Publications by Enrico Felcini

Feasibility Study of GaToroid Gantries for Carbon Ions

Bertrand Dutoit, Luca Bottura, Enrico Felcini, Bertrand Dutoit

The use of carbon ions in particle therapy can enhance the treatment quality, introducing higher biological effectiveness compared to photons and protons. Rotating gantries are nowadays used to deliver particle beams from different directions to obtain pre ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

Design of the First HTS Single-Coil Demonstrator of GaToroid Toroidal Gantry for Hadron Therapy

Luca Bottura, Enrico Felcini, Bertrand Dutoit, Jérôme Harray, Bertrand Dutoit

The design and construction of compact and lightweight gantries for hadron therapy are essential steps toward wider accessibility to this cancer treatment. The use of a high-field steady-state toroidal gantry, i.e., GaToroid, represents an attractive alter ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

Analysis of a Novel Toroidal Configuration for Hadron Therapy Gantries

Enrico Felcini

Hadron therapy refers to a medical treatment that uses hadron beams (i.e. protons and ions) to deliver localized energy that suppresses cancerous cells, sparing the neighbouring healthy tissues from unwanted radiation. The major technical components of a h ...

EPFL2021

Delivery, Beam and Range Monitoring in Particle Therapy in a Highly Innovative Integrated Design

Luca Bottura, Enrico Felcini

The design of a particle therapy system that integrates an innovative beam delivery concept based on a static toroidal gantry and an imaging configuration suitable for beam and online range monitoring is proposed and discussed. Such approach would provide ...

2020

Magnetic Design of a Superconducting Toroidal Gantry for Hadron Therapy

Luca Bottura, Enrico Felcini, Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

Hadron and proton therapy are cutting edge techniques for cancer treatment and a great development of specialized medical centers and research facilities is foreseen in the next decades. One of the main obstacles to the penetration of the use of charged pa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020