Patient Support Apparatus for an Imaging Apparatus

Abstract

A patient support apparatus for an imaging apparatus, including: a patient couch and a cushioning element, wherein the cushioning element is arranged on a surface of the patient couch and forms a receiving surface for a patient, wherein the patient couch is designed to accommodate a patient in a recumbent posture, and wherein the patient support apparatus is designed to transport the patient on the patient couch into a patient receiving zone of the imaging apparatus, wherein a width of the cushioning element along an X direction of the patient support apparatus substantially corresponds to a width of the patient receiving zone at a receiving height for the patient couch.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.