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Tom Matula
Senior Principal Physicist Affiliate Assistant Professor, Bioengineering
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 Fragments
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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FDA clears Break Wave™ lithotripsy device for treatment of kidney stones
PR Newswire
21 January 2026
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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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Glibenclamide treatment improved intraspinal blood volume, tissue sparing, and functional recovery after cervical spinal cord injury in rats
Prasse, T., and 11 others including M.F. Bruce
1 November 2026
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Transient tumor perfusion loss: Evaluating the spatial and temporal dynamics of blood flow changes induced by ultrasound cavitation treatment
Krolak, C., L. De Koninck, S. Gu, Y.-N. Wang, and M. Averkiou
1 November 2026
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Pulse duration and pulse repetition frequency shape cavitation dynamics and volumetric liquefaction by histotripsy in a fibrous tissue-mimicking phantom
Nanda Kumar, Y., Y.-N. Wang, W. Kreider, Q. Han, J.T.C. Liu, E. Vlaisavljevich, G.R. Schade, and A.D. Maxwell
1 October 2026
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