Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Upright X-ray breast imaging with a CT mode, multiple tomosynthesis modes, and a mammography mode
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Application No.: US15144425Application Date: 2016-05-02
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Publication No.: US10575804B2Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Andrew P. Smith , Jay A. Stein , Ken Defreitas , Ian Shaw , Zhenxue Jing , Loren Niklason , Baorui Ren , Christopher Ruth
- Applicant: Hologic, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MA Bedford
- Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
- Current Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US MA Bedford
- Agency: Cooper & Dunham LLP
- Main IPC: A61B6/04
- IPC: A61B6/04 ; A61B6/00 ; A61B6/02 ; A61B6/03
Abstract:
A multi-mode system and method for imaging a patient's breast with x-rays in one or more of a CT mode, a narrow-angle tomosynthesis mode, a wide angle tomosynthesis mode, and a mammography mode, using essentially the same equipment, on one or more compressions or immobilizations of the breast.
Public/Granted literature
- US10265041B2 Upright X-ray breast imaging with a CT mode, multiple tomosynthesis modes, and a mammography mode Public/Granted day:2019-04-23
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