"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guest Colleen Clancy

Prof. Colleen E. Clancy of UC Davis was a guest speaker in the BBL seminar series with a presentation on "Computational cardiology from the atom to the rhythm".

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guest Theo Samaras

Professor Theodoros Samaras of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece was a special guest presenter in the IT'IS Brown-Bag-Lunch (BBL) seminar series on Tuesday 28 August 2018 with a presentation on "Magnetic Nanoparticles as Therapeutic Agents: Focusing on the Role of a Scientist and Engineer".

Weiterführende Untersuchungen zur Dosimetrie einer tierexperimentellen Studie an Labornagern mit hochfrequenten elektromagnetischen Feldern

Manuel Murbach, Bryn Lloyd, Silvia Farcito, Theodoros Samaras, and Niels Kuster, Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz (BfS), Vorhaben 3615S82433; online 15 August 2018; urn:nbn:de:0221-2018080815828

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series Special Guest SPEAG Alum Oliver Egger

Oliver Egger, the founder of agile health data information systems (ahdis) gmbh, was a special guest speaker in the IT'IS Foundation's Brown Bag Lunch seminar series on Thursday, August 9, 2018.

IT'IS and BNNSPEAG at SRTC 2018 Engineering Seminar in New Delhi

IT’IS Director Niels Kuster was an international expert speaker at the Standards Regulations Testing Certifications (SRTC) 2018 Engineering Seminar in New Delhi, India. The two-day seminar-workshop, held 25 – 26 July 2018, featured presentations by representatives of the Indian government to introduce its program for mandatory testing and certification of telecommunications equipment. BNNSPEAG participated with a booth, with live demonstrations of cSAR3D and advice on state-of-the-art test facilities the newly formulated Mandatory Testing and Certification of Telecom Equipment (MTCTE) test protocols.

New Computational Phantom Yoon-sun: Important ViP Extension in Unmatched Segmentation Quality

IT’IS is proud to announce the release of the first Asian member of our ViP, the Korean female computational anatomical model “Yoon-sun cV3-1”! The new phantom is based on high-quality images with a resolution of 0.1 x 0.1 x 0.2 mm and provides unmatched details from head to toe.

IT'IS Researcher Wins IEC "1906 Award"

IT'IS Foundation researcher Dr. Andreas Christ has been named a recipient of the 2018 IEC "1906 Award", in recognition of his exceptional achievements in the development of international standards.

IT'IS Changes Domain Name to dot(.)swiss!

Another important milestone in Z43 history: IT'IS is proud to announce the introduction of our brand-new domain name www.itis.swiss!

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series Special Guest Dr. Jeffrey Fong

On Wednesday July 11, Dr. Jeffrey Fong of the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg MD, USA, visited IT'IS as a guest speaker in the Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series with a talk on "Uncertainty Quantification Tools for Brain Metrology and an Application to the Multimodal Imaging-Based Detailed Anatomical (MIDA) Head-Neck Model."

Zurich 43 Hosts Meeting of NEUROMAN Project Partners

Zurich 43 was the site of a meeting of the NEUROMAN project partners on Tuesday, July 10.

Niels Kuster Presents Keynote Lecture on IoT at Symposium Co-Organized by the AUDEN Group and the IEEE EMC Chapter

IT'IS Director Niels Kuster presented presented keynote lectures on “EM Evaluation and Optimization of IoT Systems: Standards, Software and Instrumentations” and “Workflow for Demonstration of Compliance of Transmitters Operating above 10 GHz” at a symposium on IoT co-organized by the AUDEN Group and the IEEE EMC Chapter in Taipei on July 4, 2018.

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series Special Guest Prof Sean Hill

Sean Hill, Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine visited IT'IS as a guest speaker in the Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series with a talk on "The Multiscale Brain: Linking Genes, Brain States, Behavior and the Clinic."

IT’IS Paper Selected for the June 2018 Cover of Veterinary and Comparative Oncology

A paper co-authored by several researchers of the IT’IS Foundation, “Novel hyperthermia applicator system allows adaptive treatment planning: Preliminary clinical results in tumour-bearing animal”, is on the cover of the June 2018 issue of the June 2018 issue of the journal.

Total Field Reconstruction in the Near Field Using Pseudo-Vector E-Field Measurements

Serge Pfeifer, Eduardo Carrasco, Pedro Crespo-Valero, Esra Neufeld, Sven Kühn, Theodoros Samaras, Andreas Christ, Myles H. Capstick, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 2019, online 19 June 2018, DOI: 10.1109/TEMC.2018.2837897

Perfusion Phantom Debut at ISMRM-ESMRBM 2018 in Paris

Update from the Recent Meeting of IEC TC106 and ICES TC34 in Paris

Thanks to the tireless efforts of IEC TC106 and ICES TC34, the aggressive schedule to complete exposure assessment standards for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) communication technologies continues to be maintained.

Members of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering Visit IT'IS

Members of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering (SSBE) visited the IT'IS Foundation on Friday, 1 June 2018.

Radio Oncology Team of Cantonal Hospital Aarau Visits IT'IS

Members of the Radio-Oncology Center of the Cantonal Hospitals of Aarau (KSA) and Baden (KSB) visted the IT'IS Foundation on Thursday, 31 May 2018.

EUROSTARS RESTORE Project Workshop

The second workshop of the EUROSTARS project RESTORE was hosted by ZMT at Z43 on May 25, 2018.

IT'IS Annual Report 2017

The Annual Report 2017 features news about IT'IS, key figures for 2017, and overviews of selected highlights of last year: 

• Instrumentation for Compliance Testing of 5G Mobile Devices 
• Towards Science-Based Exposure Assessments of 5G Technology
• o2S2PARC – Open Online Simulations for Stimulating Peripheral Activity to Relieve Conditions 
• Registration Approach for Personalization of Computational Anatomical Models 

Release of Tissue Database V4-0

IT’IS Tissue Database V4-0:  Now including tissue elemental composition values for x-ray and gamma radiation studies.

Data-driven experimental evaluation method for the safety assessment of implants with respect to RF-induced heating during MRI

Aiping Yao, Earl Zastrow, and Niels Kuster, Radio Science, online 20 April 2018, DOI: 10.1029/2017RS006433

Meeting of IEC TC106 WG9 and New Project Team for WPT Compliance Hosted by IT’IS April 10–11

Z43 was the site of the latest meeting of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) Technical Committee (TC) 106 Working Group (WG) 9, held April 10 – 11 April 2018, convened by Dr. Teruo Onishi and hosted by the IT’IS Foundation, with sponsoring by Schmid & Partner Engineering (SPEAG). The 2-day meeting included the inauguration of the new Project Team (PT) 63184, established after the October 2017 plenary meeting of TC106 in Melbourne, Australia to formulate the basic standard for exposure to wireless power transfer (WPT) systems over the frequency range 1 kHz – 10 MHz.

Effect of cell phone radiofrequency radiation on body temperature in rodents: Pilot studies of the National Toxicology Program's reverberation chamber exposure system

Behavioural phenotypes in mice after prenatal and early postnatal exposure to intermediate frequency magnetic fields

Kajal Kumari, Hennariikka Koivisto, Myles Capstick, Jonne Naarala, Matti Viluksela, Heikki Tanila, and Jukka Juutilainen, Environmental Research, Volume 162, pp. 27-34, April 2018, Online: 22 December 2017; doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2017.12.013.

Surprising Outcome of the Peer Review of the Draft Technical Reports of National Toxicology Program’s Radiofrequency Radiation Studies in Rodents

On March 26 – 28, 2018, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) conducted an intense peer review of draft technical reports of the results of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) study of exposure of rodents to radiofrequency radiation. The public review process was attended by members of the public and was broadcast live from the NIEHS campus in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA. Scientists responsible for the studies made presentations to a panel of external experts on the methodologies used in the studies and the evaluation of the results and answered questions. 

Snow + Sun = Fun: 2018 Z43 Ski Day

A record number of participants enjoyed outstanding snow conditions atop Klosters-Madrisa for Z43 Ski Day 2018 on Thursday, 22 March.

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series Special Guest Prof. em. Juan Mosig

Prof. em. Juan Mosig of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) visited the IT'IS Foundation on Thursday, March 1. He was a guest speaker in the Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series with a talk on "Graphene-Based Terahertz Antennas and Related Devices."

Update from IEC & IEEE Meeting

Plantation, Florida was the site of engaging standards work last week, where two new standards were initiated for assessing human exposure to electromagnetic fields at frequencies >10 GHz, and two existing standards were revised for SAR measurements at frequencies <10 GHz.

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series Special Guest Dr. Eilif Muller

Dr. Eilif Muller of the EPFL's Blue Brain Project visited the IT'IS Foundation on Thursday, February 8 as a guest speaker in the Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series. The title of his talk was "The HBP Brain Simulation Platform - Motivation, Architecture, Applications." Dr. Muller's extremely interesting presentation was well attended and stimulated many questions and much discussion.