Tuukka Panula
DSc (Tech.)
tuukka.j.panula@utu.fi Office: 456M ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0706-7542 |
Areas of expertise
embedded systems; circuit design; signal processing; medical devices
embedded systems; circuit design; signal processing; medical devices
Research community or research topic
Medical engineering
Medical engineering
Biography
I am a doctoral student at the University of Turku doing my thesis on advanced blood pressure instrumentation. I graduated MSc (tech) in 2019, majoring in health technology.
Research
Working on medical analytics and instrumentation. Currently researching new blood pressure monitoring methods and wearable cardiovascular diagnostics. My work involves some course assistant work and thesis supervision.
Teaching
Course assistant work: Medical Instrumentation, Analytics and Programming of Health Wearables, Embedded IoT Programming
Publications 
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- Feasibility of continuous microvascular tissue oxygenation monitoring using discrete optical semiconductor devices (2026)
- Biosensors and Bioelectronics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Flexible IMU Sensor Array For 3D Colonoscope Shape Reconstruction and AI‐Based Loop Detection (2026)
- Advanced Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Optical Techniques to Assess Cutaneous Microvascular Function in Cardiovascular Disease (2026)
- IEEE Reviews in Biomedical Engineering
(A2 Refereed review article in a scientific journal ) - Multi-Sensory System for Spatially Aware Colonoscopy (2025)
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Robotics and Bionics
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Tracking Radial Artery Dynamics Using Brightness-Mode Ultrasound and Video Analysis (2025)
- ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Wearable Non-Invasive Arterial Pulse Detection with a Millimeter-wave Radar (2025) ISWC '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers Bahmani, Nima; Salami, Dariush; Yigitler, Huseyin; Hietala, Juhapekka; Panula, Tuukka; Sigg, Stephan
(A4 Refereed article in a conference publication ) - Wearable Ring-Based System for Measuring Hemodynamic Parameters (2025) Lindström, Nico; Sirkiä, Jukka-Pekka; Panula, Tuukka; Kaisti, Matti
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Blood pressure and hemodynamic monitoring from the fingertip (2024) Panula, Tuukka
(G5 Article dissertation ) - Hemodynamic Bedside Monitoring Instrument with Pressure and Optical Sensors : Validation and Modality Comparison (2024)
- Advanced Science
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal) - Investigating the impact of contact pressure on photoplethysmograms (2024)
- Biomedical Engineering Advances
(A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal)
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