Patent ID: 11950941
Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A | IPC A

Claim 12:
13. An x-ray breast imaging system comprising:
an x-ray source;
an x-ray detector;
a breast support platform disposed between the x-ray source and the x-ray detector;
a compression paddle disposed between the x-ray source and the breast support platform, the compression paddle having an injection molded body comprising:
a bottom wall extending between a pair of spaced apart side walls;
a front wall extending from the bottom wall and configured to be adjacent and face a chest wall of a patient during imaging; and
a bracket opposite the front wall, the bracket configured to removably attach the compression paddle to the imaging system,

wherein the bottom wall has a concave surface facing the breast support platform, the concave surface defined by an outer edge portion of the bottom wall and the concave surface is non-coplanar with the outer edge portion, and wherein the body has a first cross-sectional profile parallel to the front wall and at a first distance from the front wall towards the bracket and a second cross-sectional profile parallel to the front wall and at a second distance from the front wall towards the bracket, the first distance less than the second distance, whereby at the first cross-sectional profile a concavity of the concave surface between the pair of side walls is greater than a concavity of the concave surface between the pair of side walls at the second cross-sectional profile.