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

Claim 22:
23. 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 selection of a region of interest of the breast;
selecting an x-ray source in the plurality of x-ray sources, said selected x-ray source being substantially co-planar with said region of interest;
receive a computed tomography (CT) data set from said x-ray detector, said data set being detected by said x-ray detector upon illumination by said selected x-ray source in the plurality of x-ray sources; and
compute a CT image of said breast based on said data set.