Inventors:
Milton Stoller - West Hartford CT, US
Anthony Scandura - Scotland CT, US
Kenneth De Freitas - Patterson NY, US
International Classification:
A61B005/05
A61B019/00
US Classification:
600/427000, 606/130000, 378/037000, 128/920000
Abstract:
A breast needle biopsy system and method use two-dimensional information about an abnormality from a scout view of the breast of a prone or upright patient but only one-dimensional information from each of one or more stereo views to control a needle guidance stage relative to an abnormality in the breast. An additional feature is to provide a live display of a least distance between calculated positions or loci of positions of a target in the breast to enable a health professional to make new selections of coordinates from the scout and/or stereo views in an effort to reduce the least distance, or to otherwise account for that distance. The live display of a least distance also improves existing systems that rely on two-dimensional information from each of two stereo images to calculate an abnormality's position in the breast.