DNA Fragmentation in Human Fibroblasts under Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Field Exposure

Frauke Focke, David Schuermann, Niels Kuster, Primo Schär, in Mutation Research/Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis, Volume 683, Issues 1-2, pp. 74–83, 5 January 2010, online 6 November

Virtual Classroom

The IT'IS Foundation releases the Virtual Classroom for scientific purposes. The models were partially funded by the BfS, Germany, and extends the Virtual Family models.

A Computational Model of Intussusceptive Microvascular Growth and Remodeling

Dominik Szczerba, Haymo Kurz, and Gabor Szekely, in Journal of Theoretical Biology, Volume 261, Issue 4, pp. 570–583, 21 December 2009, online 17 September

Techniques to Demonstrate MRI Safety of Medical Implants

Michael Oberle, in Microwave Journal, Volume 52, Issue 12, pp.60-7, December 2009

Proteomic Analysis of the Response of Human Endothelial Cell Line EA.hy926 to 1800 GSM Mobile Phone Radiation

Reetta Nylund, Hanna Tammio, Niels Kuster, and Dariusz Leszczynski, in Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Volume 2, Issue 10, pp. 455–462, October 2009, online 26 October

EU Workshop in Umeå, Sweden: Occupational Exposure to EMF: Paving the Way for a Future EU Initiative

Information link to do with the EU organized workshop regarding occupational exposure to EMF.

Guidelines for the Evaluation of Exposure from Wireless Power Transmission Systems

Mark G. Douglas, Andreas Christ, and Niels Kuster, short paper, IT'IS Foundation, Zeughausstrasse 43, 8004 Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009

A Fast Alternative to Computational Fluid Dynamics for High Quality Imaging of Blood Flow

Robert H. P. McGregor, Dominik Szczerba, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar and Gábor Székely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2009, Volume 5704/200, pp. 124–131, October 1, 2009

IT'IS: Two New PhD Defenses

Assessment of the Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields Induced in the Human Body from Mobile Phones used with Hands-free Kits

Sven Kuhn, Eugenia Cabot, Andreas Christ, Myles Capstick and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 54, Number 18, pp. 5493–5508, 21 September 2009, online 26 August

Effects of Hand Phantom on Mobile Phone Antenna Performance

Chung-Huan Li, Erdem Ofli, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, Volume 57, Issue 9, pp. 2763–2770, September 2009

US Senate Hearing on the Health Effects of Cell Phone Use

US Senate hearing on health effects of cell phone use.

Ebert (2009) Thesis

Sven Ebert, “EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Systems for Large-Scale Laboratory and Experimental Provocation Studies,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 18636, Zurich, 2009

Kühn (2009) Thesis

Sven Kühn, “EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Assessment and Compliance Testing in Complex Environments,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 18637, Zurich, 2009

Fast Implicit Simulation of Oscillatory Flow in Human Abdominal Bifurcation using a Schur Complement Preconditioner

Kathrin Burckhardt, Dominik Szczerba, Jedediah Brown, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, and Gabor Szekely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Euro-Par 2009 - Parallel Processing (refereed proceedings of the 15th International Euro-Par Conference, Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009),Volume 5704/200, pp. 747–759, August 22, 2009

A Multiphysics Model of Myoma Growth

Dominik Szczerba, Bryn A. Lloyd, Michael Bajka, and Gabor Szekely, in International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, Volume 7, Issue 1, pp. 17–27, August 2009

Galvanic Coupling Enabling Wireless Implant Communications

Marc Simon Wegmueller, Sonja Huclova, Juerg Froehlich, Michael Oberle, Norbert Felber, Niels Kuster, Wolfgang Fichtner, in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Volume 58, Issue 8, pp. 2618–2625, August 2009, online July 7

Excerpt of FDA Activity Report to US Congress

Measurement, Simulation and Uncertainty Assessment of Implant Heating During MRI

Esra Neufeld, Sven Kühn, Gabor Szekely and Niels Kuster, in Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 54, Issue 13, pp. 4151–4169, July 2009

Parallel Scalable PDE-Constrained Optimization: Antenna Identification in Hyperthermia Cancer Treatment Planning

Olaf Schenk, Murat Manguoglu, Ahmed Sameh, Matthias Christen and Madan Sathe, in Computer Science - Research and Development: ISC09, Volume 23, Issue 3-4, pp. 177–183, June 2009

Effective Full 3D EMI Analysis of Complex PCBs by Utlilizing the Latest Advances in Numerical Methods Combined with Novel Time-domain Measurement Technologies

Chung-Huan Li, Peter Futter, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, Microwave Engineering Europe, July/August 2009

MMF/GSMA commissioned study: “Scientific Basis for Base Station Exposure Compliance Standards”

Project MMF/GSMA Phase 2, Workpackages 6 & 7:
Sven Kühn et al, June 2009

IT'IS Annual Report 2008

IT'IS Wins Five Student Awards at BioEM2009 Meeting in Davos, Switzerland, June 15–19, 2009

IT'IS PhD students Manuel Murbach, Sven Kühn, and Marie-Christine Gosselin wins a total of five student awards at the 2009 Joint Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Associations (BioEM2009) in Davos, Switzerland

2009 Joint Meeting of The Bioelectromagnetics Society and the European BioElectromagnetics Association

The IT'IS Foundation was the local organizer for the triennial joint meeting of the two bioelectromagnetics societies that occured in Davos, Switzerland in the summer of 2009.

A Mechano-Chemical Model of a Solid Tumor for Therapy Outcome Predictions

Sven Hirsch, Dominik Szczerba, Bryn Lloyd, Michael Bajka, Niels Kuster, and Gábor Székely, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Computational Science – ICCS 2009 (Proceedings, Part I, of the 9th International Conference of Computational Science, Baton Rouge, LA, USA, May 25-27, 2009), Volume 5544/2009, pp. 715–724, May 20, 2009

Dependence of the Occupational Exposure to Mobile Phone Base Stations on the Properties of the Antenna and the Human Body

Marie-Christine Gosselin, Andreas Christ, Sven Kühn, and Niels Kuster, in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 51, Issue 2, pp. 227–235, May 2009

Absence of Genotoxic Potential of 902 MHz (GSM) and 1747 MHz (DCS) Wireless Communication Signals: In vivo Two-year Bioassay in B6C3F1 Mice

Christina Ziemann, Heidrun Brockmeyer, Siddharth B. Reddy, Vijayalaxmi, Thomas J. Prihoda, Niels Kuster, Thomas Tillmann and Clemens Dasenbrock, in International Journal of Radiation Biology, Volume 85, Issue 5, pp. 454–464, May 2009

An Algorithm for Predicting the Change in SAR in a Human Phantom due to Deviations in its Complex Permittivity

Mark G. Douglas, Michael Y. Kanda, Wilson G. Luengas, Maurice Ballen, Tadeusz M. Babij, and Chung-Kwang Chou,  IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 51, Issue 2, pp. 570–583, May 2009

Amplitude-modulated Electromagnetic Fields for the Treatment of Cancer: Discovery of Tumor-specific Frequencies and Assessment of a Novel Therapeutic Approach

Alexandre Barbault, Frederico P. Costa, Brad Bottger, Reginald F. Munden, Fin Bomholt, Niels Kuster, and Boris Pasche, in Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research, Volume 28, Issue 1, p51, April 2009