Brain-scanning helmet could allow paramedics to diagnose strokes within the critical ‘golden hour’

Doctors call it the "golden hour", when there's the best chance to restore blood flow and save threatened tissue from a stroke.

There are 60 years between teen Shaun Lockhart and Colin Knot — but when they had strokes months apart, it was 60 minutes that made the difference in their recovery. Doctors call it the "golden hour", when there's the best chance to restore blood flow and save threatened tissue from a stroke. It was six hours before he was flown from a local hospital to the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, where he had a scan and went straight into surgery.

The new technology can scan the brain of a stroke victim in just 10 minutes.

"It took them only 13 minutes from start to finish. And we later found out he had in fact had 10 to 12 mini-strokes in his life, but only two that were really noticeable," Ms Edwards said.