Dr Brian Patton
Senior Lecturer
Physics
Personal statement
Personal statement
My research interests lie in exploiting properties of diamond that allow it to sense electric and magnetic fields. By optically imaging sub-100nm particles of diamond, I hope to use them as sensors for detecting the fields generated by living cells, particularly neurons. In order to take advantage of the small size of the nanodiamond, I also use superresolution techniques to increase the precision with which we can determine the location of the nanodiamond. As the particles are embedded in living tissue, it will also be necessary to use adaptive optics methods to correct for the optical aberrations introduced by the tissue and which, uncorrected, would degrade the quality of the imaging.
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Publications
- The use of overlapping Allan Variance to quantify fluorescence fluctuation for super-resolution image reconstruction
- Brown Mollie, McConnell Gail, Gould Gwyn, Craig Rebecca, Patton Brian
- Scottish Conference in Optical Technologies (2025)
- A 3D-printed optical microscope for low-cost histological imaging
- Christopher Jay, Craig Rebecca, McHugh Rebecca E, Roe Andrew J, Bauer Ralf, Patton Brian, McConnell Gail, Rooney Liam M
- Journal of Microscopy Vol 298, pp. 274-282 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/jmi.13398
- The use of overlapping Allan Variance to quantify fluorescence fluctuation for super-resolution image reconstruction
- Brown Mollie, McConnell Gail, Gould Gwyn, Craig Rebecca, Patton Brian
- Glasgow Imaging Network Annual Symposium 2025 (2025)
- The use of overlapping Allan Variance to quantify fluorescence fluctuation for super-resolution image reconstruction
- McConnell Gail, Brown Mollie, Craig Rebecca, Patton Brian, Gould Gwyn
- The Scottish Microscopy Society's 50th Annual Symposium (2024)
- An open-source alignment method for multichannel infinite-conjugate microscopes using a ray transfer matrix analysis model
- Cairns Gemma S, Patton Brian R
- Proceedings A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Vol 382 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2023.0107
- Optically detected magnetic resonance of nanodiamond using widefield detection
- Craig Rebecca, Patton Brian
- Symbiosis (2023)
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Professional Activities
- Strategic Themes - Bioimaging Workshop
- Participant
- 17/9/2024
- From OLEDs to animal magnetoreception: quantum nanodiamond for the detection of short-lived paramagnetic spin-states generated by light
- Contributor
- 6/2/2023
- Nanodiamonds for adaptive optics enhanced two photon excitation microscopy
- Contributor
- 9/7/2019
- Superresolution microscopy and adaptive optics for deep tissue microscopy using nanodiamonds
- Contributor
- 2/7/2019
- Biophotonics and Biomedical Microscopy
- Organiser
- 10/10/2018
- Future of Optical Techniques in Biology
- Speaker
- 12/9/2018
Projects
- UDLA 2527 University of Strathclyde | Caplan, Holly
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator) McConnell, Gail (Co-investigator) Caplan, Holly (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2025 - 01-Jan-2028
- The impact of artificial light on arctic marine organisms and ecosystems during the polar night (Deep Impact) | Wallace, Ruairidh
- McKee, David (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) Wallace, Ruairidh (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2027
- Enhanced quantum sensing by nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamond using optimal Bayesian experiment design
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- 16-Jan-2023 - 15-Jan-2025
- Industrial Case Account - University of Strathclyde 2023 | Walker, Lewis
- McConnell, Gail (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) Walker, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Copeland, Laura
- McConnell, Gail (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) Copeland, Laura (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Craig, Rebecca
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator) McConnell, Gail (Co-investigator) Craig, Rebecca (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2024