• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.650-663
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• 2021

Subsurface topology estimation is an important factor in the geophysical survey. Electrical impedance tomography is one of the popular methods used for subsurface imaging. The EIT inverse problem is highly nonlinear and ill-posed; therefore, reconstructed conductivity distribution suffers from low spatial resolution. The subsurface region can be approximated as piece-wise separate regions with constant conductivity in each region; therefore, the conductivity estimation problem is transformed to estimate the shape and location of the layer boundary interface. Each layer interface boundary is treated as an open boundary that is described using front points. The subsurface domain contains multi-layers with very complex configurations, and, in such situations, conventional methods such as the modified Newton Raphson method fail to provide the desired solution. Therefore, in this work, we have implemented a 7-layer artificial neural network (ANN) as an inverse problem algorithm to estimate the front points that describe the multi-layer interface boundaries. An ANN model consisting of input, output, and five fully connected hidden layers are trained for interlayer boundary reconstruction using training data that consists of pairs of voltage measurements of the subsurface domain with three-layer configuration and the corresponding front points of interface boundaries. The results from the proposed ANN model are compared with the gravitational search algorithm (GSA) for interlayer boundary estimation, and the results show that ANN is successful in estimating the layer boundaries with good accuracy.

• 한국전기전자재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전기전자재료학회 2002년도 춘계합동학술대회 논문집
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• pp.87-91
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• 2002

본 연구는 탐지 대상물체의 형상인식 이 가능한 비접촉, 원격 탐지장치의 개발에 관한 것이다. 형체인식용 비접촉 시스템은 주로 Magneto-Impedance법과 Magneto-Inductance법이 있 으며, Magneto- Inductance법은 왜곡이 적고, 인체나 탐지대상물체에 손상을 가져오지 않는다. 본 연구에서는 2극으로 디자인 된 Magnetic Tomography System을 이용하여 물체의 위치에 따른 투자율 변화량을 계산 및 실측하였다.

• 한국정보기술학회논문지
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• 제16권11호
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• pp.35-41
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• 2018

전기 임피던스 단층촬영법 (EIT, electrical impedance tomography)은 비파괴검사의 일종으로 관심영역 외부에 설치된 전극에서 측정된 전압으로부터 내부의 저항률분포를 얻는 기술이다. 그러나 EIT에서 영상복원은 타고난 비선형성 (non-linearity)과 부정치성 (ill-posedness) 때문에 만족할만한 복원결과를 얻기 어렵다. 일반적으로 신경회로망은 비선형 시스템의 입력 및 출력 관계를 효율적으로 모델링 할 수 있다. 이 논문은 다층 신경회로망을 이용하여 원형인 표적의 위치(중심좌표)와 크기(반지름)를 추정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 성능을 알아보기 위해, 신경회로망을 학습시키고 다양한 컴퓨터 모의실험을 수행하였고 결과로부터 제안한 방법의 만족할만한 추정성능을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국전산유체공학회 2008년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.576-579
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• 2008

Electrical impedance(EIT) for the multi-phase flow visualization is an imaging modality in which the resistivity distribution of the unknown object is estimated based on the known sets of injected currents and measured voltages on the surface of the object. In this paper, an EIT reconstruction algorithm based on the extended Kalman filter(EKF) is proposed. The EIT reconstruction problem is formulated as a dynamic model which is composed of the state equation and the observation equation, and the unknown resistivity distribution is estimated recursively with the aid of the EKF. To verify the reconstruction performance of the proposed algorithm, experiments with simulated multi-phase flow are performed.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.139-155
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• 2011

Polymeric thin-film assemblies whose bulk electrical conductivity and mechanical performance have been enhanced by single-walled carbon nanotubes are proposed for measuring strain and corrosion activity in metallic structural systems. Similar to the dermatological system found in animals, the proposed self-sensing thin-film assembly supports spatial strain and pH sensing via localized changes in electrical conductivity. Specifically, electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is used to create detailed mappings of film conductivity over its complete surface area using electrical measurements taken at the film boundary. While EIT is a powerful means of mapping the sensing skin's spatial response, it requires a data acquisition system capable of taking electrical impedance measurements on a large number of electrodes. A low-cost wireless impedance analyzer is proposed to fully automate EIT data acquisition. The key attribute of the device is a flexible sinusoidal waveform generator capable of generating regulated current signals with frequencies from near-DC to 20 MHz. Furthermore, a multiplexed sensing interface offers 32 addressable channels from which voltage measurements can be made. A wireless interface is included to eliminate the cumbersome wiring often required for data acquisition in a structure. The functionality of the wireless impedance analyzer is illustrated on an experimental setup with the system used for automated acquisition of electrical impedance measurements taken on the boundary of a bio-inspired sensing skin recently proposed for structural health monitoring.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.91-98
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• 2017

전기 임피던스 단층촬영 기법은 도메인의 표면에 부착된 전극들을 통해 주입된 전류와 측정된 전압 데이터를 기반으로, 미지의 도전율 분포를 복원하는 비파괴 기술이다. 이 논문에서는 전기 임피던스 단층촬영법에서 일반적 Tikhonov 조정을 갖는 역문제를 풀고 도전율 분포를 복원하기 위해 절단된 특이값 분해 기반의 역문제 해법을 제안하였다. 역문제 계산시간을 줄이기 위해 일반 조정행렬을 역행렬 항목에서 분리시키고 절단된 특이값 분해 방법을 적용하였다. 제안한 방법의 성능을 검증하기 위해 모의실험과 팬텀실험을 수행하고 복원결과를 비교하였다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권4호
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• pp.83-90
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• 2017

전기 임피던스 단층촬영법은 전극을 통해 주입된 전류와 측정된 전압을 기반으로, 내부 도전율 분포를 복원하는 기술로, 비교적 새로운 비파괴 영상 복원 기법이다. 본 논문에서는 이원 혼합물 유동 응용분야에서 온라인으로 적용시킬 수 있도록, 역문제의 계산시간을 줄일 뿐만 아니라 공간 해상도도 함께 향상시킬 수 있는 역문제 해법인 빠른 반복적 가우스-뉴턴 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법의 영상 복원성능을 평가하기 위해 모의실험을 수행하고 그 결과를 비교분석하였다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.279-287
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• 2009

Magnetic resonance electrical impedance tomography (MREIT) is a new medical imaging modality providing cross-sectional images of a conductivity distribution inside an electrically conducting object. MREIT has rapidly progressed in its theory, algorithm and experimental technique and now reached the stage of in vivo animal and human experiments. Conductivity image reconstructions in MREIT require various steps of carefully implemented numerical computations. To facilitate MREIT research, there is a pressing need for an MREIT software package with an efficient user interface. In this paper, we present an example of such a software, called CoReHA which stands for conductivity reconstructor using harmonic algorithms. It offers various computational tools including preprocessing of MREIT data, identification of boundary geometry, electrode modeling, meshing and implementation of the finite element method. Conductivity image reconstruction methods based on the harmonic $B_z$ algorithm are used to produce cross-sectional conductivity images. After summarizing basics of MREIT theory and experimental method, we describe technical details of each data processing task for conductivity image reconstructions. We pay attention to pitfalls and cautions in their numerical implementations. The presented software will be useful to researchers in the field of MREIT for simulation as well as experimental studies.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.134-137
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• 2003

Newton-Raphson is most used algorithm in EIT(electrical impedance tomography), cross-sectional distribution of resistivity is reconstructed by mean of both generating and sensing electrodes attached onto the surface of the object. EIT has been suffered from the severe ill-posedness which is caused by the inherent low sensitivity of boundary measurements to any changes of internal resistivity values. In this paper, we propose modified cost function and weighting factor that compensate for low sensitivity between boundary measurements and internal resistivity and improve performance of Newton-Raphson for EIT in region of interest.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1991년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.5-7
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• 1991

We have developed an efficient and robust image reconstruction algorithm for static impedance imaging. This improved Newton-Raphson method produced more accurate images by reducing the undesirable effects of the ill-conditioned Hessian matrix. We found that our electrical impedance tomography (EIT) system could produce two-dimensional static images from a physical phantom with 7% spatial resolution at the center and 5% at the periphery. Static EIT image reconstruction requires a large amount of computation. In order to overcome the limitations on reducing the computation time by algorithmic approaches, we implemented the improved Newton-Raphson algorithm on a parallel computer system and showed that the parallel computation could reduce the computation time from hours to minutes.