Summary
Dr Rowlands' research focusses on biophotonic instrumentation: making new types of optical systems that can image faster, deeper into tissue, in more colours, over larger areas, and with higher resolution. He has a broad background in different techniques, including multiphoton, super-resolution, Raman, confocal, light-sheet and fluorescence lifetime instrumentation, and is interested in developing novel designs, as well as improving the design of existing instruments in order to make them more usable for collborators. His research also extends to algorithm development and software engineering; much of this work is open-source, and can be downloaded from the group website.
Dr Rowlands studied Chemistry at Imperial College London before embarking on a PhD in the physics and chemistry of amorphous materials in the group of Prof. Stephen Elliott at the University of Cambridge. After a year spent developing a combined Raman and fluorescence microscope for intra-operative tumour diagnosis as a postdoc in the lab of Prof. Ioan Notingher at the University of Nottingham, Dr Rowlands was awarded an MIT Postdoctoral Research Fellowship to study the use of temporal focusing microscopy in photodynamic therapy at MIT, in the lab of Prof. Peter So. After five years, he returned to the UK and spent a year in Prof. Clemens Kaminski's lab at the University of Cambridge, before joining the Department of Bioengineering in September 2017.
Publications
Journals
Howe GA, Tang M-X, Rowlands CJ, 2023, Tailored photoacoustic apertures with superimposed optical holograms, Biomedical Optics Express, Vol:14, ISSN:2156-7085, Pages:6361-6361
Wright N, Rowlands CJ, 2023, mtFRC: depth-dependent resolution quantification of image features in 3D fluorescence microscopy, Bioinformatics Advances, Vol:3, ISSN:2635-0041
Lingg JGP, Bischof TS, Arus BA, et al., 2023, Shortwave-infrared line-scan confocal microscope for deep tissue imaging in intact organs, Laser and Photonics Reviews, Vol:17, ISSN:1863-8880
Yan J, Wang B, Riemer K, et al., 2023, Fast 3D super-resolution ultrasound with adaptive weight-based beamforming, Ieee Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol:70, ISSN:0018-9294, Pages:2752-2761
Whiteley I, Song C, Howe GA, et al., 2023, DIRECT, a low-cost system for high-speed, low-noise imaging of fluorescent bio-samples, Biomedical Optics Express, Vol:14, ISSN:2156-7085, Pages:1-11