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US 10,322,412 B2Granted
System and method for multi-axis imaging of specimens
AssigneeFaxitron Bioptics, LLC
InventorsCiaran Purdy, Donogh O'Driscoll
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Abstract
A specimen holding and positioning apparatus operable to substantially non-movably maintain a specimen (e.g., an excised tissue specimen) in a fixed or stable orientation with respect to the apparatus during imaging operations (e.g., x-ray imaging), transport (e.g., from a surgery room to a pathologist's laboratory), and the like for use in facilitating accurate detection and diagnosis of cancers and/or other abnormalities of the specimen.
Claims12
A method of imaging a specimen, comprising:
- elastically deforming first and second retention members of a positioning apparatus to surround opposing portions of a specimen;
- securing the first and second retention members against movement relative to each other to retain the specimen therebetween within a specimen support volume of the apparatus, wherein a reference plane extends between the first and second retention members when the specimen is retained therebetween;
- first imaging the specimen along a first axis that is one of substantially parallel or perpendicular to the reference plane to obtain a first image;
- reorienting the apparatus;
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- second imaging the specimen along a second axis that is the other of substantially parallel or perpendicular to the reference plane to obtain a second image.
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