DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTRICAL CAPACITANCE TOMOGRAPH DESIGN IN THE NUCLEAR AND MEDICAL ELECTRONICS DIVISION

Abstract

Electrical Capacitance Tomography is a technique which allows to visualize a spatial distribution of electric permittivity in an examined volume. ECT allows to achieve hundreds of frames per second which is suitable for the industrial application, e.g. monitoring of multiphase flows or material mixing. Construction of such ECT system which enables precise data acquisition with sufficient speed is a challenge. In the Division of Nuclear and Medical Electronics ECT systems which have found applications in many research facilities in Poland and all over the world have been constructed for over 15 years. In this article a multichannel ET3 tomograph and its successor,EVT4, are presented. EVT4 will allow to obtain more than 10 thousand frames per second. This will allow to make progress in studies of dynamic processes and 3D visualization.

Keywords

• electrical capacitance tomography