A new portable medical device has been developed by retired US Navy sonar experts --- the sensor-equipped headset uses submarine technology for detecting, diagnosing, and monitoring strokes!

Noting that the new brain-imaging system uses a simple headset and laptop, as well as decades of submarine technology, to zoom in on brain activity which could be problematic, Kieran J. Murphy - director of research and deputy chief of radiology at the University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada – said that the portable device has been “developed and validated” for stroke detection.

Since the device, equipped with six highly sensitive accelerometers, is based on decades of submarine warfare technology, it could undoubtedly help distinguish normal brain from life-threatening conditions, like swelling (hematoma) and bleeding (hemorrhage).

The incessant monitoring ability of the new device – exclusive in neurodiagnostics – facilitates immediate detection of changes in a patient’s condition; with each kind of stroke and brain trauma being detected, identified and located via the headset and portable laptop-based device.

With the headset capable of measuring skull pulsations which could be an indication of irregular blood flow, Murphy elaborated that the device sorts out “cerebral abnormalities such as aneurysms, arteriovenous malformations.”

Noting that the portability and the highly speedy initial diagnosis of make it appropriate for countless uses outside of the hospital setting, Murphy is of the opinion that the system though “very simple in principle” can yield “exceedingly rich data”!