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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2007
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2002
David Graessle, Dublin, OH (US);
Alan L. Oslan, Bedford, MA (US);
Stephen D. Venditti, Newton, MA (US);
Gunther Becht, Somerville, MA (US);
Mathew A. Hass, Andover, MA (US);
David Graessle, Dublin, OH (US);
Alan L. Oslan, Bedford, MA (US);
Stephen D. Venditti, Newton, MA (US);
Gunther Becht, Somerville, MA (US);
Mathew A. Hass, Andover, MA (US);
Aurora Imaging Technology, Inc., North Andover, MA (US);
Abstract
A patient support table for breast MRI systems, the table including a base configured to slide into and out of the bore of an MRI system; a patient support member attached to the base and having a top surface shaped to support a patient in a prone position; two breast openings in the patient support member, the breast openings being sized and positioned to permit the patient's breasts to extend downward beneath the patient support member, at least a pair of breast immobilization paddles, one on each side of a breast opening, the immobilization paddles comprising a grid of breast contact elements that contact the breast while providing a plurality of openings through which a surgical tool may be inserted into the breast, and the paddles having a convex curvature along the Z direction (head to toe) so that the breast contacting surface of each paddle is further from the Y-axis center line of the breast opening midway along the Z extent of the paddle than at the Z extremities of the paddle.