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QS+CLINICAL 
publications
(Sold in Europe as registered medical device)

PUBLICATIONS

​Sleep Disorder Applications

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Compressed tracheal sound analysis in screening of sleep-disordered breathing
Esa Rauhala, Joel Hasan, Antti Kulkas, Antti Saastamoinen, Eero Huupponen, Frank Cameron, Sari-Leena Himanen
Clinical Neurophysiology 119 (2008) 2037–2043

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Detection of compressed tracheal sound patterns with large amplitude variation during sleep
A. Kulkas, E. Rauhala, E. Huupponen, J. Virkkala, M. Tenhunen, A. Saastamoinen, S-L. Himanen
Med Biol Eng Comput (2008) 46:315–321

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Emfit movement sensor in evaluating nocturnal breathing
Mirja Tenhunen, Ella Elomaa, Heli Sistonen, Esa Rauhala, Sari-Leena Himanen
Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology 187 (2013) 183– 189

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High frequency components of tracheal sound are emphasized during prolonged flow limitation
M Tenhunen, E Rauhala, E Huupponen, A Saastamoinen, A Kulkas and S-L Himanen
Physiol. Meas. 30 (2009) 467–478

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Increased respiratory effort during sleep is non-invasively detected with movement sensor
Mirja Tenhunen, Esa Rauhala, Jussi Virkkala, Olli Polo, Antti Saastamoinen, Sari-Leena Himanen
Sleep Breath (2011) 15:737–746

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New tracheal sound feature for apnoea analysis
A. Kulkas, E. Huupponen, J. Virkkala, M. Tenhunen, A. Saastamoinen, E. Rauhala, S.-L. Himanen
Med Biol Eng Comput (2009) 47:405–412

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Performance of Non-invasive Devices in Evaluation of Periodic Limb Movements and Sleep-disordered Breathing
Esa Rauhala
Doctoral Thesis, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Tampere, 2009.

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Periodic limb movement screening as an additional feature of Emfit sensor in sleep-disordered breathing studies
Esa Rauhala, Jussi Virkkala, Sari-Leena Himanen
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 178 (2009) 157–161

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Prolonged spiking periods pattern detection method by using Emfit and SCSB signals
Jarmo Alametsä, Antti Saastamoinen, Eero Huupponen, Alpo Väri, Atte Joutsen, Joel Hasan, Esa Rauhala, and Sari-Leena Himanen
Proceedings of the 12th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference STeP. 2006.

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Snoring seconds detection with EMFi sensor strips
Jarmo Alametsä, Jari Viik, Eero Huupponen, Antti Kulkas, Alpo Väri, and Sari-Leena Himanen
2010 12th Biennial Baltic Electronics Conference (BEC2010), Tallinn, Estonia, October 4-6, 2010

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Heart rate variability evaluation of Emfit sleep mattress breathing categories in NREM sleep.
Tenhunen M, Hyttinen J, Lipponen JA, Virkkala J, Kuusimäki S, Tarvainen MP, Karjalainen PA, Himanen SL.
Clin Neurophysiol. 2014 Sep 6. pii: S1388-2457(14)00468-4. doi: 10.1016/j. clinph.2014.08.012. PMID: 25241203

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Screening sleep disordered breathing in stroke unit.
Väyrynen K, Kortelainen K, Numminen H, Miettinen K, Keso A, Tenhunen M, Huhtala H, Himanen SL.
Sleep Disord. 2014;2014:317615. doi: 10.1155/2014/317615. Epub 2014 May 27. PMID: 24991437

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