US Senate Hearing on the Health Effects of Cell Phone Use

US Senate hearing on health effects of cell phone use.

Ebert (2009) Thesis

Sven Ebert, “EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Systems for Large-Scale Laboratory and Experimental Provocation Studies,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 18636, Zurich, 2009

Kühn (2009) Thesis

Sven Kühn, “EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Assessment and Compliance Testing in Complex Environments,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 18637, Zurich, 2009

Fast Implicit Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in Human Abdominal Bifurcation using a Schur Complement Preconditioner

Kathrin Burckhardt, Dominik Szczerba, Jedediah Brown, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, and Gabor Szekely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Euro-Par 2009 - Parallel Processing (refereed proceedings of the 15th International Euro-Par Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009),Volume 5704/200, pp. 747–759, August 22, 2009

A Multiphysics Model of Myoma Growth

Dominik Szczerba, Bryn A. Lloyd, Michael Bajka, and Gabor Szekely, in International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 17–27, August 2009

Galvanic Coupling Enabling Wireless Implant Communications

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Sonja Huclova, Juerg Froehlich, Michael Oberle, Norbert Felber, Niels Kuster, Wolfgang Fichtner, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 58, Issue 8, pp. 2618–2625, August 2009, online July 7

Excerpt of FDA Activity Report to US Congress

Measurement, Simulation and Uncertainty Assessment of Implant Heating During MRI

Esra Neufeld, Sven Kühn, Gabor Szekely and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 54, Issue 13, pp. 4151–4169, July 2009

Parallel Scalable PDE-Constrained Optimization: Antenna Identification in Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment Planning

Olaf Schenk, Murat Manguoglu, Ahmed Sameh, Matthias Christen and Madan Sathe, in Computer Science - Research and Development: ISC09, Volume 23, Issue 3-4, pp. 177–183, June 2009

Effective Full 3D EMI Analysis of Complex PCBs by Utlilizing the Latest Advances in Numerical Methods Combined with Novel Time-domain Measurement Technologies

Chung-Huan Li, Peter Futter, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, Microwave Engineering Europe, July/August 2009

MMF/GSMA commissioned study: “Scientific Basis for Base Station Exposure Compliance Standards”

Project MMF/GSMA Phase 2, Workpackages 6 & 7:
Sven Kühn et al, June 2009

IT'IS Annual Report 2008

The Annual Report 2008 features key figures for 2008 and overviews of selected projects:

Novel Low Frequency Solvers Methods & Procedures for Safety Assessments/Optimization of MRI In Silico Tumor Modeling Populating Computational Space

IT'IS Wins Five Student Awards at BioEM2009 Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, June 15–19, 2009

IT'IS PhD students Manuel Murbach, Sven Kühn, and Marie-Christine Gosselin wins a total of five student awards at the 2009 Joint Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Associations (BioEM2009) in Davos, Switzerland

2009 Joint Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association

The IT'IS Foundation was the local organizer for the triennial joint meeting of the two bioelectromagnetics societies that occured in Davos, Switzerland in the summer of 2009.

A Mechano-Chemical Model of a Solid Tumor for Therapy Outcome Predictions

Sven Hirsch, Dominik Szczerba, Bryn Lloyd, Michael Bajka, Niels Kuster, and Gábor Székely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Computational Science – ICCS 2009 (Proceedings, Part I, of the 9th International Conference of Computational Science, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 25-27, 2009), Volume 5544/2009, pp. 715–724, May 20, 2009

Dependence of the Occupational Exposure to Mobile Phone Base Stations on the Properties of the Antenna and the Human Body

Marie-Christine Gosselin, Andreas Christ, Sven Kühn, and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 51, Issue 2, pp. 227–235, May 2009

Absence of Genotoxic Potential of 902 MHz (GSM) and 1747 MHz (DCS) Wireless Communication Signals: In vivo Two-year Bioassay in B6C3F1 Mice

Christina Ziemann, Heidrun Brockmeyer, Siddharth B. Reddy, Vijayalaxmi, Thomas J. Prihoda, Niels Kuster, Thomas Tillmann and Clemens Dasenbrock, in International Journal of Radiation Biology, Volume 85, Issue 5, pp. 454–464, May 2009

An Algorithm for Predicting the Change in SAR in a Human Phantom due to Deviations in its Complex Permittivity

Mark G. Douglas, Michael Y. Kanda, Wilson G. Luengas, Maurice Ballen, Tadeusz M. Babij, and Chung-Kwang Chou,  IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 51, Issue 2, pp. 570–583, May 2009

Amplitude-modulated Electromagnetic Fields for the Treatment of Cancer: Discovery of Tumor-specific Frequencies and Assessment of a Novel Therapeutic Approach

Alexandre Barbault, Frederico P. Costa, Brad Bottger, Reginald F. Munden, Fin Bomholt, Niels Kuster, and Boris Pasche, in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, Volume 28, Issue 1, p51, April 2009

Discussion on new technologies in KABA magazine

January 2009, Professor Niels Kuster, Director of the IT'IS Foundation participated in a discussion on current new technologies with Ulrich Wydler, Head of Access + Data Systems EMEA at the KABA group.

A Novel Indirect Method to Determine the Radiation Impedance of a Handheld Antenna Structure

Myles H. Capstick, Jari O. Jekkonen, Andrew C. Marvin, Ian D. Flintoft, and Linda Dawson, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 58, Issue 3, pp. 578–585, March 2009

Assessment of Induced Radio-frequency Electromagnetic Fields in Various Anatomical Human Body Models

Sven Kühn, Wayne Jennings, Andreas Christ and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 54, Issue 4, pp. 875–890, January 2009

Mobile Phone Exposure and Spatial Memory

Clairy Wiholm, Arne Lowden, Niels Kuster, Lena Hillert, Bengt B. Arnetz, Torbjörn Åkerstedt, and Scott D. Moffat, in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 30, Issue 1, pp. 59–65, January 2009

Exploring Exposure to Mobile Phone Electromagnetic Fields and Psychophysiological and Self-rated Symptoms

Bengt B. Arnetz, Clairy Wiholm, Niels Kuster, Lena Hillert, and Scott D. Moffat, Psychosomatic Medicine, Volume 71, Issue 1, pp. 115. January 2009

An Investigation into Occupational Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields for Personnel Working With and Around Medical Magnetic Resonance Imaging Equipment

Myles Capstick, Donald McRobbie, Jeff Hand, Andreas Christ, Sven Kühn, Kjell Hansson Mild, Eugenia Cabot, Yan Li, Amir Melzer, Annie Papadak, Klaas Prüssmann, Rebecca Quest, Marc Rea, Salome Ryf, Michael Oberle, and Niels Kuster, EU COMMISSION Study on MRI (Project VT/2007/017), IT'IS Foundation & Imperial College, London

Comments on the Brief Communication ‘Security Considerations in Blinded Exposure Experiments Using Electromagnetic Waves’ by Christian Wolf

Niels Kuster, in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 29, Issue 8, pp. 660–661, December 2008

On the Coupling Integrals Arising in the Method of Moments Formulation of Laterally Bounded Structures

Pedro Crespo-Valero, Ivica Stevanovic, Daniel Llorens del Rio, Juan R Mosig, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume 56, Issue 12, Part 1, pp. 2885–2892, November 2008

BioEM 2009 Website Launched

Exploring the Use of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition for Enhancing Blood Flow Images Via Computational Fluid Dynamics

Robert McGregor, Dominik Szczerba, Martin von Siebenthal, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, and Gábor Székely, Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention 5242/2008, pp. 782–789, October 2008

Modeling Intravasation of Liquid Distension Media in Surgical Simulators

Stefan Tuchschmid, Michael Bajka, Dominik Szczerba, Bryn A. Lloyd, Gabor Székely, and Matthias Harders, Medical Image Analysis, Volume 12, Issue 5, pp. 567–576, October 2008