Cindy Karina Wins 1st Place Student Platform Award at BioEM2023!

Cindy Karina was awarded 1st place in the student platform presentation competition at BioEM2023, June 18 – 23 in Oxford, UK for her presentation entitled Dielectric Properties of Rat Tissues at <10 MHz Measured with an Advanced Instrumentation

Lena Kranold Wins Arthur Pilla Young Scientist Award at BioEM2023!

Lena Kranold was the winner of the BioEM2023 Arthur Pilla Young Scientist Award for her presentation entitled Development of Morbidly Obese Anatomical Phantoms for MR Safety Applications

Javier García Ordóñez Wins 2nd Place Student Poster Award at BioEM2023!

Javier García Ordóñez placed 2nd in the student poster competition at BioEM2023 for his presentation Optimizing Therapeutic Neurostimulation: A Generalized Activating Function for Metamodeling

Modulation of Visual Contrast Sensitivity with tRNS across the Visual System, Evidence from Stimulation and Simulation (eNeuro)

Weronika Potok, Alain Post, Valeriia Beliaeva, Marc Bächinger, Antonino M. Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, Rafael Polania, Daniel Kiper, and Nicole Wenderoth, eNeuro 2023, Volume 10, Article No. ENEURO.0177-22.2023, online 01 June 2023; doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0177-22.2023

Travel Grant Funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Awarded to Robin Wydaeghe for a Project at IT'IS

Robin Wydaeghe of the Department of Information Technology of Ghent University has been awarded a travel grant by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for a short stay at IT'IS to collaborate on his research project entitled Bringing together the state-of-the-art in propagation and exposure modeling for advanced 5G and 6G technologies.

ATHENA V1.0 – Latest Member of Our ViP Library

IT'IS is proud to add ATHENA V1.0, a whole-body numerical simulation model of a 3.5-year-old girl, to our Virtual Population library. The model was developed by the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging based at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, and it is an important milestone for pediatric modeling.

Remote Focused Encoding and Decoding of Electric Fields through Acoustoelectric Heterodyning (Commun. Phys.)

Jean L. Rintoul, Esra Neufeld, Chris Butler, Robin O. Cleveland & Nir Grossman, Nature Communications Physics 2023, online 20 April 2023; doi: 10.1038/s42005-023-01198-w

IT'IS Annual Report 2022

The annual report of the IT'IS Foundation for 2022, just published, includes:  

A summary of progress on the development of temporal interference stimulation hardware and planning software to boost transcranial deep brain stimulation 

as well as information on:

Current projects  Key figures and infrastructure Selected publications Our team, including board members Selected partners and sponsors

2023 BioEM Short Term Mission Project at IT'IS Awarded to Michelle Fang

Michelle Fang is the recipient of a BioEM Short Term Mission award to pursue research at the IT'IS Foundation on her project Personalized Head Models for Surgery and Temporal Interference Stimulation Planning

The Effect of Body Position Change on Noninvasively Acquired Intracranial Pulse Waves (Physiol. Meas.)

Thalamic Control of Sensory Processing and Spindles in a Biophysical Somatosensory Thalamoreticular Circuit Model of Wakefulness and Sleep (Cell Rep.)

Elisabetta Iavarone, Jane Simko, Ying Shi, Marine Bertschy, María García-Amado, Polina Litvak, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Christian O’Reilly, Oren Amsalem, Marwan Abdellah, Grigori Chevtchenko, Benoît Coste, Jean-Denis Courcol, András Ecker, Cyrille Favreau, Adrien Christian Fleury, Werner Van Geit, Michael Gevaert, Nadir Román Guerrero, Joni Herttuainen, Genrich Ivaska, Samuel Kerrien, James G. King, Pramod Kumbhar, Patrycja Lurie, Ioannis Magkanaris, Vignayanandam Ravindernath Muddapu, Jayakrishnan Nair, Fernando L. Pereira, Rodrigo Perin, Fabien Petitjean, Rajnish Ranjan, Michael Reimann, Liviu Soltuzu, Mohameth François Sy, M. Anıl Tuncel, Alexander Ulbrich, Matthias Wolf, Francisco Clascá, Henry Markram, and Sean L. Hill, Cell Reports 2023, Volume 42, Issue 3, Article No. 112200, online 24 February 2023; doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112200

2023 Call for Applications: Katja Poković Research Fellowship

First call for applications for the Katja Poković Research Fellowship Award specifically for female applicants in the field of electromagnetics and information technology.

First release of o²S²PARC-powered commercial software

IT'IS's o²S²PARC platform enables ZMT to release S4L^lite, a web-based version of their advanced commercial Sim4Life desktop computational platform, free for students and teaching! 

Second SEAWave Consortium Meeting

On January 30–31, 2023, IT'IS hosted the SEAWave second project meeting in Zurich.

Three Class III Obese ViP Models for Improved Patient Coverage

At the request of the magnetic resonance industry, the IT’IS Foundation has created three new class III obese Virtual Population models. With a body mass index of more than 60 kg/m², these new computational phantoms are the first to represent the upper end of the population.

Zurich43 Retreat 2023: Energy Demystified

From January 23–24, 2023, Z43 participants gathered at Huus Gstaad, nestled between the snowy peaks of the Bernese Alps, for the 2023 retreat on the topic "Energy Demystified - Science & Technology, Economics & Scalability, & Behaviorism."

TIBS-R V1.02 Now Available for Temporal Interference Research

Today, TI Solutions AG released Version 1.02 of its TIBS-R device, which will be demonstrated next week at NANS2023 in Las Vegas. The design of the device and the maximally flexible software are optimized for advanced temporal interference brain stimulation research.

Coverage Factors for Efficient Demonstration of Compliance of Low-Frequency Magnetic Near-Field Exposures with Basic Restrictions (Phys. Med. Biol.)

Jingtian Xi, Andreas Christ, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine & Biology 2022, online 2 December 2022; doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aca875

A Study of Flex Miniaturized Coils for Focal Nerve Magnetic Stimulation (Med. Phys.)

Micol Colella, Daniel Z. Press, Rebecca M. Lahrer, Courtney E. McIlduff, Seward B. Rutkove, Antonino M. Cassarà, Francesca Apollonio, Alvaro Pascual Leone, Micaela Liberti, and Giorgion Bonmassar, Medical Physics 2022, online 11 December 2022, doi: 10.1112/mp.16148

Theory for a Non-Invasive Diagnostic Biomarker for Craniospinal Diseases (NeuroImage Clin.)

Fariba Karimi, Esra Neufeld, Arya Fallahi, Andrea Boraschi, Jaco J. M. Zwanenburg, Andreas Spiegelberg, Vartan Kurtcuoglu, and Niels Kuster, NeuroImage: Clinical 2022, Volume 37, Article No.103280, online 8 December 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2022.103280

Mechanism of Capacitive Coupling of Proximal Electromagnetic Sources with Biological Bodies (Bioelectromagnetics)

Andreas Christ, Arya Fallahi, Esra Neufeld, Quirino Balzano, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics 2022, Volume 43, Issue 7, pp. 404-412, 06 November 2022; doi: 10.1002/bem.22422

New Research Fund to Support Female Engineers

A new research fund has been established at IT’IS specifically to support female applicants seeking research fellowship positions in the area of electromagnetics and information technology.

Release of the Breast Tumor Patient Models Repository

IT’IS is pleased to host a new repository developed at the Erasmus University Medical Center that consists of 22 unique breast models for hyperthermia research. The Breast Tumor Patient Models hold important variations in terms of tumor size, tumor location, and tumor depth.

EURAMET-Funded Project MEWS Kick-Off Meeting

Z43 participated in the kick-off meeting of the project MEWS: Metrology for Emerging Wireless Standards, in Paris FR, which was held earlier this week.

Kick-Off of Horizon Europe Project: STASIS

STASIS, the successor to the successful Horizon project MIMAS (Medical Implant Manufacturers' Safety), had its kick-off meeting this week at the German National Metrology Institute (PTB) headquarters in Berlin.

IT’IS Receives o²S²PARC Year 6 Award

Temporal Interference Planning Tool V1.0

IT’IS is excited to introduce our novel Temporal Interference Planning Tool – TIP Version 1.0 – which helps neuroscientists and brain stimulation experts to develop optimized electrode placements and stimulation conditions for targeted TI stimulation.

Benchmark Problems for Transcranial Ultrasound Simulation: Intercomparison of Compressional Wave Models (J. Acoust. Soc. Am.)

Jean-Francois Aubry, Oscar Bates, Christian Boehm, Kim Butts Pauly, Douglas Christensen, Carlos Cueto, Pierre Gelat, Lluis Guasch, Jiri Jaros, Yun Jing, Rebecca Jones, Ningrui Li, Patrick Marty, Hazael Montanaro, Esra Neufeld, Samuel Pichardo, Gianmarco Pinton, Aki Pulkkinen, Antonio Stanziola, Axel Thielscher, Bradley Treeby, and Elwin van 't Wout, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 2022, Volume 152, Issue 2, Article No. 1003, online 16 August 2022; doi: 10.1121/10.0013426

Focal Non-Invasive Deep-Brain Stimulation with Temporal Interference for the Suppression of Epileptic Biomarkers (Front. Neurosci.)

Emma Acerbo, Aude Jegou, Charlotte Luff, Patrycja Dzialecka, Boris Botzanowski, Florian Missey, Ibrahima Ngom, Stanislas Lagarde, Fabrice Bartolomei, Antonino Cassara, Esra Neufeld, Viktor Jirsa, Romain Carron, Nir Grossman, and Adam Williamson, Frontiers in Neuroscience 2022, Volume 16, Article No. 945221, online 17 August 2022; doi: 10.3389/fnins.2022.945221

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Korean-Swiss Collaboration

Prof. Beom Sun Chung from the Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Korea, together with two of his students, Jongwoo Won and Sohyeon Lee, joined us as guest speakers in the BBL seminar series with a presentation about past and potential future collaborations between IT'IS and the Ajou/Dongguk University.