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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Estimating the Volume of Unknown Inclusions in an Electrically Conducting Body with Voltage Measurements.

Antonio Affanni, Ruben Specogna, Francesco Trevisan

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Antonio AffanniPolytechnical Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy. antonio.affanni@uniud.it.ORCID 0000-0002-6963-0196
Ruben SpecognaPolytechnical Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy. ruben.specogna@uniud.it.
Francesco TrevisanPolytechnical Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy. francesco.trevisan@uniud.it.
University of Udine · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a novel technique to estimate the total volume of unknown insulating inclusions in an electrically conducting body from voltage measurements. Unlike conventional Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) systems that usually exhibit low spatial resolution and accuracy, the proposed device is composed of a pair of driving electrodes which, supplied with a known sinusoidal voltage, create a current density field inside a region of interest. The electrodes are designed to generate a current density field in the region of interest that is uniform, to a good approximation, when the inclusions are not present. A set of electrodes with a polygonal geometry is used for four-wires resistance measurements. The proposed technique has been tested designing a low cost prototype, where all electrodes are on the bottom of the conducting body, showing good performances. Such a device may be used to monitor the volume of biological cells inside cell culture dishes or the volume of blood clots in micro-channels in lab-on-a-chip biosensors.

Indexed as

Electrical Impedance Tomographyfour wires measurementinclusion volumevolume estimation

Identifiers

PMID30717406
PMCPMC6386993
OpenAlexW2913889589

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