Real-time 3D visualisation in electrical capacitance tomography

Author

Ye, Lei ; Yang, Wuqiang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Univ. of Manchester, Manchester, UK

fYear

2012

fDate

16-17 July 2012

Firstpage

40

Lastpage

44

Abstract

Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) has been developed to provide 2D images, representing the cross-sectional permittivity distribution of industrial processes, such as oil pipelines and pharmaceutical fluidised beds. In some cases, 3D visualisation is more attractive than 2D. While some researchers worked on 3D ECT, the imaging speed was very slow, far away from real time. This paper introduces an approach to real-time 3D visualization in ECT, which can generate 3D images at almost the same speed as the traditional 2D images.

Keywords

computerised tomography; data visualisation; electric impedance imaging; image representation; permittivity; 3D ECT; 3D image generation; cross-sectional permittivity distribution; electrical capacitance tomography; image representation; industrial process; real-time 3D visualization; Atmospheric measurements; Current measurement; Particle measurements; Permittivity measurement; Q measurement; Visualization; Volume measurement; Electrical capacitance tomography; real-time 3D graphics; visualisation; volume rendering;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), 2012 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1776-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IST.2012.6295480

Filename

6295480