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US 2019/0095087 A1Published application
Image handling and display in x-ray mammography and tomosynthesis
AssigneeHologic, Inc.
InventorsNikolaos A. Gkanatsios, Loren Niklason, Ian Shaw, Christopher Ruth, Andrew P. Smith, Jay A. Stein
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Abstract
A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images
Claims2
A method of acquiring and displaying x-ray images comprising:
- acquiring x-ray mammography image data Mp representative of projection mammography images of patients' breasts and x-ray tomosynthesis image data Tp representative of projection images Tp taken at different angles of an origin of imaging x-rays relative to the patients' breasts, from an acquisition unit configured to selectively acquire said mammography and tomosynthesis image data;
- reconstructing at least a subset of the acquired Tp data into reconstructed tomosynthesis image data Tr representative of images of slices of the breasts that have selected orientations and thicknesses;
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- displaying at least a selected subcombination of the Mp, Tr and Tp image data as respective Mp, Tp and/or Tr images for concurrent viewing while identifying the displayed images as Mp, Tr and/or Tp images.
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