On the development of integrated real time data acquisition and volume data processing software for ECVT

Abstract

ECVT has been widely used in different fields including oil refinery systems, chemical processes, space shuttles and medicals. The technique generates a whole volumetric image from the measured capacitance of the region enclosed by the geometrically three-dimensional sensor. However, the data acquisition and data processing of the ECVT are done on separate applications, which makes a real time measurement and visualization cannot be achieved. This paper describes a design and development of an Integrated Data Acquisition and Data Processing application for ECVT. The application implements data acquisition and data processing in one platform. Furthermore, the designed software also provides parallel implementation of the image reconstruction to speed up the image reconstruction. The software is developed using Python language, and open source Python library for scientific computing.