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Tom Matula
Senior Principal Physicist Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Affiliate Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering |
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Mission |
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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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Projects |
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Media Coverage |
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Publications |
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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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Perfusion imaging metrics after acute traumatic spinal cord injury are associated with injury severity in rats and humans
Khaing, Z.Z., and 9 others including M. Bruce
18 September 2024
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Measurement of transcranial Doppler insonation angles from three-dimensional reconstructions of CT angiography scans
Leotta, D.F., M. Anderson, A. Straccia, R.E. Zierler, A. Aliseda, F.H. Sheehan, and D. Sharma
16 August 2024
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Randomized controlled trial of ultrasonic propulsion-facilitated clearance of residual kidney stone fragments vs. observation
Sorensen, M.D., and 16 others including B. Dunmire, J. Thiel, B.W. Cunitz, J.C. Kucewicz, and M.R. Bailey
15 August 2024
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