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AssigneeWisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
InventorsLonie Salkowski, Samuel Herzog, Emma Brower, Helen Treankler, Gabrielle Ibrahim, Claire Swartz, Cameron Ashford, Meghan Horan, Kennedy Kruse, Eleanor Steger
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An MRI breast stabilization device optimizes the compression and immobilization of the breast during set-up before MRI imaging breast biopsy. The present invention provides breast support having a flat plate supporting a compression device that applies a uniform force against the breast tissue in an inward direction toward a biopsy grid plate (for legion localization). The breast tissue is held securely between the flat plate and the biopsy grid. The flat plate and the biopsy grid may support conventionally known breast coils that generate radiofrequency and/or receive magnetic signals from the MRI machine.
A breast immobilization device for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assisted biopsy of a breast having a medial or lateral side of the breast extending along a biopsy grid extending along a plane and an opposite side of the breast extending along a flat plate extending parallel to the plane, the device comprising:
A method of breast immobilization for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) assisted biopsy of a patient breast, the method comprising:
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