Australia’s National Rugby League could soon use a handheld brain scanner used by the military to look for brain bleeds in players.
The NRL’s chief medical officer Dr Paul Bloomfield will next week meet boxer-turned-trainer Noel Thornberry, an advocate of the Infrascanner 2000 device.
The pair will discuss the use of the portable scanner, which is 90 per cent accurate at spotting deadly brain bleeds just moments after they happen.