All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August New tool to treat heart disease named WA Innovator finalist New tool to treat heart disease named WA Innovator finalist 03/08/2021 | 2 MINS A new tool that provides cardiologists with rapid information to treat patients with heart disease and save lives lost from heart attacks is a finalist in the WA Innovator of the Year 2021 Awards. Apricot, an advanced coronary artery assessment tool, developed by a team of researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research has been named a finalist in both the Rio Tinto Emerging and Wesfarmers Wellbeing Award categories. It aims to provide new information to the cardiologist when they are treating a patient during catheterisation theatre, known as the Cath Lab, where procedures such as stenting are carried out. The new information combines the anatomical data that they can see on the images, with engineering-based information that they cannot see, to give them a better idea of how to treat the patient. Associate Professor Barry Doyle and
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 August New tool to treat heart disease named WA Innovator finalist New tool to treat heart disease named WA Innovator finalist 03/08/2021 | 2 MINS A new tool that provides cardiologists with rapid information to treat patients with heart disease and save lives lost from heart attacks is a finalist in the WA Innovator of the Year 2021 Awards.
Apricot, an advanced coronary artery assessment tool, developed by a team of researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research has been named a finalist in both the Rio Tinto Emerging and Wesfarmers Wellbeing Award categories.
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It aims to provide new information to the cardiologist when they are treating a patient during catheterisation theatre, known as the Cath Lab, where procedures such as stenting are carried out.
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The new information combines the anatomical data that they can see on the images, with engineering-based information that they cannot see, to give them a better idea of how to treat the patient.
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