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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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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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Mechanical Tissue Ablation with Focused Ultrasound
Vera Khokhlova, Oleg Sapozhnikov, Mike Bailey, Yak-Nam Wang, Adam Maxwell
23 March 2017
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How Astronauts are Keeping You Healthy from 250 Miles Up
CNN
Nick Caplan and Andrew Winnard
13 June 2017
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Rock Stars: UW Researchers Take a Whack at Kidney Stone Disease
Seattle Business (page 11)
Stuart Glascock
1 February 2017
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NASA-funded UW researchers develop kidney-stone zapping technology
GeekWire
Clare McGrane
4 July 2016
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Contrast-enhanced ultrasound to visualize hemodynamic changes after rodent spinal cord injury
Khan, Z.Z., L.N. Cates, D.M. DeWees, A. Hannah, P. Mourad, M. Bruce, and C.P. Hofstetter
1 September 2018
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Dependence of inertial cavitation induced by high intensity focused ultrasound on transducer F-number and nonlinear waveform distortion
Khokhlova, T., P. Rosnitskiy, C. Hunter, A. Maxwell, W. Kreider, G. Ter Haar, M. Costa, O. Sapozhnikov, and V. Khokhlova
1 September 2018
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Field characterization and compensation of vibrational nonuniformity for a 256-element focused ultrasound phased array
Ghanem, M.A., A.D. Maxwell, W. Kreider, B.W. Cunitz, V.A. Khokhlova, O.A. Sapozhnikov, and M.R. Bailey
1 September 2018
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