US 11,911,194 B2
Compression member, support member, and mammography apparatus
Yoshie Fujimoto, Kanagawa (JP); Shinichiro Konno, Kanagawa (JP); and Shunsuke Kodaira, Kanagawa (JP)
Assigned to FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed by FUJIFILM CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Filed on Sep. 27, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/485,533.
Claims priority of application No. 2020-166469 (JP), filed on Sep. 30, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0096024 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 6/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 6/0414 (2013.01) [A61B 6/502 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A compression member which compresses a breast placed between a radiation source and a radiation detector,
wherein at least a partial region of at least one surface of the compression member that does not come into contact with the breast is roughened, and
wherein an arithmetic average roughness of the roughened region is equal to or greater than 5 μm and equal to or less than 20 μm.