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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOW X-RAY DOSE BREAST DENSITY EVALUATION

  • US 20160029979A1
  • Filed: 03/14/2014
  • Published: 02/04/2016
  • 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;

    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.

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