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Project overview: Improving jockey safety through virtual reality and biomarkers of concussion
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Published: 9 Jun 2020
Author(s): Brad Wright
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Project Overview
A detect-alert-deter system for enhanced AI biosecurity and risk assessment
30 June 2016 – 15 May 2019
This project aims to improve the health and safety of Australian jockeys by developing an objective measure of concussion. To do this, the research team are testing a new virtual-reality technology concussion assessment, called CONVIRT, and identifying novel blood biomarkers of concussion.
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