Abstract: In a manipulator for use in a closed magnetic resonance tomograph with an MRT channel extending therethrough for receiving a patient's rest supporting a female patient laying on her stomach during mammography, a support arm having a front end with a receiving housing for accommodating various instruments for the treatment of the patient is provided, which support arm is movable into the channel together with the patients rest and which is positionable relative to the patients mamma steplessly in every direction and operable in a position adjacent to the mamma for any desired treatment of the mamma.

Abstract: In a magnetic resonance tomograph having a continuous channel for inserting from one end a stretcher with a female patient lying thereon in a prone position during magnetic resonance mammography, the tomograph is provided with a manipulator by which instruments for the diagnosis and surgical treatment of such patients breasts can be introduced into the channel from the other end and positioned in relation to the breasts which are disposed in the isocenter of the magnetic resonance tomograph. The manipulator has a support arm with a recess for receiving the various instruments which can be installed and exchanged from the other, that is, the proximal end. The support arm with the recess can be pivoted horizontally and vertically about a fixed point located outside the recess and beyond the tip at the distal end of the manipulator adjacent to a breast of the patient.