Safe Drilling in the Skull

Journal Papers

  1. N. P. Dillon, R. Balachandran, M. A. Siebold, R. J. Webster, III, G. B. Wanna, and R. F. Labadie, “Cadaveric Testing of Robot-Assisted Access to the Internal Auditory Canal for Vestibular Schwannoma Removal”, Otology & Neurotology, vol. 38, no. 3, pp. 441-447, 2017. PDF (834.96 KB)
  2. M. A. Siebold, N. P. Dillon, L. Fichera, R. F. Labadie, R. J. Webster, III, and J. M. Fitzpatrick, “Safety Margins in Robotic Bone Milling: From Registration Uncertainty to Statistically Safe Surgeries”, The International Journal of Medical Robotics and Computer Assisted Surgery, vol. 13, no. 3, 2017. PDF (1.02 MB)
  3. N. P. Dillon, R. Balachandran, J. M. Fitzpatrick, M. A. Siebold, R. F. Labadie, G. B. Wanna, T. J. Withrow, and R. J. Webster, III, “A Compact Bone-Attached Robot for Mastoidectomy”, ASME Journal of Medical Devices, vol. 9, no. 3, p. 031003, 2015. PDF (1.83 MB)
  4. N. P. Dillon, L. B. Kratchman, M. S. Dietrich, R. F. Labadie, R. J. Webster, III, and T. J. Withrow, “An Experimental Evaluation of the Force Requirements for Robotic Mastoidectomy”, Otology & Neurotology, vol. 34, no. 7, pp. e93-e102, 2013. PDF (5.09 MB)

Conference Papers

  1. N. P. Dillon, L. Fichera, P. S. Wellborn, R. F. Labadie, and R. J. Webster, III, “Making Robots Mill Bone More Like Human Surgeons: Using Bone Density and Anatomic Information to Mill Safely and Efficiently”, in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016, pp. 1837-1843. PDF (930.21 KB)
  2. N. P. Dillon, M. A. Siebold, J. E. Mitchell, J. M. Fitzpatrick, and R. J. Webster, III, “Increasing Safety of a Robotic System for Inner Ear Surgery Using Probabilistic Error Modeling Near Vital Anatomy”, in SPIE Medical Imaging, 2016, p. 97861G. PDF (1.05 MB) Young Scientist Award Presented by Siemens, Runner-Up
  3. M. A. Siebold, N. P. Dillon, R. J. Webster, III, and J. M. Fitzpatrick, “Incorporating Target Registration Error Into Robotic Bone Milling”, in SPIE Medical Imaging, 2015, p. 94150R. PDF (616.54 KB)
  4. N. P. Dillon, R. Balachandran, A. M. dit Falisse, G. B. Wanna, R. F. Labadie, T. J. Withrow, J. M. Fitzpatrick, and R. J. Webster, III, “Preliminary Testing of a Compact, Bone-Attached Robot for Otologic Surgery”, in SPIE Medical Imaging, 2014, p. 903614. PDF (756.16 KB)
  5. N. P. Dillon, R. J. Webster, III, and T. J. Withrow, “Design of a Bone-Attached Robot for Mastoidectomy”, in Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 2013, pp. 3-4. PDF (462.38 KB)

Non-Refereed/Invited/Poster/Abstract/Short Papers

  1. N. P. Dillon, R. Balachandran, R. J. Webster, III, T. J. Withrow, G. B. Wanna, and R. F. Labadie, “Surgical workflow considerations for mastoidectomy using a bone-attached robot”, American Triological Society, Combined Otolaryngology Spring Meetings. 2015.
  2. R. Balachandran, N. P. Dillon, T. J. Withrow, R. J. Webster, III, and R. F. Labadie, “Mastoidectomy using a bone-attached robot”, 12th Annual Conference of Cochlear Implant Group of India. 2014.

Ph.D. Dissertations

  1. N. P. Dillon, “Analysis, Design, and Modeling of Image-Guided Robotic Systems for Otologic Surgery”. Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 2017. PDF (9.15 MB)