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US 9,851,888 B2Granted
Image handling and display in X-ray mammography and tomosynthesis
AssigneeHologic, Inc.
InventorsNikolaos 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
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A method of displaying tomosynthesis images, the method comprising:
- obtaining a first set of tomosynthesis images, wherein the first set of tomosynthesis images includes a first number of images;
- obtaining a second set of tomosynthesis images, wherein the second set of tomosynthesis images includes a second number of images different than the first number of images;
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- modifying the first set of tomosynthesis images so as to produce a modified first set of tomosynthesis images having a first number of images equal to the second number of images.
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A method of displaying tomosynthesis images, the method comprising:
- acquiring a first set of tomosynthesis images, wherein the first set of tomosynthesis images includes at least one of a first set of tomosynthesis projection images Tp and a first set of tomosynthesis reconstruction images Tr;
- preparing the first set of tomosynthesis images;
- obtaining from a storage device a second set of tomosynthesis images, wherein the second set of tomosynthesis images includes at least one of a second set of tomosynthesis projection images Tp and a second set of tomosynthesis reconstruction images Tr;
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- preparing the second set of tomosynthesis images.
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