Mammography device has a frame arrangement for support of the radiation source and imaging equipment that allows the patient to be easily examined standing up, sitting down, bent forwards or lying down

摘要

Mammography device comprises an examining arm (12) with image capture device (16) at one end of the arm and a radiation emission head (14) at the other end. The arm is mounted on a mobile support (4) so that it rotates about an axis perpendicular to the arm passing through the center of the breast position. It also rotates about a second horizontal axis (22) that is perpendicular to the first and the arm. An Independent claim is made for a method for recording mammographs using such a mammography device in which the device is positioned and then the patient before an image is recorded.