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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 11, 2013
Shih-ping Wang, Los Altos, CA (US);
Shih-Ping Wang, Los Altos, CA (US);
QVIEW MEDICAL, INC., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and a method are disclosed for obtaining ultrasound images of a patient's breast that is chestwardly compressed with a template that is essentially planar and rotates relative to the breast while one or more ultrasound transducers moving with the template take 2D images of the breast through one or more respective radially oriented slots in the template, preferably through a membrane that is porous to a gel. The 2D images are processed into slice images representing breast slices of desired thicknesses and orientation that are displayed alone or with some of the 2D images, preferably pairs of orthogonally disposed 2D images.