	US 11,672,500 B2
	Image quality compliance tool
Calvin J. Wong, Fremont, CA (US); Venkateswarma Vaddineni, San Jose, CA (US); Akshay Mani, San Francisco, CA (US); Nikolaos Gkanatsios, Danbury, CT (US); and John Laviola, Orange, CT (US)
Assigned to Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed by Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/673,936.
Application 17/673,936 is a continuation of application No. 16/779,153, filed on Jan. 31, 2020, granted, now 11,419,569.
Application 16/779,153 is a continuation in part of application No. PCT/IB2018/056208, filed on Aug. 16, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/546,167, filed on Aug. 16, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0378389 A1, Dec. 1, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01); A61B 6/03 (2006.01); A61B 8/08 (2006.01); A61B 8/13 (2006.01); A61B 8/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/02 (2006.01)

CPC A61B 6/527 (2013.01) [A61B 6/035 (2013.01); A61B 6/0414 (2013.01); A61B 6/461 (2013.01); A61B 6/463 (2013.01); A61B 6/465 (2013.01); A61B 6/502 (2013.01); A61B 6/5258 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61B 6/025 (2013.01); A61B 6/566 (2013.01); A61B 8/0825 (2013.01); A61B 8/13 (2013.01); A61B 8/4254 (2013.01)]

19 Claims

1. An imaging method comprising:

immobilizing a subject's breast with a breast imaging system and relative to a plurality of sensors;

acquiring image data of the breast using the breast imaging system;

during acquisition of the image data, generating, by each of the plurality of sensors, a signal indicative of a spatial data of a respective part of the breast adjacent each of the plurality of sensors, wherein the spatial data comprises at least one of: (a) a movement of the respective part of the breast, and (b) a degree of contact of the respective part of the breast with a surface of the breast immobilization system;

generating a visual representation of the signals indicative of the spatial data, wherein the visual representation comprises a map of the breast; and

displaying the visual representation.