IMAGING WITH CURVED COMPRESSION ELEMENTS
    1.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240341710A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18642974

    申请日:2024-04-23

    申请人: Hologic, Inc.

    摘要: A curved compression element, such as a breast compression paddle, and imaging systems and methods for use with curved compression elements. A system may include a radiation source, a detector, and a curved compression element. Operations are performed that include receiving image data from the detector; accessing a correction map for the at least one compression paddle; correcting the image data based on the correction map to generate a corrected image data; and generating an image of the breast based on the corrected image data. The breast compression element generally has no sharp edges, but rather has smooth edges and transitions between surfaces. The breast compression paddle also includes a flexible material that spans a portion of a curved bottom surface of the breast compression paddle to define a gap. The flexible material may be a thin-film material such as a shrink wrap.

    IMAGING WITH CURVED COMPRESSION ELEMENTS
    2.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230346329A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-02

    申请号:US18119106

    申请日:2023-03-08

    申请人: Hologic, Inc.

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00 A61B6/04

    摘要: A curved compression element, such as a breast compression paddle, and imaging systems and methods for use with curved compression elements. A system may include a radiation source, a detector, and a curved compression element. Operations are performed that include receiving image data from the detector; accessing a correction map for the at least one compression paddle; correcting the image data based on the correction map to generate a corrected image data; and generating an image of the breast based on the corrected image data. The breast compression element generally has no sharp edges, but rather has smooth edges and transitions between surfaces. The breast compression paddle also includes a flexible material that spans a portion of a curved bottom surface of the breast compression paddle to define a gap. The flexible material may be a thin-film material such as a shrink wrap.

    Imaging with curved compression elements

    公开(公告)号:US11633164B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-25

    申请号:US17119631

    申请日:2020-12-11

    申请人: HOLOGIC, INC.

    IPC分类号: A61B6/00 A61B6/04

    摘要: A curved compression element, such as a breast compression paddle, and imaging systems and methods for use with curved compression elements. A system may include a radiation source, a detector, and a curved compression element. Operations are performed that include receiving image data from the detector; accessing a correction map for the at least one compression paddle; correcting the image data based on the correction map to generate a corrected image data; and generating an image of the breast based on the corrected image data. The breast compression element generally has no sharp edges, but rather has smooth edges and transitions between surfaces. The breast compression paddle also includes a flexible material that spans a portion of a curved bottom surface of the breast compression paddle to define a gap. The flexible material may be a thin-film material such as a shrink wrap.

    Estimating visceral fat by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry

    公开(公告)号:US10470705B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-11-12

    申请号:US14934514

    申请日:2015-11-06

    申请人: Hologic, Inc.

    IPC分类号: A61B5/00 A61B6/00

    摘要: A system and a method of using dual-energy absoptiometry to estimate visceral fat metrics and display results, preferably as related to normative data. The process involves deriving x-ray measurements for respective pixel positions related to a two-dimensional projection image of a body slice containing visceral fat as well as subcutaneous fat; at least some of the measurements being dual-energy x-ray measurements, processing the measurements to derive estimates of metrics related to the visceral fat in the slice; and using the resulting estimates.