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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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We’ve mastered acoustic levitation — and it is surprisingly useful
New Scientist
Michael Allen
15 September 2021
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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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Safety of image-guided treatment of the liver with ultrasound and micro bubbles in an in vivo porcine model
Keller, S.B., Y.-N. Wang, S. Totten, R.S. Yeung, and M.A. Averkiou
1 November 2021
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'HIFU Beam' A simulator for predicting axially symmetric nonlinear acoustic fields generated by focused transducers in a layered medium
Yuldashev, P.V., M.M. Karzova, W. Kreider, P.B. Rosnitskiy, O.A. Sapozhnikov, and V.A. Khokhlova
1 September 2021
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Characterization and ex vivo evaluation of an extracorporeal high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) system
Zhou, Y.F., B.W. Cunitz, B. Dunmire, Y.-N. Wang, S.G. Karl, C. Warren, S. Mitchell, and J.H. Hwang
1 September 2021
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