Patent ID: 9042612
Filing Date: 2015-05-26
Classification: A61B,G06F,G06T

Abstract:
1. A tomosynthesis system comprising: an x-ray source selectively emitting an imaging x-ray beam, a breast immobilizing structure defining a volume for a patient's breast, and an x-ray imaging receptor arranged such that said x-ray beam passes first through the volume for the patient's breast before impinging on the imaging receptor; a source support mounting the x-ray source for selective movement relative to the breast immobilizing structure; an x-ray data acquisition control configured to: a processing and image reconstruction unit configured to receive and process the imaging data and generate a plurality of projection x-ray images Tp and a plurality of reconstructed slices images Tr, wherein: an image display unit configured to selectively display selected ones of the slice images Tr and projection images Tp concurrently with indicia identifying each displayed image as a projection or a slice image.