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Midjourney Enters Healthcare With Full-Body Ultrasound Scanner

June 18, 2026 at 00:22 EDT

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Midjourney, known for its image-generation AI, on June 18, 2026 unveiled a new division, "Midjourney Medical," and its first hardware product, the full-body ultrasound scanner "Midjourney Scanner (Ultrasonic CT)," in San Francisco. CEO David Holz presented it at an event, and the company published details on a dedicated page and a blog post.

Nov 17, 2025 · Midjourney Medical

From Text-to-Image to Inside Your Body

Midjourney unveils "Ultrasonic CT" — a full-body scanner that maps muscle, fat, bone and organs in 3D using only sound waves and water. No radiation, no magnets, a full scan in about 60 seconds.

~60s

Full-body scan time

~2 PF

Petaflops of reconstruction power

Butterfly chips per unit

~12

People scanned so far

The Capacity Claim

The company says its first 10 scanners would exceed the yearly scanning capacity of every MRI scanner on Earth.

All MRI / year

global capacity

10 Midjourney units

claimed to exceed it

How A Scan Works

Step into shallow pool, platform lowers into water

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Rings of thousands of transducers send/receive sound waves

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AI segmentation reconstructs a 3D body-composition map

The Rollout Plan

First Site · Late 2027

Midjourney Spa, San Francisco

~24,000 sq ft on Union Square · 10 scanners · gym, sauna, cold plunge.

Six-Year Goal

50,000 units worldwide

Targeting 1 billion scans per month — preventive scanning from yearly to daily.

The Promise

Radiation-free, magnet-free, full-body imaging in ~60 seconds. Early testers: "I saw the inside of my arm today, and it was the future."

The Caveats

Still a prototype. No FDA clearance yet — first output is body-composition maps, not diagnostic imaging. No large-scale validation, pricing or privacy details announced.

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