Effects of Electromagnetic Fields on Congnitive Performance and Waking EEG

S. J. Regel, J. M. Gottselig, J. Schuderer, G. Hofer-Tinguely, N. Kuster, H.-P. Landolt, J. V. Rétey and P. Achermann in 17th CONGRESS OF THE EUROPEAN SLEEP RESEARCH SOCIETY, October 2004

Thermal Thresholds of Restrained RF Exposed Mice at 905 MHz

Sven Ebert, Clemens Dasenbrock, Thomas Tillmann and Niels Kuster in Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Kos, Greece, 4-8 October 2004

Guidance for Exposure Design of Human Studies Addressing Health Risk Evaluations of Mobile Phones

Niels Kuster, Jürgen Schuderer, Andreas Christ, Peter Futter and Sven Ebert, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 25, Issue 7 , pp. 524–529, October 2004

Dutch study with UMTS exposure will be replicated in Switzerland

In Vitro Exposure Setups for RF Exposures at 900 MHz

Jürgen Schuderer, Denis Spät, Theodoros Samaras, Walter Oesch and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions in Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume 52, Issue 8, pp. 2067–2075, August 2004

High Peak SAR Exposure Unit with Tight Exposure and Environmental Control for In Vitro Experiments at 1800 MHz

Jürgen Schuderer, Theodoros Samaras, Walter Oesch, Denis Spät and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions in Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume 52, Issue 8, pp. 2057–2066, August 2004

1800 MHz Radiofrequency (Mobile Phones, Different Global System for Mobile Communication Modulations) Does Not Affect Apoptosis and Heat Shock Protein 70 Level in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells from Young and Old Donors

Miriam Capri, Elena Scarcella, Enrica Bianchi, Cristiana Fumelli, Pietro Mesirca, Chiara Agostini, D. Remondini, Jürgen Schuderer, Niels Kuster, Claudio Franceschi and Ferdinando Bersani, International Journal of Radiation Biology, Volume 80, Issue 6, pp. 389–397, June 2004

IT'IS Annual Report 2003

The Annual Report 2003 features key figures for 2003 and overviews of selected projects:

TRINITY CSCIENCE Health Risk Assessment ULTRACOM

A Novel 3-D CPFDTD Scheme for Modeling Grid Non-conformally Aligned Transmitter Structures

Nicolas Chavannes and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume 52, Issue 5, pp. 1324–1334, May 2004

High Frequency Electromagnetic Fields (gsm Signals) Affect Gene Expression Levels in Tumor Suppressor p53-deficient Embryonic Stem Cells

Jaroslaw Czyz, Kaomei Guan, Qinghua Zeng, Teodora Nikolova, Armin Meister, Frank Schönborn, Jürgen Schuderer, Niels Kuster and Anna M. Wobus, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 25, Issue 4, pp. 296–307, May 2004

Novel High Resolution Temperature Probe for Radiofrequency Dosimetry

Jürgen Schuderer, Thomas Schmid, Gerald Urban, Theodoros Samaras, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 49, Issue 6, pp. N83–N92, March 2004

Schuderer (2004) Thesis

Jürgen Schuderer, “EMF Risk Assessment: In Vitro Research and Sleep Studies,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 15347, Zurich, 2003

New sleep study

Non-Thermal Effects of Power-Line Magnetic Fields (50 Hz) on Gene Expression Levels of Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells—The Role of Tumour Suppressor p53

Jaroslaw Czyz, Teodora Nikolova, Jürgen Schuderer, Niels Kuster, and Anna M. Wobus, Mutation Research/Genetic Toxicology and Environmental Mutagenesis, Volume 557, Issue 1, pp. 63–74, January 2004

Dosimetric Analysis of the Carousel Setup for the Exposure of Rats at 1.62 GHz

Frank Schönborn, Katja Pokovic, Christian Brösamle, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 25, Issue 1, pp. 16–26, January 2004

Suitability of FDTD Based TCAD Tools for RF Design of Mobile Phones

Nicolas Chavannes, Roger Tay, Neviana Nikoloski and Niels Kuster, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Volume 45, Issue 6, pp. 52–66, December 2003

Correction of the Numerical Reflection Coefficient of the Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method for Efficient Simulation of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers

Andreas Christ, Matthias Streiff, Andreas Witzig, Niels Kuster, and Wolfgang Fichtner, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 2003, Volume 20, Issue 7, pp. 1401–1408, July 2003

BEMS 2003 Student Award

IT'IS PhD student Neviana Nikoloski received a student award at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS2003) at Maui, Hawaii, USA

Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure in Humans: Estimation of SAR Distribution in the Brain, Effects on Sleep and Heart Rate

Reto Huber, Jürgen Schuderer, Thomas Graf, Kathrin Jütz, Alexander A. Borbély, Niels Kuster, and Peter Achermann, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 24, Issue 4, pp. 262–276, May 2003

Christ (2003) Thesis

Andreas Christ, “Analysis and Improvement of the Numerical Properties of the FDTD Algorithm,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 15057, Zurich, 2003

Effect of the Meniscus at the Solid/Liquid Interface on the SAR Distribution in Petri Dishes and Flasks

Jürgen Schuderer and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 24, Issue 2, pp. 103–108, February 2003

Correction of Numerical Phase Velocity Errors in Nonuniform FDTD Meshes

Andreas Christ, Jürg Fröhlich, and Niels Kuster, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Volume E85-B, Issue 12, pp. 2904–2915, December 2002

Towards Danger of Mobile Phones in Planes, Trains, Cars and Elevators

Axel Kramer, Jürg Fröhlich and Niels Kuster, Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, Volume 71, Issue 12, page 3100, December 2002

Electromagnetic Fields, Such as Those from Mobile Phones, Alter Regional Cerebral Blood Flow and Sleep and Waking EEG

R. Huber, V. Treyer, A.A. Borbély, J. Schuderer, J.M. Gottselig, H.-P. Landolt, E. Werth, T. Bertholod, N. Kuster, A. Buck, and P. Achermann, Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 11 Issue 4, pp. 289–295, December 2002

Chavannes (2002) Thesis

Nicolas P. Chavannes, “Local Mesh Refinement Algorithms for Enhanced Modeling Capabilities in the FDTD Method,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 14577, Zurich, 2002

Basis for Optimization of In Vitro Exposure Apparatus for Health Hazard Evaluations of mObile Communications

Frank Schönborn, Katja Pokovic, Michael Burkhardt, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 22, Issue 8, pp. 547–559, December 2001

Review of Dosimetry and Near-field Measurement Techniques for Human Exposure Evaluations and Bioexperiments

Niels Kuster, “Review of dosimetry and near-field measurement techniques for human exposure evaluations and bioexperiments,” in Communication Mobile-Effects Biologique, Claude Legris, CADAS, Acadèmie des Sciences, Paris, France, 2001

Development of Procedures for the Assessment of Exposure to Electromagnetic Near-Fields from Telecommunications Equipments, July 1999–July 2000

EUREKA Project SARSYS, Final Technical Report, London-Zurich-Ghent, Fall 2001

Experimental and Numerical Near-Field Evaluation of RF Transmitters

Katja Pokovic, Michael Burkhardt, and Niels Kuster, in Radio Frequency Radiation Dosimetry, Kluwer Academic Publishers, The Netherlands, 2000

Appropriate Modeling of the Ear for Compliance Testing of Handheld MTE with SAR Safety Limits at 900/1800 MHz

Michael Burkhardt and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume 48, Issue 11 (Part 1), pp. 1927–1934, November 2000