Cerebrovascular Diseases Imaging Database Renewal 2025

  • Research type

    Research Database

  • IRAS ID

    360368

  • Contact name

    Grant Mair

  • Contact email

    grant.mair@ed.ac.uk

  • Research summary

    Brain Imaging Database for Cerebrovascular Diseases

  • REC name

    West of Scotland REC 4

  • REC reference

    25/WS/0139

  • Date of REC Opinion

    12 Sep 2025

  • REC opinion

    Favourable Opinion

  • Data collection arrangements

    The Database contains brain magnetic resonance and computed tomographic imaging data from patients with cerebrovascular diseases who participated in a range of individual specific research projects and clinical trials on stroke, dementia or other aspects of cerebrovascular disease, 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 cerebrovascular disease and dementia including stroke physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, neuroimaging 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

    Old College

    South Bridge

    Edinburgh

    EH8 9YL