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2015Third ANDREA Training Course
The third ANDREA Training Course has taken place within the framework of the International Summer School in Biomedical Engineering – New Instrumentation for brain measurements and stimulation – held in Wittenberg, Germany, on 16-28 August 2015 (click here to go into the external link). The main objective (program) of the International Summer School was to provide in depth education on new technical developments in modalities…
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2015Contribution to VDE working comittee on lightning safety, Germany
VDE is the German Electrical Engineers association. Among many other activities, VDE gives out statements to the general public and also to the scientific and professional communities. Recently, we were involved into lightning safety issues in the German expert commission and did some simulations for that. Those simulations were based on our finite element models used also for our EEG computations. The report enclosed (in…
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2015Gabriella Tamburro at EEM
The secondment of Gabriella Tamburro (partner BIND-UdA, Academia, Chieti, Italy) took place from 5 July until 4 October 2015 at partner ERMEEM (Industry, Berlin, Germany). During the time spent in Berlin she contributed to WP5 (EEM) by focusing on several aspects of the EEG acquisition and analysis software used with the dry electrode cap system: 1) the improvement of the source localization algorithms, and 2)…
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20152nd International Scientific Symposium “Sense. Enable. SPITSE, St. Petersburg (Russia)
During the 2nd International Scientific Symposium “Sense. Enable. SPITSE.”, held on 22 June to 3July 2015 in St. Petersburg (Russia), Prof. Jens Haueisen (TUIL) presented results of the ANDREA project, highlighting its potential impact and application in bioelectric signal acquisitions. The project SPITSE is the trilateral Strategic Partnership of engineering science departments of Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany), St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” (Russia), and…
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201521st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, Hawaii (USA)
During the 21st Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping, held on 14-18June 2015 in Honolulu, Hawaii (USA), Patrique Fiedler (TUIL) presented a contribution entitled “Validation of a dry multichannel Electroencephalography cap in a multi volunteer study” (1820). The contribution was based on results of the first ANDREA prototype measurements and pre-validations, highlighting the quality and reproducibility of the acquired EEG data. During…
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2015IUPESM 2015 World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering, Toronto (Canada)
During the IUPESM 2015 World Congress on Medical Physics & Biomedical Engineering (WC2015), held on 7 to 12 June 2015 in Toronto (Canada), the ANDREA fellows Prof. Jens Haueisen, Dr. Uwe Graichen and Patrique Fiedler (all TUIL) presented results of the ANDREA dry electrode and cap development as well as algorithm development for online artifact detection and rejection. The World Congress is one of the…
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2015Lorenzo Schinaia at TUIL
The secondment of Lorenzo Schinaia took place from the 1 June until 31 August 2015 from from Partner Villa Serena to partner TUIL (Academia, Ilmenau, Germany). During the secondment, Lorenzo Schinaia has developed and tested the final release of the software toolbox for the detection and rejection of artifacts affecting EEG signals. The procedure is based on the Fingerprints procedure, and the purpose of the…
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2015Lars Matthäus at TUIL
The secondment of Dr. Lars Matthäus took place from June 1st until June 30th 2015 from eemagine Medical Imaging Solutions GmbH (Industry, Berlin, Germany) to Technische Universität Ilmenau (Academia, Ilmenau, Germany). During his secondment, Lars Matthäus was joined by Dr. Frank Zanow (eemagine Medical Imaging Solutions GmbH). The main work done by Lars Matthäus during his secondment was on tasks of work package 2 (2.2,…
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2015Visiting professors and students from East Carolina University, USA – UdA, Chieti (Italy)
On 27 May 2015 Prof. Maurizio Bertollo organized a Seminar on “Physical activity and Lifestyle during lifespan: Italian policy and interventions” at the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti on the occasion of the visit of a group of professors and students from the College of Health and Human Performance, East Carolina University, Greenville, South Carolina, USA. The seminar was devoted to explore the various benefits…
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201550th Anniversary of the University “G. D’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara, Italy
On 25 May 2015 the University “G. d’Annunzio” of Chieti-Pescara organized an Open Day on Research on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of its foundation. The event, organized by the Department of Medicine and Aging Science to which the BIND Center is affiliated, focused on the relationship between organization and research (download the flyer here). At the end of the first…