"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guest Mario Romero Ortega

Prof. Mario Romero Ortega of the University of Texas at Dallas, the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, and the UTA Research Institute visited IT'IS with his BBL presentation "Electronic Interfacing of Peripheral Nerves: Technology and Applications".

Z43 at the BMES-FDA Conference and ISO 10974 Joint Working Group in Washington DC, March 19-22

Release of MRIxViP V2.0 with Improved Patient Coverage

IT'IS releases new version of MRIxViP exposure libraries for 1.5T and 3T with additional Virtual Population

Unified SAR Measurement Standard a Step Closer to Publication

At the latest IEC TC106 JWG13 editorial meeting in Frankfurt, the comment responses for IEC/IEEE 62209-1528 were completed. This is an important standard for exposure evaluation from wireless devices that is now prepared for IoT.

Workshop on Harmonization of Connectivity of the Digital Citizen

NZZ am Sonntag Asks "Can Mobile Phones Make You Sick?"

Non-Compliance of Mobile Devices Addressed in "Beobachter"

Theoretical Evaluation of the Power Transmitted to the Body as a Function of Angle of Incidence and Polarization at Frequencies >6 GHz and its Relevance for Standardization

Theodoros Samaras and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 40, Issue 2, February 2019, pp. 136–139, online 25 January 2019; doi: 10.1002/bem.22170

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guest Till Bay

Dr. Till Bay, CEO and co-founder of Incremed AG and CEO of Comerge AG, was a guest speaker in the BBL seminar series with a presentation on "AR for Medical Interventions".

Zurich43 Retreat 2019 on Ethics & Z43 Culture

Zurich43's annual retreat was held 21 – 22 January 2019 to discuss "Ethics & Z43 Culture in Real or Perceived Devaluing Times" with a particular focus on fairness, justice, recognition, and populism. 

FET-PROACTIVE Project NeuHeart Kick-off Meeting

The IT'IS Foundation and its partners met in Pisa, Italy, to kick-off the newly approved European FET-PROACTIVE project “NeuHeart”.

iSEG Is Now Open Source

IT'IS and ZMT provide medical-image segmentation and modeling toolkit iSEG as an open source project on GitHub.

A Numerical Assessment of the Human Body Effect in the Transmission of Wireless Microphones

Eugenia Cabot, Ivica Stevanovic, Niels Kuster, and Myles H. Capstick, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, online 05 December 2018, doi: 10.1002/mop.31623

Computational Animal Phantoms for Electromagnetic Dosimetry

Ilaria Liorni, Bryn Lloyd, Silvia Farcito, and Niels Kuster, in Computational Anatomical Animal Models: Methodological developments and research applications, Edited by Habib Zaidi, Pages 11-1 – 11-18, online December 2018

Advances in Computational Human Phantoms and Their Applications in Biomedical Engineering – A Topical Review

Wolfgang Kainz, Esra Neufeld, Wesley E. Bolch, Christian G. Graff, Chan Hyeong Kim, Niels Kuster, Bryn Lloyd, Tina Morrison, Paul Segars, Yeon Soo Yeom, Maria Zankl, X. George Xu, and Benjamin M. W. Tsui, IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, Volume 3, Issue 1, January 2019, pp. 1–23, online 03 December 2018; doi:10.1109/TRPMS.2018.2883437

Functionalized Anatomical Models for Computational Life Sciences

Esra Neufeld, Bryn Lloyd, Beatrice Schneider, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Frontiers in Physiology, section Computational Physiology and Medicine, 9:1594, online 16 November 2018; doi: 10.3389/fphys.2018.01594

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guest Philippe Cattin

Professor Dr. Philippe Cattin of the University of Basel Department of Biomedical Engineering was a guest speaker in the BBL seminar series with a presentation on "Volume Rendering in Virtual Reality (VR²)".

Final Reports of NTP Rodent Studies

National Toxicology Program (NTP) Technical Reports: Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies in Hsd:Sprague Dawley SD Rats Exposed to Whole-Body Radio Frequency Radiation at a Frequency (900 MHz) and Modulations (GSM and CDMA) Used by Cell Phones (TR595) and Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies in B6C3F1/N Mice Exposed to Whole-Body Radio Frequency Radiation at a Frequency (1,900 MHz) and Modulations (GSM and CDMA) Used by Cell Phones (TR596)

Z43 Hosts a C++ Meetup

On October 31, Z43 hosted a "Meetup" on C++ coding attended by local programmers.

IT’IS in Nature and Announcement of the First Neuro-Functionalized Computational Anatomical Model

IT’IS in Nature: Our in silico neurostimulation tools are being used in groundbreaking research, but we don’t stop there ‒ we are pleased to announce the first neuro-functionalized computational anatomical model Yoon-sun V4-0.

Global Excitement about Spinal Cord Injury Results Published in Nature

A paper – co-authored by Esra Neufeld and Niels Kuster – published 31 October 2018 in Nature, on the results of a study in which three paraplegic patients recovered the ability to walk after years of paralysis, has been widely covered in the popular press worldwide.

Theoretical and Numerical Assessment of Maximally Allowable Power-Density Averaging Area for Conservative Electromagnetic Exposure Assessment Above 6 GHz

Esra Neufeld, Eduardo Carrasco, Manuel Murbach, Quirino Balzano, Andreas Christ, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, December 2018, Volume 39, Issue 8, pp. 617–630; online 01 November 2018; doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/bem.22147

Targeted Neurotechnology Restores Walking in Humans with Spinal Cord Injury

Fabien B. Wagner, Jean-Baptiste Mignardot, Camille G. Le Goff-Mignardot, Robin Demesmaeker, Salif Komi, Marco Capogrosso, Andreas Rowald, Ismael Seáñez, Miroslav Caban, Elvira Pirondini, Molywan Vat, Laura McCracken, Roman Heimgartner, Isabelle Fodor, Anne Watrin, Perrine Seguin, Edorardo Paoles, Katrien Van Den Keybus, Grégoire Eberle, Brigitte Schurch, Etienne Pralong, Fabio Becce, John Prior, Nicholas Buse, Rik Buschman, Esra Neufeld, Niels Kuster, Stefano Carda, Joachim von Zitzewitz, Vincent Delattre, Tim Denison, Hendrik Lambert, Karen Minassian, Jocelyne Bloch, and Grégoire Courtine, Nature, Volume 563, Issue 7729, pages 65–71, online 31 October 2018, doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0649-2

IT'IS SIM-CORE Continues Full-Speed into Its Second Year

The IT’IS o²S²PARC team has been awarded a second year of funding by the U.S. National Institutes of Health! In year 2, the focus will be on usability, simulators, and onboarding of first users.

Niels Kuster Interviewed for Article in Tages Anzeiger

Niels Kuster was interviewed for an article published in the Tages Anzeiger on how to minimize health risks associated with cellular phone use.

Novel Mechanistic Model and Computational Approximation for Electromagnetic Safety Evaluations of Electrically Short Implants

Ilaria Liorni, Esra Neufeld, Sven Kuhn, Manuel Murbach, Earl Zastrow, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Physics in Medicine and Biology, accepted manuscript online 18 October 2018

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guests Angelo Iollo and Haysam Telib

Professor Dr. Angelo Iollo of INRIA and Dr. Haysam Telib of Optimad Engineering were guest speakers in the BBL seminar series with a presentation on “Convergence Between Data and High-Fidelity Numerical Models”.

"Brown Bag Lunch" Seminar Series: Special Guest Klaas Enno Stephan

Professor Dr. Klaas Enno Stephan of the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich, was a guest speaker in the BBL seminar series with a presentation on "Translational Neuromodeling for Psychiatry and Psychosomatics".

IT'IS Research Reported in Beobachter

The Swiss news outlet Beobachter published an article on the contributions of IT'IS to the success of the NTP rodent study.

Systematic Derivation of Safety Limits for Time Varying 5G Radiofrequency Exposure Based on Analytical Models and Thermal Dose

Esra Neufeld and Niels Kuster, Health Physics, December 2018, Volume 115, Issue 6, pp. 705–711; Early View, online 21 September 2018, doi: 10.1097/HP.00000000000009302018