Overview

I am a PhD student within the Physics department here in Exeter. Specifically, I work in the Biomedical Spectroscopy group headed by Prof Nick Stone and Prof Francesca Palombo. 

My current work is focused on the development and optimisation of fibre optic Raman needle probes for the diagnosis of disease. Specifically my current work involves the optimisation of the design of a  Raman needle probe for Lymphoma diagnosis. This work is related to an ongoing NIHR funded project. 

Prior to starting my PhD I completed my masters project (MSci Natural Sciences) within Prof Nick Stone's group here at Exeter. This research focused on utilising drop coating deposition Raman (DCDR) of blood serum samples to differentiate between control patients and patients with lung or ovarian cancer. This work resulted in a publication.

Prior to my masters project I undertook two summer projects within the group; one utlising transmission Raman spectroscopy (TRS) to predict the depth of an analyte within turbid media (resulting in publication) and another utilising fourier transform Infra-red (FTIR) spectroscopy for the development of an oesophageal cancer diagnostic model. 

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Publications

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2023

• Sheridan H. (2023) Developing Fibre Optic Raman Spectroscopy Probes for Cancer Diagnosis.

2022

• Bench C, Nallala J, Wang C-C, Sheridan H, Stone N. (2022) Unsupervised segmentation of biomedical hyperspectral image data: tackling high dimensionality with convolutional autoencoders, Biomedical Optics Express, volume 13, no. 12, pages 6373-6373, DOI:10.1364/boe.476233. [PDF]

2019

• Chudasama D, Katopodis P, Stone N, Haskell J, Sheridan H, Gardner B, Urnovitz H, Schuetz E, Beck J, Hall M. (2019) Liquid Biopsies in Lung Cancer: Four Emerging Technologies and Potential Clinical Applications, Cancers (Basel), volume 11, no. 3, DOI:10.3390/cancers11030331. [PDF]

2017

• Vardaki MZ, Sheridan H, Stone N, Matousek P. (2017) Determination of Depth in Transmission Raman Spectroscopy in Turbid Media Using a Beam Enhancing Element, Applied Spectroscopy, volume 71, no. 8, pages 1849-1855, DOI:10.1177/0003702817691540.

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