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  1. Zhang, J., Roland J.T., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., ”Optimal Design of Under-actuated Steerable Electrode Arrays for Optimal Insertions,” ASME Journal of Mechanisms and Robotics, Vol 5, No. 1, pp.DOI:10.1115/1.4007005, pp. 011008-1 to 011008-11, 2013
  2. Zhang, J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Design of Under-actuated Steerable Electrode Arrays for Optimal Insertions”, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2010. (Submitted)
  3. Zhang, J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Friction Study on Robotic Insertions of Outer-Wall Electrode Arrays in Cochlear Implant Surgery”, in preparation IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 2010. (To be submitted)
  4. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Ding. J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Inroads towards Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery using Steerable Electrode Arrays”, Otology & Neurology, 2010. (Accepted)
  5. Turner, H., Brenner, D., Chen, Y., Bertucci, A., Zhang, J., Wang, H., Lyulko, O., Xu, Y., Schaefer, J., Simaan, N., Randers-Pehrson, G., Yao, L., Garty, G., “Adaptation of the γ-H2AX assay for automated processing in human lymphocytes”. Radiation Research, 2010. (submitted)
  6. Chen, Y., Zhang, J., Wang, H., Garty, G., Xu, Y., Lyulko, O., Turner, H., Randers-Pehrson, G., Simaan, N., Yao, L., Brenner, D., “Development of a Robotic-based Automated Biodosimetry Tool for High-throughput Radiological Triage”, submitted to International Journal of Biomechatronics and Biomedical Robotics (IJBBR), 2009.
  7. Chen, Y., Zhang, J., Wang, H., Garty, G., Xu, Y., Lyulko, O., Turner, H., Randers-Pehrson, G., Simaan, N., Yao, L., Brenner, D., “Rabit – Rapid Automated Biodosimetry Tool For High Throughput Radiological Triage,” ASME 2009 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference IDETC/CIE, 2009.
  8. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Ding. J., Rolant, T.J., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Inroads towards Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery using Steerable Electrode Arrays”, submitted to Otology  & Neurology special issue on Cochlear Implants, 2009.
  9. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Roland, J., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Optimal Path Planning for Robotic Insertion of Steerable Electrode Arrays in Cochlear Implant Surgery”, in ASME Journal on Medical Devices, Vol 3., No. 1, pp. 011001, 2009.
  10. Zhang, J., Bhattacharyya, S., Simaan, N., “Model and Parameter Identification of Friction During Robotic Insertion of Cochlear-Implant Electrode Arrays,” IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’2009), pp. 3859-3864, 2009.
  11. Zhang, J., Roland, J., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., ““Path Planning and Workspace Determination for Robot-Assisted Insertion of Steerable Electrode Arrays for Cochlear Implant Surgery,” The 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’2008), pp. 692-700, 2008.
  12. Garty, G., Chen, Y., Salerno, A., Turner, H., Zhang, J., Lyulko, O.V., Xu, Y., Wang, H., Simaan, N., Pehrson, G.R., Yao, L., Amundson, S., Brenner, D.J., “The RABIT: A Rapid Automated Biodosimetry Tool for radiological triage", Health Physics Journal, 2008.
  13. Garty, G., Pehrson, G.R, Simaan, N., Salerno, A., Dutta, A., Nie, J., Schettino, G., Lyulko, O.V., Zhang, J., Bhathala, A., Yao, Y.L., Brenner, D.J.,  “Development of an ultrahigh-throughput robotically-based biodosimetry workstation using in-situ assays”, 13th International Congress of Radiation Research, San Francisco, California, Jul. 2007.
  14. Salerno A., Zhang J., Bhatla A., Lyulko O.V., Nie J., Dutta A., Garty G., Simaan N., Randers-Pehrson G., Yao Y.L. and Brenner D.J. Design Considerations for a Minimally Invasive High-Throughput Automation System for Radiation Biodosimetry. In Proceedings of the Third Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Scottsdale, AZ, September 2007, pp. 846-852.
  15. Reichert, S., Zhang, J., Xu, K., Simaan, N. Manolidis, S., "Robotic insertion of cochlear implant electrodes to minimize cochlear trauma", 6th European Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery., Vienna, Austria, Jun. 2007.
  16. Zhang, J. , Xu, K., Simaan, N., Manolidis, S., “A Pilot Study of Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery Using Steerable Electrode Arrays”, MICCAI 2006 (9th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention), pp. 33-40, 2006. This paper won the best student paper award for the clinical applications category.

Abstracts/Poster Presentations

  1. Simaan, N., Zhang, J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., “Robotic Study Shows that Insertion Speed Affects Cochlear Implant Electrode Insertion Forces”, 11th International Conference on Cochlear Implants and Other Implantable Auditory Technologies (CI2010), Stockholm, Sweden, Jul. 2010. (accepted)
  2. Simaan, N., Zhang, J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., “Steerable Continuum Robot Design for Cochlear Implant Surgery”, accepted for IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) Workshop, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010. (accepted)
  3. Zhang, J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Optimal Design of Steerable Electrode Arrays and Optimal Insertion Path Planning for Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Surgery”, Columbia Student Research Symposium, Columbia University, New York, NY, Mar. 2010.
  4. Zhang, J., Roland, J.T.Jr., Manolidis, S., Simaan, N., “Progress towards a Robotically Inserted Cochlear Implant Electrode”, 12th Symposium on Cochlear Implants in Children, Seattle, Washington, Jun, 2009
  5. Zhang, J., Wei, W., Manolidis, S., Roland, J.T.Jr., Simaan, N. “Path Planning and Workspace Determination for Robot-Assisted Insertion of Steerable Electrode Arrays for Cochlear Implant Surgery”, Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, New York, New York, Sep. 2008
  6. Reichert, S., Zhang, J., Xu, K., Simaan, N. Manolidis, S., "Robotic insertion of cochlear implant electrodes to minimize cochlear trauma", 6th European Congress of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery., Vienna, Austria, Jun. 2007

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