Electrical capacitance tomography-sensor models, design, simulations, and experimental verification

IEEE Sensors Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1256-1266

  Aime, Kjell Joar ^b   Mylvaganam, Saba ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Norway)

^b Telemark Technological R and D Centre   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH EASTERN NORWAY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT); Modeling; Sensor; Simulation; Verification

Indexed keywords

DESIGN CRITERIA; ECT SENSORS; ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPHY (ECT); SENSOR DESIGNS;

CAPACITANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROCHEMICAL ELECTRODES; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOMOGRAPHY;

SENSORS;

EID: 33749536009     PISSN: 1530437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSEN.2006.881409     Document Type: Article

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