A combined TD-FD method for enhanced reflectometry measurements in liquid quality monitoring

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 3534-3543

  Cataldo, Andrea ^a   Catarinucci, Luca ^a   Tarricone, Luciano ^a   Attivissimo, F ^b   Piuzzi, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI BARI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Dielectric measurements; Frequency domain (FD) analysis; Microwave reflectometry; Quality control; Scattering parameters; Time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; COMBINED EFFECT; COMBINED METHOD; CONTROL APPLICATIONS; DIELECTRIC MEASUREMENTS; DIELECTRIC PARAMETERS; FREQUENCY-DOMAIN (FD) ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL MONITORING; INDUSTRIAL QUALITY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL; MONITORING APPLICATIONS; ON TIME; PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; QUALITY MONITORING; REFLECTOMETRY; REFLECTOMETRY MEASUREMENTS; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR); VECTOR NETWORK ANALYZERS;

DATA PROCESSING; DIELECTRIC LIQUIDS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYZERS; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; MICROWAVES; MONITORING; QUALITY ASSURANCE; QUALITY FUNCTION DEPLOYMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 70349453585     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2018009     Document Type: Article

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