Sean J. Kirkpatrick

3.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
81 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Sean J. Kirkpatrick is a scholar working on Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biomedical Engineering and Physiology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean J. Kirkpatrick has authored 81 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, 28 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 27 papers in Physiology. Recurrent topics in Sean J. Kirkpatrick's work include Thermoregulation and physiological responses (27 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (17 papers) and Infrared Thermography in Medicine (14 papers). Sean J. Kirkpatrick is often cited by papers focused on Thermoregulation and physiological responses (27 papers), Photoacoustic and Ultrasonic Imaging (17 papers) and Infrared Thermography in Medicine (14 papers). Sean J. Kirkpatrick collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Sweden. Sean J. Kirkpatrick's co-authors include Donald D. Duncan, Ruikang K. Wang, Monica T. Hinds, Elaine M. Wells-Gray, Zhenhe Ma, Evan Hirst, Marcus Larsson, Tomas Strömberg, David Briers and Oliver Thompson and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics and Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications.

In The Last Decade

Sean J. Kirkpatrick

80 papers receiving 2.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Laser speckle contrast imaging: theoretical and practical limitations

2013 395 citations David Briers, Donald D. Duncan et al. Journal of Biomedical Optics profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sean J. Kirkpatrick United States	24	1.2k	1.0k	791	237	234	81	2.4k
Robert A. McLaughlin Australia	39	1.5k 1.2×	2.8k 2.7×	160 0.2×	360 1.5×	42 0.2×	137	4.1k
Guillermo Aguilar United States	34	709 0.6×	900 0.9×	380 0.5×	344 1.5×	16 0.1×	176	3.2k
Raimund Hibst Germany	26	2.6k 2.2×	639 0.6×	154 0.2×	106 0.4×	21 0.1×	81	3.6k
Ryan Roemer United States	33	1.7k 1.4×	2.4k 2.3×	340 0.4×	80 0.3×	33 0.1×	152	3.5k
Taiji ADACHI Japan	39	230 0.2×	1.9k 1.8×	286 0.4×	699 2.9×	10 0.0×	236	5.9k
Lei Sun China	30	664 0.6×	1.3k 1.3×	246 0.3×	205 0.9×	7 0.0×	181	2.7k
Larry A. Taber United States	46	613 0.5×	3.1k 2.9×	145 0.2×	1.0k 4.3×	9 0.0×	129	6.2k
Dimitrije Stamenović United States	36	103 0.1×	2.2k 2.1×	607 0.8×	382 1.6×	20 0.1×	95	5.5k
Allan S. Jones Australia	28	127 0.1×	398 0.4×	121 0.2×	234 1.0×	46 0.2×	84	2.7k

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Koirala, Krishna Prasad, Zihua Zhu, Mingzhao Liu, et al.. (2025). Tailoring the Physicochemical Properties of Nb Thin Films via Surface Engineering Methods. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. 17(16). 24502–24512.

Kar, Soumen, Conan Weiland, Chenyu Zhou, et al.. (2023). Engineering of niobium surfaces through accelerated neutral atom beam technology for quantum applications. Journal of Applied Physics. 134(2). 6 indexed citations

Sharma, Dhavan, David Ross, Guifang Wang, et al.. (2019). Upgrading prevascularization in tissue engineering: A review of strategies for promoting highly organized microvascular network formation. Acta Biomaterialia. 95. 112–130. 96 indexed citations

Briers, David, Donald D. Duncan, Evan Hirst, et al.. (2013). Laser speckle contrast imaging: theoretical and practical limitations. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 18(6). 66018–66018. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

Wells-Gray, Elaine M., Sean J. Kirkpatrick, & Ronald L. Sakaguchi. (2010). A dynamic light scattering approach for monitoring dental composite curing kinetics. Dental Materials. 26(7). 634–642. 4 indexed citations

Jia, Yali, Pierre Bagnaninchi, Ying Yang, et al.. (2009). Doppler optical coherence tomography imaging of local fluid flow and shear stress within microporous scaffolds. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 14(3). 34014–34014. 19 indexed citations

Duncan, Donald D. & Sean J. Kirkpatrick. (2008). Can laser speckle flowmetry be made a quantitative tool?. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(8). 2088–2088. 170 indexed citations

Kirkpatrick, Sean J., Donald D. Duncan, & Elaine M. Wells-Gray. (2008). Detrimental effects of speckle-pixel size matching in laser speckle contrast imaging. Optics Letters. 33(24). 2886–2886. 207 indexed citations

Vartanian, Keri B., Sean J. Kirkpatrick, Owen J. T. McCarty, et al.. (2008). Distinct extracellular matrix microenvironments of progenitor and carotid endothelial cells. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A. 91A(2). 528–539. 34 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, Sean J., Donald D. Duncan, Ruikang K. Wang, & Monica T. Hinds. (2007). Quantitative temporal speckle contrast imaging for tissue mechanics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 24(12). 3728–3728. 24 indexed citations

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Duncan, Donald D. & Sean J. Kirkpatrick. (2007). The copula: a tool for simulating speckle dynamics. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(1). 231–231. 51 indexed citations

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Duncan, Donald D., Sean J. Kirkpatrick, & Ruikang K. Wang. (2007). Statistics of local speckle contrast. Journal of the Optical Society of America A. 25(1). 9–9. 118 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, Sean J.. (2004). A primer on radiometry. Dental Materials. 21(1). 21–26. 29 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, Sean J., Donald D. Duncan, & Fang Li. (2004). Low-frequency surface wave propagation and the viscoelastic behavior of porcine skin. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 9(6). 1311–1311. 32 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, Sean J., Donald D. Duncan, & Li Fang. (2004). <title>Low-frequency surface wave propagation and the viscoelastic behavior of porcine skin</title>. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 127–137. 2 indexed citations

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Brott, Lawrence L., et al.. (2003). Microfabrication of graded index lenses using two photon induced polymerization. Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. 973–975. 1 indexed citations

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Baker, Deborah A., et al.. (2002). Mechanical properties of coagulated albumin and failure mechanisms of liver repaired with the use of an argon‐beam coagulator with albumin. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 63(6). 722–728. 21 indexed citations

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Duncan, Donald D. & Sean J. Kirkpatrick. (2001). Processing algorithms for tracking speckle shifts in optical elastography of biological tissues. Journal of Biomedical Optics. 6(4). 418–418. 35 indexed citations

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Kirkpatrick, Sean J., et al.. (1998). Micromechanical behavior of cortical bone as inferred from laser speckle data. Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 39(3). 373–379. 16 indexed citations

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Duncan, D. D., et al.. (1995). THE DEVELOPMENT OF PERSONAL DOSIMETERS FOR USE IN THE VISIBLE AND ULTRAVIOLET WAVELENGTH REGIONS. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 62(1). 94–100. 25 indexed citations

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