Affiliation:
1. Sandia National Laboratories
Abstract
<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">For 2D surface temperature monitoring applications, a variant of Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) was evaluated computationally in this study. Literature examples of poor sensor performance in the center of the 2D domains away from the side electrodes motivated these efforts which seek to overcome some of the previously noted shortcomings. In particular, the use of ‘sensing skins’ with novel tailored baseline conductivities was examined using the EIDORS package for EIT. It was found that the best approach for detecting a temperature hot spot depends on several factors such as the current injection (stimulation) patterns, the measurement patterns, and the reconstruction algorithms. For well-performing combinations of these factors, customized baseline conductivities were assessed and compared to the baseline uniform conductivity.</div><div class="htmlview paragraph">It was discovered that for some EIT applications, a tailored distribution needs to be smooth and that sudden changes in the conductivity gradients should be avoided to prevent the introduction of artifacts in the reconstructed conductivity field. Still, the benefits in terms of improved EIT performance were small for conditions for which the EIT measurements had been ‘optimized’ for the uniform baseline case. Within the limited scope of this study, only two specific cases showed benefits from customized distributions. For one case, a smooth tailored distribution with increased baseline conductivity in the center provided a better separation of two centrally located hot spots. For another case, a smooth tailored distribution with reduced conductivity in the center provided better estimates of the magnitudes of two hot spots near the center of the sensing skin.</div><div class="htmlview paragraph">Overall, the results at hand suggest that improved 2D surface temperature measurement are best served by continued development of measurements and reconstruction algorithms rather than the use of sensing skins with tailored baseline conductivity distributions.</div></div>
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