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Department Lead

Tom Matula

Senior Principal Physicist

Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
Affiliate Associate Professor, Electrical Engineering

Mission			Expertise
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			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

PIXelated ULtrasound to Speed Medical Research			Characterizing Ultrasound Sources + Fields			Tissue Ablation with Focused Ultrasound

Projects

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Media Coverage

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Publications

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Ultrasonic Propulsion of Residual Kidney Stone Fragments

Barbrina Dunmire, Jeff Thiel, Bryan Cunitz, John Kucewicz, Mike Bailey

9 September 2024

Ultrasonic Kidney Stone Treatment for Pet Cats and Marine Mammals

Adam Maxwell, Mike Bailey, Kaizer Contreras

20 December 2023

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

FDA clears Break Wave™ lithotripsy device for treatment of kidney stones

PR Newswire

21 January 2026

Pushing kidney stone fragments reduces stones' recurrence

UW Medicine News

12 September 2024

Office procedure found to get stone fragments rolling

Medscape

Howard Wolinsky

4 May 2024

Transient tumor perfusion loss: Evaluating the spatial and temporal dynamics of blood flow changes induced by ultrasound cavitation treatment

Krolak, C., L. De Koninck, S. Gu, Y.-N. Wang, and M. Averkiou

1 November 2026

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound demonstrates a severity-dependent hemodynamic response to acute dural decompression in concussive rodent spinal cord injury

Ramkumar, R., and 7 others including M.F. Bruce

25 August 2026

Fragmentation and facilitated clearance of small, asymptomatic, renal stones with burst wave lithotripsy and ultrasonic propulsion: A 14-month follow-up

Harper, J.D., B. Dunmire, J. Thiel, B.H. Burke, A.C. Desai, M. Dighe, B.J. Levchak, J.E. Lingeman, C.C.Yang, M.R. Bailey, Z. Liu, and M.D. Sorensen

2 August 2026