Dr

Robert

Byers

All publications

Journal articles

• Berry C, Edmans JG, Slowik KM, Byers RA, Danby S, Hatton PV, Murdoch C & Colley HE (2026) Combined electrospun fibre-microneedle patches for enhanced transmucosal delivery of benzodiazepines and proteins. Biomaterials Science. View this article in WRRO
• Edwards SM, Harding AL, Leedale JA, Webb SD, Colley HE, Byers RA, Bearon RN & Murdoch C (2026) Translating in vitro buccal permeation to in vivo and whole‑body exposure using in silico cell‑based and physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modelling. International Journal of Pharmaceutics. View this article in WRRO
• Cork MJ, Ong PY, Danby SG, Byers RA, Matcher SJ, Katibi OS, Brown K, Andrew PV, Pinnock A, Poyner A , Johnson L et al (2026) Dupilumab treatment restores epithelial barrier in nonlesional and lesional skin in children with atopic dermatitis. Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. View this article in WRRO
• Danby SG, Matcher S, Byers R, Taylor R, Sahib S, Andrew P, Brown K, Kay L, Wright C, Pinnock A , Chittock J et al (2025) Novel biophysical skin biomarkers discriminate topical anti‐inflammatory treatments based on their potential for local adverse effects. JEADV Clinical Practice, 4(1), 103-116. View this article in WRRO
• Duan MQ, Byers RA, Danby SG, Sahib S, Cha A, Zang C, Werth J, Adiri R, Taylor RN, Cork MJ & Matcher SJ (2023) Potential application of PS-OCT in the safety assessment of non-steroidal topical creams for atopic dermatitis treatment. Biomedical Optics Express, 14(8), 4126-4136. View this article in WRRO
• Revin DG, Byers RA, Duan MQ, Li W & Matcher SJ (2023) Visible-light optical coherence tomography platform for the characterization of the skin barrier. Biomedical Optics Express, 14(8), 3914-3923. View this article in WRRO
• Lin WC, Byers RA, Li W, Danby SG, Cork MJ & Matcher SJ (2021) Imaging striae distensae : a comparison between PS-OCT and digital dermoscopy. Biomedical Optics Express, 12(6), 3296-3311. View this article in WRRO
• Byers R & Matcher S (2019) Attenuation of stripe artifacts in optical coherence tomography images through wavelet-FFT filtering. Biomedical Optics Express, 10(8), 4179-4189. View this article in WRRO
• Byers RA, Maiti R, Danby SG, Pang EJ, Mitchell B, Carré MJ, Lewis R, Cork MJ & Matcher SJ (2018) Sub-clinical assessment of atopic dermatitis severity using angiographic optical coherence tomography. Biomedical Optics Express, 9(4), 2001-2017. View this article in WRRO
• Green NH, Delaine-Smith R, Askew HJ, Byers R, Reilly GC & Matcher SJ (2017) A new mode of contrast in biological second harmonic generation microscopy. Scientific Reports, 7. View this article in WRRO
• Byers RA, Fisher M, Brown NJ, Tozer GM & Matcher SJ (2017) Vascular patterning of subcutaneous mouse fibrosarcomas expressing individual VEGF isoforms can be differentiated using angiographic optical coherence tomography. Biomedical Optics Express, 8(10), 4551-4567. View this article in WRRO
• Maiti R, Gerhardt LC, Lee ZS, Byers RA, Woods D, Sanz-Herrera JA, Franklin SE, Lewis R, Matcher SJ & Carré MJ (2016) In vivo measurement of skin surface strain and sub-surface layer deformation induced by natural tissue stretching.. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 62, 556-569. View this article in WRRO

Conference proceedings

• Yuan R, Byers RA, Revin DG & Matcher SJ (2024) Rapid measurement of epidermal thickness with a 1.6 MHz FDML OCT system. Biomedical Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Imaging III (pp 79-79), 7 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
• Yuan R, Revin DG, Byers RA & Matcher SJ (2024) Towards cutaneous blood flow velocity estimation using VISTA processing on a 1.6 MHz FDML OCT system. Biomedical Spectroscopy, Microscopy, and Imaging III (pp 36-36), 7 April 2024 - 12 April 2024.
• Revin DG, Byers RA, Duan M, Li W & Matcher SJ (2023) Visible-light optical coherence tomography platform for the development of novel atopic dermatitis treatment. Photonics in Dermatology and Plastic Surgery 2023 (pp 34-34), 28 January 2023 - 3 February 2023.
• Lin WC, Byers R, Danby S & Matcher S (2022) Assessing the severity of striae distensae using polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography. BRITISH JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, Vol. 187(1) (pp E22-E23)
• Danby SG, Matcher S, Byers R, Taylor R, Sahib S, Andrew P, Brown K, Kay L, Wright C, Pinnock A , Chittock J et al (2022) A RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED PHASE 2 TRIAL COMPARING THE EFFECTS OF CRISABOROLE 2% OINTMENT TO BETAMETHASONE VALERATE 0.1% CREAM ON SKIN STRUCTURE IN PARTICIPANTS WITH ATOPIC DERMATITIS. ACTA DERMATO-VENEREOLOGICA, Vol. 102 (pp 56-57)
• Byers RA & Matcher SJ (2019) Ghosting artifact reduction of polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography images through wavelet-FFT filtering. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 10867. San Francisco, CA, USA, 2 February 2019 - 7 February 2019.
• Byers RA, Maiti R, Danby SG, Pang EJ, Mitchell B, Carré MJ, Lewis R, Cork MJ & Matcher SJ (2017) Characterizing the microcirculation of atopic dermatitis using angiographic optical coherence tomography. Proceedings of SPIE, Vol. 10037. San Francisco, California, 28 January 2017 - 28 January 2017. View this article in WRRO
• Boadi J, Byers RA, Fernandes J, Mittar S, Hearnden V, Lu Z, MacNeil S, Thornhill M, Murdoch C, Hunter KD , McKechnie A et al (2016) 1300 nm and 890 nm OCT images of oral cancer tissue engineered models and biopsy samples offer complimentary performance (Conference Presentation). Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XII (pp 72-72), 13 February 2016 - 18 February 2016.
• Hu X, Maiti R, Liu X, Gerhardt LC, Lee ZS, Byers R, Franklin SE, Lewis R, Matcher SJ & Carré MJ (2016) Skin surface and sub-surface strain and deformation imaging using optical coherence tomography and digital image correlation. SPIE Proceedings
• Byers RA, Tozer G, Brown N & Matcher S (2016) High-resolution label-free vascular imaging using a commercial, clinically approved dermatological OCT scanner. Photonic Therapeutics and Diagnostics XII, Vol. 9689