An Australian Startup & #039;s Unique Approach to Imaging Lung Function

Here's a story about how a technology developed to study air displacement from jet engines inspired one mechanical engineer to develop a unique solution for medical imaging. "I used to work on as a mechanical engineer testing aircraft and other vehicles in wind tunnels," Andreas Fouras told MD+DI. "We would place models in a wind tunnel, we would do this wind tunnel imaging with lasers and cameras and so on, and from that my team would write software that would perform the quantitative analysis of those images to do things like calculate where there was turbulence and how this aircraft or this vehicle was performing in the tunnel." Fouras invented new algorithms in that space that allowed that analysis to be done in 3D and 4D.  "And at the same time, I was rubbing shoulders with medical researchers who were talking to me about the difficulties they had in understanding or doing good quality functional imaging in the heart and lungs," said Fouras. "I was able to put two and two together and extend and extrapolate the wind tunnel technology that I developed into this medical imaging technology. I had that idea in 2005 and worked on it effectively as a research project for eight years and then spun out the company in 2013." So that's how Fouras became the founder, chairman, and CEO of 4Dx, a Melbourne, Australia-based company developing a software-as-a-service technology that enables four-dimensional lung imaging tests ...
Source: MDDI - Category: Medical Devices Authors: Tags: Imaging Software Source Type: news