ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,310, issued on May 20.
"Technology for contrast-enhanced mammography" was invented by Robert G. Zamenhof (Brookline, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for X-ray imaging of a patient's breast using optimized iodine contrast-enhanced energy-subtraction mammography (CEESM). The disclosed technology employs an X-ray tube design that uses as the X-ray target materials foils of tellurium and cerium to optimize the radiographic contrast of an iodinated contrast agent. Radiographic contrast produced by the CEESM technique is shown to be approximately 5 times higher than produced by currently existing comp...