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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2010
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2009
Georgia Hitzke, Boston, MA (US);
Kathleen Pickett, Uncasville, CT (US);
Nikolaos Gkanatsios, Danbury, CT (US);
Ken Defreitas, Patterson, NY (US);
Tom Farbizio, Patterson, NY (US);
John Girgenti, New Milford, CT (US);
Tim Stango, Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Georgia Hitzke, Boston, MA (US);
Kathleen Pickett, Uncasville, CT (US);
Nikolaos Gkanatsios, Danbury, CT (US);
Ken Defreitas, Patterson, NY (US);
Tom Farbizio, Patterson, NY (US);
John Girgenti, New Milford, CT (US);
Tim Stango, Sandy Hook, CT (US);
Hologic, Inc., Bedford, MA (US);
Abstract
Breast imaging using any one of a mammography system, a tomosynthesis system, or a fused system that selectively takes either or both of mammography images and tomosynthesis images, further uses a patient shield that moves closer to and further away from the patient's chest and head, between (1) an access position that facilitates the technologist's access to adjust the patient's breast while the breast is being compressed and (b) a protective position in which the shield helps protect the patient from collision with moving components and from x-ray exposure of tissue other than the tissue that is to be imaged.