Publications by Andreas Pitzschke

Optical Characterization of an Intra-Arterial Light and Drug Delivery System for Photodynamic Therapy of Atherosclerotic Plaque

Hubert van den Bergh, Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Andreas Pitzschke, Manish Jain, Ying Xiao

Although the versatility of photodynamic therapy (PDT) is well established, the technical aspects of light delivery systems vary significantly depending on the targeted organ. This article describes the optical properties of a light and drug delivery syste ...

2020

Determination of the radiance of cylindrical light diffusers: design of a one-axis charge-coupled device camera-based goniometer setup

Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Blaise Lovisa, Andreas Pitzschke, Jenny Bertholet

A one-axis charge-coupled device camera-based goniometer setup was developed to measure the three-dimensional radiance profile ( longitudinal, azimuthal, and polar) of cylindrical light diffusers in air and water. An algorithm was programmed to project the ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2017

Optical properties of rabbit brain in the red and near-infrared: changes observed under in vivo, postmortem, frozen, and formalin-fixated conditions

Georges Wagnières, Matthieu Philippe Emmanuel Zellweger, Blaise Lovisa, Andreas Pitzschke

The outcome of light-based therapeutic approaches depends on light propagation in biological tissues, which is governed by their optical properties. The objective of this study was to quantify optical properties of brain tissue in vivo and postmortem and a ...

SPIE Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers2015

Development of real-time plasma analysis and control algorithms for the TCV tokamak using SIMULINK

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Wouter Vijvers, Alessandro Bortolon, James Paley, Lucia Isabel Federspiel

One of the key features of the new digital plasma control system installed on the TCV tokamak is the possibility to rapidly design, test and deploy real-time algorithms. With this flexibility the new control system has been used for a large number of new e ...

Elsevier2013

Understanding the core density profile in TCV H-mode plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Emiliano Fable, Dávid Wágner, Andreas Pitzschke

Results from a database analysis of H-mode electron density profiles on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) under stationary conditions show that the logarithmic electron density gradient increases with collisionality. By contrast, usual observation ...

IOP2012

Electron temperature and density profile evolution during the ELM cycle in ohmic and EC-heated H-mode plasmas in TCV

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Laurent Villard, Laurie Porte, Roland Behn, János Márki, Andreas Pitzschke

2012

Recent TCV results – innovative plasma shaping to improve plasma properties and insight

Basil Duval, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Laurent Villard, Benoît Labit, Laurie Porte, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov

2012

Pedestal Characteristics and MHD Stability of H-Mode Plasmas in TCV

Andreas Pitzschke

The tokamak à configuration variable (TCV) is unique in its ability to create a variety of plasma shapes and to heat the electron population in high density regimes using microwave power at the third harmonic of the electron cyclotron frequency. In the fra ...

EPFL2011

Use of webcams as tools for alignment and supervision of a Thomson Scattering System in the near infrared

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Pierre Etienne, Roland Behn, Andreas Pitzschke

The alignment stability is a major concern for Thomson scattering systems. Even small angular deviations of the laser beams crossing the plasma lead to a loss of the calibration resulting in unreliable measurements of the electron density profile. For the ...

Fusion Engineering and Design2010

"Snowflake" H Mode in a Tokamak Plasma

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Jean-Marc Moret, Benoît Labit, Francesco Piras, János Márki, Andreas Pitzschke

An edge-localized mode (ELM) H-mode regime, supported by electron cyclotron heating, has been successfully established in a snowflake (second-order null) divertor configuration for the first time in the TCV tokamak. This regime exhibits 2 to 3 times lowe ...

The American Physical Society2010