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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DPAG/RDM project wins Chan Zuckerberg Initiative funding
29 April 2020
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).
Latest Publications
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
Point-Cloud Method for Automated 3D Coronary Tree Reconstruction From Multiple Non-Simultaneous Angiographic Projections
Banerjee A. et al, (2020), IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 39, 1278 - 1290
Hyper-acute cardiovascular magnetic resonance T1 mapping predicts infarct characteristics in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction.
Alkhalil M. et al, (2020), J Cardiovasc Magn Reson, 22
