Vol. 45, Issue 2, pp. 183-198 (2015)

Abstract

Based on tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy and modified adaptive algebraic reconstruction technique, two-dimensional tomographic reconstruction was derived for the gas temperature distribution in the range of 600–1400 K in the controlled projections. It is explicitly shown that the quality of temperature reconstruction is heavily dependent on the relative sensitivity of the selected spectrum and the algorithm of modified adaptive algebraic reconstruction technique but independent of the complexity of the present field distribution. When the relative sensitivity is less than 1.5, the accuracy of reconstruction relates to the relative sensitivity of the selected spectrum and improves with the increase in relative sensitivity. When the relative sensitivity is larger than 1.5, the accuracy is mainly limited by the algorithm of modified adaptive algebraic reconstruction technique.