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Kenji Ishii is affiliated with Nippon Medical School in Japan and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging. Their research spans multiple subfields including psychiatry and mental health, neurology, physiology, and molecular biology.

The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, prominently featuring dementia and cognitive impairment research, Alzheimer's disease research and treatments, and various aspects of medical imaging techniques and applications. Other significant areas of investigation include glioma diagnosis and treatment, advanced MRI techniques, radiomics and machine learning in medical imaging, and advanced neuroimaging techniques and applications.

Kenji Ishii has published papers in several notable venues, with frequent publications in Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Alzheimer's & Dementia, and Annals of Nuclear Medicine. Additional publication venues include Research Square and Neuro-Oncology Advances.

Recent papers highlight a focus on neuroimaging and neurodegenerative diseases. Some examples include:

  • Parenchymal border macrophages regulate the flow dynamics of the cerebrospinal fluid, 2022, Nature
  • Cerebrospinal fluid proteomics define the natural history of autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease, 2023, Nature Medicine
  • Predicting brain age from functional connectivity in symptomatic and preclinical Alzheimer disease, 2022, NeuroImage
  • Detection of sub-centimeter lesions using digital TOF-PET/CT system combined with Bayesian penalized likelihood reconstruction algorithm, 2020, Annals of Nuclear Medicine
  • Quantitative Evaluation of 18F-Flutemetamol PET in Patients With Cognitive Impairment and Suspected Alzheimer's Disease: A Multicenter Study, 2021, Frontiers in Neurology

Kenji Ishii has collaborated frequently with other researchers, with notable coauthors including Kenji Ishibashi, Kei Wagatsuma, Jun Toyohara, Atsushi Iwata, and Takeshi Ikeuchi.

Best Publications

  • High performance plasma amyloid-β biomarkers for Alzheimer’s disease

    Akinori Nakamura;Naoki Kaneko;Victor L Villemagne;Takashi Kato

  • Brief screening tool for mild cognitive impairment in older Japanese: Validation of the Japanese version of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment

    Yoshinori Fujiwara;Hiroyuki Suzuki;Masashi Yasunaga;Mika Sugiyama

  • Florbetaben PET imaging to detect amyloid beta plaques in Alzheimer's disease: Phase 3 study

    Osama Sabri;Marwan N. Sabbagh;John Seibyl;Henryk Barthel

  • Multimodal imaging of brain reorganization in motor areas of the contralesional hemisphere of well recovered patients after capsular stroke

    Christian Gerloff;Khalaf Bushara;Alexandra Sailer;Eric M. Wassermann

  • Modality-specific frontal and parietal areas for auditory and visual spatial localization in humans.

    Khalafalla O. Bushara;Robert A. Weeks;Kenji Ishii;Maria-Jose Catalan

  • Constraint-induced therapy in stroke: magnetic-stimulation motor maps and cerebral activation.

    George F Wittenberg;Robert Chen;Kenji Ishii;Khalafalla O Bushara

  • Aortic Wall Inflammation Due to Takayasu Arteritis Imaged with 18F-FDG PET Coregistered with Enhanced CT

    Yasushi Kobayashi;Kenji Ishii;Keiichi Oda;Tadashi Nariai

  • A PET study of sequential finger movements of varying length in patients with Parkinson's disease.

    Maria Jose Catalan;Kenji Ishii;Manabu Honda;Ali Samii

  • High performance plasma amyloid-beta biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease

    Akinori Nakamura;Naoki Kaneko;Victor L Villemagne;Takashi Kato

  • Database of normal human cerebral blood flow, cerebral blood volume, cerebral oxygen extraction fraction and cerebral metabolic rate of oxygen measured by positron emission tomography with 15O-labelled carbon dioxide or water, carbon monoxide and oxygen: a multicentre study in Japan

    Hiroshi Ito;Iwao Kanno;Chietsugu Kato;Toshiaki Sasaki

  • Usefulness of L-[methyl-11C] methionine-positron emission tomography as a biological monitoring tool in the treatment of glioma.

    Tadashi Nariai;Yoji Tanaka;Hiroaki Wakimoto;Masaru Aoyagi

  • Role of the Nondominant Hemisphere and Undamaged Area During Word Repetition in Poststroke Aphasics A PET Activation Study

    Masashi Ohyama;Michio Senda;Shin Kitamura;Kenji Ishii

  • Low density of sigma1 receptors in early Alzheimer's disease.

    Masahiro Mishina;Masashi Ohyama;Kenji Ishii;Shin Kitamura

  • Function of sigma1 receptors in Parkinson's disease

    M. Mishina;K. Ishiwata;K. Ishii;S. Kitamura

  • High occupancy of sigma-1 receptors in the human brain after single oral administration of fluvoxamine: a positron emission tomography study using [11C]SA4503.

    Masatomo Ishikawa;Kiichi Ishiwata;Kenji Ishii;Yuichi Kimura

  • Vascular Reserve in Chronic Cerebral Ischemia Measured by the Acetazolamide Challenge Test: Comparison with Positron Emission Tomography

    Tadashi Nariai;Ryuta Suzuki;Kimiyoshi Hirakawa;Taketoshi Maehara

  • Expanding the clinical phenotype of SNCA duplication carriers.

    Kenya Nishioka;Owen A. Ross;Kenji Ishii;Jennifer M. Kachergus

  • Extraction of a plasma time-activity curve from dynamic brain PET images based on independent component analysis

    M. Naganawa;Y. Kimura;K. Ishii;K. Oda

  • Adenosine A2A Receptors Measured with [11C]TMSX PET in the Striata of Parkinson's Disease Patients

    Masahiro Mishina;Kiichi Ishiwata;Mika Naganawa;Yuichi Kimura

  • Inter-rater variability of visual interpretation and comparison with quantitative evaluation of 11C-PiB PET amyloid images of the Japanese Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (J-ADNI) multicenter study

    Tomohiko Yamane;Kenji Ishii;Muneyuki Sakata;Yasuhiko Ikari

Frequent Co-Authors

Keiichi Oda
Keiichi Oda Hokkaido University of Science
Kengo Ito
Kengo Ito Nagoya University
Mika Naganawa
Mika Naganawa Yale University
Takashi Kato
Takashi Kato Nagoya University
Henryk Barthel
Henryk Barthel Leipzig University
Hiroshi Matsuda
Hiroshi Matsuda Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology
Hidehiro Mizusawa
Hidehiro Mizusawa Tokyo Medical and Dental University
James B. Leverenz
James B. Leverenz Cleveland Clinic
Kazuhiko Yanai
Kazuhiko Yanai Tohoku University
Manabu Tashiro
Manabu Tashiro Tohoku University

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