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The UK X-ray Tomography Roadmap Survey opens 5 October — get notified at launch
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Three ways to make your voice heard

A roadmap is only as good as the evidence behind it. Everything published in Spring 2027 traces back to what this community tells us over the next few months — so the more of you we hear from, the stronger the case we can make.

PrimaryUntil 4 Oct 2026

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Secondaryw/c 7 Dec & 14 Dec 2026

Town Halls — London & Manchester

Hear preliminary results and contribute to defining future requirements and challenges. Registration opens with the survey

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01 — The national survey

How you use X-ray Tomography now, and how you want to use it in the future

Depending on how widely you use the technique, the survey will take 15-25 minutes. We want to understand how you currently access, use and learnt to use X-ray Tomography infrastructure. This will enable us to describe the current national landscape. Then we want to understand how you want to access, use and learn in the future to define gaps, requirements, and challenges to implementing this.

You do not need to speak for your whole institution. We want to know your personal journey — patterns across hundreds of responses are what we're after.

Time to complete
15-25 min
Closes
13 Nov 2026

The survey opens on 5 October 2026. Register your interest below and we will email you the moment it does.

02 — Regional town halls

Come and discuss with us in person

Two face-to-face sessions with you can hear the survey's early findings, discuss the detail to ensure you voice is heard and network with your peers. Free to attend, no talk to prepare, tea provided.

Monday 7 December

Manchester

Format09:30-15:30
Tuesday 15 December

London

Format09:30-15:30

Registration opens when the survey does, on 5 October 2026.

03 — Stay in the loop

Not ready to answer yet?

Register your interest and we'll email you regular updates as the roadmap progresses. No more than two emails per month, and your information will not be shared with any third party.

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What you're helping to map

Your answers describe work like this

Volume rendering of a zebrafish head, soft tissue shown translucent with gill structure picked out in red
Fig. 01 — Synchrotron micro-CT

Zebrafish head. The kind of resolution UK researchers travel abroad to get — and one of the access questions the survey asks about.

Micro-CT scan of a fish with each block of musculature labelled in a different colour
Fig. 02 — Segmentation

Segmented musculature. Segmentation time and software licensing are two of the four themes in the survey.