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,” accepted for publication in the 11th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI’2008), 2008.
Wei, W., Ku, K., Simaan, N. “A Compact Two-Armed Slave Manipulator for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat,” The first IEEE/RAS-EMB International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB’2006), Pisa, Italy, pp. 287-292, 2006.
Simaan, N., and Shoham, “Stiffness Synthesis of a Variable Geometry Planar Robot," the 8th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2002). Included in Advances In Robot Kinermatics: Theory and applications, J. Lenarcic and F. Thomas, Eds., Kluwer Academic, 2002.
Simaan, N., and Shoham, M., "Remarks on Hidden Lines in Parallel Robots," 7th International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics (ARK 2000), Piran-Portoroz, Slovenia, June 26-30, 2000. (conference presentation) Simaan, N., Shoham, M., "Robot Construction for Surgical Applications," The First IFAC Conference on Mechatronic Systems, September 18-20, 2000, Darmstadt, Germany.
Simaan, N., and Shoham, M., "Robot Construction for Surgical Applications," Second Israeli Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics, and Medical Imaging (ISRACAS'99), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel, May 6, 1999.
Shoham, M., Goldberger, S., Roffman, M., and Simaan, N., "Robot Construction for Surgery," First Israeli Symposium on Computer-Aided Surgery, Medical Robotics, and Medical Imaging (ISRACAS'98), Technion City, Haifa, Israel, May 6, 1998.
Alexander T. Hillel, Ankur Kapoor, Nabil Simaan, Russell H. Taylor and Paul Flint, " Applications of Robotics for Laryngeal Surgery," Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, Nasir Bhatti & Ralph P. Tufano Eds., Volume 41, Issue 4, Pages 781-791, August 2008.
Xu, K., Simaan, N. “A Closed-Form Solution for the Shape and Statics of Flexible Continuum Robots with Actuation Redundancy”, to be submitted to ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 2008.
Simaan, N., Xu, K., Kapoor, A., Kazanzides, P., Flint, P., Taylor, R., “Design and Integration of a Telerobotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat,” submitted to International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR special issue on medical robotics, 2008).
Zhang, J., Simaan, N., “Optimal Path Planning for Robotic Insertion of Steerable Electrode Arrays in Cochlear Implant Surgery”, submitted to ASME Journal of Medical Devices, 2008.
Wei, W., Goldman, R., Fine, H., Chang, S., Simaan, N., “Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Hybrid Multi-Arm Robots Operating on Hollow Suspended Organs”, accepted, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, expected to appear in December issue, 2008.
Nabil Simaan, Wei Wei, Roger Goldman, Howard Fine, Stanley Chang, “Systems, Devices, And Methods for Surgery On A Hollow Anatomically Suspended Organ,” International Patent WO/2008/036304, 2007.
Jian Zhang, Alessio Salerno, Nabil Simaan, Y. Lawrence Yao, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Guy Garty, Aparajita Dutta, David J. Brenner, “Systems And Methods For Robotic Transport”, US patent application # 11/895,485, 2007.
Guy Garty, David J. Brenner, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Y. Lawrence Yao, Nabil Simaan, Alessio Salerno, Anubha Bhatla, Jian Zhang, Oleksandra V. Lyulko, Aparajita Dutta, “Systems And Methods For High-Throughput Radiation Biodosimetry” US patent application #11/895,417, 2007.
Guy Garty, David J. Brenner, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Y. Lawrence Yao, Nabil Simaan, Alessio Salerno, Anubha Bhatla, US patent application #11/895,517, “Systems And Methods For Etching Materials, 2007.
Anubha Bhatla, Alessio Salerno, Nabil Simaan, Y. Lawrence Yao, Gerhard Randers-Pehrson, Guy Y. Garty, Aparajita Dutta, David J. Brenner, “Systems And Methods For Cutting Materials”, US patent application #11/895,557, 2007.
Simaan, N., Wei W., Goldman, R., Fine, H., Chang, S., A Dual-Arm Workstation for Intraocular Dexterity-Enhanced Microsurgery of the Eye and In-Organ Dexterity Enhancement and Manipulation of Suspended Organs, Columbia University provisional patent #19240.TBDUS1, 2006.
Simaan, N., Manolidis, S., “Robot-Assisted Cochlear Implant Insertion and Active-Bending Electrode Arrays”, Provisional filed with Columbia University Licensing, August 2005.
Simaan, N., Taylor, R., Handa, J., A System for Macro-Micro Distal Dexterity in Microsurgery of the Eye,” Johns Hopkins Provisional Patent (JHU Ref# 4456), 2005.
Simaan, N., Taylor, R., Flint, P., Chirikjian, G., “Devices, Systems and Methods for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat and Other Portions of Mammalian Body”, US patent 20050059960, May 21, 2004.
Simaan, N., Taylor, R., Flint, P., Chirikjian, G., “Devices, Systems and Methods for Minimally Invasive Surgery of the Throat and Other Portions of Mammalian Body”, World patent WO/2005/009482 , May 21, 2004.
Simaan, N., Taylor, R., Flint, P., Chirikjian, G., Stein, D., “Minimally Invasive Surgical Assistance System for Throat Surgery§,” US provisional patent application. Johns Hopkins University Licensing and Technology Development, Reference No. DM-4254., May 2003.
Invited Book Chapters/Abstracts
Garty G., Randers-Pehrson, G., Lyulko, O. V., Dutta, A., Nie, J., Schettino, G., Bhatla, A., Zhang, J., Salerno, A., Simaan, N., Yao, L., Brenner, D., “Development of an ultrahigh-throughput robotically-based biodosimetry workstation using in-situ assays”, Abstract in ICRR’2007 – International Congress of Radiation Research, 2007.
Manolidis, S., Zhang J., Xu K., Roland T., Simaan N. “Robotic insertion of cochlear implant electrodes to minimize cochlear Trauma”, Abstract in 6th European Congress of Oto – Rhino – Laryngology, Head & Neck Surgery. July 2nd, 2007, Vienna, Austria.
Simaan, N., Taylor, R., Hillel, A., Flint, R., “Minimally Invasive Surgery of the
Upper Airways Addressing the Challenges of Dexterity Enhancement in
Confined Spaces”, In press, Invited book chapter to a medical robotics
book, Russell Faust (Editor), Nova Science Publications, 2005.