4DX is seeking to partner with an Australian hospital to conduct clinical trials of its lung imaging analysis software at an Australian hospital. There’s international interest brewing, with Duke University in the US and a Chinese university already wanting to use the technology.

The company’s chief executive and founder, Andreas Fouras, is an Australian aeronautical engineer whose research into wind flow across plane wings expanded into lung health analysis technology.

“It makes for a test that is really fast and completely reliable because there is no opportunity for human error to be included in how our tests are run,” Professor Fouras said. “The way that the virus impacts your lungs is it creates these regions that become inflamed and have reduced airflow and that’s the way in which the virus makes you sick. We’ve been able to prove that we are a very early detector of any disease in the lung.”