General presentation

The CYRCe plateform has four expertise areas : the use of protons (for isotop production and sample irradiation), nuclear imaging, animal housing and biological laboratory. The CYRCé platform is strongly benefits from the developments made by the molecular imaging team and the hadrontherapy team as well as the technical support of IPHC.
The platform allows to house animals (mainly mice and rats) and to culture cells. The TR24 cyclotron allows us to both irradiate samples (biological ones or detectors) with proton that have an energy range between 0 and 25 MeV. Using the cyclotron, it is also possible to produce isotopes mainly positron radiation (18-F, 64-Cu and 89-Zr). We also have a µPET/CT, an autoradiography system and a HiDEX system to image and quantify the biodistribution of radioactive molecule in vivo or in vitro.
The strong links with the different teams of the DRHIM department (Radiobiology, Hadrontherapy and Molecular Imaging)allow the platform to access innovative protocols and setups.

For any request for access to the Cyrcé platform services, please complete the request form and send it by email to cyrce-contact@iphc.cnrs.fr. The experiment committee will get back to you with a proposed schedule and cost.

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Irradiation

Cyclotron for isotopes production and sample irradiation

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Imaging

A Multimodality Imaging System for Small Animal

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Laboratories

Biology laboratories

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Animal house

Hébergement de souris et rats

Ce projet, d’un coût total de 4,85 M€, a été financé par le Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur et de la recherche, le CNRS, la Région Alsace, le Conseil Général du Bas-Rhin, la Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, le Fonds Européen de Développement Régional (FEDER) et l’Université de Strasbourg.