US Patent Issued to PME IP on June 24 for "Apparatus and method for visualizing digital breast tomosynthesis and other volumetric images" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,444, issued on June 24, was assigned to PME IP PTY LTD (Richmond, Australia).

"Apparatus and method for visualizing digital breast tomosynthesis and other volumetric images" was invented by Malte Westerhoff (Berlin) and Detlev Stalling (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Digital Breast Tomosynthesis allows for the acquisition of volumetric mammography images. The present invention allows for novel ways of viewing such images to detect microcalcifications and obstructions. In an embodiment a method for displaying volumetric images comprises computing a projection image using a viewing direction, displaying the projection image and ...