The invention relates to a patient examination table for examining a body part of a patient, particularly the breast, by means of nuclear resonance tomography, comprising two recesses each of which is designed to receive one breast and in the immediate vicinity of which an examination device is arranged, said examination device being arranged beneath the patient examination table and comprising a medial coil, a lateral coil, a medial biopsy unit and a lateral biopsy unit, said coils and biopsy units being aligned perpendicularly to the surface of the patients body, the medial coil and medial biopsy unit being connected, being functionally interconnected and forming a medial examination unit, the lateral coil and lateral biopsy unit being connected, being functionally interconnected and forming a lateral examination unit, and said medial and lateral examination units being adapted to the breast being examined, the opposite ends of each examination unit being curved and/or angled towards the breast.
