Video: Personalised 3D computer models of patients' hearts have been created to help cardiologists carry out life saving treatments
By The Newsroom
Published 11th May 2016, 10:30 BST
Updated 11th May 2016, 11:35 BST
Personalised 3D computer models of patients' hearts have been created to help cardiologists carry out life saving treatments.
The virtual organs, for instance, can work out a heart attack victims’ risk of developing a potentially fatal irregular beat. They can then be surgically implanted with a defibrillator, a device that applies electric shocks to the heart when its rhythm goes out of kilter. Arrhythmias or heart rhythm problems are experienced by more than two million people a year in the UK.