MAMMOGRAPHY APPARATUS, METHOD FOR OPERATING MAMMOGRAPHY APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, PROGRAM FOR OPERATING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND METHOD FOR OPERATING IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

摘要

Provided are a mammography apparatus that can reduce an imaging time of the breast, as compared to a case in which the capture of a radiographic image and the capture of an ultrasound image are sequentially performed, and a method for operating the mammography apparatus. A mammography apparatus performs ultrasound imaging while moving an ultrasound transceiver having an ultrasound imaging region smaller than a radiography region from a scanning start position to a scanning end position for scanning. During the scanning, in plural states in which the ultrasound transceiver is disposed at different positions of the radiography region, the radiation source emits radiation to perform radiography. A control device acquires plural captured radiographic images. Then, a removed radiographic image, in which an image of the ultrasound transceiver disposed at different positions in the plural radiographic images has been removed, is generated.