A frequency selection scheme for increased imaging speed in ECT

Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is a method to determine the material distribution within the interior of a closed object by measuring the capacitance values across externally mounted electrodes. Traditionally, an AC excitation pulse is applied to a pair of electrodes that form a capacitor d...

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Main Authors: Zhaoyan Fan, Gao, R. X.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Capacitance
Capacitance measurement
Electrical capacitance tomography
Electrodes
Electronic countermeasures
Frequency measurement
image reconstruction
Materials
permittivity measurement
Voltage measurement
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Summary:Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is a method to determine the material distribution within the interior of a closed object by measuring the capacitance values across externally mounted electrodes. Traditionally, an AC excitation pulse is applied to a pair of electrodes that form a capacitor during each measurement step, in order to determine the capacitance from the output current measured. This paper investigates how the speed of inter-electrode capacitance measurement can be improved by applying and receiving multiple excitation signals simultaneously on multiple electrodes. An excitation frequency selection scheme is derived to discuss the effect of bandwidth on the interference between the simultaneously sampled measurement channels. The new scheme opens up new possibilities for ECT as an effective tool for online, real-time monitoring of a wide range of dynamical processes.
ISSN:1558-2809
2832-4242
DOI:10.1109/IST.2012.6295558