Timothy R. Stango,Kenneth F. DeFreitas,Ian Shaw,Jay Stein,Lynne Jameson-Meehan,Loren Niklason
申请号：
US14787076
公开号：
US09782135B2
申请日:
2014.04.24
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
An x-ray breast imaging system comprising a compression paddle in which the compression paddle comprises a front wall and a bottom wall. The front wall is configured to be adjacent and face a chest wall of a patient during imaging and the bottom wall configured to be adjacent a length of a top of a compressed breast. The bottom wall extends away from the patients chest wall, wherein the bottom wall comprises a first portion and a second portion such that the second portion is between the front wall and the first portion. The first portion is generally non- coplanar to the second portion, wherein the compression paddle is movable along a craniocaudal axis. The x-ray breast imaging system also comprises a non-rigid jacket releasably secured to the compression paddle, the non-rigid jacket positioned between the compression paddle and the patient.
