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, 7pp., online ahead of print February 13, 2012

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, published online January 6

The Observer Highlights Research on EMF and Cancer Treatment

The Guardian 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.