Simulation study of two-phase fluid 3D imaging using lab-on-chip ECT

• Main Authors: Hor, Xian Feng, Leow, Pei Ling, Mohamed Ali, Mohamed Sultan, Mohammad Din, Shahrulnizahani, Puspanathan, Jaysuman, Zulkiflli, Nur Amira, Abdul Rahim, Ruzairi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89845/1/HorXianFeng2019_SimulationStudyofTwoPhaseFluid3D.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89845/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSIPA45851.2019.8977750

Electrical Capacitance Tomography (ECT) is a popular technique for multi-phase fluidic imaging. For the sake of better microfluidics handling within a miniaturized platform, this paper presents a simulation study of a lab-on-chip 3D ECT model with two set of 8-planar-electrode arrays position circularly on the top and bottom layer of the sensing microchamber. The presented simulation studies are to reconstruct the 3D images of a square phantom (water) in a background (air) with different location by using Linear Backward Propagation (LBP) as the image reconstruction algorithm. The simulation results have shown that the proposed lab-on-chip 3D ECT is capable to identify the different position of the phantom.