TWO weeks ago, Simon Kelly was on the back porch when he suddenly collapsed.
Acute pain shot through the 53-year-old Victorian's neck, head and shoulders.
His wife found him slumped in his chair and he was rushed to hospital.
It was there that surgeons, for the first time, were able to assess his condition before operating by using an Australian-first 3D imaging lab.
"They didn't have to do the exploratory stuff to discover the problem, they were able to go straight to it, which was basically a pea size swelling that had ruptured," he says.
Mr Kelly had suffered an aneurism, and Monash Medical Centre staff credit the new lab with saving his life.
Within 20 minutes, the lab informed the radiologist exactly where his problem was and how to go about the procedure, deputy director of radiology, Associate Professor Ronnie Ptasznik, says.
Without the speedy information there would have been a high chance Mr Kelly's case could have been fatal or he could have ended up severely disabled.
"Before this, we would've known he had a stroke, we would've known that he probably had a burst aneurism, but we wouldn't have been able to plan the life-saving procedure before we touched him," Prof Ptasznik says.
Surgeons now have a better map of where the problem is before the procedure, with the lab providing clearer and more detailed pictures of organs, skeletal problems and tumours than ever before.
Testing is faster than a CT scan or ultrasound, cutting down patient waiting times for results.
"We move away from the bad old days when the patient was opened up and then had to wake up and be told they were inoperable and still had to recover from the surgery," Mr Ptasznik says.
"It's truly life-changing medical therapy."
The lab was launched by Health Minister David Davis on Thursday.
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