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Tom Matula
Senior Principal Physicist Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Affiliate Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering |
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- Foster research collaborations between UW faculty and their industrial partners on industrial and medical ultrasound projects
- Develop industrial and medical ultrasound technology, including instruments, techniques, ideas and products that have value to our society
- Form partnerships with industry that enable this technology to be transferred to the commercial sector
- Educate and train students and technical professionals working in the fields of industrial and medical ultrasound
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- In vitro and in vivo applications of ultrasound
- High intensity focused ultrasound
- Soft materials development
- Transducer and amplifier development
- Acoustic hemostasis
- Kidney stone detection and treatment
- Nonlinear acoustics modeling
- Sonoluminescence
- Microbubble characterization
- Cavitation generation/characterization
- Ultrasound tools development
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| PIXelated ULtrasound to Speed Medical Research |
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Characterizing Ultrasound Sources + Fields |
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Tissue Ablation with Focused Ultrasound |
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Ultrasonic Propulsion of Residual Kidney Stone Framents
Barbrina Dunmire, Jeff Thiel, Bryan Cunitz, John Kucewicz, Mike Bailey
9 September 2024
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Ultrasonic Kidney Stone Treatment for Pet Cats and Marine Mammals
Adam Maxwell, Mike Bailey, Kaizer Contreras
20 December 2023
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Ultrasonic tweezers: Technology to lift and steer solid objects in a living body
Mohamed Ghanem, Adam Maxwell, Oleg Sapozhnikov, Mike Bailey, Vera Khokhlova
15 July 2020
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Pushing kidney stone fragments reduces stones' recurrence
UW Medicine News
12 September 2024
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Office procedure found to get stone fragments rolling
Medscape
Howard Wolinsky
4 May 2024
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A mother-daughter team of physicists is advancing therapeutic ultrasound to break up tissue like kidney stones and tumors
UW CoMotion
Charlotte Schubert
7 March 2024
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Validation of 2-dimensional ultrasound imaging protocols for measuring the masseter muscle
Lin, M., D.F. Leotta, M.B. Chen, and P.P. Lee
1 May 2025
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Fracture and fragmentation of vascular calcifications by focused ultrasound
Chen, L.S., G. Koh, Y.-N. Wang, G.W. Kim, Z. Singh, A. Lehnert, R. Miyaoka, H.S. Gurm, and A.D. Maxwell
21 April 2025
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Synthesized acoustic holography: A method to evaluate steering and focusing performance of ultrasound arrays
Williams, R.P., W. Kreider, F.A. Nartov, M.M. Karzova, V.A. Khokhlova, O.A. Sapozhnikov, and T.D. Khokhlova
11 April 2025
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