Cerebrovascular Diseases Imaging Database Renewal 2025
Research type
Research Database
IRAS ID
360368
Contact name
Grant Mair
Contact email
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