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Aah! I made something similar to this near the end of my PhD! Rather than having an aperture in front of the imaging plane, I elected to place a controllable aperture at the imagin…

The example that I saw was of a patient whose prostate had swollen closing up the urethra. HIFU was applied to ablate the urethra which “opened it back up” so that fluids could pas…

I had the absolute pleasure during my engineering undergraduate (Oxford) to take a biomedical module. One of my 'labs' was on nonlinear acoustics, specifically ultrasound applied f…

It's quite rare that art grabs me, but this did. I love the idea of bending photographic truth in real-time, especially with an optical device. I find the Fulgurator a bit subversi…

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Outside of finance, I generally find UK software and hardware comp to be abysmal. Especially when contrasted to the US, and even Germany. For reference, I hold a doctorate in Engin…

That's not necessarily true. I think this speaks to how American Exceptionalism (often observed in US defaultism on the web) is a problem.

I was always led to believe that the primary source of radiation we need to worry about for space travel was Cosmic Radiation [1]. The shielding requirements for CR relative to sol…

What? The chunnel cost £26 billion in (2023 equivalent), and is 31 miles long. That's nearly a billion a mile. This is by no means cheap (yes yes cheap is a comparative term), tunn…

Luckily enough I have just finished my PhD on optical wireless receivers. While it is truly fascinating, I think it's fundamentally over-hyped as a technology and I doubt it'll eve…

Exceptional read.