The capacitance tomography image reconstruction algorithm based on sensitivity field sensitivity matrix

Abstract

Abstract Successful applications of ECT technology depend on the speed and precision of the image reconstruction algorithms. The image reconstruction for electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is an inherently nonlinear and ill-posed inverse problem. To solve the problems, in this paper 12-electrode ECT system was set up to acquire real measurement capacitances under capacitance tomography that based on sensitivity field sensitivity matrix, which is T-LBP. In this paper four typical flow patterns are simulated, such as laminar flow, core flow, annular flow and bubbly flow, which in a circular section pipe. The simulation data indicate that the quality and the error, which was obtained in this paper, of the reconstructed images were better than the corresponding images obtained by the LBP and the Landweber algorithm. This new algorithm presents a feasible and effective way to research on image reconstruction algorithm for the industrial applications of Electrical Capacitance Tomography System.