New hospital in Prešov Where the equipment will be in the new hospital BETA
This page gradually adds the layout of the medical equipment in the building and visualisations of the individual devices. It is a trial version, so only the ground floor and basement 1 work for now.
Key equipment on the ground floor
Click a device and we will show you where it will be in the building.
Ground floor
Coloured places are clickable.
The floor plan is simplified and for orientation only.
Awarded equipment at one scale
Illustrative 3D models of the devices whose winner is known, side by side at their real height according to the manufacturers' data sheets. Click a device and we will show you where it will be in the building.
The models are simplified; height from the manufacturers' data sheets, width from the photo. Drag to rotate. Scroll the strip sideways. Scale: the average person, 1.74 m, is the mean of 19-year-old men (181 cm) and women (167 cm) in Slovakia according to NCD-RisC (2019); Tyrannosaurus rex according to the Field Museum in Chicago (specimen SUE, 12.3 m long, 4.0 m at the hip).
The coldest and hottest places in the hospital
Temperatures at which the equipment in the new hospital works, on one thermometer. Equipment above, well-known places on Earth and in space below for comparison. Click a device to see where it will be in the building.
Scroll the strip sideways. Linear scale, broken between 150 °C and 1,000 °C. Equipment temperatures from the tender specifications and equipment lists; liquid helium and nitrogen at their boiling points (Los Alamos National Laboratory); the X-ray tube focal spot from the technical literature. Comparisons: NASA (deep space 2.725 K, Pluto), Guinness World Records (Vostok), SHMÚ (Slovak records), USGS (Kīlauea), Los Alamos National Laboratory (tungsten).
Magnetic fields in the hospital and around us
The magnetic field strength of the MRI scanners in the new hospital, compared with everything from the Earth's field to a magnet in which a live frog levitated. Click a device to see where it will be in the building.
Scroll the strip sideways. Logarithmic scale: each step is a field ten times stronger. Why the frog floated: living tissue is mostly water, which is weakly diamagnetic, so a strong magnetic field gently repels it, and in a field of about 16 T this repulsion balances gravity. Andre Geim and Michael Berry received the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for the experiment, a prize for research that first makes people laugh and then makes them think. Ten years later Geim won the real Nobel Prize in Physics for experiments with graphene, becoming the first person to hold both prizes. MRI field strengths from the room names (the tenders require at least 1.5 T and 2.8 T), the simulation MRI from the planned device; the hazard zone edge from the IEC 60601-2-33 standard (MHRA, 2026). Earth's field in Prešov from the IGRF-14 model (British Geological Survey, October 2026). Comparisons: National MagLab (fridge magnet, sunspot, 45 T, 100 T), Chinese Academy of Sciences (45.22 T in Hefei), CEA (Iseult, the world's most powerful MRI according to CEA), Berry and Geim, European Journal of Physics 1997 (frog), Improbable Research, nobelprize.org and Guinness World Records (prizes).
Equipment on the scales
The weight of the awarded equipment on a balance: the device on the left pan, something that weighs about the same on the right for comparison. Click a device to see where it will be in the building.
Scroll the strip sideways. The comparisons are approximate; each balance tilts according to the real difference in weight. Equipment weights from the manufacturers' documents: Varian Designers' Desk Reference (TrueBeam, 2015 edition, not verified for HyperSight; 12,034 kg with the couch and base frame), GE HealthCare site planning (gantry without the table), FUJIFILM Japan, Carestream Dental. The Philips Azurion 7 M20 and Elekta Flexitron HDR are missing: their weight is not in the manufacturers' public documents. Comparisons: Zetor (Series 6, operating weight), Steinway & Sons (Model D), FIA (2026 Formula 1 regulations, with the driver, without fuel), Smithsonian's National Zoo (male giant panda in the wild).
The smallest things the hospital works with
A zoom from a T. rex down to a DNA molecule: each circle also shows the next, smaller thing at its true relative size, and the next circle magnifies it. Click a device to see where it will be in the building.
Scroll the strip sideways. Within each circle, things are shown at their true relative size; anything smaller than a dot is marked with a ring. The scale below the circles is logarithmic, each labelled step is ten times smaller than the one before. Sources: iridium-192 source (Flexisource for the Flexitron) from the CLRP database of Carleton University and the FDA; pixel from the manufacturer FUJIFILM; hair and DNA width from the US National Nanotechnology Initiative; red blood cell from Clinical Methods; Staphylococcus aureus from Encyclopaedia Britannica; coronavirus from Zhu et al. (NEJM, 2020); length of DNA in a cell from Alberts et al. (Molecular Biology of the Cell); the person and the T. rex as in the comparison above.