Patent ID: 6424693
Filing Date: 2002-07-23
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
In a mammographic examination system comprising:A) a table; B) an aperture in said table to receive the breast of a female patient lying on said table; C) at least one paddle below said aperture oriented to compress said breast for purposes of mammographic examination; D) an X-ray generator and an X-ray detector movably located below said table and providing the ability to produce a stereo pair of X-ray images of said breast; and E) a movable scintimammography camera including a collimator, said scintimammographic camera being removable from the field of view of said X-ray detector when said stereo pair of X-ray images is being produced and placed in proximity with said paddles to provide a stereo pair of scintimammography images that can be registered with said stereo pair of X-ray images to provide a dual mode stereotactic localization apparatus, the improvement comprising the incorporation of a slant-hole collimator as the collimator.