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US 10,588,600 B2Granted
Acoustic matching member, acoustic matching member group, and medical imaging apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorsTakahisa Arai, Takeyasu Kobayashi, Takao Kuwabara
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Abstract
An acoustic matching member configured to be disposed between a breast placed on an imaging table and a compression plate disposed opposite to the imaging table is proposed. The acoustic matching member includes a protruding portion that protrudes toward the imaging table and that is provided in an end portion on a deepest side when viewed from a chest wall side of a subject in a case of compressing a breast of the subject in contact with the compression plate.
Claims11
An acoustic matching member group, comprising:
- an acoustic matching member configured to be disposed between a breast placed on an imaging table and a compression plate disposed opposite to the imaging table, the acoustic matching member comprising:
- a protruding portion configured such that that protrudes toward the imaging table and that is provided in an end portion on a deepest side when viewed from a chest wall side of a subject in a case of compressing a breast of the subject in contact with the compression plate;
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- an upper acoustic matching member provided on a surface of the compression plate opposite to a surface facing the imaging table configured for compressing the breast of the subject in contact with the compression plate,
- wherein a static friction coefficient of the acoustic matching member is larger than a static friction coefficient of the upper acoustic matching member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.