資料7-KCommission K (Electromagnetics in Biology & Medicine) Activity Report
July 28th, 2014 by Yasuhiko Jimbo

1Activity

1.1 Election of the nominee of the committee chairperson of Japanese URSI-Commission K for the 23rd termof the Science Council of Japan

Schedule:

Announcement June 1st, 2014
Voting dateJune 1st-10th, 2014

Prof. Koichi Ito (Chiba University) was approved as the nominee of the committee chairperson of Japanese
URSI-Commission K for the 23rd term of the Science Council of Japan by a confidence vote with bylaw.

1.2 Preparation of National reportTopics:
K1 Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields
K1.1 Static magnetic field
K1.2 Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) magnetic field
K1.3 Intermediate Frequency (IF) magnetic field
K1.4 RF electromagnetic field and microwaves
K1.5 Millimeter wave
K1.6 Contact currents
K2 Dosimetry
K2.1 Numerical dosimetry
K2.2 Experimental dosimetry
K2.3 Development of exposure setups and dosimetry for medical and biological studies
K2.4 Mechanism between biological tissues and EMF
K2.5 Dosimetry for medical application (see also K3)
K3 Biomedical Applications
K3.1 Hyperthermia
K3.2 Therapeutic applications of electromagnetic fields
K3.3 Magnetic resonance imaging
K3.4 Electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted medical devices
K3.5 Medical instrumentation

2Meetings

2.1 Past meetings
1)(Domestic) IEEJ workshop of health risk assessment, dosimetry and medical application of EMF, Tokyo,March 10, 2014

2)

(Domestic) 2014 IEICE General Conference, Niigata, Japan, March 18-21, 2014

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http://www.gakkai-web.net/gakkai/ieice/G_2014/index.html
3)(Domestic) 2014 IEEJ General Conference, Ehime, Japan, March 18-20, 2014
http://www2.iee.or.jp/ver2/honbu/03-conference/14-taikai/

4)2014 Int. Symposium Electromagnetic Compatibility, Tokyo, May 12-16, 2014, http://www.ieice.org/~emc14/5)

5th International Conference on Electromagnetic Fields, Health and Environment, Porto, Portuguese, April 2426, 2014 http://www.apdee.org/conferences/ehe2014/index.php

6)

BioEM2014, Cape Town, South Africa, June 8-13, 2014, http://www.bioem2014.org/7)(Domestic) The 53rd Annual Conference of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering, Sendai,
June 24-26, 2014, http://www.congre.co.jp/jsmbe53/index.html

8)

9th FENS Forum of Neuroscience, Milan, Italy, July 5-9, 2014, http://fens2014.neurosciences.asso.fr/

2.2 Future meetings
1)

31st URSI General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Beijing, China, August 16-23, 2014,
http://www.chinaursigass.com/2)

36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’14),
August 26-30, 2014, Chicago, USA, http://embc.embs.org/2014/3)

31st Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Thermal Medicine and 6th ACHO, Fukui, Japan, September 5-6,
2014, http://www.jsho.jp/4)

8th International Workshop on Biological Effects of Electromagnetic Fields, Varna, Bulgaria, September 2126, 2014, http://emf2014.emfbg.com/general.html

5)44th Annual Meeting of Society for Neuroscience (Neuroscience 2014), November 15-19, Washington, DC,USA, http://www.sfn.org/annual-meeting/neuroscience-2014

6)

19th International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation (ISAP 2014), Kaohsiung, Taiwan, December 2-5,2014, http://isap2014.org/7)

2014 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Workshop Series on RF and Wireless Technologies for
Biomedical and Healthcare Applications (IMWS-Bio 2014), London, United Kingdom, December 8-10, 2014
http://www.imws2014.org/8)

BioEM2015, Monterey, USA, June 14-19, 2015, http://www.bioem2015.org/9)

ICNIRP 8th International NIR Workshop, South Africa, June 27-28, 2016, http://www.icnirp.de/upcoming.htm