US 11,839,505 B2
Medical imaging device and method of operating a medical imaging device
Richard Keil, Charlestown, MA (US); Daniel Santos, Westborough, MA (US); Mark Guetersloh, Bedford, MA (US); Kevin Wilson, Acton, MA (US); Tri Pham, Arlington, MA (US); and Aleksey Danilkin, Maynard, MA (US)
Assigned to Hologic, Inc., Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed by HOLOGIC, INC., Marlborough, MA (US)
Filed on Sep. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/479,767.
Application 17/479,767 is a continuation of application No. 16/347,577, granted, now 11,147,525, issued on Oct. 19, 2021, previously published as PCT/US2017/059807, filed on Nov. 2, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/417,588, filed on Nov. 4, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2022/0071579 A1, Mar. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/4441 (2013.01) [A61B 6/44 (2013.01); A61B 6/4411 (2013.01); A61B 6/4429 (2013.01); A61B 6/4435 (2013.01); A61B 6/4452 (2013.01); A61B 6/4458 (2013.01); A61B 6/4476 (2013.01); A61B 6/46 (2013.01); A61B 6/54 (2013.01); A61B 6/542 (2013.01); A61B 6/544 (2013.01); A61B 6/545 (2013.01); A61B 6/58 (2013.01); A61B 6/587 (2013.01); A61B 6/588 (2013.01); A61B 6/4405 (2013.01); A61B 6/467 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medical imaging device, comprising:
an arm including a first end, a second end, and an arc-shaped curvature between the first end of the arm and the second end of the arm,
wherein the arm includes a track having a termination at the first end of the arm;
an x-ray detector fixed to the second end of the arm; and
an x-ray source slidably coupled to the track,
wherein the track limits a sliding range of the x-ray source along the arc-shaped curvature from a first position proximate the x-ray detector to a second position located a maximum distance along the arc-shaped curvature away from the x-ray detector,
wherein the second position is defined by the termination of the track at the first end of the arm,
wherein when the x-ray source is positioned at the second position at the first end of the arm, the x-ray source and the x-ray detector are aligned along an imaging axis, and
wherein when the x-ray source is aligned with the x-ray detector, the x-ray source is configured to be at a predetermined constant source-to-image receptor distance (SID) from the x-ray detector.