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X-ray exposure apparatus for digital mammography

US6064715A · kind A · utility

15Cited by

7References

3Claims

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Hartmut Sklebitz · Erlangen, DE
Tom Weidner · Nuremberg, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 9, 1998
Grant date	May 16, 2000
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jun 9, 2018

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B6/4488
WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An X-Ray exposure apparatus for digital mammography allows an exposure of the entire breast to be obtained with a single solid state detector. To this end, an apparatus housing is provided has an acute angle at the patient side, with a device for the deflection of the image from a luminescent screen and optics for imaging this image on the solid state detector are arranged at this side. The solid state detector is arranged at the patient-remote side of the X-ray exposure apparatus.

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