The Influence of the Reflective Environment on the Absorption of a Human Male Exposed to Representative Base Station Antennas from 300 MHz to 5 GHz

Günter Vermeeren, Marie-Christine Gosselin, Sven Kühn, Valpré Kellerman, Abdelhamid Hadjem, Azeddine Gati, Wout Joseph, Joe Wiart, Frans Meyer, Niels Kuster, and Luc Martens, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 55, Issue 18, pp. 5541–5555, September 2010, online August 31

An International Interlaboratory Comparison of Mobile Phone SAR Calculation With CAD-Based Models

Martin Siegbahn, Giorgi Bit-Babik, Jafar Keshvari, Andreas Christ, Benoît Derat, Vikass Monebhurrun, Christopher Penney, Martin Vogel, and Tilmann Wittig, in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 804–811, November 2010, online August 23, 2010

IT'IS Annual Report 2009

The Annual Report 2009 celebrates the tenth anniversary of the IT'IS Foundation and features an overview on the IT'IS Foundation's development and achievements over the last ten years as well as the key figures of 2009.

Impact of Pinna Compression on the RF Absorption in the Heads of Adult and Juvenile Cell Phone Users

Andreas Christ, Marie-Christine Gosselin, Sven Kühn, and Niels Kuster, in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 31, Issue 5, pp. 406–412, July 2010, online March 30

High Performance, High Accuracy FDTD Implementation on GPU Architectures

Guillermo Del Castillo, Chris Mason, Nicolas Chavannes, and Michal Okoniewski, Microwave Engineering Europe, July/August 2010

Brain Tumour Risk in Relation to Mobile Telephone Use: Results of the INTERPHONE International Case–Control Study

Measured Radiofrequency Exposure During Various Mobile-Phone Use Scenarios

Michael A. Kelsh, Mona Shum, Asher R. Sheppard, Mark McNeely, Niels Kuster, Edmund Lau, Ryan Weidling, Tiffani Fordyce, Sven Kühn, and Christof Sulser, in Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, Volume 21, Issue 4, pp. 343–354, July/August 2011, advance online publication June 16, 2010

Unstructured Mesh Generation from the Virtual Family Models for Whole Body Biomedical Simulations

Dominik Szczerba, Esra Neufeld, Marcel Zefferer, Gabor Szekely, and Niels Kuster, in Procedia Computer Science, Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 837–844, May 2010

ESHO-ZMT Student Award at ESHO 2010

IT'IS PhD student Adamos Kyriacou won a Student Award at the 26th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO 2010), in Rotterdam, Netherlands

Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now

Assessment of Induced SAR in Children Exposed to Electromagnetic Plane Waves Between 10 MHz and 5.6 GHz

Jurriaan F. Bakker, Margarethus M. Paulides, Andreas Christ, Niels Kuster, and Gerard C. van Rhoon, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 55, Issue 11, pp. 3115–3130, June 2010, online May 12

Canadian Television Item Features IT'IS Research into Exposure of Energy Saving Bulbs

On May 7, a national Canadian news program featured a recently completed study by the IT'IS Foundation on human exposure to electromagnetic fields from energy saving light bulbs supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health and the Swiss Federal Office of Energy.

2010 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility

The 2010 Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility (APEMC) was held from April 12 to 16, 2010 at the Beijing International Convention Center with the theme of “EMC Harmonizes the World.”

The Clinical Feasibility of Deep Hyperthermia Treatment in the Head and Neck: New Challenges for Positioning and Temperature Measurement

Margarethus M. Paulides, Jurriaan F. Bakker, Martin Linthorst, Jacoba Van der Zee, Zef Rijnen, Esra Neufeld, Peter M.T. Pattynama, Peter P. Jansen, Peter C. Levendag, and Gerard C. van Rhoon, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 55, Issue 9, pp. 2465–2480, April 2010, online April 6

Age Dependent Tissue-specific Exposure of Cell Phone Users

Andreas Christ, Marie-Christine Gosselin, Maria Christopoulou, Sven Kühn, and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 55, Issue 7, pp. 1767–1783, 7 April 2010, online March 5

Swiss government commissioned study: “Assessment of EM Exposure of Energy-Saving Bulbs & Possible Mitigation Strategies”

Project BAG/08.004316/434.0001/-13 & BFE/15350
Jagadish Nadakuduti, Mark Douglas, Myles Capstick, Sven Kühn, Stefan Benkler, and Niels Kuster, March 2010

Signal Transmission by Galvanic Coupling Through the Human Body

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Michael Oberle, Norbert Felber, Niels Kuster, and Wolfgang Fichtner, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 59, Issue 4, pp. 963–969, 8 March 2010, online October 6, 2009

Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in an Aortic Bifurcation Using FVM and FEM: a Comparative Study of Implementation Strategies

Trushar Gohil, Robert McGregor, Dominik Szczerba, Kathrin Burckhardt, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, and Gábor Székely, in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Volume 66, Issue 8, pp. 1037–1067, 20 July 2011, online ahead of print, 1 March 2010

Efficient Generation of Corresponding Meshes for Biomedical Flow Simulations

Robert H. P. McGregor, Bryn A. Lloyd, Dominik Szczerba, Gabor Székely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science – International Symposium on Biomedical Simulation - ISBMS 2010, Volume 5958/2010, pp. 49–58, January 2010

DNA Fragmentation in Human Fibroblasts under Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure

Frauke Focke, David Schuermann, Niels Kuster, Primo Schär, in Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, Volume 683, Issues 1-2, pp. 74–83, 5 January 2010, online 6 November

Virtual Classroom

The IT'IS Foundation releases the Virtual Classroom for scientific purposes. The models were partially funded by the BfS, Germany, and extends the Virtual Family models.

A Computational Model of Intussusceptive Microvascular Growth and Remodeling

Dominik Szczerba, Haymo Kurz, and Gabor Szekely, in Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 261, Issue 4, pp. 570–583, 21 December 2009, online 17 September

Techniques to Demonstrate MRI Safety of Medical Implants

Michael Oberle, in Microwave Journal, Volume 52, Issue 12, pp.60-7, December 2009

Proteomic Analysis of the Response of Human Endothelial Cell Line EA.hy926 to 1800 GSM Mobile Phone Radiation

Reetta Nylund, Hanna Tammio, Niels Kuster, and Dariusz Leszczynski, in Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Volume 2, Issue 10, pp. 455–462, October 2009, online 26 October

EU Workshop in Umeå, Sweden: Occupational Exposure to EMF: Paving the Way for a Future EU Initiative

Information link to do with the EU organized workshop regarding occupational exposure to EMF.

Guidelines for the Evaluation of Exposure from Wireless Power Transmission Systems

Mark G. Douglas, Andreas Christ, and Niels Kuster, short paper, IT'IS Foundation, Zeughausstrasse 43, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009

A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow

Robert H. P. McGregor, Dominik Szczerba, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar and Gábor Székely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2009, Volume 5704/200, pp. 124–131, October 1, 2009

IT'IS: Two New PhD Defenses

Assessment of the Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Induced in the Human Body from Mobile Phones used with Hands-free Kits

Sven Kuhn, Eugenia Cabot, Andreas Christ, Myles Capstick and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 54, Number 18, pp. 5493–5508, 21 September 2009, online 26 August

Effects of Hand Phantom on Mobile Phone Antenna Performance

Chung-Huan Li, Erdem Ofli, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, Volume 57, Issue 9, pp. 2763–2770, September 2009