Patent ID: 9687151
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A device with simultaneous X-ray and infrared acquisition and processing systems for an enhanced breast imaging to correlate anatomical and physiological characteristics of a breast and for a post processing of a 3D analysis, the device comprising: a positioning assembly; an X-ray imaging system mounted on the positioning assembly, wherein the X-ray imaging system comprises an X-ray source and an X-ray detector; an infrared imaging system mounted on the positioning assembly, wherein the infrared imaging system has a plurality of infrared cameras to acquire a plurality of infrared images of the breast to be examined, on a time basis, and wherein the plurality of infrared cameras includes a first infrared camera which is arranged in parallel to and in the same horizontal plane as the X-ray source, a second infrared camera which is arranged in perpendicular to and adjacent in the same vertical plane as the X-ray source and wherein the plurality of infrared images includes a cranial image, a medial image, a caudal image, a lateral image and a frontal image; a closed chamber housing the positioning assembly, infrared imaging system and the X-ray imaging system; a biopsy device; a patient support table to enable a patient to lie in a prone position; and an opening provided on the patient support table for extending a breast of a patient to be examined, through the patient table to acquire an image of the breast to be examined and wherein the positioning assembly is mounted with the infrared imaging system and the X-ray imaging system to capture an infra red image of the breast to be examined and an X-ray image of the breast to be examined simultaneously, and wherein the positioning assembly positions the infrared imaging system and the X-ray imaging system at a same coordinate point to acquire an image of both a right breast and a left breast of a patient at a specific or similar angle for comparison, and wherein a temperature and a humidity of the closed chamber is controlled and set as desired by a user, and wherein the X-Ray source is mounted so that a same portion of the breast is screened simultaneously by the X-ray imaging system and by the infrared imaging system to overlap a physiological characteristics of the breast with an anatomical characteristics of the breast to provide an enhanced analysis.