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2004 SEP 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc., (IMDS) has received an international patent for its CT Laser Breast Imaging system, which was granted by the European Patent Office and assigned to Imaging Diagnostic Systems as European Patent No. 1003419.
The patent is titled: "Apparatus for Determining the Perimeter of the Surface of an Object Being Scanned." This is the European equivalent of U.S. patent 6,044,288, which protects a key element in the optical technique used to determine the perimeter of an object being scanned.
This boundary information is used during the reconstruction process and is considered an integral step in acquiring an image from the CT Laser Breast Imaging system and the Laser Imager for Lab Animals (LILA) scanner.
The CTLM system is the first patented breast imaging system that ...
Source: HighBeam Research, European patent granted for CT Laser Breast Imaging system.