Medical Devices
A. Dangel, M. House, K. Kolandaivelu, G. Huggins, N. Hanumara, and A. Slocum, “4203 Re-engineering the Approach to Extremely Preterm Breech Deliveries with Student Led Team Science,” Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, vol. 4, no. s1, pp. 118–118, 2020, DOI: 10.1017/cts.2020.358.
S. Grown-Haeberli, H. Montague-Alamin, A.H. Slocum, N. C. Hanumara, A. Ramirez, J. Connor, G. Hom, P. Pott, K. Stewart, “Design and Applicability of a Mechanical Impedance Sensor for Vein Penetration Detection,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Conference (EMBC), July 20-24, 2020, online, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9175501.
N.Z. Jia, D. Mejorado, S. Poullados, H. Bae, G. Traverso, R. Dias, N.C. Hanumara, “Design of a Wearable System to Capture Physiological Data to Monitor Surgeons’ Stress During Surgery,” IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Conference (EMBC), July 20-24, 2020, online, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC44109.2020.9176180.
A.A. Cobi, L. Gray, E.R. Mittmann, S.B. Link, N.C. Hanumara, Y. Lyatskaya, E. Roche, A.H. Slocum, P. Zygmanski, “Design of a Reconfigurable Quality Assurance Phantom for Verifying the Spatial Accuracy of Radiosurgery Treatments for Multiple Brain Metastases,” ASME J. Medical Devices, Accepted for Publication 2019. DOI: 10.1115/1.4044402
E. Owen, T. Maeda, Z. Jiang, I. Udotong, E. Hornberger, J. Morita, G. Hom, N.C. Hanumara, “Center of Gravity Tracker for Operator Fatigue Detection,” “40th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), July 17-21, 2018, Honolulu, HI, pp. 5771 – 5774, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8513526
J. Chacon-Castano, D. R. Rathbone, R. Hoffman, H. Yang, D. Pantazis, J. Yang, E. Hornberger, N.C. Hanumara, “Music and the Brain – Design of an MEG Compatible Piano, “39th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), July 11 – 15, 2017, Jeju Island, Korea, pp. 521 – 524, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2017.8036876.
J.M. Ciccone, K. Blum, C.K. Rowe, D.J. Gonzalez, A. Libert, J. Ling, M. Liu, N. Sazdanoff, J. Herder, N. Hanumara, A. Slocum, J. Kaplan, M. Kearney, “Resectoscope Working Element with Rotating Handle for a More Ergonomic Surgery,” poster and paper in proceedings of American Urological Association’s Annual Meeting, May 6 – 10, 2016, San Diego, CA. (Winner Best Poster) – Poster
B.I. Afinogenov, J.B. Coles, S. Parthasarathy, J. Press-Williams, R. Tsykunova, A. Vasilenko, J. Narain, N.C. Hanumara, A. Winter, “Wearable Optical-Digital Assistive Device for Low Vision Students,” 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), August 16-20,2016, Orlando, FL, pp. 2083 – 2086, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2016.7591138.
S. Kizilski, X. Zhang, N. Kojimoto, K. Oki, S. Jiang, T. Wortman, N. Hanumara, “Development of a Novel Device for Tube Thoracostomy in Trauma Patients,” in Proceedings of Biomedical Engineering Society (BMES) Annual Meeting, October 5-8, 2016, Minneapolis, MN, DOI: 10.1115/1.4033845.
N. Ambrogi, R. Dias-Carlson, K. Gantner, A. Gururaj, N. Hanumara, J. Narain, A. Winter, I. Zielske, P. Satgunam, PremNandhini; D.K. Bagga, V. Gothwal, “Low vision system for rapid near- and far-field magnification switching,” 37th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society (EMBC), August 16-20,2015, Milan, Italy, p. 5012 – 5015, DOI: 10.1109/EMBC.2015.7319517.
M. M. Arnolli, N. C. Hanumara, M. Franken, D. M. Brouwer, I.A.M.J. Broeders, “An overview of systems for CT- and MRI-guided percutaneous needle placement in the thorax and abdomen,” Intl. J. of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, vol. 11, p. 458–475., Dec. 2015, DOI: 10.1002/rcs.1630.
S.A. Lopez, L. R. Hernley, E. N. Bearrick, L. M. Tanenbaum, M. A. C. Thomas, T. A. Toussaint, J. J. Romano, N. C. Hanumara, and A. H. Slocum, “Design, prototyping, and evaluation of a collapsible device for single-operator sheathing of ultrasound probes,” January 2014, Mechanical Sciences 5, no. 1 p. 7-13, DOI: 10.5194/ms-5-7-2014 – Download from DSpace@MIT
N. C. Hanumara, C. J. Walsh, D. Custer, R. Gupta, L. R. Osborn, A. H. Slocum, “Classroom to Clinic: Merging Education and Research to Efficiently Prototype Medical Devices,” J. Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine, vol. 1, 24, Jul. 2013, DOI: 10.1109/JTEHM.2013.2271897.
N. C. Hanumara, A. H. Slocum, and T. Mitamura, “Design of a Spherically Actuated Human Interaction Robot Head,” Journal of Mechanical Design, vol. 134, May 2012. DOI: 10.1115/1.4006263
J. A. Ankrum, A. L. Olechowski, J. A. Canseco, E. E. Greenblatt, M. P. Roberts, N. C. Hanumara, A. H. Slocum, and A. Tavakkolizadeh, “Nasogastric Tube Design to Reduce Clogging and Simplify Flushing,” in Proceedings of Design of Medical Devices Conference, Minneapolis, MN, 2011. DOI: 10.1115/1.3589815
Robotic Biopsy System
C. J. Walsh, B. H. Sapkota, M. K. Kalra, N. C. Hanumara, B. Liu, J. A. O. Shepard, and R. Gupta, “Smaller and Deeper Lesions Increase the Number of Acquired Scan Series in Computed Tomography-guided Lung Biopsy,” Journal of Thoracic Imaging, vol. 26, pp. 196-203, Aug 2011. DOI: 10.1097/RTI.0b013e3182018576
“Robotic System Aids CT–Guided Needle Biopsy.” RSNA (Radiological Society North America) News, August 2009, pp. 12–13
A. Seitel, C. J. Walsh, N. C. Hanumara, J.-A. Shepard, A. H. Slocum, H.-P. Meinzer, R. Gupta, and L. Maier-Hein, “Development and evaluation of a new image-based user interface for robot-assisted needle placements with the Robopsy system,” in Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 2009, p. 72610X. DOI: 10.1117/12.811507 – Download from DSpace@MIT
L. Maier-Hein, C. J. Walsh, A. Seitel, N. C. Hanumara, J.-A. Shepard, A. M. Franz, F. Pianka, S. A. Muller, B. Schmied, A. H. Slocum, R. Gupta, and H.-P. Meinzer, “Human vs. robot operator error in a needle-based navigation system for percutaneous liver interventions,” in Proc. SPIE Medical Imaging: Visualization, Image-Guided Procedures, and Modeling, Lake Buena Vista, FL, 2009, p. 72610Y. DOI: 10.1117/12.811334 – Download from DSpace@MIT
C. J. Walsh, N. C. Hanumara, A. H. Slocum, J. A. Shepard, and R. Gupta, “A Patient-Mounted, Telerobotic Tool for CT-Guided Percutaneous Interventions,” Journal of Medical Devices-Transactions of the ASME, vol. 2, Mar 2008.
C. J. Walsh, N. Hanumara, A. Slocum, R. Gupta, and J. A. Shepard, “Evaluation of a patient-mounted, remote needle guidance and insertion system for CT-guided, percutaneous lung biopsies,” Proceedings of the 2nd Frontiers in Biomedical Devices Conference, pp. 39-40, 2007.
N. C. Hanumara, C. J. Walsh, A. H. Slocum, R. Gupta, and J. A. Shepard, “Human factors design for intuitive operation of a low-cost, image-guided, tele-robotic biopsy assistant,” 2007 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vols 1-16, pp. 1257-1260, 2007, DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4352525.
S. R. H. Barrett, N. C. Hanumara, C. J. Walsh, A. H. Slocum, R. Gupta, and J. A. O. Shepard, “A remote needle guidance system for percutaneous biopsies,” Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, Vol 7, Pts A and B, pp. 481-489, 2005.
Theses
N. C. Hanumara, “Efficient Design of Precision Medical Robotics,” PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2012. Download from DSpace@MIT
N. C. Hanumara, “Characterization and analysis of an MRI compatible robot design for wrist psychophysics and rehabilitation” MS, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2006. Available on MIT D-Space
Undergraduate
D. M. Meyer, A. Tillinghast, N. C. Hanumara, and A. Franco, “Bio-ferrography to capture and separate polyethylene wear debris from hip simulator fluid and compared with conventional filter method,” Journal of Tribology-Transactions of the ASME, vol. 128, pp. 436-441, Apr 2006.
E. Abueg, J. Coughlin, N. Hanumara, O. Koenig, A. Tillinghast, and T. Malaghan, “Implementation of a re-usable adhesive in a novel automated page-turner,” Proc. of the IEEE 30th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference, pp. 208-209, 2004.
D. M. Meyer, A. Tillinghast, N. C. Hanumara, and A. Franco, “Polyethylene Wear Debris From Hip Simulator Fluid Captured and Separated Using Bio–Ferrography,” in Proc. of the ASME/ STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, Long Beach, CA, 2003.
Franco, N. C. Hanumara, A. Tillinghast, and D. M. Meyer, “Bio–Ferrography of Total Joint Replacement Wear,” in Proc. of the ASME/STLE International Joint Tribology Conference, Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, 2003