Patent ID: 7559691

Claim:
A ceiling-mounted medical x-ray examination device, comprising: an x-ray receiver; an x-ray emitter; a ceiling mounted adjusting device for holding and moving the x-ray emitter; a patient-receiving table that supports a patient; a rail; and a traveling unit permanently mounted on the rail, the traveling unit configured to hold and move the patient-receiving table in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the patient-receiving table a distance that is greater than a width of the patient-receiving table so that the patient-receiving table can be moved out of a recording space between the x-ray emitter and the x-ray receiver when moved in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the patient-receiving table, to free up the recording space, wherein the recording space comprises the center of the patient-receiving table, and wherein the x-ray examination device comprises another adjusting device that is ceiling-mounted for holding and moving the x-ray receiver.