Patent ID: 7123684
Filing Date: 2006-10-17
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A mammography method comprising: moving at least one of an x-ray source and an imaging receptor to at least two positions relative to a patient's breast between said x-ray source and imaging receptor, and for each of said at least two positions emitting x-rays from said x-ray source tat pass through the patient's breast and impinge on said imaging receptor, wherein an image of the patient's breast occupies less than the entire field of view of an imaging receptor for each of said at least two positions; selecting an outline that encompasses the breast image at each of said at least two positions to thereby define reduced field of view images; and using said reduced field of view images for transmission tomosynthesis processing, wherein said outline encompasses an entirety of the patient's breast in the breast image and the reduced field of view is defined based on said outline.