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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Using an autocollimator to align 4f systems Johnstone Graeme, Patton Brian (2022) https://doi.org/10.1242/focalplane.11048 Low-cost, open-access quantitative phase imaging of algal cells using the transport of intensity equation Grant Stephen D, Richford Kyle, Burdett Heidi L, McKee David, Patton Brian R Royal Society Open Science Vol 7 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191921 Adapting the 3D-printed Openflexure microscope enables computational super-resolution imaging Grant Stephen D, Cairns Gemma S, Wistuba Jordan, Patton Brian R F1000Research (2019) https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.21294.1 Nanodiamonds enable adaptive-optics enhanced, super-resolution, two-photon excitation microscopy Johnstone Graeme E, Cairns Gemma S, Patton Brian R Royal Society Open Science Vol 6 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.190589 Three-dimensional STED microscopy of aberrating tissue using dual adaptive optics Patton Brian R, Burke Daniel, Owald David, Gould Travis J, Bewersdorf Joerg, Booth Martin J Optics Express Vol 24, pp. 8862-8876 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.008862 All-optical method for characterizing individual fluorescent nanodiamonds Miles Benjamin T, Greenwood Alexander B, Patton Brian R, Gersen Henkjan ACS Photonics Vol 3, pp. 343-348 (2016) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.5b00732
Publications
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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 RMS Frontiers in Bioimaging 2018 Member of programme committee 27/6/2018 Annual meeting for the SHIELD Consortium Invited speaker 14/6/2018
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 Collaborative Studies of Two Resource Ecosystems in Shelf, Slope and Oceanic Regions of the Norwegian and South-China Seas - Stressor | McCarry, Cait McKee, David (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) McCarry, Cait (Research Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023 Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | McCarry, Cait McKee, David (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) McCarry, Cait (Research Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2020 - 01-Jan-2023 Follow-up Program of the JSPS Frontiers of Science (FoS) Symposium. Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator) Follow up visit to lay ground work for future collaborations with nanodiamond and quantum researchers in Japan 29-Jan-2019 - 12-Jan-2019 Strategic research for SMEs: Helping small companies to access doctoral level engineering | Corbyn, Ryan Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator) Kemp, Alan (Co-investigator) Corbyn, Ryan (Research Co-investigator) 01-Jan-2018 - 20-Jan-2023 URF Enhancement: Multiscale correlative imaging - linking the nanoscale to the whole organism Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator) 01-Jan-2018 - 30-Jan-2022