An adaptive current tomograph using voltage sources

An adaptive electric current tomography system that contains a novel front-end analog architecture was developed. Programmable voltage sources were used to deliver currents into the study object and to avoid the difficulties of obtaining high-quality current sources. Through inverting an admittance matrix, the system is capable of achieving a desired current drive pattern by applying a computed voltage pattern. The tomograph, operating at 9.6 kHz, comprises 32 driving electrodes and 32 voltage measurement electrodes. The study of system noise performance shows high SNR in the data acquisition which is enhanced by a digital demodulation scheme. In vitro reconstruction images have been obtained with the data collected by the tomograph.<<ETX>>

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