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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 12, 2022

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2018
Applicant:

Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);

Inventors:

Brad Michael Keller, Middletown, DE (US);

Zhenxue Jing, Chadds Ford, PA (US);

Assignee:

Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/502 (2013.01); A61B 6/04 (2013.01); A61B 6/488 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/545 (2013.01); A61B 6/025 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for patient positioning quality assurance prior to mammographic image acquisition are described. A system may include an x-ray source configured to expose human tissue to radiation. An x-ray detector module may be configured to detect the radiation and generate a pre-diagnostic image of the human tissue. A position analysis module may be configured to receive the pre-diagnostic image and determine whether the human tissue is positioned correctly based upon one or more predefined positioning criteria. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may be configured to store the results of the positional analysis module determination. A display may be configured to display the determination of the position analysis module within a user interface. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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