乳房専用PET装置Elmammo~®の開発

摘要

The survival rate of breast cancer is high when it is discovered and treated at an early stage, and therefore early detection is important to reducing the death rate. To detect small breast cancer, we developed the Elmammo dedicated PET scanner for breast imaging, which features high spatial resolution and high sensitivity, and evaluated its performance and image quality.%乳癌は早期に発見して治療した場合の生存率が高い癌であり，その死亡率を減少させるためには早期発見が重要となる。そこで，より小さな乳癌を描出するために，空間分解能と感度を高めた乳房専用Positron Emission Tomography (PET)装置Elmammo~®を開発し，その性能と画質の評価を行った。