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Evaluation of effect of number of electrodes in ERT sensors on image quality

  • CAS - Institute of Engineering Thermophysics
  • University of Manchester

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Abstract

It is assumed that the spatial resolution of the reconstructed images with an electrical resistance tomography (ERT) system can be improved by increasing the number of measurement electrodes. In this paper, the issues with the number of electrodes will be discussed. To analyze the effect of the number of electrodes on the quality of reconstructed images, ERT sensors with different number of electrodes - 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32, 36, 40 and 48 - are investigated. With the adjacent and opposite strategies, the voltages between different electrode pairs are calculated for some typical conductivity distributions with different contrast in conductivity using a finite element method. The obtained voltage data are then used to reconstruct images using the projected Landweber iteration algorithm. In the meanwhile, the impact of meshes in the inverse problem solver on image quality is also discussed. The sensitivity distributions for all cases are analyzed utilizing singular value decomposition (SVD). The analytical results are in agreement with the simulation results.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIST 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings
Pages19-24
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2013 - Beijing, China
Duration: 22 Oct 201323 Oct 2013

Publication series

NameIST 2013 - 2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, Proceedings

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, IST 2013
Country/TerritoryChina
CityBeijing
Period22/10/1323/10/13

Keywords

  • electrical resistance tomography
  • image reconstruction
  • resistance sensor

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