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Master's Thesis
Author of thesis: Bc. Roman Vaněk
Acad. year: 2025/2026
Supervisor: doc. Ing. Jan Mikulka, Ph.D.
Reviewer: doc. Ing. Petr Drexler, Ph.D.
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a non-invasive imaging method to reconstruct an internal conductivity distribution within a material from boundary voltages and phase measurements. The material is feeded via an alternating current source. While existing EIT systems are mostly designed with the focus on single application, there is a lack of general-purpose experimental platforms capable of measuring wide range of material impedances and supporting diverse current injection strategies. This thesis follows on the development of the Modular EIT (MEIT) system, a multi-purpose, low-cost, modular experimental platform originaly proposed in the author's bachelor thesis. The work begins with a study of the existing system state, identifying and correcting design deficiencies across the power-supply, main, and multiplexer modules togather forming the proposed system. The multiplexer module was completely redesigned, not only to address functional errors, but also to introduce GPIO expander with common bus interface solution to enable utilise up to 256 modules within the system. A new development module was designed and assembled to provide a testbed for new circuit topologies. On this module, the complete current generation was implemented and verified: a DAC front-end with DC offset removal and galvanic isolation, a Mirrored Enhanced Howland Current Source (MEHCS) supplying loads up to 10 mA of resistances up to 7 kΩ, and current sensing circuit based on a high-common-mode differential amplifier with isolated output. The voltage measurement chain was also designed, it consists of active electrode differential output, an instrumentation amplifier, and ADC. All circuits were verified utilising KiCad simulation and validated by oscilloscope measurements and Bode plots using a vector network analyser. The required frequency range (DC—100 kHz) was confrimed.
Electrical Impedance Tomography, modular measurement system, active electrodes, Howland current source
Date of defence
10.06.2026
Result of the defence
Defended (thesis was successfully defended)
Grading
A
Process of defence
Státní závěrečná zkouška probíhá v anglickém jazyce. Student prezentuje výsledky a postupy řešení své závěrečné práce. Tajemník čte zkrácený posudek vedoucího a oponenta závěrečné práce. Dr. Král: Jaká část vaší práce byla provedena Vámi? Student odpovídá, popisuje, kterým částem se věnoval. Dr. Urbanec: Navrhl jste řešení na obrázku v rámci práce? Proč ukazujete systém, který byl vyřešen před prováděním Vaší práce? Student odpovídá a souhlasí s komentářem.
Language of thesis
English
Faculty
Fakulta elektrotechniky a komunikačních technologií
Department
Department of Radio Electronics
Study programme
Space Applications (MPA-SAP)
Composition of Committee
doc. Ing. Tomáš Götthans, Ph.D. (předseda) doc. Ing. Aleš Povalač, Ph.D. (místopředseda) doc. Ing. Stanislav Vítek, Ph.D. (člen) Ing. Václav Havlíček (člen) Ing. Tomáš Urbanec, Ph.D. (člen) Ing. Jan Král, Ph.D. (člen)
Supervisor’s reportdoc. Ing. Jan Mikulka, Ph.D.
Grade proposed by supervisor: A
Reviewer’s reportdoc. Ing. Petr Drexler, Ph.D.
Grade proposed by reviewer: A
Responsibility: Mgr. et Mgr. Hana Odstrčilová