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Thomas J. Matula is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans multiple scientific disciplines, including medicine, biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, and engineering. The subfields of study associated with their work include molecular biology, biomedical engineering, surgery, public health, environmental and occupational health, and materials chemistry.

Matula's recent publications demonstrate a focus on ultrasound applications and biomedical treatments. Some examples of their recent papers include:

  • Treating Porcine Abscesses with Histotripsy: A Pilot Study (2020, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology)
  • Low frequency ultrasound as a potentially viable foaming option for pathological veins (2020, Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects)
  • Effect of Stiffness of Large Extravascular Hematomas on Their Susceptibility to Boiling Histotripsy Liquefaction in Vitro (2020, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology)
  • A porcine bimicrobial abscess model for testing interventional treatments (2020, bioRxiv [Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory])
  • CryoGrid-PIXUL-RNA: high throughput RNA isolation platform for tissue transcript analysis (2023, BMC Genomics)

Their work commonly appears in publication venues such as:

  • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
  • Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
  • BMC Genomics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Matula include:

  • Tatiana D. Khokhlova
  • Wayne L. Monsky
  • Yak-Nam Wang
  • Daniel F. Leotta
  • Keith Chan

Matula's research covers several main topics, reflecting their interdisciplinary approach, including:

  • Ultrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
  • Streptococcal Infections and Treatments
  • Ultrasound and Cavitation Phenomena
  • Surgical site infection prevention
  • Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management

Best Publications

  • Blood vessel deformations on microsecond time scales by ultrasonic cavitation.

    Hong Chen;Wayne Kreider;Andrew A. Brayman;Michael R. Bailey

  • Comparison of Multibubble and Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence Spectra

    Thomas J. Matula;Ronald A. Roy;Pierre D. Mourad;William B. McNamara

  • Inertial cavitation dose and hemolysis produced in vitro with or without Optison.

    Wen-Shiang Chen;Andrew A. Brayman;Thomas J. Matula;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Vascular effects induced by combined 1-MHz ultrasound and microbubble contrast agent treatments in vivo.

    Joo Ha Hwang;Andrew A. Brayman;Michael A. Reidy;Thomas J. Matula

  • Correlation between inertial cavitation dose and endothelial cell damage in vivo.

    Joo Ha Hwang;Juan Tu;Andrew A. Brayman;Thomas J. Matula

  • A comparison of the fragmentation thresholds and inertial cavitation doses of different ultrasound contrast agents

    Wen-Shiang Chen;Thomas J. Matula;Andrew A. Brayman;Lawrence A. Crum

  • The pulse length-dependence of inertial cavitation dose and hemolysis.

    Wen-Shiang Chen;Andrew A. Brayman;Thomas J. Matula;Lawrence A. Crum

  • The disappearance of ultrasound contrast bubbles: observations of bubble dissolution and cavitation nucleation.

    Wen Shiang Chen;Thomas J Matula;Lawrence A Crum

  • Estimating the shell parameters of SonoVue® microbubbles using light scattering

    Juan Tu;Jingfeng Guan;Yuanyuan Qiu;Thomas J. Matula

  • Inertial cavitation and single–bubble sonoluminescence

    Thomas J. Matula

  • Bjerknes force and bubble levitation under single-bubble sonoluminescence conditions

    Thomas J. Matula;Sean M. Cordry;Ronald A. Roy;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Evidence for Gas Exchange in Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence

    Thomas J. Matula;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Blood vessel rupture by cavitation.

    Hong Chen;Andrew A. Brayman;Michael R. Bailey;Thomas J. Matula

  • Mechanisms of lesion formation in high intensity focused ultrasound therapy

    Wen Shiang Chen;Cyril Lafon;Thomas J. Matula;Shahram Vaezy

  • OBSERVATIONS OF TRANSLATION AND JETTING OF ULTRASOUND-ACTIVATED MICROBUBBLES IN MESENTERIC MICROVESSELS

    Hong Chen;Andrew A. Brayman;Wayne Kreider;Michael R. Bailey

  • The acoustic emissions from single-bubble sonoluminescence

    Thomas J. Matula;Ibrahim M. Hallaj;Robin O. Cleveland;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Effect of Solutes on Single-Bubble Sonoluminescence in Water

    Muthupandian Ashokkumar;Lawrence A. Crum;C. Allen Frensley;Franz Grieser

  • Correlation between acoustic cavitation noise, bubble population, and sonochemistry

    Nicolas Segebarth;Olivier Eulaerts;Jacques Reisse;Lawrence A. Crum

  • Microbubble sizing and shell characterization using flow cytometry

    J Tu;J E Swalwell;D Giraud;W Cui

  • Using light scattering to measure the response of individual ultrasound contrast microbubbles subjected to pulsed ultrasound in vitro.

    Jingfeng Guan;Thomas J. Matula

  • Radial Response of Individual Bubbles Subjected to Shock Wave Lithotripsy Pulses In Vitro

    Thomas J. Matula;Paul R. Hilmo;Brian D. Storey;Andrew J. Szeri

  • Using optical scattering to measure properties of ultrasound contrast agent shells

    Thomas Matula;Jingfeng Guan

  • Nonlinear contrast enhancement in photoacoustic molecular imaging with gold nanosphere encapsulated nanoemulsions.

    Chen Wei Wei;Michael Lombardo;Kjersta Larson-Smith;Ivan Pelivanov

  • Intravascular inertial cavitation activity detection and quantification in vivo with Optison

    Juan Tu;Joo Ha Hwang;Thomas J. Matula;Andrew A. Brayman

  • Sono-photoacoustic imaging of gold nanoemulsions: Part I. Exposure thresholds.

    Bastien Arnal;Camilo Perez;Camilo Perez;Chen Wei Wei;Jinjun Xia

  • Transient cavitation in high-quality-factor resonators at high static pressures

    D. Felipe Gaitan;Ross A. Tessien;Robert A. Hiller;Joel Gutierrez

Frequent Co-Authors

Lawrence A. Crum
Lawrence A. Crum University of Washington
Michael R. Bailey
Michael R. Bailey University of Washington
Matthew O'Donnell
Matthew O'Donnell University of Washington
Oleg A. Sapozhnikov
Oleg A. Sapozhnikov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Vera A. Khokhlova
Vera A. Khokhlova Lomonosov Moscow State University
Ronald A. Roy
Ronald A. Roy University of Oxford
Philip L. Marston
Philip L. Marston Washington State University
Muthupandian Ashokkumar
Muthupandian Ashokkumar University of Melbourne
Franz Grieser
Franz Grieser University of Melbourne
Kenneth S. Suslick
Kenneth S. Suslick University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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