The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma
发明人:
Liangzhong Xiang,Shanshan Tang,Pratik Samant
申请号：
US16057568
公开号：
US20180344167A1
申请日:
2018.08.07
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2018
代理人:
摘要：
An X-ray computed tomography breast imaging method comprises positioning a patient such that a breast of the patient is disposed adjacent to an ultrasound detector comprising a transducer array, wherein the transducer array comprises a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements, positioning an X-ray source in a predetermined position directed toward the breast, actuating the X-ray source to emit an X-ray pulse into the breast to induce ultrasonic acoustic waves to emit from the breast, wherein the X-ray pulse has a duration in a range of 1 picosecond (ps) to 1 microsecond (μs), detecting the ultrasonic acoustic waves with the ultrasound detector, and transmitting signals from the transducer array to a data processing system for generating an image of the breast.
