US Patent Issued to Hologic on March 3 for "System and method for generating and displaying tomosynthesis image slabs" (Connecticut, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,365, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"System and method for generating and displaying tomosynthesis image slabs" was invented by Nikolaos Gkanatsios (Newtown, Conn.), Haili Chui (Fremont, Calif.) and Xiangwei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for processing breast tissue images includes an image processing computer and a user interface operatively coupled to the image processing computer, wherein the image processing computer is configured to obtain image data of breast tissue, processing the image data to generate a set of reconstructed image slices, the reconstructe...