My first FOSDEM has come and gone, and what a whirlwind it was! Over 8,000 attendees, more than 1,000 talks, and 70 parallel tracks—all squeezed into two intense days, where no matter where you stood, you were never more than five minutes away from a place serving strong Belgian beer. It’s an overwhelming, exhilarating, and […]

One of ARC’s longest-running collaborations is with the Biomedical Ultrasound Group. Over the past three years, we’ve been developing a graphical user interface to simulate ultrasound treatment plans! This software is called k-Plan, and licences are now available for sale through UCL’s commercial partner, BrainBox (who also sell ultrasound transducers). If you’re interested in medical […]

Observing how light interacts with materials allows us to develop non-invasive medical imaging techniques, that rely on these interactions to assemble an image or infer an appropriate diagnosis. Light interacts with materials in many different ways. One of the most commonly observed interactions is dispersion; which causes white light to split into individual colours, creating […]