Tolga Goren was born in the US in 1987. He studied Materials Science and Applied Mathematics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in New York, and earned his master's degree in polymer nanocomposites. He moved to Switzerland in 2009 for his doctorate at the ETH Zurich on synthesis, characterization, and simulation of biolubricating thin films.
From 2014, he worked as project manager for drug delivery device components in an ISO 13845 environment at Baumann Medical AG.
Tolga joined the IT'IS Foundation as Head of Customized Research in 2016, to lead and coordinate R&D service activities as well as manage the ISO 17025 accredited IT'IS Testing Laboratory. Tolga and his team are responsible for MRI Implant Safety evaluations according to ISO 10974, developing testing methods in collaboration with ZMT Zurich MedTech, as well as the applied tool set (Sim4Life and its modules, MRIxViP, etc.) for computational modeling & simulations. He is a contributing member of ISO/IEC 10974, ASTM F2182, and ASME V&V40, as well as related standards like IEC 60601-2-33.
PUBLICATION LIST
Peer-reviewed articles
Conference proceedings and abstracts
| Use of a head transmit coil reduces RF-heating of implants below the neck. In Abstract Collection of the ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety: From Science to Clinical Practice, Berlin, Germany, September 24–26, 2025 |
| B1+ homogeneity metric for implant safety assessment. In Abstract Collection of the ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety: From Science to Clinical Practice, Berlin, Germany, September 24–26, 2025 |
| Impact of RF coil topology on population studies of RF heating of leaded active implants during MRI. In Abstract Collection of ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 10–15, 2025 |
| Breast MRI in the Prone Position: Impact on RF-induced Heating of Active Implantable Medical Devices. In Abstract Collection of the ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety: From Science to Clinical Practice, Berlin, Germany, September 24–26, 2025 |
| Impact of face-down MR examination on RF heating of medical implants. In Abstract Collection of the 4th Annual Meeting of the BioEM Society (BioEM 2025), Rennes, France, June 22–27, 2025, pages 24 |
| A Novel Incident Field Metric for RF-Induced Heating of Medical Implants During MR Examination. In Abstract Collection of the ISMRM Workshop on MR Safety: From Science to Clinical Practice, Berlin, Germany, September 24–26, 2025 |
| Additive RF and gradient-induced heating of passive and active implants under clinically relevant exposures during MRI. In Abstract Collection of ISMRM & ISMRT Annual Meeting & Exhibition (ISMRM 2025), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, May 10–15, 2025 |
| People with implants: A neglected population by EM exposure regulation? In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Biomedical Conference (IMBioC), Montreal, QC, Canada, June 11–13, 2024, pages 119-121, IEEE IMBioC, doi:10.1109/IMBioC60287.2024.10590577 |
| Accurate and efficient modelling of MRI heating of active implantable medical device leads using a lumped element approach. In Abstract Collection of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the BioEM Society (BioEM 2024), Chania, Greece, June 16–21, 2024 |
| Radiofrequency-Induced Risks during Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Dependence upon Birdcage Design. In Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Meeting of the Society of MR Radiographers & Technologists (ISMRM2020), August 8–14, 2020 |
