CIRCLE INSTITUTE offers the following services in the field of cardiovascular imaging and, specifically, in cardiac MRI:
Study Design
- advice on selecting imaging methods
- design of study protocols and development of evaluation algorithms
- pilot studies at selected centres
- recruitment of internationally established MRI study centres
- CRF design
Web based data management
- validated systems
- central, high storage capacity server
- excellent data security (secure shell/sFTP)
- provision of written instructions for data transfer, if desired
- installation of software at centres
- electronic CRF
- SQL-standards
- 7/24 access
Central evaluation
- blinding of study data
- off-site-reading by MRI specialists experienced in the relevant field
- validated state-of-the-art evaluation software
- standardised evaluation protocols
- interim analyses
Medical writing
- presentation in written and graphic form
- statistical evaluation
- preparation for publication
