Taro Takahara
Visiting Professor, Akita University
He devised the whole-body MRI "DWIBS method." He succeeded in the world's first visualization of peripheral nerves, which was published in the medical journal "NEJM." He trained at the Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine and the Department of Radiology, Dokkyo Medical University. He became a radiologist at St. Marianna University School of Medicine. After serving as an assistant in the Department of Radiology, Kyorin University School of Medicine, a lecturer in Diagnostic Imaging, Department of Basic Clinical Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, and a visiting associate professor in the Department of Radiology, Utrecht University Hospital, Netherlands, he became a professor at Tokai University. He graduated from Akita University School of Medicine.