Jennifer Kehlet Barton, PhD

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Director, BIO5 Institute
Professor, Biomedical Engineering
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, Optical Sciences
Professor, Biosystems Engineering
Professor, BIO5 Institute
Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair, Bioengineering
Cancer Imaging Shared Resource
Biography
Jennifer Barton received BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and University of California Irvine, respectively. She worked for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing) on the Space Station program before returning to the University of Texas at Austin to obtain the Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in 1998. She is currently Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Optical Sciences, and Biosystems Engineering at the University of Arizona, as well as Director of the BIO5 Institute, and Thomas R. Brown Distinguished Chair in Bioengineering. She is a fellow of SPIE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.
Cancer Focus
Jennifer Barton develops miniature endoscopes that combine multiple optical imaging techniques, particularly optical coherence tomography and fluorescence spectroscopy. She evaluates the suitability of these endoscopic techniques for detecting early cancer development in patients and pre-clinical models. She has a particular interest in the early detection of ovarian cancer, the most deadly gynecological malignancy.
Selected Publications
Rice, P. F. S., K. G. Ehrichs, M. S. Jones, H. Chen, C-H. Hsu, E. R. Abril, R. B. Nagle, D. G. Besselsen, J. K. Barton, and N. A. Ignatenko, "Does Mutated Oncogene Attenuate the Effect of Sulindac in Colon Cancer Chemoprevention?", Cancer Prev Res (Phila), vol. 11, issue 1, pp. 16-26, 2018 01. PMID: 29118162
Welge, W. A., and J. K. Barton, "In vivo endoscopic Doppler optical coherence tomography imaging of the colon.", Lasers Surg Med, vol. 49, issue 3, pp. 249-257, 2017 03. PMCID: PMC5385141 PMID: 27546786
Keenan, M., T. H. Tate, K. Kieu, J. F. Black, U. Utzinger, and J. K. Barton, "Design and characterization of a combined OCT and wide field imaging falloposcope for ovarian cancer detection.", Biomed Opt Express, vol. 8, issue 1, pp. 124-136, 2017 Jan 01. PMCID: PMC5231286 PMID: 28101406
Tate, T. H., B. Baggett, P. F. S. Rice, J. Watson Koevary, G. V. Orsinger, A. C. Nymeyer, W. A. Welge, K. Saboda, D. J. Roe, K. D. Hatch, et al., "Multispectral fluorescence imaging of human ovarian and fallopian tube tissue for early-stage cancer detection.", J Biomed Opt, vol. 21, issue 5, pp. 56005, 2016 05 01. PMCID: PMC5996865 PMID: 27220626
Watson, J. M., S. L. Marion, P. F. Rice, D. L. Bentley, D. G. Besselsen, U. Utzinger, P. B. Hoyer, and J. K. Barton, "In vivo time-serial multi-modality optical imaging in a mouse model of ovarian tumorigenesis.", Cancer Biol Ther, vol. 15, issue 1, pp. 42-60, 2014 Jan. PMCID: PMC3938523 PMID: 24145178