Design of a non-magnetic shielded and integrated electromagnetic tomography system

Abstract

The detected signal of an electromagnetic tomography (EMT) system is weak and can be easily disturbed by the capacitance coupling and external magnetic field. In order to improve the performance of the EMT system, simulation of a non-magnetic shield design was done and an integrated EMT system based on a field programmable gate array (FPGA) is presented in this paper. By the orthogonal experiments, the influence of the material, height and inner radius of the shield was investigated according to the uniformity criterion of sensitivity. Besides, the principle for the selection of the shield parameters was put forward. In the present EMT system, a direct digital synthesizer module, digital demodulation module, MCU control module, DA interface module, AD interface module and USB communication module were all integrated in a FPGA chip. The integration of the system is increased and the difficulty of debugging is decreased. The influence of the excitation signal frequency, the sample frequency and the accumulation number of the multiply accumulator intellectual property core on the demodulation was analysed and a general principle was proposed. The system was evaluated and an optimal excitation frequency was chosen. A back-projection algorithm based on a truncated singular value was selected to reconstruct the different distributions, and the speed of reconstruction was 27 frames s−1. The design scheme can be easily transplanted to other electrical tomography systems.