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Mammography apparatus

US9392989B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Siemens Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

Susanne Dornberger · Erlangen, DE
Thomas Mertelmeier · Erlangen, DE
Ralf Nanke · Fairview Avenue, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Aug 5, 2014
Grant date	Jul 19, 2016
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jan 27, 2035

Classification

Technology area (CPC A)Human Necessities
CPC primaryA61B6/544
WIPO fieldMedical technology
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

In a mammography apparatus, a deflection of an x-ray source aligned on a radiation detector is predetermined depending on the size of a breast compressed in the compression unit and/or the density of the breast tissue. Given an increasing deflection on an arc-shaped trajectory of the x-ray source, the compression of the breast is reduced at least once so that the path of the x-rays through the breast stays within a predetermined path length, starting from a first compression in a first x-ray acquisition.

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