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Takashi Kato

Takashi Kato

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Neuroscience

D-Index
41
Citations
10192
World Ranking
7760
National Ranking
260

Overview

Takashi Kato is affiliated with Nagoya University in Japan and has a research focus anchored in the medical field, with extensive publications spanning surgery, oncology, pulmonary and respiratory medicine, biomedical engineering, and radiology.

Their work particularly concentrates on colorectal cancer screening and detection, diverticular disease and complications, gallbladder and bile duct disorders, pancreatic and hepatic oncology research, gastrointestinal disorders and treatments, colorectal cancer surgical treatments, and gastric cancer management and outcomes.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Bowel habits and gender correlate with colon length measured by CT colonography, 2021, Japanese Journal of Radiology
  • Laparoscopic subtotal cholecystectomy after percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage for grade II or III acute cholecystitis, 2021, BMC Surgery
  • Recent trends in the prevalence and distribution of colonic diverticula in Japan evaluated using computed tomography colonography, 2021, World Journal of Gastroenterology
  • Presence of constipation predicts the therapeutic efficacy of pembrolizumab in metastatic urothelial cancer patients, 2020, International Journal of Urology
  • Diagnostic accuracy of ultra-low-dose CT colonography for the detection of colorectal polyps: a feasibility study, 2022, Japanese Journal of Radiology

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Masafumi Ie (5 publications)
  • Morihiro Katsura (5 publications)
  • Kenichi Utano (4 publications)
  • Koichi Nagata (4 publications)
  • Masayuki Itô (4 publications)

Frequent publication venues for their work are:

  • JAPANESE JOURNAL OF GYNECOLOGIC AND OBSTETRIC ENDOSCOPY (4 publications)
  • Japanese Journal of Radiology (2 publications)
  • Annals of Surgical Oncology (2 publications)
  • Annals of Oncology (2 publications)
  • Journal of Alzheimer's Disease (2 publications)

Their output reflects a multidisciplinary approach, addressing clinical and diagnostic challenges across various medical specialties. The contributions cover both surgical techniques and imaging methods, particularly focusing on diseases of the colorectal region and other gastrointestinal conditions.

Best Publications

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

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

  • Discrimination between Alzheimer dementia and controls by automated analysis of multicenter FDG PET

    Karl Herholz;Eric Salmon;Daniela Perani;Jean-Claude Baron

  • The human amygdala plays an important role in gaze monitoring. A PET study.

    Ryuta Kawashima;Motoaki Sugiura;Takashi Kato;Akinori Nakamura

  • A Randomized Controlled Trial of Multicomponent Exercise in Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairment

    Takao Suzuki;Hiroyuki Shimada;Hyuma Makizako;Takehiko Doi

  • Somatosensory Homunculus as Drawn by MEG

    Akinori Nakamura;Takako Yamada;Atsuko Goto;Takashi Kato

  • Functional delineation of the human occipito-temporal areas related to face and scene processing. A PET study.

    K. Nakamura;R. Kawashima;N. Sato;A. Nakamura

  • Activation of the right inferior frontal cortex during assessment of facial emotion.

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Kengo Ito;Motoaki Sugiura

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

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

  • Neural substrates for recognition of familiar voices: a PET study.

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Motoaki Sugiura;Takashi Kato

  • Vocal identification of speaker and emotion activates differerent brain regions

    Satoshi Imaizumi;Koichi Mori;Shigeru Kiritani;Ryuta Kawashima

  • Recurrent rectal cancer and scar: differentiation with PET and MR imaging.

    K Ito;T Kato;M Tadokoro;T Ishiguchi

  • Striatal and extrastriatal dysfunction in Parkinson's disease with dementia: A 6-[18F]fluoro-L-dopa PET study

    Kengo Ito;Atsuko Nagano‐Saito;Takashi Kato;Yutaka Arahata

  • Occipital hypoperfusion in Parkinson’s disease without dementia: correlation to impaired cortical visual processing

    Y Abe;T Kachi;T Kato;Y Arahata

  • Cortical hypometabolism and hypoperfusion in Parkinson’s disease is extensive: probably even at early disease stages

    Per Borghammer;Mallar Chakravarty;Mallar Chakravarty;Kristjana Yr Jonsdottir;Noriko Sato

  • Electromagnetic signatures of the preclinical and prodromal stages of Alzheimer’s disease

    Akinori Nakamura;Pablo Cuesta;Pablo Cuesta;Alberto Fernández;Yutaka Arahata

  • Expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in regenerating muscle fibers in inflammatory and non-inflammatory myopathies.

    Satoshi Kuru;Akira Inukai;Takashi Kato;Yideng Liang

  • 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

  • Visual hallucination in Parkinson's disease with FDG PET

    Atsuko Nagano-Saito;Yukihiko Washimi;Yutaka Arahata;Katsushige Iwai

  • Neuroanatomical correlates of the assessment of facial attractiveness

    Katsuki Nakamura;Ryuta Kawashima;Sumiharu Nagumo;Kengo Ito

  • Cognitive- and motor-related regions in Parkinson's disease: FDOPA and FDG PET studies

    Atsuko Nagano-Saito;Takashi Kato;Yutaka Arahata;Yukihiko Washimi

Frequent Co-Authors

Kengo Ito
Kengo Ito Nagoya University
Hiroshi Fukuda
Hiroshi Fukuda Tohoku University
Gen Sobue
Gen Sobue Aichi Medical University
Ryuta Kawashima
Ryuta Kawashima Tohoku University
Kenji Ishii
Kenji Ishii Nippon Medical School
Motoaki Sugiura
Motoaki Sugiura Tohoku University
Kazuyoshi Watanabe
Kazuyoshi Watanabe Nagoya University
Karl Zilles
Karl Zilles Forschungszentrum Jülich
Colin L. Masters
Colin L. Masters University of Melbourne
Yen Ying Lim
Yen Ying Lim Monash University

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