Today three of our group members joined the Walk and Ride to raise funds for the Oogfonds, the National association for patients with ocular conditions. The Oogfonds is a partner in many of our projects, such as the recently funded development of an ocular cone-beam CT scanner.
Today Corné launched Visisipy, our open source platform for vision simulations, at the Visual and Physiological Optics conference in Wroclaw, Polen. Visisipy has been developed as part of the OPENOPTICS project and aims to develop an open toolbox for optical simulations of the eye.
We are excited to share that our application to develop a cone-beam CT scanner for the eyes has been funded as part of the Open Technology Programme of the Dutch Research Council.
Science is great… but so is a little friendly competition every now and then! On Thursday, researchers from the Gorter Center, including some from the MReye group, showed their athleticism in a cycling race against the MRI research groups from UMC Utrecht and Amsterdam UMC.
Today, we attended the Second International PTCOG Ocular Proton Therapy Symposium 2024! We enjoyed the interesting talks, lively discussions and pizza breaks. And of course, we’re very proud of Corné Haasjes, who received the Best Presentation Award for his talk ‘Optical aberration correction of fundus photographs for ocular proton therapy planning’.
Every year, the Dutch Research Council (NWO) publishes “Resultaat”, a magazine highlighting last year’s ground-breaking, surprising and above all socially relevant scientific results from the previous year. The 2023 edition features an interview with members of our group on the impact of our MRI technologies on the lives of patients with eye cancer.
Three of our scientists (Beenakker, Van Vught and Haasjes) have received an Open Science grant from the Dutch Research Council to stimulate the development of ZOSPy, our open platform for optical simulations.
Today we have had the first User’s Committee meeting of our COMPOSE project. These meetings are common element for projects funded through NWO’s Applied Engineering Sciences domain, and provides potential users, e.