Transducers Layout Optimization for Acoustic Tomography Temperature Field Reconstruction.

To improve the ability of the acoustic computed tomography (CT) temperature field reconstruction system for reconstructing various temperature distributions in the measured area, square and circular layouts of transducers were studied. In case of the square layout, the focus was on the placement of the transducers, and in case of the circular layout, the focus was on the division of grids. We proposed the coefficient matrix theory and indexes for studying and evaluating transducers layout. Four typical temperature field models were simulated and reconstructed. Simulation results showed that in a square layout, optimizing the position of transducers can result in better reconstruction quality. In a circular layout, a regular hexagonal grid division was better than an equal-area division, and better reconstruction quality was obtained by choosing the appropriate number of grids. For a small number of transducers, the circular layout of nine transducers with 27 acoustic rays and 91 regular hexagonal grids resulted in better reconstruction quality than the square and circular layout of eight transducers; in each reconstruction, the error was ≤ 5.07%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]