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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 24, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2012
Applicant:
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Inventors:
Jonathan Sachs, Haifa, IL;
Yaron Hefetz, Kibbutz Alonim, IL;
Assignee:
GE Medical Systems Israel, Ltd., Tirat Carmel, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/502 (2013.01);
Abstract
A nuclear medicine mammography system and method for conducting concurrent examinations of both breasts of a patient, thereby reducing examination time in molecular breast imaging. The system comprises first and second pairs of generally opposed articulatable gamma photon detectors, wherein each pair of detectors can be arranged to image a respective breast independently from the other pair of detectors. In one or more embodiments, each pair of detectors can be arranged in at least two imaging orientations, such as cranio-caudal and mediolateral-oblique.