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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 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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Mechanical Tissue Ablation with Focused Ultrasound
Vera Khokhlova, Oleg Sapozhnikov, Mike Bailey, Yak-Nam Wang, Adam Maxwell
19 March 2020
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Ultrasonic Detection and Propulsion of Kidney Stones
Mike Bailey, Bryan Cunitz, Peter Kaczkowski, John Kucewicz, Oleg Sapozhnikov
1 February 2019
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NEJM Study Suggests If Having Kidney Stone Surgery, Treat All the Stones
Medical Research .com
Marie Benz
11 August 2022
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Leaving small kidney stones behind causes problems later
UW Medicine Newsroom
Barbara Clements
11 August 2022
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We’ve mastered acoustic levitation — and it is surprisingly useful
New Scientist
Michael Allen
15 September 2021
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First series using ultrasonic propulsion and burst wave lithotripsy to treat ureteral stones
Hall, M.K., and 22 others including J. Thiel, B. Dunmire, and M.R. Bailey
1 November 2022
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In vivo aberration correction for transcutaneous HIFU therapy using a multielement array
Thomas, G.P.L., T.D. Khokhlova, O.A. Sapozhnikov, Y.-N. Wang, S.I. Totten, and V.A. Khokhlova
1 October 2022
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Development of tough hydrogel phantoms to mimic fibrous tissue for focused ultrasound therapies
Kumar, Y.N., Z. Singh, Y.-N. Wang, G.R. Schade, W. Kreider, M. Bruce, E. Vlaisavljevich, T.D. Khokhlova, and A.D. Maxwell
1 September 2022
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