General Electric Cgr S.a.

Yves Gregoire

Rene Romeas

Marco Tirelli

Bernard Pelissonnier

A light box for X-rays is made by using a graphics screen (20) coupled to a microprocessor (23), with the screen being used with inverse brightness. Under these conditions, the graphics screen emits light at nearly all points, other than special locations (I.sup.25) whose positions can be controlled by means of a control box (24). An X-ray negative (6) to be examined is placed over the graphics screen. The control box is used to move the non-illuminated regions of the screen to point to special locations in the negative. The light box is particularly applicable t studying stereographic negatives for mammography. It makes it possible to determine more quickly and more accurately the locations of lesions in breasts under examination.

Stereographic X-ray examination system including graphic screen means

Disclosed is a radiology system of the mammograph type in which there is provision for a radiation controller. The invention lies in the fact that the input aperture of the detector is masked by a belt that absorbs the X-radiation except at zones, the variable dimensions of which are designed to get adapted to the different shapes of breasts. The belt is driven by a motor 24 and stops at the practitioner's command so that the appropriate zone is in correspondence with the input aperture of the detector 22.

Radiation control device with variable active surface of the type

Disclosed is a radiology system of the mammography type wherein there is provision for a radiation controller having a detector of X-radiation having gone through the breast to be observed, of the type having a converter of X-radiation into photon radiation and a photomultiplier tube for the amplifications of photons emitted by the converter. The invention lies in the fact that the converter is masked by a belt opaque to the photon radiation except in the zones for which variable dimensions are planned so as to get adapted to the different shapes of breasts. The belt is driven by a motor which is turned on and off at the practitioner's command, so that the appropriate zone is in correspondence with the converter.

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Paris, France

Yves Gregoire