Acute Vascular Imaging Centre
The Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre (AVIC) is an internationally unique facility dedicated to clinical research in acute coronary syndromes (heart attack and unstable angina), stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA), traumatic brain injury and vascular disorders.
About AVIC
The Oxford Acute Vascular Imaging Centre (AVIC) at the John Radcliffe Hospital is an internationally unique facility dedicated to clinical research in acute coronary syndromes (heart attack and unstable angina), stroke and transient ischaemic attack (TIA), traumatic brain injury and vascular disorders.
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Read moreResearchers develop new scan to predict stroke
Researchers from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine have developed a new type of MRI scan to predict the risk of having a stroke, thanks to funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
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RDM team wins 2018 Hypertension Top Paper award
19 August 2019
Award from the journal Hypertension recognises publication as the top paper in its category of basic science.
Researchers develop new scan to predict stroke
24 August 2017
Researchers from the Radcliffe Department of Medicine have developed a new type of MRI scan to predict the risk of having a stroke, thanks to funding from the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
Unique Oxford study of vascular disease welcomes 10,000th participant
2 September 2016
The only project of its kind anywhere that studies all acute vascular events, such as strokes and heart attacks, to develop better treatments has recruited its 10,000th Oxfordshire participant. AVIC conducts brain imaging for this study.
Latest Publications
Acute Microvascular Impairment Post-Reperfused STEMI Is Reversible and Has Additional Clinical Predictive Value: A CMR OxAMI Study.
Borlotti A. et al, (2019), JACC Cardiovasc Imaging
Combined T1-mapping and tissue tracking analysis predicts severity of ischemic injury following acute STEMI-an Oxford Acute Myocardial Infarction (OxAMI) study.
Wamil M. et al, (2019), Int J Cardiovasc Imaging, 35, 1297 - 1308
MRS and DTI evidence of progressive posterior cingulate cortex and corpus callosum injury in the hyper-acute phase after Traumatic Brain Injury.
Lawrence TP. et al, (2019), Brain Inj, 1 - 15
Prognostic value of "tissue-based" definitions of TIA and minor stroke: Population-based study.
Hurford R. et al, (2019), Neurology, 92, e2455 - e2461
Measurement of collateral perfusion in acute stroke: a vessel-encoded arterial spin labeling study.
Okell TW. et al, (2019), Sci Rep, 9
Clinical Director
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Robin Choudhury
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
robin.choudhury@cardiov.ox.ac.uk
+44 (0)1865 234664
