Image Handling And Display In X-Ray Mammography And Tomosynthess

• US 20090296882A1
• Filed: 08/11/2009
• Published: 12/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/27/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hologic Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Hologic Incorporated
• Inventors: Shaw, Ian, Ruth, Christopher, Niklason, Loren, Stein, Jay A., Smith, Andrew P., Gkanatsios, Nikolaos A.
• Granted Patent: US 7,916,915 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 378/37
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/025 Tomosynthesis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/463 characterised by displaying multiple images or images and diagnostic data on one display
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/464 involving a plurality of displays
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/465 adapted to display user selection data, e.g. graphical user interface, icons or menus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 6/502 for diagnosis of breast, i.e. mammography
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04855 Interaction with scrollbars
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/006 Inverse problem, transformation from projection-space into object-space, e.g. transform methods, back-projection, algebraic methods
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/10112 Digital tomosynthesis [DTS]
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/20068 Projection on vertical or horizontal image axis
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2207/30068 Mammography; Breast
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 7/0012 Biomedical image inspection

Abstract

A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A method of displaying x-ray images, including:

selectively providing images Tr that conform to a first set of imaging planes that are parallel to each other but are at different depth in a patient'"'"'s breast and a second set of images Tr that also are parallel to each other but are at different depths in the patient'"'"'s breast, where the two sets of imaging planes are angled to each other, and selectively scrolling through pairs of stereoscopically displayed Tr images, each pair comprising one Tr image from each set.