Terahertz reflectarrays and nonuniform metasurfaces

Daniel Headland, Tiaoming Niu, Eduardo Carrasco, Derek Abbott, Shruti Nirantar, Sharath Sriram, Madhu Bhaskaran, Christophe Fumeaux, and Withawat Withayachumnankul, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, online 20 December 2016, DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2640452

Important Milestone in Cancer Therapy

As of January 2017, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) will include hyperthermia treatment in combination with radiation therapy as covered therapy in the Swiss basic health insurance catalog.

3D Atlas of Human Embryology

A team from the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam NL has published a comprehensive 3D Atlas of Human Embryology. The atlas is made freely available to the scientific community to facilitate embryology education and research.

A Brain–Spine Interface Alleviating Gait Deficits after Spinal Cord Injury in Primates

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Delivery of Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Nir Grossman, David Bono, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, Andrii Rudenko, Antonino Cassara, Esra Neufeld, Sheeba A. Anteraper, Atsushi Takahashi, Niels Kuster, Li-Huei Tsai, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, and Edward S. Boyden at the 46^th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA, November 12 – 16, 2016

National Future Day 2016 – Gamma-Detector

On Thursday  November 10, six enthusiastic 11 – 13 year olds visited Z43 for Swiss National Future Day 2016, where they each manufactured a working gamma detector.

From Image-Based Modeling to the Modeling of Imaging with the Virtual Population

Esra Neufeld, Bryn Lloyd, and Niels Kuster, in Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, Proceedings of the First International Workshop, SASHIMI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 21, 2016, Volume 9968 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 45–54, online October, 2016

Signaling by sulfur-containing molecules. Quantitative aspects.

Willem H. Koppenol and Patricia L. Bounds, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, online September 23, 2016

Magnetic Nanoparticle-Induced Hyperthermia with Appropriate Payloads: Paul Ehrlich’s “Magic (Nano)bullet” for Cancer Theranostics?

Nilroy R. Datta, Sunil Krishnan, Daniel E. Speiser, Esra Neufeld, Niels Kuster, Stefan Bodis, and Heinrich Hofmann,
Cancer Treatment Reviews, Volume 50, pp. 217–227, online September 2016

Approach to Validate Simulation-Based Distribution Predictions Combining the Gamma-Method and Uncertainty Assessment: Application to Focused Ultrasound

Esra Neufeld, Adamos Kyriacou, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 1, Issue 3, 031006, online September 2016

IT'IS Publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: MRM Highlights – Editor's Pick September 2016

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine features recent IT'IS paper in MRM Highlights – Editor's Pick September 2016.

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, Volume 76, Issue 3, pp. 986–997, September 2016; Early View, September 2015, online September 24, 2015

NTP Study Presented and Discussed at NIEHS Scientific Board Meeting

Following the press release on the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) Study of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR) and Carcinogensis in May 2016, the presentation given by prinicpal investigator Michael Wyde on the setup and main preliminary findings is now accessible on our website.

IT'IS Annual Report 2015

The Annual Report 2015 features news about the new Zurich43 corporate identity, key figures for 2015, and overviews of selected projects:

Focused Ultrasound Modeling to Enable Novel Therapeutic Applications  Investigating EM-Induced Nerve Activation: Low Frequency Exposure Safety  Turning Down the Heat in MRI for Patients with Implants  New Approach for Realistic Posing of Anatomical Models 

Parallel smoothing pressure correction solver for biomedical flow problems: convergence criteria, preconditioning, scalability

Kathrin Burckhardt, Dominik Szczerba, Esra Neufeld, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, and Niels Kuster, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 201–215, online August 10, 2016

Release of New Posable Virtual Population Models V3.1!

IT’IS proudly announces the release of the full range of ViP models, now upgraded for use with the new Poser method available in the multiphysics computational life sciences platform Sim4Life 2.2!

Latsis Symposium 2016 ETH Zurich on Personalized Medicine, June 27–29, 2016

The IT'IS Foundation joined forces with the Competence Center Personalized Medicine UZH/ETH to host the Latsis Symposium 2016 on Personalized Medicine at the ETH Zurich, June 27 – 29, 2016. More than 250 attendees assembled to explore a wide range of topics on research and policy in precision medicine with leading experts from clinics, universities, regulatory agencies, and industry. The event closed with a well-attended German-language public event on Wednesday evening, June 29.

NIEHS Press Release on NTP Study of Cell Phone RF Radiation and Carcinogensis in Rats

The National Toxicology Program (NTP) of NIEHS released a report entitled, “Report of Partial Findings From the National Toxicology Program Carcinogenesis Studies of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation in Hsd: Sprague Dawley SD Rats (Whole Body Exposure).” This was a joint study with the IT'IS Foundation.

Investigation of assumptions underlying current safety guidelines on EM-induced nerve stimulation

Esra Neufeld, Ioannis Vogiatzis Oikonomidis, Maria Ida Iacono, Leonardo M. Angelone, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 61, Issue 12, pp. 4466–4478, online May 2016

Functionalized anatomical models for EM-neuron interaction modeling

Esra Neufeld, Antonino M. Cassara, Hazael Montanaro, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 61, Issue 12, 4390–4401, online May 25, 2016

IT’IS Wins Award for Best Poster in Session at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine

The IT'IS Foundation won the best poster award in a joint session on High Field Systems & Applications and MR Safety at the 24th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) in Singapore, 7 – 13 May 2016. Earl Zastrow presented the poster entitled "Development of a Set of Generic Numerical Birdcages for Comprehensive Evaluations of Induced RF Fields for Implant Safety."

Comparative dosimetry for children and rodents exposed to extremely low-frequency magnetic fields

Yijian Gong, Myles Capstick, Clemens Dasenbrock, Maren Fedrowitz, Cesar Cobaleda, Isidro Sanchez-Garcia, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 37, Issue 5, pp. 310–322, July 2016, online May 13, 2016

Pregnant women models analyzed for RF exposure and temperature increase in 3T RF shimmed birdcages (Magn. Reson. Med.)

Manuel Murbach, Esra Neufeld, Theodoros Samaras, Juan Córcoles, Fraser J. Robb, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Early View, May 2016, online May 17, 2016

Dielectric Resonator Reflectarray as High-Efficiency Nonuniform Terahertz Metasurface

Daniel Headland, Eduardo Carrasco, Shruti Nirantar, Withawat Withayachumnankul, Philipp Gutruf, James Schwarz, Derek Abbott, Madhu Bhaskaran, Sharath Sriram, Julien Perruisseau-Carrier, and Christophe Fumeaux, ACS Photonics, online May 13, 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.6b00102

An HF exposure system for mice with improved efficiency

Myles Capstick, Yijian Gong, Boris Pasche, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 37, Issue 4, pp. 223–233, May 2016, online March 31, 2016

Extremely low-frequency magnetic fields and the risk of childhood leukemia: A risk assessment by the ARIMMORA consortium

Joachim Schüz, Clemens Dasenbrock, Paolo Ravazzani, Martin Röösli, Primo Schär, Patricia L. Bounds, Friederike Erdmann, Arndt Borkhardt, César Cobaleda, Maren Fedrowitz, Yngve Hamnerius, Isidro Sanchez-Garcia, Rony Seger, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Gunde Ziegelberger, Myles Capstick, Melissa Manser, Meike Müller, Christoph D. Schmid, David Schürmann, Benjamin Struchen, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 37, Issue 3, pp. 183–189, April 2016, online March 15, 2016

IT’IS Foundation Research on Validation of Fast SAR Solutions Featured at MIC MRA Workshop in Tokyo

Prof. Niels Kuster presented the current status of the IT’IS Foundation’s effort to develop comprehensive validation concepts for vector probe systems and their implementation at the MIC MRA International Workshop hosted by the Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) March 2 – 3, 2016 in the U Thant International Conference Hall of Tokyo’s United Nations University.

IT'IS/Speag/ZMT Retreat in Melchsee-Frutt on Mastering Sales/Funding, Spotting Trends and Shaping the Future

Twenty IT'IS, SPEAG, and ZMT co-workers convened for two-day retreat, 01 – 02 February 2016, held at the Hotel Frutt Lodge & SPA, in Melchsee-Frutt, Canton Obwalden. The goal of the retreat was to learn how to spot trends and become a trend setter, to master sales, to assess the current status of the organization, and to establish measures for improvement.

Sim4Life Featured in the Nano World Cancer Day 2016

Esra Neufeld represented the IT'IS Foundation in this successful event, with a presentation and an interactive demonstration of Sim4Life, which was very well received as a promising tool for the care of cancer patients.

Let’s Party! Festivities to Kick Start 2016!

This year’s party of Z43 (IT'IS Foundation, SPEAG, ZMT) was held at trendy Art Dock, located in the former freight terminal between Zurich’s Hardbrücke and Central train stations.