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Technical Facilities

The Institut Curie’s technical facilities, which are divided between the three hospital sites of Paris-Ile de France region, are at the service of the patients.

State-of-the-art medical imaging facilities  

  • 6 digital mammography machines  
  • 3 gamma cameras for scintigraphy
  • 1 gamma camera dedicated to clinical research
  • 2 PET scanners  
  • 2 MRI machines  
  • 2 CT scanners  
  • 2 stereotactic tables for image-guided biopsy  
  • 1 planned cyclotron (2012) 

Radiation therapy facilities among the most complete in Europe

  • 9 linear accelerators  
  • 4 high-dose-rate and pulsed-dose-rate brachytherapy systems  
  • 2 simulators-scanners  
  • 2 dedicated scanners for scanography
  • 2 tomotherapy machines  
  • 1 new-generation cyclotron with an isocentric gantry, for proton therapy (patients treated from second half of 2010) *

Biological Resources Centers  

  • Close to 60 000 samples, 31 000 of them of tumors, principally breast, gynecologic, gastrointestinal, ear, nose and throat, and ocular tumors, and 15 000 samples of associated nontumor tissues;
  • 1 bank of DNA and RNA extracted from tumor  and nontumor tissues;
  • 2 serum banks.
Institut Curie
21/09/2010