Cerebrovascular Diseases Imaging Database
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
284847
Contact name
Joanna M Wardlaw
Contact email
Research summary
Brain Imaging Database for Cerebrovascular Diseases
REC name
West of Scotland REC 4
REC reference
20/WS/0094
Date of REC Opinion
22 Sep 2020
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion
Data collection arrangements
The Database contains brain MRI scans and CT scans from patients with a range of different types of stroke who participated in a individual specific research projects or clinical trials on stroke, vascular dementia or other aspects of brain blood vessel diseases, or who attended for brain imaging as part of routine clinical care and agreed to donate their imaging to the Database, from 1998 onwards. The data were linked in 2016 with Scottish Central Health Records and include long term outcomes up to 19 years.
Research programme
Researchers interested in disorders of the brain blood vessels and dementia including stroke physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, brain imaging specialists, computational image analysts, health informatics specialists, epidemiologists, neuroscientists.
Research database title
Brain Imaging Database for Cerebrovascular Diseases
Establishment organisation
University of Edinburgh
Establishment organisation address
Chancellor's Building
49 Little France Crescent
Edinburgh
EH16 4SB