Posable Pig V1.1: Male Pig Anatomical Model Overhaul

IIT’IS has released an updated version of the male pig model of our ViZoo library. The new version includes corrections and improvements in the tissue segmentation and is now fully posable with Sim4Life’s poser tool.

Z43 Glowing Night

On September 15, 2023, Z43 celebrated its dazzling annual party in a mesmerizing journey of 1970s neon, psychedelic wonders, and culinary delights.

o²S²PARC Year 7 Award for IT’IS

IT’IS is proud to announce the award of a 7^th year of funding for its o²S²PARC computational platform under the NIH SPARC program.

Obstructive Sleep Apnea Improves with Non‑invasive Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation Using Temporal Interference

Florian Missey, Malin Silverå Ejneby, Ibrahima Ngom, Mary J. Donahue, Jan Trajlinek, Emma Acerbo, Boris Botzanowski, Antonino M. Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, Eric D. Glowacki, Lee Shangold, William M. Hanes and Adam Williamson, Bioelectronic Medicine 2023, Volume 9, Article No. 18, online 09 August 2023; doi: 10.1186/s42234-023-00120-7

Successful Wrap-Up of the Horizon 2020 Project NeuHeart

The final meeting of the Horizon 2020 project NeuHeart was held online on August 29, 2023.

TIP V2.0 – Multichannel and Phase-Modulation TI

The newly released Version 2 of our Temporal Interference Planning Tool supports multi-channel TI and phase modulation, human inter-subject variability assessment, and includes four head anatomies and a rodent computational anatomical model. TIP V2.0 also supports all features of TIBS-R V2.0.

TIBS-R V2.0: Phase Modulation and Enhanced Reliability

We are pleased to announce the release of TIBS-R V2.0 from IT’IS partner TI Solutions AG. This upgrade makes the device not only more reliable but also supports multi-channel phase modulation, which broadens the range of possible experimental conditions by enabling non-invasive stimulation of deep brain targets with complex interference waveforms.

Visiting Scientist and "Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series

Dr. Florian Missey, from the International Clinical Research Center of St. Anne's University Hospital in Brno (FNUSA-ICRC), Brno, Czech Republic, visited Z43 for a week to discuss our ongoing research collaboration and participated as guest speaker in Z43’s Brown Bag Lunch seminar series.

SEAWave Consortium Meeting in Paris

The third consortium meeting of the SEAWave project, hosted by ANFR, was held in Paris, France, in early July.

Efficient Prediction of MRI Gradient-Induced Heating for Guiding Safety Testing of Conductive Implants

Umberto Zanovello, Carina Fuss, Alessandro Arduino, and Oriano Bottauscio, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine 2023, Volume 90, online 29 June 2023; doi: 10.1002/mrm.29787

Soft-X-Ray Confined-Electron Laser

Arya Fallahi, Niels Kuster, and Lukas Novotny, Phys. Rev. A, Volume 107, Issue 6, Article No. L061504, online 28 June 2023; doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.107.L061504

MRIxViP V2.2: Enhanced Patient Coverage and Fidelity

The IT’IS precomputed library of radiofrequency-induced electromagnetic field distributions inside the human body has been further expanded. The latest release of MRIxViP V2.2 contains two additional human anatomies for better population coverage.

Cindy Karina Wins 1st Place Student Platform Award at BioEM2023!

Cindy Karina was awarded 1st place in the student platform presentation competition at BioEM2023, June 18 – 23 in Oxford, UK for her presentation entitled Dielectric Properties of Rat Tissues at <10 MHz Measured with an Advanced Instrumentation

Lena Kranold Wins Arthur Pilla Young Scientist Award at BioEM2023!

Lena Kranold was the winner of the BioEM2023 Arthur Pilla Young Scientist Award for her presentation entitled Development of Morbidly Obese Anatomical Phantoms for MR Safety Applications

Javier García Ordóñez Wins 2nd Place Student Poster Award at BioEM2023!

Javier García Ordóñez placed 2nd in the student poster competition at BioEM2023 for his presentation Optimizing Therapeutic Neurostimulation: A Generalized Activating Function for Metamodeling

Modulation of Visual Contrast Sensitivity with tRNS across the Visual System, Evidence from Stimulation and Simulation

Weronika Potok, Alain Post, Valeriia Beliaeva, Marc Bächinger, Antonino M. Cassarà, Esra Neufeld, Rafael Polania, Daniel Kiper, and Nicole Wenderoth, eNeuro 2023, Volume 10, Article No. ENEURO.0177-22.2023, online 01 June 2023; doi: 10.1523/ENEURO.0177-22.2023

Travel Grant Funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) Awarded to Robin Wydaeghe for a Project at IT'IS

Robin Wydaeghe of the Department of Information Technology of Ghent University has been awarded a travel grant by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) for a short stay at IT'IS to collaborate on his research project entitled Bringing together the state-of-the-art in propagation and exposure modeling for advanced 5G and 6G technologies.

ATHENA V1.0 – Latest Member of Our ViP Library

IT'IS is proud to add ATHENA V1.0, a whole-body numerical simulation model of a 3.5-year-old girl, to our Virtual Population library. The model was developed by the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging based at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, USA, and it is an important milestone for pediatric modeling.

Remote Focused Encoding and Decoding of Electric Fields through Acoustoelectric Heterodyning

Jean L. Rintoul, Esra Neufeld, Chris Butler, Robin O. Cleveland & Nir Grossman, Nature Communications Physics 2023, online 20 April 2023; doi: 10.1038/s42005-023-01198-w

IT'IS Annual Report 2022

2023 BioEM Short Term Mission Project at IT'IS Awarded to Michelle Fang

Michelle Fang is the recipient of a BioEM Short Term Mission award to pursue research at the IT'IS Foundation on her project Personalized Head Models for Surgery and Temporal Interference Stimulation Planning

The Effect of Body Position Change on Noninvasively Acquired Intracranial Pulse Waves

Andrea Boraschi, Andreas Spiegelberg, Fariba Karimi, Kevin Graf, Arya Fallahi, Esra Neufeld, Niels Kuster, and Vartan Kurtcuoglu, Physiological Measurement 2023, online 13 March 2023; doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/acc3d6

Thalamic Control of Sensory Processing and Spindles in a Biophysical Somatosensory Thalamoreticular Circuit Model of Wakefulness and Sleep

Elisabetta Iavarone, Jane Simko, Ying Shi, Marine Bertschy, María García-Amado, Polina Litvak, Anna-Kristin Kaufmann, Christian O’Reilly, Oren Amsalem, Marwan Abdellah, Grigori Chevtchenko, Benoît Coste, Jean-Denis Courcol, András Ecker, Cyrille Favreau, Adrien Christian Fleury, Werner Van Geit, Michael Gevaert, Nadir Román Guerrero, Joni Herttuainen, Genrich Ivaska, Samuel Kerrien, James G. King, Pramod Kumbhar, Patrycja Lurie, Ioannis Magkanaris, Vignayanandam Ravindernath Muddapu, Jayakrishnan Nair, Fernando L. Pereira, Rodrigo Perin, Fabien Petitjean, Rajnish Ranjan, Michael Reimann, Liviu Soltuzu, Mohameth François Sy, M. Anıl Tuncel, Alexander Ulbrich, Matthias Wolf, Francisco Clascá, Henry Markram, and Sean L. Hill, Cell Reports 2023, Volume 42, Issue 3, Article No. 112200, online 24 February 2023; doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.112200

2023 Call for Applications: Katja Poković Research Fellowship

First call for applications for the Katja Poković Research Fellowship Award specifically for female applicants in the field of electromagnetics and information technology.

First release of o²S²PARC-powered commercial software

IT'IS's o²S²PARC platform enables ZMT to release S4L^lite, a web-based version of their advanced commercial Sim4Life desktop computational platform, free for students and teaching! 

Second SEAWave Consortium Meeting

On January 30–31, 2023, IT'IS hosted the SEAWave second project meeting in Zurich.

Three Class III Obese ViP Models for Improved Patient Coverage

At the request of the magnetic resonance industry, the IT’IS Foundation has created three new class III obese Virtual Population models. With a body mass index of more than 60 kg/m², these new computational phantoms are the first to represent the upper end of the population.

Zurich43 Retreat 2023: Energy Demystified

From January 23–24, 2023, Z43 participants gathered at Huus Gstaad, nestled between the snowy peaks of the Bernese Alps, for the 2023 retreat on the topic "Energy Demystified - Science & Technology, Economics & Scalability, & Behaviorism."

TIBS-R V1.02 Now Available for Temporal Interference Research

Today, TI Solutions AG released Version 1.02 of its TIBS-R device, which will be demonstrated next week at NANS2023 in Las Vegas. The design of the device and the maximally flexible software are optimized for advanced temporal interference brain stimulation research.

Coverage Factors for Efficient Demonstration of Compliance of Low-Frequency Magnetic Near-Field Exposures with Basic Restrictions

Jingtian Xi, Andreas Christ, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine & Biology 2022, online 2 December 2022; doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aca875