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We have many publications on the principle of ECT, hardware and sensor design, software and image reconstruction algorithms, and industrial applications. If you are interested in any of the following papers, please contact us.

General reading
  1. Electrical capacitance tomography – From design to applications, Measurement + Control, 28 (9), 1995, pp 261-266
  2. Process tomography -- What's the picture, Manchester Memoirs, 133, 1996, pp 31-39
  3. Principles and industrial applications of electrical capacitance tomography, Measurement + Control, 30 (7), 1997, pp 197-200 (awarded the 1997 Honeywell Prize of Institute of Measurement and Control)
  4. Capacitance tomography, in McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2003, pp 49-53
  5. Tomographic imaging based on capacitance measurement and industrial applications, IEEE Int. Symposium on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 4-5 May 2007, Krakow, Poland 
Hardware and sensor design
  1. Hardware design of electrical capacitance tomography systems, Meas. Sci. Technol., 7 (3), 1996, pp 225-232
  2. A self-balancing circuit to measure capacitance and loss conductance for industrial transducer applications, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 45 (6), 1996, pp 955-958
  3. Modelling of capacitance tomography sensors, IEE Proc.- Sci. Meas. Technol., 144 (5), 1997, pp 203-208
  4. Sensitivity distributions of capacitance tomography sensors with parallel field excitation, Meas. Sci. Technol., 8 (6), 1997, pp 562-569
  5. New AC-based capacitance tomography system, IEE Proc.- Sci. Meas. Technol., 146 (1), 1999, pp 47-53 (received IEE Ayrton Premium)
  6. Further developments in an ac-based capacitance tomography system, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 72 (10), 2001, pp 3902-3907
  7. Analysis of non-ideal characteristics of AC-based capacitance transducers for tomography, Meas. Sci. Technol., Special Feature, 12 (8), 2001, pp 1076-1082
  8. A portable stray-immune capacitance meter, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 73 (4), 2002, pp 1958-1961
  9. Analysis of the effect of stray capacitance on AC-based capacitance transducer for tomography, IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas., 52, 2003, pp 1674-1681
  10. Transient and noise analysis of the AC-based capacitance measuring circuit for tomography, IEEE Sensors J., 2004
  11. Key issue in designing capacitance tomography sensors, Proc. of 5th IEEE Conf. on Sensors, 22-25 Oct. 2006 Daegu, Korea, pp 497-505  
Software design and image reconstruction algorithms
  1. An image reconstruction algorithm based on Landweber iteration method for electrical capacitance tomography, Meas. Sci. Technol., 10 (11), 1999, pp 1065-1069
  2. Optimisation of iterative process for electrical capacitance tomography, Meas. Sci. and Technol., 10 (7), 1999, pp 37-39
  3. Image reconstruction algorithms for electrical capacitance tomography, Meas. Sci. Technol., (Review Article), 14, 2003, pp R1-R13
  4. Prior iteration for image reconstruction with electrical capacitance tomography, IEE Proc. Sci. Meas. Technol., 151 (3), 2004, pp 195-200
  5. Design of software structure and GUI for tomography systems, Proc. of 3rd Int. Symp. on Process Tomography in Poland, 9-10 Sept. 2004, Lodz, Poland,  pp 169-174
  6. Updating sensitivity maps in Landweber iteration for electrical capacitance tomography, Proc. of 5th World Congress on Industrial Process Tomography, 3-6 Sept. 2007, Bergen, Norway, pp 1116-1123
Industrial applications
  1. Development of capacitance tomographic imaging systems for oil pipeline measurements, Rev. Sci. Instrum., 66 (8), 1995, pp 4326-4332
  2. Monitoring water hammer by capacitance tomography, Electronics Letters, 32 (19), 1996, pp 1778-1779
  3. A capacitance tomographic system for void fraction measurement in transient cavitation, J. Hydraulic Research, 36 (4), 1998, pp 707-719
  4. Role of tomography in solid flow measurement, Flow Meas. and Instrum., Special Issue, 11, 2000, pp 237-244
  5. Investigation of square fluidised beds using electrical capacitance tomography -- preliminary results, Meas. Sci. Technol., Special Feature, 12 (8), 2001, pp 1120-1125
  6. A new image reconstruction method for tomographic investigation of fluidized beds, AIChE Journal, 48 (8), 2002, pp 1631-1638
  7. Adaptive calibration of a capacitance tomography system for imaging water droplet distribution, Flow Meas. and Instrum., 2004
  8. Study of bubbling and slugging fluidised beds by simulation and electrical capacitance tomography, AIChE Journal, 52 (9), 2006, pp 3078-3087
  9. Modelling of batch fluidised bed drying of pharmaceutical granules, Chem. Eng. Sci., 62 (5), 2007, pp 1524-1535
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