I was surprised to see the granularity of this body scan that was posted on twitter:
So naturally I asked about it:
I had not heard of this before - very interesting. Its a Swedish company that I guess licenses its software to clinics around the world to provide the service, based off standard MRI scans.
Image analysis software developer AMRA Medical hopes to take body fat analysis beyond the measurement of body mass index (BMI) with an application that analyzes MRI scans to assess health risk, according to a presentation on Tuesday at the Digital Medicine & Medtech (DigiMed) Showcase.
AMRAās software is designed to analyze MRI scans and characterize an individualās body fat, which can be a marker for future health risks and a variety of clinical conditions based on its location and composition, according to Eric Converse, AMRAās CEO. Converse gave the talk at DigiMed, which is a side meeting to the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference.
While a personās degree of body fat ā based on measures such as BMI ā has generally been acknowledged as a marker of health risk, only recently have clinicians learned that the type of fat and its location can change the risk for different conditions.
AMRAās Profiler protocol functions on standard MRI scanners, and it enables users to perform body fat composition analysis in scans that can be as short as six minutes. It also can work with MRI scout scans, Converse said.
In this case - the actual service was provided by Q.bio, a company based in Redwood City, (between Palo Alto and San Francisco in the Bay Area).
From Q.Bio:
overview of our Q Exam and membership; the cost is $3,495 per exam
Our standard exam includes blood, urine, and saliva sample collection for laboratory analysis, as well as a non-invasive, whole body MRI and vital signs measurement.
Related Research:
Q Bio.pdf (8.4 MB)