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Publications

The following are selected peer-reviewed publications representing a broad sampling of science and technology topics pursued by researchers in MSSE.

2009

Solecki DJ, Trivedi N, Govek EE, Kerekes RA, Gleason SS, and Hatten ME, "Myosin II motors and F-actin dynamics drive the coordinated movement of the centrosome and soma during CNS glial-guided neuronal migration," Neuron 63(1):63-80, 2009 .

S. Gleason, M. Paulus, and D. Osborne, "Principles of Micro X-ray Computed Tomography," Molecular Imaging: Principles and Practice, Weissleder, Ross, Rehemtulla, Gambhir, eds., B. C. Decker, Inc., 2009.

Jansen, J. F., R. F. Lind, L. J. Love, P. D. Lloyd, J. C. Rowe, and F. G. Pin, “Design and Control of a Ship Motion Simulation Platform from an Energy Efficiency Perspective,” International Journal of Fluid Power, 10(2), 19–28 (2009).

Garcia, P., J. Rosen, C. Kapoor, M. Noakes, G. Elbert, M. Treat, T. Ganous, M. Hanson, J. Manak, C. Hasser, D. Rohler, R. Satava, “Trauma Pod: A Semi-Automated Telerobotic Surgical System, The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, 5(2), 136-146 (2009).

Baba, Justin, "A Case for Non-invasive, Awake, Non-anesthetized, Unrestrained Imaging," First Annual Biomedical Science & Engineering Center Conference, March 19, 2009.

Baba, Justin; Ericson, Nance; Alley, Gary; Tummers, Mike; Aley, Brian; Alterman, D., "Blunt Aortic Injury-An Ex Vivo Model," Southeastern Surgical Congress 2009 Annual Scientific Meeting, February 7, 2009.

Baba, Justin, "ORNL Instrumentation Development in Support of DOE Radionuclide Radiochemistry Imaging Program," DOE Radiochemistry and Radionuclide Imaging Instrumentation Program Contractor-Grantee Workshop, January 5, 2009.

Giancardo, L., Meriaudeau, F., Karnowski, T.P., Chaum, E., Tobin, K.W., “Quality Assessment of Retinal Fundus Images Using ELVD,” Recent Advances in Biomedical Engineering, In-Tech Online, (In-Press) 2009.

Jansen, J. F., R. F. Lind, L. J. Love, P. D. Lloyd, J. C. Rowe, and F. G. Pin, "Design and Control of a Ship Motion Simulation Platform from an Energy Efficiency Perspective," International Journal of Fluid Power, 2009 (in press).

Lind, R. F., L. J. Love, J. C. Rowe, and F. G. Pin, “Multi-Axis Foot Reaction Force/Torque Sensor for Biomedical Applications,” to be published in the Proceedings of IROS 2009:  The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, Mo., October 11-15, 2009 (in press).

Love, L. J., R. F. Lind, and J. F. Jansen, "Mesofluidic Actuation for Articulated Finger and Hand Prosthetics," to be published in the Proceedings of IROS 2009:  The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, Mo., October 11-15, 2009 (in press). 

Love, L. J., J. F. Jansen, and P. D. Lloyd, "Force-Based Needle Insertion for Medical Applications," to be published in the Proceedings of IROS 2009:  The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, Mo., October 11-15, 2009 (in press).

Love, L. J., R. F. Lind, J. F. Jansen, C. L. Fitzgerald, Jr., P. D. Lloyd, F. G. Pin, and J. C. Rowe, "Modeling of a Holonomic Omni-Directional Vehicle with Conventional Tires," to be published in IEEE Transactions on Mechatronics

Love, L. J., R. F. Lind, P. D. Lloyd, J. F. Jansen, F. G. Pin, and J. C. Rowe, "Ship Motion Compensation for Force Controlled Systems," to be published in ASME Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control.

Mann, C., Binham, P.R., Paquit, V., Tobin, K.W., “Quantitative Phase Imaging by Three-Wavelength Digital Holography,” Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 13, 2008, pp. 9753-9764.

Moon, J. W., C. J. Rawn, A. J. Rondinone, L. J. Love, Y. Roh, R. J. Lauf, and T. J. Phelps, "Large Scale Production of Magnetic Nanoparticles Using Bacterial Fermentation," to be published in Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology

Noakes, M. W., R. F. Lind, J. F. Jansen, L. J. Love, F. G. Pin, and B. S. Richardson, "Development of a Remote Trauma Care Assist Robot," to be published in the Proceedings of IROS 2009:  The 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, St. Louis, Mo., October 11-15, 2009 (in press).

Paquit, V.C., Tobin, K.W., Price, J.R., Mériaudeau, F., “3D and multispectral imaging for subcutaneous veins detection,” Optics Express, Vol. 17, No. 14, July 2009, pp. 11360-11365.

Peckys DB, Melechko AV, Simpson ML, McKnight TE. Immobilization and release strategies for DNA delivery using carbon nanofiber arrays and self-assembled monolayers, accepted Nanotechnology 2009.

Tobin, K.W., Bingham, P.R., Gregor, J. (Anderson, Ian S., et al., Eds.), “Mathematics of Neutron Imaging,” Neutron Imaging and Applications, Springer-Verlag, New York, New York, January 2009.

2008

Baba, Justin S., Allegood, Marcus S., “Extension of the Inverse Adding-Doubling Method to the Measurement of Wavelength-Dependent Absorption and Scattering Coefficients of Biological Samples,” Journal of Undergraduate Research, Vol. VIII, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 8-14.

Chaum, E., Abdelrahman, M., Karnowski T.P., Govindasamy, P.G., Tobin, K.W., “Automated Diagnosis of Retinopathy by Content-Based Image Retrieval,” Retina, Vol. 28, No. 10, Nov.-Dec. 2008, pp. 1463-77.

Mann, C., Binham, P.R., Paquit, V., Tobin, K.W., “Quantitative Phase Imaging by Three-Wavelength Digital Holography,” Optics Express, Vol. 16, No. 13, 2008, pp. 9753-9764.

Mann, David G., McKnight, Timothy E., Mcpherson, Jackson, Hoyt, Peter R., Melechko, Anatoli V., Simpson, Michael L., Sayler, Gary S, “INDUCIBLE RNAi-MEDIATED GENE SILENCING USING NANOSTRUCTURED GENE DELIVERY ARRAYS,” ACS Nano 2008 2 (1), 69-76.

Mann, D. G. J., McKnight TE, McPherson JT, Hoyt PR, Melechko AV, Simpson ML, Sayler GS. Inducible RNA Interference-Mediated Gene Silencing Using Nanostructured Gene Delivery Arrays. ACS Nano 2(1): 69-76, 2008.

Peckys DB, De Jonge N, Simpson ML, McKnight TE. End-specific attachment strategies for long double stranded DNA onto gold-coated nanofiber arrays. Nanotechnology 19 (2008) 435301.

Tobin, K.W., Chaum, E., Gregor, J., Price, J.R., Wall, J., Karnowski, T.P., (G. Schaefer, Editor) “Image Informatics for Clinical and Preclinical Biomedical Analysis,” Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging: Techniques and Applications, CRC Press, Nov. 26, 2008

2007

Archibald, Richard K., Datskos, Panos G., Noid, Don W., Lavrik, Nickolay V., “Independent Component Analysis of Nanomechanical Responses of Cantilever Arrays,” Analytica Chimica Acta, Vol 584, No 1, Feb 2007, pp. 101.

Baba, Justin S, Boudreaux, Philip R., “Wavelength, temperature, and voltage dependent calibration of a nematic liquid crystal multispectral polarization generating device,” Applied Optics, Vol. 46, No. 22, Aug. 2007, pp. 5539-5544.

Moon, J.-W., L. W. Yeary, A. J. Rondinone, C. J. Rawn, M. J. Kirkham, Y. Roh, L. J. Love, and T. J. Phelps, "Magnetic Response of Microbially Synthesized Transition Metal- and Lanthanide-Substituted Nano-Sized Magnetites," Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 313, 283–292 (2007).

Moon, Ji Won, Yeary, Lucas W., Rondinone, Adam J., Rawn, Claudia J., Kirkham, Melanie J., Roh, Yul, Love, Lonnie J., Phelps, Tommy J., “Magnetic response of microbially synthesized transition metal- and lanthanide-substituted nano-sized magnetites,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Vol. 313, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 283-292.

Moon, Ji Won, Roh, Yul, Yeary, Lucas W., Lauf, Robert J., Rawn, Claudia J., Love, Lonnie J., Phelps, Tommy J., “Microbial formation of lanthanide-substituted magnetites by Thermoanaerobacter sp. TOR-39,” Extremophiles, Vol. 11, No. 6, Aug. 2007, pp. 859-867.

Moschler, William W., Hanson, Gregory R., Gee, Timothy F., Killough, Stephen M., Wilgen, John B., “Microwave moisture measurement for wood drying,” Forest Products Journal, Vol. 57, No. 10, Oct. 2007, pp. 69-74.

Pin, F. G., J. F. Jansen, R. F. Lind, P. D. Lloyd, L. J. Love, J. C. Rowe, and C. L. Fitzgerald, Jr., "Compact Agile Material Mover (CAMM) for Shipboard Transport of Large Payloads," Proceedings of ShipTech 2007, Biloxi, Miss., January 30–31, 2007.

Tobin, K.W., Chaum, E., Govindasamy, V.P., Karnowski, T.P., “Detection of Anatomic Structures in Human Retinal Imagery,” IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. 26, No. 12, December 2007.

Yu Z, McKnight TE, Ericson MN, Melechko AV, Simpson ML, Morrison B. Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber arrays record electrophysiological signals from hippocampal slices. Nanoletters, 7 (8): 2188. 2007.

Yu Z, McKnight TE, Ericson MN, Melechko AV, Simpson ML, Morrison B, Vertically aligned carbon nanofiber array: A new type of microelectrode array for electrophysiological recording. J Neurotrauma 24 (7): 1235-1235, 2007.

2006

Bourgeat, P., Tobin, K.W., Gorria, P., Meriaudeau, F., “Gabor Feature Extraction on Complex Images: Application to Defect Detection on Semiconductors,” The Imaging Science Journal, Vol. 54, No. 4, December 2006.

Fletcher, Benjamin L., McKnight, Timothy E., Melechko, Anatoli V., Simpson, Michael L., Doktycz, Mitchel J., “Biochemical Functionalization of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibres,” Nanotechnology, Vol. 17, No. 8, Apr. 2006, pp. 2032-2039.

Klein KL, Melechko AV, Fowlkes JD, Rack PA, Hensley DK, Meyer HM, Allard LF, McKnight TE, Simpson ML. Formation of ultrasharp vertically aligned Cu-Si nanocones by a DC plasma process, J PHYS CHEM B 110 (10): 4766-4771, 2006.

McKnight TE, Melechko AV, Fletcher BL, Jones SW, Hensley DK, Peckys DB, Griffin GD, Simpson ML, Ericson MN. Resident Neuroelectrochemical Interfacing Using Carbon Nanofiber Arrays. J Phys Chem B: 110 (31), 15317 -15327, 2006.

McKnight TE, Peeraphatdit C, Jones SW, Melechko AV, Klein K, Fowlkes J, Fletcher BL, Doktycz MJ, Simpson ML. Site Specific Biochemical Functionalization Along the Height of Vertically-Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Arrays. Chemistry of Materials: 18(14); 3203-3211, 2006.

Hafeman, Dean G., Harkins, James B., Witkowski II, Charles E., Lewis, Nathan S., Brown, Gilbert M., Warmack, Robert J B., Thundat, Thomas G., “Optically directed molecular transport and 3D isoelectric positioning of amphoteric biomolecules,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 103, No. 17, Apr. 2006, pp. 6436-6441.

Jaramillo, Roger A., Babu, Sudarsanam S., Ludtka, Gerard M., Kisner, Roger A., Wilgen, John B., Ludtka, Gail M., Nicholson, Don M., Kelly, Shawn, Murugananth, M, Bhadeshia, H. K. D. H., “Effect of 30 T magnetic field on transformations in a novel bainitic steel,” Scripta Materialia, Vol. 52, No. 6, Mar. 2006, pp. 461-466.

Jellison Jr, Gerald E., Baba, Justin S., “Pseudodielectric Functions of Uniaxial Materials in Certain Symmetry Directions,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, Vol. 23, No. 2, Feb. 2006, pp. 468-475.

Leventouri, T. H., Melechko, Anatoli V., Sorge, Korey D., Klein, Kate L., Fowlkes, Jason D., Rack, P. D., Anderson, Ian M., Thompson, James R., McKnight, Timothy E., Simpson, Michael L., “Magnetic Alloys in Nanoscale Biomaterials,” Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, Vol. 37A, Dec. 2006, pp. 3423-3427.

Paquit, Vincent C., Ferrell, Thomas L., Meriaudeau, Fabrice, Price, Jeffery R., Seulin, Ralph, Tobin Jr, Kenneth W., Farahi, R H., “Near-infrared imaging and structured light ranging for automatic catheter insertion,” Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging, Vol. 7, No. 27, Mar. 2006.

Pin, F. G., T. L. Ferrell, L. J. Love, J. F. Jansen, K. W. Tobin, R. Farahi, J. R. Price, V. Paquit, D. Hedden, F. Meriaudeau, and R. Seulin, "Intellicath: Automated Needle-Insertion Systems and Intelligent Catheters," DARPA SBIR/Seedling Meeting, MMVR Conference, Long Beach, Calif., January 2006.

Senesac, Larry R., Datskos, Panos G., Sepaniak, Michael J., “Analyte species and concentration identification using differentially functionalized microcantilever arrays and artificial neural networks,” Analytical Chimica Acta, Vol. 558, Jan. 2006, pp. 94-101.

Tobin Jr, Kenneth W., Bhaduri, Budhendra L., Bright, Eddie A., Cheriydat, Anil, Karnowski, Thomas P., Palathingal, Paul J., Potok, Thomas E., Price, Jeffery R., “Automated Feature Generation in Large-Scale Geospatial Libraries for Content-Based Indexing,” Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing, Vol. 72, No. 5, May 2006, pp. 531.

2005

Ferrell, T. L., F. G. Pin, L. J. Love, J. F. Jansen, K. W. Tobin, R. Farahi, J. R. Price, V. Paquit, D. Hedden, F. Meriaudeau, and R. Seulin, "Intelli-Cath:  Toward Automated Needle-Insertion Systems and Intelligent Catheters," Proceedings of the 13th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality (MMVR) Conference, Long Beach, Calif., January 26–29, 2005.

Korsah, Kofi, “Preliminary investigation of KTN as a surface acoustic wave infrared/thermal detector,” Sensors and Actuators, Vol. 119, No. 2, Apr. 2005, pp. 358-364.

Love, L. J., J. F. Jansen, T. E. McKnight, Y. Roh, T. J. Phelps, L. Yeary, and T. Cunningham, "Ferrofluid Field Induced Flow for Microfluidic Applications," IEEE Transactions, on Mechatronics 10(1), 68–76 (2005).

Melechko, Anatoli V., Merkulov, Vladimir I., McKnight, Timothy E., Guillorn, M. A., Klein, Kate L., Lowndes, Douglas H., Simpson, Michael L., “Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofibers and Related Structures: Controlled Synthesis and Directed Assembly,” Journal of Applied Physics, Vol. 97, No. 4, Feb. 2005.

Price, Jeffery R., Aykac, Deniz, Gleason, Shaun S., “Quantitative Comparison of Mitotic Spindles by Confocal Image Analysis,” Journal of Biomedical Optics, Vol. 10, No. 4, Aug. 2005, pp. 1-12.

Rawn, Claudia J., Yeary, Lucas W., Moon, Ji Won, Love, Lonnie J., Thompson, James R., Phelps, Tommy J., “Magnetic Properties of Bio-Synthesized Magnetite Nanoparticles,” IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, Vol. 41, No. 12, Dec. 2005, pp. 4384-4389.

Richardson, B. S., J. F. Birdwell, Jr., F. G. Pin, J. F. Jansen, and R. F. Lind, "Sodium Borohydride Based Power System," Journal of Power Sources 145(1), 21–29 (2005).

Yeary, L. W., Ji-Won Moon, L. J. Love, J. R. Thompson, C. J. Rawn, and T. J. Phelps, "Magnetic Properties of Biosynthesized Magnetite Nanoparticles," IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 41(12), 4384–4389 (2005).

2004

Fletcher, Benjamin L., Hullander, Eric D., Melechko, Anatoli V., McKnight, Timothy E., Klein, Kate L., Hensley, Dale K., Morrell, Jennifer L., Simpson, Michael L., Doktycz, Mitchel J., “Microarrays of Biomimetic Cells Formed by the Controlled Synthesis of Carbon Nanofiber Membranes,” Nano Letters, Vol. 4, No. 10, Oct. 2004, pp. 1809-1814.

Jung, D. L, W. E. Dixon, and F. G. Pin, "Automated Kinematic Generator for Surgical Robotic Systems, Proceedings of the 12th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Newport Beach, Calif., January 15–17, 2004, pp. 144–146.

Love., L. J., J. F. Jansen, T. E. McKnight, Y. Roh, and T. J. Phelps, "A Magnetocaloric Pump for Microfluidic Applications," IEEE Transactions on NanoBioscience 3(2), 101–110 (2004).

Love, L. J. and W. J. Book, "Force Reflecting Teleoperation with Adaptive Impedance Control," IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics—Part B: Cybernetics 34(1), 159–165 (2004). 

Love, L. J., J. F. Jansen, and F. G. Pin, "On the Modeling of Robots Operating on Ships," Proceedings of the IEEE 2004 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004), New Orleans, La., April 26–May 1, 2004, Vol. 3, pp. 2436–2443.

Pin, F. G., L. J. Love, and D. L. Jung, "Automated Kinematic Equations Generation and Constrained Motion Planning Resolution for Modular and Reconfigurable Robots," Proceedings of the 27th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, Calif., March 28–April 1, 2004.

Taylor, G., Efthimion, P. C., Jones, B., LeBlanc, B, Wilson, J. R., Wilgen, John B., Bell, Gary L., Bigelow, Timothy S., Maingi, Rajesh, Rasmussen, David A., Harvey, R. W., Smirnov, A., Paoletti, F., Sabbagh, S. A., “Enhanced Conversion of Thermal Electron Bernstein Waves to the Extraordinary Electromagnetic Mode on the National Spherical Torus Experiment,” Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 10, No. 5, May 2003, pp. 1395-1401.

2002

Britton Jr, Charles L., Clonts, L. C., Wintenberg, Alan L., Read Jr, Kenneth F., Kennedy, E. J., Smith, R. S., Swann, B. K., Musser, J. A., “An Analog Random-Access Memory in the AVLSI-RA Process for an Interpolating Pad Chamber,” IEEE Transactins on Nuclear Science, Vol. 42, No. 6, Feb. 1997, pp. 2255-2259.

Melechko, Anatoli V., McKnight, Timothy E., Guillorn, M. A., Austin, Derek W., Illic, B., Merkulov, Vladimir I., Doktycz, Mitchel J., Lowndes, Douglas H., Simpson, Michael L., “Nanopipe Fabrication Using Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanofiber Templates,” Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology, Vol. 20, No. 6, Oct. 2002, pp. 2730-2733.

Weber, C., Sankaran, V., Tobin, K.W., “Quantifying the Value of Ownership of Yield Analysis Technologies,” IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, Vol. 15, No. 4, November 2002.