Mammography apparatus
AssigneeFUJIFILM Corporation
InventorTakashi Tajima
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Abstract
A mammography apparatus includes an imaging table on which a breast of a subject is placed and in which a detector that detects radiation transmitted through the breast is housed, and a processor, in which a first grid and a second grid that are scattered ray removal grids, which are able to remove scattered rays generated by the radiation scattering in the breast, and that are switchable between an imaging position and a retreat position according to imaging in each of a plurality of imaging modes are provided inside the imaging table, and the processor is configured to acquire a result of receiving imaging mode selection of a user, and execute control of disposition states of the first grid and the second grid inside the imaging table according to the acquired imaging mode selection.
Claims13
A mammography apparatus comprising:
- an imaging table configured to support placement of a breast of a subject, and to house a detector that detects radiation transmitted through the breast;
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- a processor,
- wherein a first grid and a second grid that are scattered ray removal grids, which are able to remove scattered rays generated by the radiation scattering in the breast, and that are switchable between an imaging position and a retreat position according to imaging in each of a plurality of imaging modes are provided inside the imaging table, and
- the processor is configured to
- acquire a result of receiving selection of an imaging mode from among the plurality of imaging modes by a user, and
- execute control for moving the first grid and the second grid between the imaging position and the retreat position inside the imaging table according to the acquired selection of the imaging mode.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.