Suitability of a PXI platform for an electrical impedance tomography system

There are many different electrical impedance tomography (EIT) systems which are either non-commercial (in-house products) or commercial products. However, these systems are usually designed for specific applications and therefore the functionality of the systems might be limited. Nowadays there are commercially available many low-cost, efficient and accurate multifunctional components for data acquisition and signal processing. Therefore, it should be possible to construct an EIT system which is mainly built from commercially available components. The main goal of this work was to study the performance of a PXI-based EIT system. In this work, a PXI-based EIT system with 16 independent current injection channels and 80 independent measurement channels was constructed and tested. The results indicate that an EIT system can be constructed using a PXI platform which decreases the construction time of the system. Moreover, the system is efficient, accurate, modular, and it is not limited to any predetermined measurement protocols.

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