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.
Professional activities
- 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
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Projects
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- URF Enhancement: Multiscale correlative imaging - linking the nanoscale to the whole organism
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2022
- Direct Wavefront Sensing for Efficient Measurement of Electronic Spin in Nanodiamond
- Patton, Brian (Principal Investigator)
- 15-Jan-2018 - 14-Jan-2019
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