Kathleen M Pickett

US Patent:

20090323892, Dec 31, 2009

Filed:

Jun 24, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/491147

Inventors:

Georgia Hitzke - Boston MA, US
Kathleen Pickett - Uncasville CT, US
Nikolaos Gkanatsios - Danbury CT, US
Ken Defreitas - Patterson NY, US
Tom Farbizio - Patterson NY, US
John Girgenti - New Milford CT, US
Tim Stango - Sandy Hook CT, US

International Classification:

A61B 6/03
H01J 35/16

US Classification:

378 37, 378203

Abstract:

Breast imaging using any one of a mammography system, a tomosynthesis system, or a fused system that selectively takes either or both of mammography images and tomosynthesis images, further uses a patient shield that moves closer to and further away from the patient's chest and head, between (1) an access position that facilitates the technologist's access to adjust the patient's breast while the breast is being compressed and (b) a protective position in which the shield helps protect the patient from collision with moving components and from x-ray exposure of tissue other than the tissue that is to be imaged.