Simultaneous reconstruction of electrode contact impedances and internal electrical properties: II. Laboratory experiments

Abstract

In this paper, we examine how the estimation method of the electrode contact impedances proposed earlier works in two different laboratory experiments. In the first experiment, the performance of the method was studied for a tank filled with a homogeneous liquid. In this case a single parameter for the contact impedances was used. In the second experiment the method was tested with a single target within a tank. In this case the contact impedances on all the electrodes were estimated. It was found that in the two-electrode measurement protocol the estimation of the electrode contact impedances improves reconstructions substantially. If only a single electrode contact impedance value for all the electrodes was estimated it was found that in certain cases it was not adequate.