Patent ID: 8125220

Claim:
A magnetic induction tomography system for studying electromagnetic properties of an object, the system comprising: one or more generator coils adapted for generating a primary magnetic field, said primary magnetic field inducing an eddy current in the object, one or more sensor coils adapted for sensing a secondary magnetic field, said secondary magnetic field being generated as a result of said eddy current, and actuators configured to provide a relative movement between at least one of the one or more generator coils and the one or more sensor coils on one hand and the object on another hand, wherein the at least one of the one or more generator coils and the one or more sensor coils are arranged in an asymmetric way such that a generator coil of the one or more generator coils is asymmetric with respect remaining generator coils of the one or more generator coils, or a sensor coil of the one or more sensor coils is asymmetric with respect remaining sensor coils of the one or more sensor coils.