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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 Detection and Propulsion of Kidney Stones
Mike Bailey, Bryan Cunitz, Peter Kaczkowski, John Kucewicz, Oleg Sapozhnikov
1 February 2019
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PIXUL: PIXelated ULtrasound Speeds Disease Biomarker Search
Tom Matula, Karol Bomsztyk, Brian MacConaghy, Adam Maxwell
26 April 2018
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Characterizing Medical Ultrasound Sources and Fields
Oleg Sapozhnikov, Wayne Kreider, Vera Khokhlova, Mike Bailey, Mohamed Ghanem
11 September 2017
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UW researchers and Florida middle school students form unusual bond over cosmic kidney stones
GeekWire
Kellie Schmitt
23 February 2019
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The mobile ultrasound revolution: How technology is expanding this medical tool to new frontiers
GeekWire
Kellie Schmitt
23 January 2019
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Harnessing the 'ouzo effect' for better ultrasound imaging
UW Chemical Engineering
Lindsey Doermann
3 January 2019
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Ultrasound imaging of micro bubble activity during sonoporation pulse sequences
Keller, S., M. Bruce, and M.A. Averkiou
1 March 2019
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Variation in non-metrical skull traits of polar bears (Ursus maritimus) and relationships across East Greenland and adjacent subpopulations (1830–2013)
Wiig, Ø., P. Henrichsen, T. Sjøvold, E.W. Born, K.L. Laidre, R. Dietz, C. Sonne, and J. Aars
1 March 2019
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Simulation of laser lithotripsy-induced heating in the urinary tract
Maxwell, A.D., B. MacConaghy, J.D. Harper, A.H. Aldoukhi, T.L. Hall, and W.W. Roberts
15 February 2019
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