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Abstract

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a relatively mature non-invasive imaging technique that attempts to map dielectric permittivity of materials. ECT has become a promising monitoring technique in industrial process tomography especially in fast flow visualization. One of the most challenging tasks in further development of ECT for real applications are the computational aspects of the ECT imaging. Recently 3D ECT has gained interest because of its potential to generate volumetric images. Computational time of image reconstruction in 3D ECT makes it more difficult for real time applications. In this paper we present a robust and computationally efficient 4D image reconstruction algorithm applied to real ECT data. The method takes advantage of temporal correlation between 3D ECT frames to reconstruct movies 4D of dielectric maps, which enhance the noise performance of and its computational efficiency, improves the speed of ECT image reconstruction. The 4D image reconstruction results are presented for experimental data from fast moving object.

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Prof. Manuchehr Soleimani

Dr. Cathryn N. Mitchell

Dr. Robert Banasiak

Dr. Radoslaw Wajman

Dr. Andy Adler