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System and method for low x-ray dose breast density evaluation

  • US 10,070,829 B2
  • Filed: 03/14/2014
  • Issued: 09/11/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A compression assembly for compressing a breast in use with a mammography system, comprising:

  • a rigid plate; and

    at least one spacer coupled to the rigid plate and sized such that the spacer maintains the rigid plate in a substantially parallel alignment at a fixed distance from a breast support plate of an x-ray mammography system, thereby providing a region for receiving and compressing a breast at a substantially uniform thickness;

    wherein the rigid plate has a curved surface and the at least one spacer has a contact face that is curved so as to uniformly contact the curved surface of the rigid plate, thereby maintaining the rigid plate in a substantially parallel alignment at a fixed distance from a breast support plate of an x-ray mammography system.

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