Eiju Watanabe
| Eiju Watanabe | |
|---|---|
| Born | January 20, 1951 Hiroshima-prefectureHiroshima |
| 💼 Occupation | Neurosurgeon |
| 🏢 Organization | JichiMedical UniversityProfessor in Honnor Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Labour Insurance Appeal Committee |
| Known for | invention of neuronavigator and optical topography(fNIRS) |
Eiju Watanabe
Eiju Watanabe is a Japanese neurosurgeon and inventor, who is known as a further of surgical navigating system. He is credited with developing many devices in the field of neurosurgery such as the neuronavigator and optical topography (fNIRS). These inventions had a widespread impact on neurosurgery and other neuroimaging field. He is also one of the first inventors to introduce 3D printer to the surgical activities.
Early life and education
Watanabe was born and raised in Hiroshima. At the age of 24, he graduated department of medicine, University of Tokyo, and started his career in neurosurgery with professor Keiji Sano, and completed his Ph.D. at department of neurophysiology, university of Tokyo with professor Masao Ito.
In 1984, he received his PHd degree from the university of Tokyo.
Subspecialty
functional neurosurgery, epilepsy surgery, computer aided surgery, functional brain mapping, pituitary surgery
Career
In 2004, he was appointed as the professor and chairman of the department of neurosurgery at Jichi medical university.
He started his research in this field at his earlier phase of his career. He invented a surgical navigating system (neuronavigator) in 1986, which was the first navigating system in the world. He continued his research and invented AR (augmented reality) driven navigating system in 2015.
His research interests lie in the area of computer in neurosurgery especially introduction of computer techniques in the surgical activities. He was also specialized in epilepsy surgery and introduced fNIR in the focus diagnosis of epilepsy.
1980-1983: Research fellow, Department. of Physiology, University of Tokyo
1983-1985: Resident, Department. of Neurosurgery, University of Tokyo Hospital.
1985-1987: Research fellow, University of Erlangen, West Germany.
1988: Resident, Department. of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital.
1992: Chief resident, Department. of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital.
1999: Chairman, Department. of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital.
2004: Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Jichi Medical University.
References
英文業績一覧
1. Watanabe E (1984) Neuronal events correlated with long-term adaptation of the horizontal vestibulo-ocular reflex in the primate flocculus. Brain Res 297:169-174
2. Watanabe E (1985) Role of the primate flocculus in adaptation of the vestibulo-ocular reflex. Neurosci Res 3:20-38
3. Watanabe E, Watanabe T, Manaka S, Mayanagi Y, Takakura K (1987) Three-dimensional digitizer (neuronavigator): new equipment for computed tomography-guided stereotaxic surgery. Surg Neurol 27:543-547
4. Kosugi Y, Watanabe E, Goto J, Watanabe T, Yoshimoto S, Takakura K, Ikebe J (1988) An articulated neurosurgical navigation system using MRI and CT images. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 35:147-152
5. Schramm J, Watanabe E, Ruckenmarks. (1988) [Possibilities and limits of intraoperative functional assessment of the spinal cord]. Klin Wochenschr 66 Suppl 14:19-26
6. Schramm J, Watanabe E, Strauss C, Fahlbusch R (1989) Neurophysiologic monitoring in posterior fossa surgery. I. Technical principles, applicability and limitations. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 98:9-18
7. Watanabe E, Schramm J, Strauss C, Fahlbusch R (1989) Neurophysiologic monitoring in posterior fossa surgery. II. BAEP-waves I and V and preservation of hearing. Acta Neurochir (Wien) 98:118-128
8. Watanabe E, Mayanagi Y, Kosugi Y, Manaka S, Takakura K (1991) Open surgery assisted by the neuronavigator, a stereotactic, articulated, sensitive arm. Neurosurgery 28:792-799
9. Sakai Y, Watanabe E, Kobayashi S, Sekiguchi J, Ohmori K (1994) Removal of a retained acupuncture needle in the paraspinal muscle using a neuronavigator. Plast Reconstr Surg 94:1097-1098
10. Mayanagi Y, Watanabe E, Kaneko Y (1996) Mesial temporal lobe epilepsy: clinical features and seizure mechanism. Epilepsia 37 Suppl 3:57-60
11. Watanabe E, Yamashita Y, Maki A, Ito Y, Koizumi H (1996) Non-invasive functional mapping with multi-channel near infra-red spectroscopic topography in humans. Neurosci Lett 205:41-44
12. Watanabe e et al., Non-invasive Cerebral Blood Volume Measurement During Seizures Using Multi-Channel Near Infrared Spectroscopic Topography, J. Epilepsy, 11; 335-340,1998.
13. Watanabe E, Maki A, Kawaguchi F, Takashiro K, Yamashita Y, Koizumi H, Mayanagi Y (1998) Non-invasive assessment of language dominance with near-infrared spectroscopic mapping. Neurosci Lett 256:49-52
14. Watanabe E, Nagahori Y, Mayanagi Y.(2002) Focus diagnosis of epilepsy using near-infrared spectroscopy.Epilepsia. 43 Suppl 9:50-5.
15. Tsuzuki D, Jurcak V, Singh AK, Okamoto M, Watanabe E, Dan I.(2007), Virtual spatial registration of stand-alone fNIRS data to MNI space.Neuroimage. 34(4):1506-18.
16. Watanabe E. (2007) Applications of optical topography in neurosurgery.,Brain Nerve.59(5):459-66.
17. Ebihara A, Tanaka Y, Watanabe E, Obata A, Ichikawa N.(2008) Assessment of cerebral ischemia by oxygen pulse-based near-infrared optical topography. ,Brain Nerve. 60(5):547-53.
18. Akira Ebihara., Yuichi Tanaka.,Takehiko Konno., Shingo Kawasaki.,Michiyuki Fujiwara.,Eiju Watanabe : Evaluation of cerebral ischemia using near-infrared spectroscopy with oxygen inhalation. Journal of Biomedical Optics 17(9):096002-1～096002-8 2012.
19. Ayano Moriai-Izawa.,Haruka Dan., Ippeta Dan. ,Toshifumi Sano., Keiji Oguro., Hidenori Yokota.,Daisuke Tsuzuki., Eiju Watanabe : Maltichannel fNIRS ussessment of overt and covert confrontation naming.Brain & Language 121:185-193,2012
20. Monden Y.,Dan H.,Nagashima M.,Dan I.,Kyutoku Y.,Okamoto M.,Yamagata T.,Momoi M.,Watanabe E: Clinically-oriented monitoring of acute effects of methylphenidate on cerebral hemodynamics in ADHD children using fNIRS.Clinical Neurophysiology 123:1147-1157,2012.
21. Tsuzuki D.,Dong-sheng Cai.,Dan H.,Kyutoku Y., Fujita A.,Watanabe E.,Dan I: Stable and convenient spatial registration of stand-alone NIRS data through anchor-based probabilistic registration. Neuroscience Research72:163-171,2012.
22. Dan H.,Dan I.,Sano T.,Kyutoku Y.,Oguro K.,Yokota H.,Tsuzuki D.,Watanabe E: Language-specific cortical activation patterns for verbal fluency tasks in Japanese as assessed by multichannel functional near-infrared spectroscopy. Brain Lang 126(2):208-16,2013.
23. Tsukahara T.,Mizukami H., Kume A., Ozawa K.,Watanabe E: An R132H mutation in isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 enhances p21 expression and inhibits phosphorylation of retinoblastoma protein in glioma cells.Neurol Med Chir (Tokyo)53(10):645-54,2013.
24. Saito T.,Uga M.,Tsuzuki D.,Yokota H.,Oguro K., Yamamoto T.,Dan I.,Watanabe E: Evoked potential mapping of the rostral region by frameless navigation system in Mexican hairless pig. J Neurosci Methods212(1):100-105,2013.
25. E. Watanabe, M. Satoh, T. Konno, M. Hirai, T. Yamaguchi, The Trans-Visible Navigator: A See-Through Neuronavigation System Using Augmented Reality. World Neurosurg. 87: 399405,2016.
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