Patient couch for positioning and/ or supporting a patient during radiation therapy

Abstract

One or more example embodiments relates to a patient couch for positioning and/or supporting a patient for radiotherapy, comprising a couch board section to accommodate the patient; a base section attachable to a floor; a roll-pitch assembly between the base section and the couch board section, the roll-pitch assembly configured to pivot the couch board section about at least one of a roll axis or a pitch axis; and a cover unit forming a shell cover and comprising at least two cover shells, wherein one of the at least two cover shells forms a roll cover shell and another of the at least two cover shells forms a pitch cover shell, the roll cover shell is configured to compensate a roll movement of the roll-pitch assembly, and the pitch cover shell is configured to compensate a pitch movement of the roll-pitch assembly.

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