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

"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