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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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Acoustic tweezers move objects in the body remotely
Physics World
Marric Stephens
4 August 2020
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Ultrasound tweezers could help remove kidney stones without surgery
New Scientist
Clare Wilson
6 July 2020
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PIXUL-ChIP: Integrated high-throughput sample preparation and analytical platform for epigenetic studies
Science in Seattle
15 April 2019
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Factors affecting tissue cavitation during burst wave lithotripsy
Maxwell, A.D., C. Hunter, B.W. Cunitz, W. Kreider, S. Totten, and Y.-N. Wang
1 August 2021
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Comparison of texture-based classification and deep learning for plantar soft tissue histology segmentation
Brady, L., Y.-N. Wang, E. Rombokas, and W.R. Ledoux
1 July 2021
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Sonographic features of abscess maturation in a porcine model
Lotta, D.F., M. Bruce, Y.-N. Wang, J. Kucewicz, T.K. Khokhlova, K. Chan, W. Monsky, and T.J. Matula
1 July 2021
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