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
- 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)
- Quantum imaging : optically detected magnetic resonance of nanodiamond
- Craig Rebecca, Patton Brian
- Photon 2022 (2022)
- Using an autocollimator to align 4f systems
- Johnstone Graeme, Patton Brian
- (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1242/focalplane.11048
- Quantum on a budget : developing a 3d-printed microscope for optically detected magnetic resonance of nanodiamond
- Craig Rebecca, Patton Brian, Corbyn Ryan
- Microscience Microscopy Congress 2021 (2021)
- 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
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Professional Activities
- 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
- RMS Frontiers in Bioimaging 2018
- Member of programme committee
- 27/6/2018
Projects
- Industrial Case Account - University of Strathclyde 2023 | Walker, Lewis
- McConnell, Gail (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) Walker, Lewis (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 01-Oct-2026
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Copeland, Laura
- McConnell, Gail (Principal Investigator) Patton, Brian (Co-investigator) Copeland, Laura (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Oct-2023 - 01-Apr-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-Oct-2020 - 01-Nov-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-Feb-2020 - 01-Oct-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-Feb-2020 - 01-Oct-2023
- 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-Feb-2020 - 01-Oct-2023