Miho Katsuragawa

Miho Katsuragawa is a specially appointed project researcher at Kavli IPMU. Her areas of expertise include experimental physics, detector/instrument development, medical application of gamma-ray imaging, and high energy astrophysics.

She completed her PhD at The University of Tokyo. Her PhD research focused on the observational study of supernova remnants, studying x-rays to uncover star evolution. Her doctoral thesis received an award from the High Energy AstroPhysics Association in Japan.

Her current research shifted from astrophysics to nuclear medicine, using X-ray and gamma ray detectors used in her previous research to now look into a body. She is developing detectors for medical purposes using semiconducting devices.

Selected links:

An institute bridging divides - Asia Research News, March 10, 2023
Muon experiment reveals more detail of asteroid Ryugu - Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC) Center, October 10, 2022
Researchers adapt technology made for astronomical observations to biomedical imaging - ScienceDaily, April 2022
Describing the entire process of muonic atom formation using state-of-the-art superconducting detectors - Femtosecond dynamics of negative muons, electrons, and atomic nuclei - Rikkyo University, July 26, 2021
Ms. Miho Katsuragawa won Prize for doctoral thesis of HEPA - The University of Tokyo News, 2019

Selected publications

Katsuragawa, M. et al. Development of Nondestructive Elemental Analysis System for Hayabusa2 Samples Using Muonic X-rays. ACS Earth Space Chem (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.2c00303
Katsuragawa, M. et al. Simultaneous visualization of multiple radionuclides in vivo. Nature Biomedical Engineering (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41551-022-00866-6
Katsuragawa, M. et al. On the Formation of Over-ionized Plasma in Evolved Supernova Remnants. ApJ938 23 (2022). DOI: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ac8cf9
Katsuragawa, M. et al. Imaging and spectral performance of a 60 um pitch CdTe Double-Sided Strip Detector. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment Volume 978, 164378 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2020.164378
Katsuragawa, M. et al. Non-destructive 3D imaging method using muonic X-rays and a CdTe double-sided strip detector. Sci Rep 12, 5261 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09137-5