Toshiba Medical Systems Corporation

Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

Canon Medical Systems Corporation

Rie Ochiai

Yoshimasa Kobayashi

Haruki Iwai

Seiichirou Nagai

Takehito Tomaru

Naoko Kuratomi

Koichiro Watanabe

Takeo Matsuzaki

Takahiro Inagaki

Kazunari Shima

Yasunori Goto

Tomoaki Ogura

Yuuji Kuki

Yasushi Sakai

According to one embodiment, an X-ray mammography apparatus includes a breast support, a compression plate, and a compression controller. The breast support where the breast is placed. The compression plate is arranged such that the breast is sandwiched between the breast support and the compression plate. The compression controller is configured to control the breast support to move toward the compression plate so as to compress the breast from below between the breast support and the compression plate.

X-ray mammography apparatus and computer program product

A mammographic apparatus that includes X-ray detectors configured to detect X-rays entering the X-ray detectors, and attached to a holding-arm placed on a floor. The mammographic apparatus further includes circuitry configured to move the X-ray detectors between a scanning position and a waiting position. The X-ray detectors in the scanning position face an X-ray tube that generates X-rays across a breast-table, and the X-ray detectors in the waiting position are closer to the holding-arm than are the X-ray detectors in the scanning position.

Mammographic apparatus

According to one embodiment, an end-of-life detection unit in an X-ray diagnostic apparatus is configured to detect an end of life of a detector on the basis of an output value in an X-ray image, and includes: a luminance-level-value computation unit configured to calculate an amount of X-ray irradiation of the detector on the basis of the output value in an area of interest which is set on any one of the X-ray image and the detector; an irradiation-amount accumulation unit configured to calculate an accumulated amount of irradiation in the area of interest by adding the amount of X-ray irradiation calculated by the luminance-level-value computation unit to a previous amount of X-ray irradiation in the area of interest; and an end-of-life judgment unit configured to make a judgment on the end of life of the detector on the basis of the accumulated amount of irradiation.

X-ray diagnostic apparatus

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Nasushiobara, Japan

Rie Ochiai