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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 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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Contrast-enhanced B-Flow ultrasound: A novel approach to liver trauma imaging
Gummadi, S., and 13 others including K. Contreras
3 July 2025
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Facilitated clearance of small, asymptomatic renal stones with burst wave lithotripsy and ultrasonic propulsion
Harper, J.D., and 18 others including B. Dunmire, J. Thiel, Y.-N. Wang, S. Totten, J.C. Kucewicz, and M.R. Bailey
1 July 2025
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Respiratory motion effects and mitigation strategies on boiling histotripsy in porcine liver and kidney
Ponomarchuk, E.M., G.P.L. Thomas, M. Song, Y.-N. Wang, S. Totten, G.R. Schade, V.A. Khokhlova, and T.D. Khokhlova
1 June 2025
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