EDUCATION
- PhD: Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 01/2007 - 12/2012
- MS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 05/2011
- BS: Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 09/2002 – 12/2006
RESEARCH
- Current
- Development of a real-time surgical simulator incorporating reality-based models for probing and cutting of soft tissue.
- Previous
- Applications of cohesive zone models to the scalpel cutting process to model surgical cutting from a fracture mechanics approach.
- Improvement of nonlinear constitutive models base on in-vivo experimentation of porcine liver through the use of a custom designed test fixture for probing of live samples.
- Developed a reality-based, haptics enabled simulator for probing of ex-vivo porcine liver utilizing experimentally determined nonlinear constitutive models based on preprocessing techniques.
- Generated nonlinear constitutive models to define general tool-tissue loading of porcine liver through the combination of data obtained via compression, tension and pure shear tests on ex-vivo porcine liver.
- Designed and manufactured a hydraulically powered, teleoperated needle driver robot with haptic feedback capable of insertion un continuous magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
PUBLICATIONS
- K. Lister, Z. Gao, J. P. Desai, “Development of in-vivo Constitutive Models for Liver: Application to Surgical Simulation,” Annals Biomedical Engineering, Volume 39, Issue 3, Pages 1060-1073, 2011.
- K. Lister, Z. Gao, J.P. Desai, “Towards a Soft-Tissue Cutting Simulator using the Cohesive Zone Approach,” In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, Boston, MA, USA, 2011.
- Z. Gao, K. Lister, J. P. Desai, “Constitutive modeling of liver tissue: experiment and theory,” Annals Biomedical Engineering, Volume 28, Issue 2 Pages 505-516, 2010.
- K. Lister, Z. Gao, J. P. Desai, “A 3D In Vivo Constitutive Model for Porcine Liver: Matching Force Characteristics and Surface Deformations,” In Third IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics - BioRob, Tokyo, Japan 2010.
- R. Kokes, K. Lister, R. Gullapalli, B. Zhang, A. MacMillan, H. Richard, J. P. Desai, “Towards a teleoperated needle driver robot with haptic feedback for RFA of breast tumors under continuous MRI,” Medical Image Analysis, Volume 13, Issue 3, Pages 445-455, June 2009.
- K. Lister and J. P. Desai, “Real-time, haptics-enabled simulator for probing ex vivo liver tissue,” In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, EMBC, Minneapolis, MN, USA, 2009.
- Z. Gao, K. Lister, J. P. Desai, “Constitutive Modeling of Liver Tissue: Experiment and Theory,” In Second IEEE/RAS-EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics - BioRob, Scottsdale, AZ, USA, October 2008. [PDF
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- K. Lister, R. Kokes, B. Zhang, R. Gullapalli, Jaydev P. Desai, “MRI Compatible Robotic System with Haptic Feedback for RF Ablation/Biopsy under Continuous MRI,” In The International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM), Toronto, Canada, 2008.
- R. Kokes, K. Lister, R. Gullapalli, B. Zhang, H. Richard, J. P. Desai, “Towards a Needle Driver Robot for Radiofrequency Ablation of Tumors under Continuous MRI,” In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Pasadena, CA, USA, 2008.
- K. Lister and J. P. Desai, “Soft-Tissue Characterization during Monopolar Electrocautery Procedures,” In The 16th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference, Long Beach, CA, USA, 2007.