X-ray diagnostic installation for mammography exposures
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorEdmund Saffer
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Abstract
An X-ray diagnostic installation for producing mammography exposures having a compressing means for compressing the breast tissue, may be designed such that the breast tissue is compressed uniformly. A compression plate and a seating plate are arranged in a acute interspacial angle, such that the compression plate tapers toward the examination subject. The compression plate is seated such that the angle of the compression plate relative to the seating plate diminished upon compression of the breast tissue.
Claims5
An x-ray diagnostic installation for mammography exposures having a seating plate for testing a female breast thereupon which is connected to a holder, and further having a compression plate for compressing a female breast for x-ray imaging which is adjustably connected to said holder by holding means such that a compression surface of said compression plate and a seating plane of said seating plate circumscribe an acute angle whose apex is directed towards a side of said seating plate from which the female breast is restable on said seating plate and such that upon compression of the female breast said acute angle is reduced.
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