Experimental Evaluation of the SAR Induced in Head Phantoms of Three- and Eight-Year-Old Children

Marie-Christine Gosselin, Sven Kühn, Andreas Christ, Marcel Zefferer, Emilio Cherubini, Jurriaan F. Bakker, Gerard C. van Rhoon, and Niels Kuster, IEICE Transactions on Communications, Volume E95-B, Number 10, pp. 3215–3224, October 2012

Best Paper Award at ECM Europe 2012

Takashi Hikage, Yoshifumi Kawamura, Toshio Nojima and IT'IS Foundation's Eugenia Cabot received the Best Paper Award at the EMC Europe 2012 held in Rome, Italy

Young Investigator Award at ICHO & JCTM 2012

IT'IS PhD student Adamos Kyriacou won the Young Investigator Award at the combined meetings of the 11th International Congress of Hyperthermic Oncology and the 29th Japanese Congress of Thermal Medicine (ICHO & JCTM 2012) held in Kyoto, Japan

The Washington Times Dedicates a Column to the 2012 Workshop on EMF and Health Risk Research Organized by IT'IS

The Washington Times dedicates a column to the IT'IS organized workshop on "EMF Health Risk Research: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future" to be held from October 21–26, 2012 in Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland.

Sleep EEG Alterations: Effects of Pulsed Magnetic Fields Versus Pulse-Modulated Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Fields

Marc R. Schmid, Manuel Murbach, Caroline Lustenberger, Micheline Maire, Niels Kuster, Peter Achermann, and Sarah P. Loughran, Journal of Sleep Research, Volume 21, Issue 6, pp. 620-629, December 2012, online June 22

Niels Kuster Receives Distinguished d'Arsonval Award

Niels Kuster received the highest scientific honor of the Bioelectromagnetics Society on June 19, 2012 at the 34th Annual Meeting in Brisbane, Australia

Mechanisms of RF Electromagnetic Field Absorption in Human Hands and Fingers

Chung-Huan Li, Mark Douglas, Erdem Ofli, Nicolas Chavannes, Quirino Balzano, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Volume 60, Issue 7, pp. 2267–2276, July 2012, online June 26

A Novel Approach for Mobile Device Design: GA-Based Distributed Optimization to Comply with OTA, SAR, and HAC Standards

Xi Lin Chen, Erdem Ofli, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine, Volume 54, Issue 1, pp. 22–31, February 2012, online June 1

Exposure of the Human Body to Professional and Domestic Induction Cooktops Compared to the Basic Restrictions

Andreas Christ, René Guldimann, Barbara Bühlmann, Marcel Zefferer, Jurriaan F. Bakker, Gerard C. van Rhoon, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 33, Issue 8, pp. 695-705, December 2012, online June 1

IT'IS for Health: Advanced Research for Personalized Medicine

IT'IS Annual Report 2011

Niels Kuster d'Arsonval Award Winner for 2012

The Bioelectromagnetics Society (BEMS) website has announced that Niels Kuster, Director of IT'IS Foundation and Professor of the ETH Zurich has been selected to receive the distinguished d'Arsonval Award

NIEHS Systems at IITRI Updated

During the last few weeks, Dr. Myles Capstick from IT'IS has updated the NIEHS system located at IITRI in Chicago, USA for higher power, and recalibrated all sensors after the pilot and pre-chronic studies were completed last year.

IT'IS Paper Most Cited of PMB from the Last 2 Years (2010–2012)

IT'IS's Virtual Family paper is the most cited paper of the journal Physics in Medicine and Biology from the last 2 years

NIS-Monitoring Schweiz: Eine Konzept- und Machbarkeitsstudie

Nikoloski (2011) Thesis

Neviana Nikoloski, “EMF Risk Assessment: Exposure Assessment and Specialized Exposure Setups,” PhD Thesis, Swiss Federal Insititute of Technology, Thesis No. 19939, Zurich, 2011, online March 2012

Virtual Family Models Presented as a Key Topic by the U.S. Chief Technology Officer

On February 6, 2012 the National Modeling and Simulation Coalition held their inaugural congress. The opening presentation by the keynote speaker Aneesh Chopra, assistant to Barack Obama and U.S. Chief Technology Officer, presented the Virtual Family as part of a key topic: the Virtual Physiological Patient.

Children and Adults Exposed to Low Frequency Magnetic Fields at the ICNIRP Reference Levels: Theoretical Assessment of the Induced Electric Fields

Jurriaan F. Bakker, Maarten M. Paulides, Esra Neufeld, Andreas Christ, Xi Lin Chen, Niels Kuster, and Gerard van Rhoon, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 57, Number 7, pp. 1815–1829, April 2012, online March 13

Exposure System to Study Hypotheses of ELF and RF Electromagnetic Field Interactions of Mobile Phones With the Central Nervous System

Manuel Murbach, Maria Christopoulou, Pedro Crespo-Valero, Peter Achermann, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 33, Issue 6, pp. 527–533, September 2012, online February 13

Parallelization of the FDTD Method Based on the Open Computing Language and the Message Passing Interface

Tomasz P. Stefanski, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, in Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, Volume 54, Issue 3, pp. 785–789, March 2012, online January 20

Patient-Specific Simulations and Measurements of the Magneto-Hemodynamic Effect in Human Primary Vessels

Adamos Kyriakou, Esra Neufeld, Dominik Szczerba, Wolfgang Kainz, Roger Luechinger, Sebastien Kozerke, Robert McGregor, and Niels Kuster, Physiological Measurement, Volume 33, Issue 2, pp. 117–130, February 2012, online January 6

The Observer Highlights Research on EMF and Cancer Treatment

The Observer dedicated a column to the latest research on EMF and cancer treatment published in the British Journal of Cancer by Boris Pache and co-authors. This research was performed in collaboration with IT'IS. 

EMF Health Risk Research – Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future – Seven Years Later

The IT’IS Foundation is pleased to announce the 2012 EMF Health Risk Research – Lessons Learned and Recommendations for the Future workshop. This workshop will take place from the 21st to the 26th of October 2012 in Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland

Cancer Cell Proliferation is Inhibited by Specific Modulation Frequencies

Jacquelyn W. Zimmerman, Michael J. Pennison, Ivan Brezovich, Nengjun Yi, Celeste T. Yang, Ryne Ramaker, Devin Absher, Richard M. Myers, Niels Kuster, Frederico P. Costa, Alexandre Barbault, and Boris Pasche, British Journal of Cancer, Volume 106, Issue 2, pp. 307–313, January 17, 2012. Online December 1, 2011

Inside View of the IARC Monograph Meeting 102

The procedures of the IARC Monograph Program are described in the article, "The Eyes of the World Were Upon Us – An Inside View of the IARC Monograph Meeting 102: Evaluation of the Carcinogenic Risks of RF-EMF to Humans" by Meike Mevissen and Christopher J. Portier

Local Tissue Temperature Increase of a Generic Implant Compared to the Basic Restrictions Defined in Safety Guidelines

Adamos Kyriakou, Andreas Christ, Esra Neufeld, and Niels Kuster, Bioelectromagnetics, Volume 33, Issue 5, pp. 366–374, July 2012, online November 21

Our Future Researchers?

On the 2011 National Future Day, Anushka, Chimey, Jil and Liza joined our research and development teams at IT'IS and SPEAG for one day.

Influence of the Hand on the Specific Absorption Rate in the Head

Chung-Huan Li, Mark Douglas, Erdem Ofli, Benoit Derat, Sami Gabriel, Nicolas Chavannes, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, Volume 60, Issue 2, pp. 1066–1074, February 2012, online October 21, 2011

ARIMMORA Project Commenced

Advanced Research on Interaction Mechanisms of electroMagnetic Exposures with Organisms for Risk Assessment. The FP7 ARIMMORA project has officially begun on October 1, 2011

Tissue Properties Database Online

The IT'IS Foundation is proud to announce the launch of an online database for thermal and dielectric parameters of biological tissues as part of its ongoing effort to provide the community with a series of highly detailed anatomical models: the Virtual Population.