Desktop exposure system and dosimetry for small scale in vivo radiofrequency exposure experiments

Yijian Gong, Myles Capstick, Thomas Tillmann, Clemens Dasenbrock, Theodoros Samaras, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 49–61, January 2016, online December 18, 2015

Avicenna Roadmap on In Silico Clinical Trials Published

The research and technological development roadmap in support of in silico clinical trials produced by the Avicenna Action is now published online, click here to go to Research Gate for a download link. Davnah Payne represented the IT’IS Foundation as one of 525 experts in this initiative funded by the European Commission. 

Novel Exposure Units for at-Home Personalized Testing of Electromagnetic Sensibility

Anke Huss, Manuel Murbach, Imke van Moorselaar, Niels Kuster, Rob van Strien, Hans Kromhout, Roel Vermeulen, and Pauline Slottje, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 37, Issue 1, pp. 62–68, January 2016, online December 11, 2015

Special Section on ESHO2015 in the International Journal of Hyperthermia

The 30th annual meeting of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO 2015) hosted by IT'IS/ETH and the Kantonsspital Aarau on behalf of the ESHO, was held June 24th to 26th, 2015, in Arau and Zurich, Switzerland.

Release of New Posable Duke V3.1!

IT’IS is now proud to announce the release of Duke cV3-1, the first of the ViP models to have been upgraded for use with the new posing method available in the multiphysics computational life sciences platform Sim4Life 2.2!

Computational Assessment of Pregnant Woman Models Exposed to Uniform ELF- Magnetic Fields: Compliance with the European Current Exposure Regulations for the General Public and Occupational Exposures at 50 Hz

Ilaria Liorni, Marta Parazzini, Serena Fiocchi, Mark Douglas, Myles Capstick, Niels Kuster, and Paolo Ravazzani, Radiation Protection Dosimetry, online ahead of print November 30, 2015

Prof. Niels Kuster chaired a workshop on Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Assessment in Medical EMF Applications at the COST EMF-MED meeting

The IT’IS Foundation organized a daylong workshop on "Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Assessment in Medical EMF Applications" on Wednesday 18/11/2015 at the Masarykova Kolej Congress Center in Prague.

Heating and Safety Concerns of the Radio-Frequency Field in MRI

Manuel Murbach, Earl Zastrow, Esra Neufeld, Eugenia Cabot, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Current Radiology Reports, Volume 3, Number 45, December 2015, online October 28, 2015

National Future Day 2015 – Wireless Power Transfer with the Kids “Wonderful and Powerful Team”

Thursday, November 12 was 2015 Future Day at Z43, and six engaged and curious youngsters spent the day visiting our team at IT’IS, SPEAG, and ZMT laboratories.

IT’IS Releases the Virtual Family V2.0 whole-body shells!

The Virtual Family 2.0 whole-body shells are now available for download!

Virtual Family Cited by FDA Expert Witness during US Senate Committee Hearing

Jeffrey Shuren, MD, JD, Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH) of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), described the use of the Virtual Family (VF) models – developed in a international collaboration led by the IT’IS Foundation and the FDA – for electromagnetic, thermal, acoustic, and computational fluid dynamics simulations that could be used to supplement or even replace data from clinical investigations of new devices.

New Online Release of IT'IS Database Features Acoustic Properties and T1/T2 Relaxation Times

The IT’IS Foundation announces a new release of its database of tissue properties, version 3.0 (DOI: 10.13099/VIP21000-03-0), which includes acoustic properties and T1 and T2 relaxation times.

Gong (2015) Thesis

Yijian Gong, “Extended Methods for Analysis of EM Exposure for Human, In Vivo and In Vitro”, PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Thesis No. 22957, Zurich, 2015

Novel Sensor Model Calibration Method for Resistively Loaded Diode Detectors

Romain Meyer, Sven Kühn, Katja Pokovic, Fin Bomholt, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 57, Early View, online July 24, 2015

Convex Optimization of MRI Exposure for Mitigation of RF-Heating from Active Medical Implants

Juan Córcoles, Earl Zastrow, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 60, Issue 18, pp. 7293–7308, September 2015, online September 8, 2015

Virtual Population-Based Assessment of the Impact of 3 Tesla Radiofrequency Shimming and Thermoregulation on Safety and B1+ Uniformity

Manuel Murbach, Esra Neufeld, Eugenia Cabot, Earl Zastrow, Juan Córcoles, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Early View, September 2015, online September 24, 2015

IT’IS Foundation and ZMT Zurich Medtech Sim4Life-CAPITALIS Project Nominated for CTI Swiss Medtech 2015 Award

The Commission for Technology and Innovation CTI has nominated the research project entitled “S4L-CAPITALIS – In Silico Analysis and Optimization of Neurovascular and Neurological Devices and Treatments in the Head”, submitted by the IT’IS Foundation together with partner ZMT Zurich Medtech AG, for the prestigious CTI Swiss Medtech 2015 Award. 

Full-Wave Acoustic and Thermal Modeling of Transcranial Ultrasound Propagation and Investigation of Skull-Induced Aberration Correction Techniques: A Feasibility Study

Adamos Kyriakou, Esra Neufeld, Beat Werner, Gábor Székely, and Niels Kuster, Journal of Therapeutic Ultrasound, Volume 3, Issue 11, July 2015, online July 31, 2015

BioEM2015 Technical Program Committee Co-Chaired by Prof. Niels Kuster of the IT’IS Foundation

BioEM2015, the annual joint meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) and the European BioElectromagnetics Association (EBEA), was held June 14 – 19, 2015 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. Prof. Niels Kuster of the IT’IS Foundation and treasurer of the EBEA, represented the EBEA as co-chair of the BioEM2015 Technical Program Committee.

ESHO2015 – the 30th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology, Co-organized by the IT'IS Foundation

The IT’IS Foundation for Research on Information Technologies in Society together with the Kantonsspital Aarau joined forces to organize the 30^th annual meeting of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology – ESHO2015 – the flagship event of the thermal cancer therapy community, held June 24 – 26, 2015 in Aarau and Zurich.

IT’IS/SPEAG win the Best Symposium Paper Award at the APEMC2015 Conference

Our paper “EMC/EMI Near-field Testbed for EM Phasor Measurements Using Active Optical Sensors,” featuring the latest research in near-field EMC/EMI scanning technologies implemented in SPEAG’s TDS and ICEy systems, was awarded the Best Symposium Paper Award at the 2015 Asia-Pacific International EMC Symposium in Taipei, Taiwan.

Rapid Method for Thermal Dose-Based Safety Supervision During MR Scans

Esra Neufeld, Maximilian Fuetterer, Manuel Murbach, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 36, Issue 5, pp. 398–407, July 2015, online May 11, 2015

IT’IS and ZMT Zurich MedTech AG at the MEET THE EXPERT - Implants Conference

Dr. Earl Zastrow of the IT’IS Foundation and Drs. Maria Cabanes and Wolfgang Wiedemair of ZMT Zurich MedTech AG attended the MEET THE EXPERT - Implants conference in Interlaken, Switzerland.

MIDA: A Multimodal Imaging-Based Detailed Anatomical Model of the Human Head and Neck

Maria Iacono, Esra Neufeld, Esther Akinnagbe, Kelsey Bower, Johanna Wolf, Ioannis Oikonomidis, Deepika Sharma, Bryn Lloyd, Bertram Wilm, Michael Wyss, Klaas Pruessmann, Andras Jakab, Nikos Makris, Ethan Cohen, Niels Kuster, Wolfgang Kainz, and Leonardo Angelone, PLoS ONE, Volume 10, Issue 4, online April 22, 2015

IT'IS Annual Report 2014

The Annual Report 2014 features key figures for 2014 and overviews of selected projects:

Interference and Compatibility Evaluation System (ICEy) Virtual Population 2.0 & 3.0 – High Resolution Anatomical Models for Medical Device Evaluation Sim4Life: A Computable, Functionalized Anatomical Model-Centered Approach to Computational Life Scienes Harnessing Technology to Create Advanced RF Hyperthermia Delivery Concepts

Compliance Testing Methodology for Wireless Power Transfer Systems

Jagadish Nadakuduti, Mark Douglas, Lin Lu, Andreas Christ, Paul Guckian, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, Volume 30, Issue 11, pp. 6264 – 6273; online February 19, 2015

Wrapping up ARIMMORA – Risk Assessment Workshop and Final General Assembly Meeting at IARC in Lyon, March 9 – 13, 2015

The EU-funded consortium on Advanced Research on Interaction Mechanisms of electroMagnetic exposures with Organisms for Risk Assessment (ARIMMORA) convened for the final time March 9 – 13, 2015 at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Lyon for a risk assessment workshop and final General Assembly meeting.

Two Great Research Organizations are Defining Next Generation Phantom Testing in the Emerging Market for Wearable Devices

Defining the road ahead for wearable devices is another challenge in the growth of IOT.

IT’IS Attends Brain Simulation Workshop on Computer Modeling of Focused Ultrasound

The IT’IS Foundation was one of 17 organizations invited by the Focused Ultrasound Foundation to contribute to the Brain Workshop on Treatment Envelope & Simulation held February 2 – 3, 2015 in Charlottesville VA, USA.

Inter-Individual and Intra-Individual Variation of the Effects of Pulsed RF EMF Exposure on the Human Sleep EEG

Caroline Lustenberger, Manuel Murbach, Laura Tüshaus, Flavia Wehrle, Niels Kuster, Peter Achermann, and Reto Huber, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 36, Issue 3, pp. 169–177, April 2015, online February 17, 2015