A company called Midjourney Medical has announced a new kind of full-body scanner. It uses sound waves instead of radiation or magnets, and according to the company, it can scan your entire body in 60 seconds, according to a blog post published on June 18, 2026.

Most body scanners today use either X-rays (CT scanners) or very powerful magnets (MRI machines). Both have drawbacks. X-rays expose you to radiation, which adds up if you have scans frequently. MRI machines are impossible for people with pacemakers or metal implants, and many people find them extremely claustrophobic because you have to lie in a tight tube for 45 minutes or more.

Midjourney Medical's scanner uses ultrasound—the same sound-wave technology that has been used for decades to image babies in the womb. The key difference is that it uses those sound waves to build a complete 3D picture of your entire body in a water tank, rather than just 2D pictures of one part of your body. This approach avoids both the radiation problem and the magnet problem.

Using sound waves to create 3D medical images is not a new idea. But actually building a machine that can do it for your whole body, quickly and reliably, has been much harder than scientists expected. Regular ultrasound is very dependent on the skill of the person operating it, and it struggles to image organs deep inside your body.

Midjourney Medical is calling the experience the "Midjourney Spa" and positioning it as a wellness or preventive health service, not as a medical diagnostic tool. This matters because wellness products and medical devices are regulated differently by the FDA. The company hasn't yet explained how it plans to navigate that distinction, or what specific health claims it will make about the scan results.

When you look at the company's job postings, you can see they are still actively building this scanner. They have open positions for engineers and operational staff, which tells you this is not a finished product ready for sale. Building a full-body ultrasound scanner involves solving many difficult engineering problems at the same time: designing the sound-wave emitters, writing the software to turn raw sound data into usable images, managing the water system, and handling all the computing that happens in real time.

One thing worth being cautious about: the "60 seconds" claim needs scrutiny. When people talk about scan time, they might mean different things—the time it takes to collect the raw data, the time to process it into an image, or the time until a doctor has reviewed it and made a diagnosis. It is not yet clear which one Midjourney Medical is referring to.

Other companies are already operating in the preventive body scanning space. Prenuvo and Ezra both offer whole-body MRI scans as a wellness service. But MRI has a hard ceiling on speed—a typical full-body scan takes 45 to 90 minutes. If Midjourney Medical can get the same coverage with sound waves in a fraction of the time, without radiation, and without needing expensive magnet equipment, it would be a different kind of service altogether. MRI machines are expensive, and they need special rooms and complicated cooling systems. Those costs limit where you can build scanning centers.

Right now, Midjourney Medical is still in the early stages. The job openings, the lack of regulatory approval, and the wellness framing all show that this is a company still developing its product. The announcement is more of a statement of what they intend to build than a product you can use today.

One last note: Midjourney is famous for generative AI image software, and this new company shares the name. Whether they are connected, or whether it is just a coincidence, is not clear from publicly available information.