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STIR: Stroke Imaging Repository Consortium

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Mission Statements

MR Stroke is a collaboration between leading clinical scientists with a common interest in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. At the start of 2007 MR Stroke membership had grown to 48, most leading academic clinicians from around the globe. Chaired by Professors Stephen Davis (Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia) and Geoffrey Donnan (Austin Health, Australia), MR Stroke was formed to facilitate the sharing and exchange of information and ideas.

STIR has been established to promote excellence in stroke care and stroke trial design.

The overall purpose is to create an international consortium of investigators and a repository of source MRI and CT images toward the objectives of standardization and validation of acquisition, analytic, and clinical research methods of image-based stroke research.

STIR will interface with VISTA (Virtual International Stroke Trials Archive) and the MR Stroke Collaborative Group, as a coordinated and complementary effort. STIR will function without favor to individual groups or sponsors. As such, membership is open to all groups who fulfill criteria specified in this document and the results of STIR analysis should be used for the benefit of the wider clinical and academic community. Thus, although individual groups may propose and even sponsor certain analysis, the results of these analysis should typically be submitted for publication or at least recorded in the public domain.