MAMMOGRAPHY APPARATUS AND SAMPLE IMAGING ASSISTANCE SET

20250072855

18/815949

August 27, 2024

A mammography apparatus including: an imaging table that has a placement surface on which a breast is placed; a protective cover that includes a first magnetic object at a predetermined first position and is mounted on the placement surface; and a sample tray that includes a second magnetic object and a housing part of a sample and is placed on the placement surface via the protective cover, the second magnetic object being attracted to the first magnetic object by a magnetic force, wherein the sample tray is configured to be magnetically attached to the predetermined first position of the protective cover by the first magnetic object and the second magnetic object.

FUJIFILM CORPORATION (Tokyo, JP)

1. A mammography apparatus comprising: an imaging table that has a placement surface on which a breast is placed; a protective cover that includes a first magnetic object at a predetermined first position and is mounted on the placement surface; and a sample tray that includes a second magnetic object and a housing part of a sample and is placed on the placement surface via the protective cover, the second magnetic object being attracted to the first magnetic object by a magnetic force, wherein the sample tray is configured to be magnetically attached to the predetermined first position of the protective cover by the first magnetic object and the second magnetic object.

2. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the protective cover includes the first magnetic objects at each of a plurality of the predetermined first positions disposed at intervals, and the sample tray includes a plurality of the second magnetic objects disposed to correspond to a disposition of the plurality of predetermined first positions.

3. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the protective cover includes a tray placement region which includes the predetermined first position and on which the sample tray is placed in a state where the protective cover is mounted on the placement surface, and the tray placement region is a region on an end part side from a center in a width direction orthogonal to a depth direction from a chest wall toward a nipple of the breast placed on the protective cover.

4. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the protective cover includes a tray placement region which includes the predetermined first position and on which the sample tray is placed in a state where the protective cover is mounted on the placement surface, and the tray placement region is a region on a chest wall side from a center in a depth direction from a chest wall toward a nipple of the breast placed on the protective cover.

5. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the protective cover includes, in a state where the protective cover is mounted on the placement surface: an irradiation region which is irradiated with radiation; a non-irradiation region which is not irradiated with radiation; and a tray placement region on which the sample tray is placed and which includes the predetermined first position, and in the tray placement region, at least the predetermined first position is included in the non-irradiation region, and a remaining region including the housing part is included in the irradiation region.

6. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the first magnetic object is a magnetized object, and the second magnetic object is a magnet.

7. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, wherein: the imaging table includes a third magnetic object at a predetermined second position on the placement surface, the protective cover further includes a fourth magnetic object which is attracted to the third magnetic object by a magnetic force, and the protective cover is configured to be magnetically attached to the predetermined second position of the imaging table by the third magnetic object and the fourth magnetic object.

8. The mammography apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the first magnetic object and the fourth magnetic object have different forms.

9. The mammography apparatus according to claim 7, wherein: the protective cover includes a plurality of the first magnetic objects disposed at equal intervals and a plurality of the fourth magnetic objects disposed at equal intervals, and an interval between the plurality of the first magnetic objects is different from an interval between the plurality of the fourth magnetic objects.

10. The mammography apparatus according to claim 7, wherein: the third magnetic object is a magnetized object, and the fourth magnetic object is a magnet.

11. The mammography apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an irradiation unit that irradiates the placement surface with radiation; and a controller that controls the irradiation unit, wherein the controller controls the irradiation unit such that at least a part of the housing part is irradiated with the radiation and at least a part of the breast is not irradiated with the radiation.

12. The mammography apparatus according to claim 11, wherein the controller controls the irradiation unit such that at least a part of the breast and the predetermined first position are not irradiated with the radiation.

13. A mammography apparatus comprising: an imaging table that has a placement surface on which a breast is placed and includes a first magnetic object disposed at a predetermined first position on the placement surface; and a sample tray that includes a second magnetic object and a housing part of a sample and is placed on the placement surface, the second magnetic object being attracted to the first magnetic object by a magnetic force, wherein the sample tray is configured to be magnetically attached to the predetermined first position of the imaging table by the first magnetic object and the second magnetic object.

14. A sample imaging assistance set comprising: a protective cover that includes a first magnetic object and is mounted on a placement surface of a mammography apparatus on which a breast is placed; and a sample tray that includes a second magnetic object and a housing part of a sample, the second magnetic object being attracted to the first magnetic object by a magnetic force.

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