Specimen imaging device and methods for use thereof

US8741232B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Faxitron Bioptics, LLC · US

Inventors

• Akif Baysal · Tucson, US
• Eric Hutchings · Vail, US
• Brad Jackson · Kirkland, US
• Donogh O'Driscoll · Tucson, US
• William W. Lee · Arcadia, US
• Ciaran Purdy · Belfast, GB

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 23, 2013
• Grant date: Jun 3, 2014
• Expiry date: Apr 23, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N1/312
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A specimen holding and positioning apparatus operable to substantially non-movably maintain a specimen (e.g., an excised tissue specimen) in a fixed or stable orientation with respect to the apparatus during imaging operations (e.g., x-ray imaging), transport (e.g., from a surgery room to a pathologist's laboratory), and the like for use in facilitating accurate detection and diagnosis of cancers and/or other abnormalities of the specimen.