icBEM
2015
The 10th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism
Devoted to Robert Plonsey
16-18 June 2015 Tallinn, Estonia
www.icbem2015.eu
Welcome to the 10th icBEM conference here in Tallinn, Estonia.
The International Society for Bioelectromagnetism and Tallinn University of Technology are organizing this anniversary event in collaboration with the International Society for Electrical Bioimpedance and the ELIKO Competence Centre.
On behalf of the local organizing team at the Tallinn University of Technology and ELIKO Competence Centre we hope you enjoy your stay in Tallinn and the quality scientific program at icBEM 2015.
We are certain that these next couple of days will be filled with interesting presentations, engaging discussions and friendly reunions.
The present conference is devoted to the memory of Professor Robert Plonsey, who has done so much to the success of electromagnetism as a branch of science and technology. He passed away in March this year.
I wish you a fruitful conference and trust that you will gain from the experience.
Professor Mart Min President of the icBEM2015
DAY 1 – Tuesday, June 16th 2015
| 09:20 – | Bus transfer from the Viru Hotel |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Registration |
| 10:10 – 10:25 | Conference opening, Prof Mart Min |
| 10:30 – 12:00 | Plenary speeches: |
| 10:30 – 11:25 | Robert Patterson, University of Minnesota, USA Otto Schmitt: the Schmitt trigger and his many other major contributions to bioelectromagnetism. |
| 11:25 – 12:00 | Jaakko Malmivuo, Aalto University, Finland |
| Were the first ones really the first ones? | |
| 12:00 – 12:40 | LUNCH |
| 12:40 – 14:40 | Session 1: Transcranial Neural Stimulation |
| Chair Prof. Risto Ilmoniemi, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland | |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Risto Ilmoniemi, Aalto University, Finland - Introduction to |
| TMS - transcranial magnetic stimulation. | |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Jyrki Mäkelä, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland |
| Navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation in clinical | |
| practice and research. | |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Vadim Nikulin, Charité-University Medicine, Germany |
| Spatio-temporal neuronal dynamics in subthalamic | |
| nucleus and cortex in patients with Parkinson’s disease. | |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Petro Julkunen, Kuopio University Hospital, Finland |
| Non-invasive estimation of motor cortical functional | |
| anisotropy and muscle representation with | |
| neuro-navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation. | |
| 14:00 – 14:20 | Renate Rutiku, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| An uncommon masking effect on visual perception with TMS. | |
| 14:20 – 14:40 | Rauno Gordon, ELIKO Competence Centre, Estonia |
| Frequency-optimized short rectangular chirp pulses for | |
| deep brain stimulation. | |
| 14:40 – 14:50 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 14:50 – 16:00 | Session 2: Magnetic Induction based sensing |
| Chair: Dr. Daniel Teichmann, | |
| RWTH University Aachen, Germany |
| 14:50 - 15:20 | Session Keynote Speech - Daniel Teichmann, |
| RWTH Aachen University, Germany | |
| Monitoring of thoracic activity using electromagnetic coupling. | |
| 15:20 - 15:40 | Jaan Ojarand, ELIKO Competence Centre, Tallinn, Estonia |
| Magnetic Induction Sensor for the Respiration Monitoring. | |
| 15:40 - 16:00 | Jüri Vedru, University of Tartu, Estonia |
| Experience from a Trial Study of Getting Foucault Cardiograph | |
| Signal from Salty Water Medium. | |
| 16:00 – 16:15 | COFFEE BREAK |
16:15 – 17:45 Session 3: Homage to Professor Robert Plonsey Chair Prof. Mart Min, Thomas Johann Seebeck Department of Electronics at Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia
17:15-17.30 Craig Henriquez and Marjorie Hubbard, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA - The Evolution of Cardiac Tissue Models. 17.30-17:45 Olaf von Ramm, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
17:45 – 18:00 COFFEE BREAK
20:00-22:00 WELCOME DINNER
DAY 2 – Wednesday, June 17th
08:30 – 09:00 Bus transfer from the Hotel Viru to the IT-College, Raja 4C, Tallinn
- 09:00
- – 10:30 Session 1: Bioimpedance I Chair: Prof. Uwe Pliquett, Institut für Bioprozess- und Analysenmesstechnik (iba), Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany
- 09:00
- – 09:30 Session Keynote Speech: Uwe Pliquett, iba, Germany Adaptive signal sampling for high throughput, broadband impedance spectroscopy.
| 09:30 – 09:50 | Juho Kari, Injeq Ltd, Finland - Biopsy Needle Including |
| Bioimpedance Probe with Optimized Sensitivity Distribution. | |
| 09:50 – 10:10 | Andrei Krivoshei, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Estimating the Transfer Function Between the CAP and Radial | |
| EBI Cardiac Periods: Use of PCA for Dominating Spectral | |
| Features Extraction. | |
| 10:10 – 10:30 | Atte Kekonen, Tampere University of Technology, ioMediTech, |
| Finland - A Quantitative Method for Monitoring Wound Healing. | |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | COFFEE BREAK (15 min) |
| 10:45 – 12.05 | Session 2: Bioelectricity |
| Chair: Prof. R Martin Arthur, Washington University in | |
| St. Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| 10:45 – 11:05 | Hamed Hamid Muhammed, KTH Royal Institute of |
| Technology, Sweden – Optomyography (OMG):A Novel | |
| Technique for the Detection of Muscle Surface Displacement | |
| Using Photoelectric Sensors. | |
| 11:05 – 11:25 | Ruth Tomson, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Development of an optical monitoring technology for urea | |
| rebound assessment. | |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Ksenija Pesti, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Validation of Simulations of Eddy Current Methods with | |
| Measurements on Phantom Materials for Biomedical | |
| Engineering R&D. | |
| 11:45 – 12:05 | R Martin Arthur, Washington University in St. Louis, USA |
| Errors in Inverse Problem Solutions Due To Inaccuracies in | |
| Torso and Cardiac Anatomy. | |
| 12:05 – 13:00 | LUNCH and ISBEM General Meeting |
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Session 3: Bioimpedance II |
| Chair: Prof. Robert Patterson, University of Minnesota, | |
| Minneapolis, USA | |
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Session Keynote Speech. Robert Patterson, University of |
| Minnesota, USA - The Early History of Impedance Cardiography | |
| and Reflections on its Current State. | |
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Raul Land, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Some observations on impedance and Ferranti effect. |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Carles Aliau-Bonet, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, |
| Barcelona - Effects of interelectrode impedance in water | |
| conductivity measurements with capacitive electrodes. | |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Javier Gracia, Tampere University of Technology, Finland - |
| Multilead, impedance pneumography and forced oscillation | |
| technique for assessing lung tissue mechanical properties. | |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 14:45 – 16:25 | Session 4: Electromagnetic phenomena and |
| wearable/implantable devices | |
| Chair: Dr. Paul Annus, Tallinn University of Technology and | |
| ELIKO Competence Centre, Tallinn, Estonia. | |
| 14:45 – 15:05 | Margus Metshein, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Observations Concerning the Results of Capacitive | |
| Monitoring of Breathing and Heart Rate by the Means | |
| of Electrical Bioimpedance. | |
| 15:05 – 15:25 | Margus Metshein, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Towards a Wearable Device for Capacitive Monitoring of | |
| Electrical Bioimpedance of Human Body. | |
| 15:25 – 15:45 | Faisal Ahmed, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia |
| Energy Harvesting Technologies - Potential application to | |
| Wearable Health-Monitoring. | |
| 15:45 – 16:05 | Andres Kink, Smartimplant OÜ, Tallinn University of |
| Technology, Estonia - Pacing algorithm test environment for | |
| simulating critical bleeding situations. | |
| 16:05 – 16:25 | Eiko Priidel, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Bridging |
| the Gap between Technology and Usability for Portable Brain | |
| Trauma Scanning Device. | |
| 16:25 – 16:30 | Closing Remarks |
| 16:25 – 16:40 | COFFEE BREAK |
| 16:40 – 17:10 | Bus transfer to the hotel |
| 18:15 – 20:15 | Walking tour in the Old Town with English speaking guide |
ELIKO Competence Centre is focused on applied research and development in electronics. Our researchers and engineers design novel Internet of Things (IoT) embedded sensing and communication systems.
ELIKO was established more than 10 years ago and currently employs around 60 part- and full time employees. The company is working closely with the Tallinn University of Technology researchers and actively develops and promotes engineering education in electronics and ICT.
ELIKO owns several patents relevant to pacing control, body impedance spectroscopy and human activity monitoring.
Our key technologies include:
- City control system infrastructure for smart services
- Impedance based medical instrumentation
- UWB based indoor positioning
We are always looking for new cooperation partners as well as researchers interested in working with us. Please contact us for more details or approach one of our people at the conference.
Indrek Ruiso CEO
The conference is supported by honourable Advisory Committee
Advisory Committe
Dieter Beckmann, Institut für Bioprozessund Analysenmesstechnik, Heilbad Heiligenstadt, Germany Sergio Cerutti, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Irena Cosic, RMIT University, Melbourn, Australia Yuri Dekhtyar, Riga Technical University, Latvia Olaf Dössel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Sverre Grimnes, University of Oslo, Norway Jari Hyttinen, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Nigel Lovell, University of New South Wales, Australia Arunas Lukosevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania Stig Ollmar, Scibase AB, Stockholm, Sweden Robert Patterson, University of Minnesota, USA José C Principe, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Andrea Robitzki, Leipzig University, Germany Heikki Teriö, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden Shoogo Ueno, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan Daming Wei, University of Aizu, Japan John Wikswo, Wanderbilt University, Nashville, USA