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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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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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Kidney stone breakthrough procedure at UW called 'game changer' for patients (video)
KOMO News
Preston Phillips
10 May 2023
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Measurement of transcranial Doppler insonation angles from three-dimensional reconstructions of CT angiography scans
Leotta, D.F., M. Anderson, A. Straccia, R.E. Zierler, A. Aliseda, F.H. Sheehan, and D. Sharma
16 August 2024
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Randomized controlled trial of ultrasonic propulsion-facilitated clearance of residual kidney stone fragments vs. observation
Sorensen, M.D., and 16 others including B. Dunmire, J. Thiel, B.W. Cunitz, J.C. Kucewicz, and M.R. Bailey
15 August 2024
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A novel 4D volumetric M-mode ultrasound scanning technique for evaluation of intravascular volume and hemodynamic parameters
Patel, S., E. Kao, X. Wang, K. Ringgold, J. Thiel, N. White, S. Aarabi, and D.F. Leotta
25 July 2024
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