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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.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Non-linear Optical Spectroscopy of Single Quantum Dots, University of Dortmund
Award Date: 1 Nov 2004
Keywords
- Physics,
- Optics
- Super-resolution microscopy
- Diamond
- Adaptive Optics
- Neural Imaging
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Doctoral Training Partnership 2020-2021 University of Strathclyde | Craig, Rebecca
Patton, B., McConnell, G. & Craig, R.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/20 → 1/05/24
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated
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Doctoral Training Partnership 2018-19 University of Strathclyde | McCarry, Cait
McKee, D., Patton, B. & McCarry, C.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/02/20 → 1/10/23
Project: Research Studentship - Internally Allocated
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Using an autocollimator to align 4f systems
Johnstone, G. & Patton, B., 29 Jun 2022, FocalPlane, 29 June.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
Open AccessFile144 Downloads (Pure) -
Low-cost, open-access quantitative phase imaging of algal cells using the transport of intensity equation
Grant, S. D., Richford, K., Burdett, H. L., McKee, D. & Patton, B. R., 29 Jan 2020, In: Royal Society Open Science. 7, 1, 12 p., 191921.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile7 Citations (Scopus)21 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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M4All: MultiModal Modular Microscopy for All
Cairns, G. S. (Creator), Patton, B. (Contributor) & Grant, S. (Contributor), Zenodo, 1 Nov 2021
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5569710, https://github.com/NanoBioPhotonics-Strathclyde/M4All/tree/1.0.0
Dataset
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Refractive Index of Algae Measured with a Low Cost, Open Access Microscope
Patton, B. (Creator), Grant, S. (Creator), McKee, D. (Creator) & Burdett, H. (Creator), University of Strathclyde, 17 Dec 2019
DOI: 10.15129/e85e0b91-bff9-49ac-b1eb-035132b5a77c, https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/640755v1
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Prizes
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Tom Gibson Memorial Award
Patton, Brian (Recipient), 28 Sept 2017
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Activities
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Nanodiamonds for adaptive optics enhanced two photon excitation microscopy
Graeme Johnstone (Speaker), Brian Patton (Contributor) & Gemma Sharon Cairns (Contributor)
9 Jul 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation
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Superresolution microscopy and adaptive optics for deep tissue microscopy using nanodiamonds
Graeme Johnstone (Speaker), Brian Patton (Contributor) & Gemma Sharon Cairns (Contributor)
2 Jul 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation