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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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Projects |
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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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Kidney stone breakthrough procedure at UW called 'game changer' for patients (video)
KOMO News
Preston Phillips
10 May 2023
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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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Dual-mode 1D linear ultrasound array for image-guided drug delivery enhancement without ultrasound contrast agents
Williams, R.P., M.M. Karzova, P.V. Yuldashev, A.Z. Kaloev, F.A. Nartov, V.A. Khokhlova, B.W. Cunitz, K.P. Morrison, and T.D. Khokhlova
19 April 2023
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A novel patient-specific computational fluid dynamics study of the activation of primary collateral pathways in the Circle of Willis during vasospasm
Straccia, A., and 8 others including D.F. Leotta
1 April 2023
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Functional and morphological changes associated with burst wave lithotripsy treated pig kidneys
Connors, B.A., T. Gardner, Z. Liu, J.E. Lingeman, W. Kreider, and J.C. Williams Jr.
1 December 2022
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