Display of a receiving area

The invention relates to a method (Z) for indicating a selected recording region (A) of a medical tomography apparatus (1) in the region (B) of a patient table (5) of the tomography apparatus (1) using an illumination device (7, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d , 7e), at least one light source (11, 7d, 21a, 21b) comprises. In this case (7a 7b 7c 7d 7,,,,, 7e) (17b 17c 17d 23 25 17,,,,,) / (7 has the illumination device adjusting means for turning on and or hide the edge regions of an illumination field (9) of the lighting device, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e), the switched depending on the selected recording region (A) or to be hidden. Moreover, the invention relates to a lighting device (7, 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d, 7e) for this purpose.