Sixty seconds on . . . full body scans

What’s this about?Celebrities, including Kim Kardashian1 and Paris Hilton,2 have been promoting scans offered by the US firm Prenuvo.3What kind of scans?Well, on her Instagram post, Kardashian wrote, “The Prenuvo full body scan has the ability to detect cancer and diseases such as aneurysms in its earliest stages, before symptoms arise. It was like getting a (sic) MRI for an hour with no radiation.”But an MRI doesn’t have radiation?No, it doesn’t. Also, according to Prenuvo’s website the scan isn’t like an MRI, it is an MRI, just one that has been sped up using “proprietary acquisition protocols.”Sorry, what?According to Prenuvo what’s distinctive about its scan is its ability to acquire these protocols in a single sitting across the entire body. “In effect, we are applying the principles of nuclear imaging and apply them in the context of radiology,” the company says.So, it’s an MRI?But not as we know it, apparently….
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