A Magnetic Resonance Imaging apparatus having an open U- or C-shaped magnet structure, wherein the magnet structure has at least one vertical connection member for joining two horizontal wall members (101, 201) which lie one above the other and are supported in a cantilever fashion and which horizontal wall members (101, 201) are held in a predetermined spaced relationship by said vertical member, the latter being eccentrically connected to said two wall members (101, 201), particularly at a side edge thereof, wherein said horizontal wall members (101, 201) and the said vertical member delimit the upper and lower sides and at least a vertical side of a patient receiving space for receiving at least one part of a patient body, wherein said patient receiving space has three open sides, namely one frontal open side along the side edges of the horizontal wall members (101, 201) on the side of said horizontal wall members (101, 201) which is opposed to the side at which the vertical wall member is provided and two lateral open sides respectively along the edges on either one of the two opposite sides of the said horizontal wall members (101, 201) which are oriented transversally to the said frontal open side of the patient receiving space, wherein said horizontal wall members (101, 201) support means for generating a static magnetic field that permeates said patient receiving space; the apparatus further comprising a patient table, supported in an intermediate position between the two horizontal wall members (101, 201), and lying slightly above the lower horizontal wall member, the said patient table having a bridge like construction with a length which is greater than its width and comprising two opposite ends along its longitudinal axis, at each one of which ends one of a first and a second upright supporting element (202, 302) being respectively provided; said patient table being mounted to said first upright supporting element such as to be rotatable around a vertical axis intersecting a longitudinal axis of the table, the second upright supporting element being slidable relatively to the ground along a circular path corresponding to the rotation of the table around the said vertical axis; the first upright supporting element having means for being secured in a fixed relative position relatively to the magnet structure and in which position the extension of the lower horizontal wall member between the two edges along the two opposite lateral open sides of the patient receiving space added to the distance of the first upright supporting element from the edge along the lateral open side closest to the first upright supporting element is less than the length of the patient table between the two upright supporting elements (202, 302); the said patient table being rotatable relatively to the magnet structure to a position wherein its longitudinal axis is oriented transversally relatively to the two lateral open sides of the patient receiving space and each end of the patient table with the corresponding upright supporting element (202, 302) lying outside of the magnet structure and of the patient receiving space on one of the lateral open sides of the patient receiving space while an intermediate part of the table lies above the lower horizontal wall member; the extension of said horizontal wall members in the direction of cantilever from the vertical wall member or in a direction transverse to the frontal open side of the patient receiving space being greater than the width of said intermediate part of the patient table; the apparatus being arranged such that a limited region of the patient receiving space is forming an imaging volume in which the static magnetic field has certain desired values of homogeneity, the said limited region having a predetermined position inside the patient receiving space and a predetermined distance from the vertical wall member and from the edges of the horizontal wall members at the lateral and at the frontal open sides; the patient table having three or more receptacles (20, 21, 22, 23) for holding receiving coils or receiving coil supports; the first upright supporting element being situated outside said magnet structure and being placed at such a distance from the said vertical wall member that the table can be displaced angularly against the vertical wall member till to an angular position in which the longitudinal side edge of the table oriented towards the vertical wall member abuts with the said vertical wall member wherein, in said angular position, the longitudinal lateral side edge of the table opposed to the vertical wall member is still at least within the vertical projection of the imaging volume on the said table, wherein at least three of said receptacles (20, 21, 22, 23) for holding receiving coils or receiving coil supports are positioned aligned along a path having the shape of an arc concentric with the vertical axis of rotation of the patient table, which path passes through at least a portion of the imaging volume.