Imaging of fluid flow by tomographic reconstruction using enhanced multipath ultrasonic measurements

Author

Rychagov, Michael N. ; Ruchkin, Sergey V. ; Tereshchenko, Sergey A. ; Podgaetsky, Vitaly M. ; Selishchev, Sergey V.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Comput. Eng., Moscow Inst. of Electron. Technol., Russia

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

5-8 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

803

Abstract

The major goal of the present research was to obtain high accuracy (0.5% or better) in an ultrasonic flowmeter by scanning the flow in an efficient manner, and in such a way that flow in each of the various spots or pixels that make up the cross-section of a pipe would be included and given an appropriate weight. The flow image can be reconstructed by data processing after multipath scanning of the flow. The influence of the flow velocity profile on the accuracy of time-of-flight ultrasonic measurements of the tomographic type was analyzed and verified experimentally. The applicability of iterative algorithms (in particular, algebraic reconstruction technique) and several variants of tomographic algorithms for parallel-path and fan-beam sampling of the flow were examined.

Keywords

acoustic tomography; flow; flowmeters; image reconstruction; iterative methods; ultrasonic imaging; ultrasonic measurement; algebraic reconstruction; data processing; fan beam sampling; flow multipath scanning; flow velocity profile; fluid flow imaging; iterative algorithms; multipath ultrasonic; parallel path sampling; pixels; time of flight ultrasonic measurements; tomographic algorithms; tomographic reconstruction; ultrasonic flowmeter; Data processing; Fluid flow; Fluid flow measurement; Image reconstruction; Iterative algorithms; Sampling methods; Tomography; Ultrasonic imaging; Ultrasonic variables measurement; Velocity measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Ultrasonics, 2003 IEEE Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7922-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ULTSYM.2003.1293522

Filename

1293522