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US 12,364,443 B2Granted
Specimen radiography system comprising a cabinet and a specimen drawer positionable by a controller in the cabinet
AssigneeHologic, Inc.
InventorsKenneth DeFreitas, Timothy N. Wells, Thomas DeYoung, Henry Landry, Shawn St. Pierre, Shawn Hochstetler, Joseph Vartolone, Neil Roth, Michelle Lustrino
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Abstract
A specimen radiography system may include a controller and a cabinet. The cabinet may include an x-ray source, an x-ray detector, and a specimen drawer disposed between the x-ray source and the x-ray detector. The specimen drawer may be automatically positionable along a vertical axis between the x-ray source and the x-ray detector.
Claims20
A specimen radiography system comprising:
- a controller;
- and
- a cabinet operably coupled to the controller, the cabinet comprising:
- an x-ray source;
- an x-ray detector;
- and
- a specimen drawer configured to support a tissue specimen, the controller controlling relative positions between the x-ray source and the specimen drawer within the cabinet for obtaining (1) two or more projection images of the tissue specimen to generate a 3D data set of the tissue specimen, and (2) at least one magnification image of the tissue specimen.
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A method of imaging a tissue specimen in a specimen radiography system, the method comprising:
- supporting the tissue specimen with a specimen drawer of a cabinet;
- obtaining two or more projection images of the tissue specimen via an x-ray detector by controlling relative positions between an x-ray source and the specimen drawer;
- generating a 3D data set of the tissue specimen from the two or more projection images of the tissue specimen;
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- obtaining at least one magnification image of the tissue specimen via the x-ray detector by controlling relative positions between the x-ray source and the specimen drawer, wherein the relative positions between the x-ray source and the specimen drawer are different for the two or more projection images of the tissue specimen than the at least one magnification image of the tissue specimen.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.