Carrier for medical facilities with a large displacement range

Abstract

Carriers for medical facilities, in particular patient tables, sometimes require a large range of displacement. This situation occurs, for example, in interventional MRI where a patient is to be transferred from an operating table to an MRI table which is situated at some distance therefrom. Components of the table may not form obstacles on the floor of the room and the stiffness and stability of the table construction must be maintained. A carrier for medical facilities includes two adjacent box-shaped spaces provided in the floor of the treatment room, said spaces being separated by a partition. One space accommodates only two rails which carry the pedestal of the table but no other components of the displacement mechanism for the table. The other space contains the further components of the displacement mechanism. A guide member protrudes through the partition, via a sealing device so as to guide the movement of the table.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.