US Patent Issued to Hologic on Oct. 6 for "Wide angle automatic exposure control in tomosynthesis" (Massachusetts, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,676, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Hologic Inc. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Wide angle automatic exposure control in tomosynthesis" was invented by Baorui Ren (Andover, Mass.) and Richard Amos (Wilmington, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a system and method to calculate the automatic exposure control (AEC) calibrated dosage for tomosynthesis sweeps. For example, reference images may be acquired, and corresponding reference detector count maps may be generated and stored for a plurality of projection angles using the tomosynthesis imaging system. The tomosynthesis imaging system may then acquire a s...