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Cardiovascular CT Research Unit

The Cardiovascular CT Research Unit runs various clinical trials and research projects focusing on CT imaging biomarkers in cardiovascular disease.


Main research areas​​

  • Coronary atherosclerosis​
  • Left ventricular morphology and function
  • Left atrial and atrial appendage morphology and function
  • Cardiac valvular morphology and disease
  • Aortic disease
  • Novel CT imaging biomarkers for cardiovascular disease
  • Cardiovascular and organ segmentation tools​​

Funding
  • John and Birte Meyer Foundation
  • AP Møller og hustru Chastine McKinney Møllers Fond
  • Novo Nordisk Foundation
  • Novo Nordisk A/S
  • Sygeforsikringen Danmark
  • EU Seventh framework program
  • Rigshospitalets forskningsråd
  • Canon Medical Corporation
  • GE HealthCare​

​​Current team members

Organizational leader​​​​s

  • Lars Køber, Professor, MD
  • Jesper James Linde, MD, PhD

Steering comitt​​ee

  • Jørgen Tobias Kühl, MD, PhD, DMSc
  • Andreas Fuchs, MD, PhD
  • Per Ejlstrup Sigvardsen, MD, PhD
  • Michael Huy Cuong Pham, MD, PhD

Research​ers

  • Mathias Bech Lindeskog, MD, PhD
  • Jonas Jalili Pedersen, MD, PhD student
  • Andreas Ohrt Johansen, MD, PhD student

​Key collaborators

DTU Co​​mp​​ut​​e​​
  • ​​​Rasmus Reinhold Paulsen, MSc(Eng), PhD, Professor in Medical Image Analysis
  • Mathias Lowes, MSc(Eng), PhD student
  • Bjørn Hansen, MSc​(Eng), PhD student

Department of Clinic​​al Biochemistry, Herlev Hospital

  • Børge Nordesgaard, MD, DMSc, Clinical Professor
  • Shoaib Afzal, MD, PhD, DMSc, Clinical Professor


Research projects


RH-CT Projects

Prevention and treatment of coronary disease

  • DANEHEART – Randomized controlled trial (prevention of cardiovascular events)
  • DYNAMITE – Randomized controlled trial (optimizing treatment for angina)

Pre​diction and risk stratification of cardiovascular disease in healthy adults

  • ARTICHOKE – Imaging biomarkers for stroke and heart failure
  • CARROT - Adipose tissue distribution, inflammatory and cardiometabolic disease imaging biomarkers​

​Collaboration Projects

Randomized controlled trials

  • Vitamin K / Inter99 (General population)
  • Inten-CT (Type 2 DM)
  • NOTION 4 (Post TAVR)
  • GLORIUS 2 (Post bypass operation)
  • NEO-trial (Post bypass operation)
  • DANISH-CRT (Heart failure)​​​

Observational studies

  • COCOMO (Patients with HIV)
  • NYRERISK (Patients with kidney disease)
  • PLUSHEART (Patients with SLE)
  • DETECT / REACT (Atherosclerosis in general population)
  • CVD-link (General population in Tanzania)












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