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Abstract

In a method and apparatus for displaying an image, particularly of the female mammary gland, obtained from echo signals produced by ultrasound radiation directed onto the subject, the evaluation of echo signals time-dependently received by an echo signal receiver ensues on a subject axis directed in the spatial direction of the primary radiation and the intensity of the echo signals is evaluated. In the imaging evaluation, the echo signal is combined in a corresponding spatial reference orientation with a further imaging signal of a different signal source registered in the corresponding spatial direction with the subject held fixed in the same position as for producing the echo signals. The further imaging signal by itself, or in combination with the echo signals, provides diagnostic information not available from the echo signals by themselves. In the case of the female mammary gland, the mammary gland is fixed between two plates directed essentially parallel.

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