Sven Kühn Wins Hans-Eggenberger Prize

Sven Kühn was awarded the prestigious Hans-Eggenberger Prize for 2010 for his outstanding PhD dissertation:

EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Assessment and Compliance Testing in Complex Environments

Virtual Population News

We have started a new initiative to continually enhance and extend our human and animal models (see Virtual Population Project). We will keep you updated regularly with new developments and new downloads.

Sven Kühn Wins ETH Medal Award

Sven Kuehn receives the award "ETH Medal" for his oustanding doctoral thesis:

EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Assessment and Compliance Testing in Complex Environments

Mobile Communication - Technoscope 2010

IT'IS Labs feature in the latest edition of Technoscope, No. 3/10, November 2010.

Niels Kuster Elevated to IEEE Fellow

IT'IS Foundation Director Niels Kuster has been awarded to IEEE Fellow effective January 1, 2011 with the following citation: 

for contributions to the area of near-field exposures and dosimetry for radiofrequency fields in biomedical research

Development and Validation of a Magneto-hydrodynamic Solver for Blood Flow Analysis

Wolfgang Kainz, Joshua W. Guag, Stefan Benkler, Dominik Szczerba, Esra Neufeld, Victor Krauthamer, Joel Myklebust, Howard I. Bassen, Isaac A Chang, Nicolas Chavannes, Jung Hwan Kim, Malisa Sarntinoranont, and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 55, Issue 23, pp. 7253–7261, December 2010, online November 16

Evaluation of Measurement Techniques to Show Compliance With RF Safety Limits in Heterogeneous Field Distributions

Sven Kühn and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 52, Issue 4, pp. 820–828, November 2010, online November 15

Analysis of Proteome Response to the Mobile Phone Radiation in Two Types of Human Primary Endothelial Cells

Reetta Nylund, Niels Kuster, and Dariusz Leszczynski, in Proteome Science, Volume 8, Article 52, online 18 October 2010

IT'IS Foundation appointed as the Grant Holder of COST Action BM0704

Sleep After Mobile Phone Exposure in Subjects With Mobile Phone-Related Symptoms

Arne Lowden, Torbjörn Akerstedt, Michael Ingre, Clairy Wiholm, Lena Hillert, Niels Kuster, Jens P. Nilsson, and Bengt Arnetz, in Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 32, Issue 1, pp. 4–14, online September 20, 2010

Member of Swiss Association of Standardization (SNV)

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

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