Signal demodulation methods for electrical tomography: A review

S Sun, L Xu, Z Cao, W Yang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The amplitude and phase of each sinusoidal frequency component in a signal can be
obtained by phase-sensitive demodulation, which is commonly used in electrical …

Performance analysis of a digital capacitance measuring circuit

L Xu, S Sun, Z Cao, W Yang - Review of scientific instruments, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
This paper presents the design and study of a digital capacitance measuring circuit with
theoretical analysis, numerical simulation, and experimental evaluation. The static and …

A high-speed digital electrical capacitance tomography system combining digital recursive demodulation and parallel capacitance measurement

S Sun, Z Cao, A Huang, L Xu, W Yang - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Two means can be used to improve the data acquisition rate of the electrical capacitance
tomography (ECT) system with a fixed excitation frequency, ie, improving the capacitance …

Gain adjustment for signal-to-noise ratio improvement in electrical capacitance tomography system EVT4

J Kryszyn, DM Wanta, WT Smolik - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A very small value of inter-electrode capacitance is a main factor limiting image spatial
resolution of electrical capacitance tomography. The front-end sensing circuit of …

A fuzzy PID-controlled iterative Calderon's method for binary distribution in electrical capacitance tomography

Y Tian, Z Cao, D Hu, X Gao, L Xu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) utilizes measured mutual capacitances across a
region of interest to visualize distributions inside. As typical two-phase flows can be roughly …

Electronic hardware design of electrical capacitance tomography systems

I Saied, M Meribout - … Transactions of the Royal Society A …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Electrical tomography techniques for process imaging are very prominent for industrial
applications, such as the oil and gas industry and chemical refineries, owing to their ability to …

3D ECT reconstruction by an improved Landweber iteration algorithm

H Yan, YF Wang, YG Zhou, YH Sun - Flow Measurement and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a relatively mature non-invasive imaging
technique that attempts to map dielectric permittivity of materials. Recently, 3D ECT has …

Investigation of spatial resolution of electrical capacitance tomography based on coupling simulation

J Ye, W Yang, C Wang - IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) has been developed for imaging permittivity
distribution of two-phase flows in a pipe or vessel with high temporal resolution. The spatial …

A new parallel VLSI architecture for real-time electrical capacitance tomography

AF Firdaus, M Meribout - IEEE transactions on computers, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a fixed-point reconfigurable parallel VLSI hardware architecture for real-
time Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT). It is modular and consists of a front-end …

An agile electrical capacitance tomography system with improved frame rates

A Huang, Z Cao, S Sun, F Lu, L Xu - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an AC-based agile parallel hardware system was introduced for ECT. A multi-
frequency excitation and measurement strategy was proposed to minimize the switching …