Patent ID: 9439571
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: A61B

Claim Text:
1. A system for imaging a breast of a patient comprising: a support sized and shaped for contacting the patient around the breast; a cylindrical body mounted on the support having a side wall including an ultrasonically transparent upper portion defining an interior sized and shaped for receiving the breast of the patient when the support contacts the patient around the breast and a lower portion adjacent the upper portion; a plurality of ultrasonic transducers positioned radially outward from the ultrasonically transparent upper portion of the cylindrical body side wall; a piston slideably mounted in the lower portion of the cylindrical body side wall for movement toward and away from the upper portion of the cylindrical body to position the breast in the interior of the upper portion of the cylindrical body side wall; equipment positioned axially downward from the piston for directing radiation through the piston and into the breast to excite an ultrasonic response in the breast; a cylindrical mount moveably mounted around the upper portion of the cylindrical body side wall, wherein each of said plurality of transducers is mounted on the mount; and a motor for rotating the mount with respect to the cylinder body for simultaneously rotating each transducer of the plurality of transducers about the axis of the cylindrical body.