ARL - Biomedical Engineering Director Jennifer Barton Elected SPIE Fellow

Dr. Jennifer Barton will be honored as a SPIE fellow.  Dr. Barton is the director of ARL's Biomedical Engineering division and is the chair of the biomedical engineering - graduate interdisciplinary program.  She is also an associate professor of optical sciences and electrical & computer engineering.  To learn more about her research, please visit http://www.ece.arizona.edu/~BMEoptics/. For more information on SPIE, please visit spie.org.  The copy of the news release is below.

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Jennifer Barton Elected SPIE Fellow

SPIE will honor 72 new Fellows of the Society this year. Fellows are members of distinction who have
made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics,
and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics
community, and to SPIE in particular. More than 500 SPIE members have become Fellows since the
Society’s inception in 1955.

“The annual recognition of Fellows provides an opportunity for us to acknowledge outstanding members
for their service to the general optics community,” says Kevin G. Harding, SPIE President.

Jennifer Barton, Associate Professor, Division of Biomedical Engineering, The University of Arizona,
Tucson, AZ, USA, was recognized for her for specific achievements in optical coherence tomography
and dual modality fluorescence.

Barton has made a significant mark in the field of biomedical optics, in particular dual modality
fluorescence and optical coherence tomography (OCT). One her most important contributions is the
combination of OCT and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) into a single instrument, which has
outstanding abilities in identifying colon adenomas. She was also key to research that resulted in the
highest resolution endoscopic OCT system to date, and has completed breakthrough research in
speckle patterns for OCT imaging as well.

Another important contribution is her part in the creation of a new paradigm for laser treatment of
vascular lesions, such as portwine stains. Her research showed that methemoglobin, an oxidized state
of hemoglobin, is formed during pulsed laser therapies. This has led to the development of laser
systems that use two wavelengths and capitalize on this dynamic process. The research not only
offers new insight into fundamental mechanisms but also reveals new treatment strategies.

Barton’s work has resulted in multiple patents and well over 100 published papers. A respected member
of the biomedical optics community, she is a journal reviewer for many publications including the SPIE
Journal of Biomedical Optics, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, and Nature Photonics.

Her involvement with SPIE began as a student; in fact she was the recipient of the 1997 SPIE D.J. Lovell
Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious SPIE scholarship. Since then she has stayed active with
the Society’s publications and events.

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