuning coil for optically pumped atomic magnetometer toward ultra-low field MRI" by Takenori Oida, Masahiro Tsuchida and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in IEEE Sensors Journal.
  • 2014.7 Hodaka Miki received the best poster award at the 19th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society of Cognitive Neuroscience.
  • 2014.5 "A plateau in the sensitivity of a compact optically pumped atomic magnetometer module" by Natsuhiko Mizutani, Kazuhisa Okano, Kazuhiro Ban, Sunao Ichihara, Akira Terao and Tetsuo Kobayashi was published in AIP Advances.
  • 2014.3 Keigo Kamada received the 35th JSAP young scientist presentation award.
  • 2014.1 "Voxel-based analysis of electrostatic fields in virtual-human model Duke using indirect boundary element method with fast multipole method" by Shoji Hamada was published in Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences.