Visualization Techniques in Process Engineering
First published: 15 January 2013
Abstract
The article contains sections titled:
1. |
Introduction |
2. |
Optical Visualization Techniques |
3. |
Tomographic Visualization Techniques |
3.1. |
Tomographic Measurements and Data Analysis |
3.2. |
Conductive Tomography |
3.3. |
Capacitance Tomography |
3.4. |
Optical Tomography |
3.5. |
X-Ray Tomography |
3.6. |
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) |
4. |
Applications of Tomography |
5. |
Future Perspectives |
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