Centre Eugène Marquis

The Centre Eugène Marquis is a Private Health Establishment with Collective Interests (Etablissement de Santé Privé d'Intérêt Collectif) (ESPIC). With its vocation as a university hospital it is a non-profit-making establishment and is a participant in the public health hospital service.

A recognized public utility foundation, the Centre Eugène Marquis founded in 1923, is one of the 20 Centres de Lutte Contre le Cancer (Centres in the Fight against Cancer) (CLCC) set up by the Ordinance of 1945 and since then regrouped under the umbrella of the Fédération Française des Centres de Lutte contre le Cancer (French Federation of Centres for the Fight against Cancer).

The department of radiation oncology treats about 2800 patients annually with the following equipment:

• 1x MR LINAC : ELEKTA Unity with Comprehensive Motion management (CMM)
• 2x Elekta Linacs:
  • Synergy (MLC Agility) with XVi and SGRT system Catalyst (C-Rad)
  • VersaHD with FFF beams (MLC Agility) with XVi and Exactrac device (Brainlab) and SGRT system Catalyst (C-Rad)
• 2x Varian Linacs: Clinac2100C (MLC Millennium) with OBI Halcyon and SGRT system Catalyst (C-Rad)
• 1x Cyberknife M6
• 1x dedicated CT SIEMENS Confidence and SGRT system Sentinel (C-Rad)
• 1x device for brachytherapy:
  • Elekta Flexitron for HDR

The following treatment techniques have been introduced:

• IMRT: Step and Shoot and Sliding window techniques since 2004 and VMAT since 2009,
• SRS: intra cranial since 2005,
• IGRT since 2008,
• SBRT : stereo extra cranial since 2012,
• Adaptive Radiotherapy since 2013
• Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation since 2020
• Online adaptive Radiotherapy (MR based) since 2023

For many years, the Centre Eugène Marquis has relied on PTW quality assurance devices, such as:

• PTW 2D ARRAY Seven29
• PTW OCTAVIUS Detector 1500
• PTW OCTAVIUS Detector 1600 SRS including cyberknife plate
• PTW STARCHECK with BQ-Check and holding device
• PTW OCTAVIUS 4D and verisoft
• And now the MR family: octavius 4d MR with both octavius 1500MR and 1600MR and Starcheck Maxi MR.
• 2x MP3 (MP3, MP3-M) Water Phantoms with TPR Options and now Beamscan  and Beamscan MR
• 1x MP1 Water Phantom and one MP1-MR
• Now RUBY RW3 set but also several legacy phantoms (IMRT Head & Neck Phantom, RW3 slab phantoms, Universal IMRT, inhomogeneity phantom).
• Multiple PTW ion chambers, well type chambers and solid state detectors (microdiamond, diodes)
• Several PTW Electrometers (UNIDOS webline, UNIDOS Romeo)