Patent ID: 11890123
Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 0:
1. A multimodal system for breast imaging, comprising:
a gantry;
a plurality of x-ray sources attached to said gantry;
an x-ray detector attached to said gantry and configured to detect x-rays from said plurality of x-ray sources after passing through at least a portion of a breast;
an x-ray image processor configured to communicate with said x-ray detector so as to:
receive a first data set from said x-ray detector, said first data set being detected by said x-ray detector upon illumination by a first x-ray source in the plurality of x-ray sources;
compute a first CT image of said breast based on said first data set;
receive a second data set from said x-ray detector, said second data set being detected by said x-ray detector upon illumination by a second x-ray source in the plurality of x-ray sources; and
compute a second CT image of said breast based on said first data set and said second data set.