Table 1.

Short curriculum vitae of Takuo Aoyagi:

1958	Graduated electric engineering course of Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University Entered Shimadzu Corporation, Kyoto City as a researcher in the Central Research Laboratory
1966	Joined the Electronic Division, Faculty of Engineering, Tokyo University, where he studied cardiac output measurement using the dye dilution method
1971	Entered in Nihon Kohden Corporation, Tokyo City, where he engaged in the study of:  < 1 > cardiac output measurement using dye dilution method  < 2 > pulse oximetry: invention, making pilot model, and first announcement  < 3 > pulse oximetry: constructing theory for improvement of pulse oximetry  < 4 > pulse dye densitometry: for measurement of circulating blood volume  < 5 > biomedical impedance method for lung monitoring
1993	Received a Ph.D. of Engineering at the Tokyo University, with a thesis topic of: "Study of noninvasive measurement of light absorbing materials in the blood using the arterial pulse."
1995	Achievement Prize by the Medical Instrument Society of Japan
2007	The Medal with Purple Ribbon (given by Japanese Emperor) Social Prize by the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists
2012	The Harvey W. Wiley Lifetime Achievement Award
2013	J.S. Gravenstein Award Lifetime Achievement by Society for Technology in Anesthesia
2015	IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology