Electrical capacitance tomography (ECT) is a technique of imaging the distribution of permittivity inside an object under test. Capacitance is measured between the electrodes surrounding the object, and the image is reconstructed from these data by solving the inverse problem. Although both sinusoidal excitation and pulse excitation are used in the sensing circuit, only the AC method is used to measure both components of complex capacitance. In this article, a novel method of complex capacitance measurement using pulse excitation is proposed for ECT. The real and imaginary components are calculated from digital samples of the integrator response. A pulse shape in the front-end circuit was analyzed using the Laplace transform. The numerical simulations of the electric field inside the imaging volume as well as simulations of a pulse excitation in the front-end circuit were performed. The calculation of real and imaginary components using digital samples of the output signal was verified. The permittivity and conductivity images reconstructed for the test object were presented. The method enables imaging of permittivity and conductivity spatial distributions using capacitively coupled electrodes and may be an alternative measurement method for ECT as well as for electrical impedance tomography.
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