Patent ID: 9597046
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: A61B,G16H

Claim:
1. A method of imaging a soft body tissue, the method comprising: acquiring first image data for a first image of a region of interest of the soft body tissue using X-ray projection; acquiring second image data for a second image of the region of interest of the soft body tissue using optical tomography; deriving estimated bulk optical properties of the soft body tissue in the region of interest from the acquired first image data; reconstructing the second image from the second image data using the estimated bulk optical, properties; and acquiring third image data for a third image of the region of interest of the soft body tissue using X-ray projection, wherein the first image data is acquired with the soft body tissue being in a first compression state and the second and third image data is acquired with the soft body tissue being in a different second compression state at lower compression than in the first compression state.