Prices of full body scans in the UK range from £1,000 to £3,000. While they give a good basic overview of your anatomy, they don’t optimize the view of each organ or system.

Full-body MRIs provide information about some other conditions besides cancer and brain pathologies, she notes, like certain skin and muscle infections, and disorders involving abnormal blood vessels.

Credit - Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Lu ShaoJi—Getty Images, cscredon/Getty Images via Canva.com) Calvin Sun was a healthy 37-year-old when a full-body MRI scan ...

With celebrities singing the praises of full-body MRI scans, a growing number of people are coughing up the cash for the preventive measure, but is the peace of mind worth the hefty price tag?

Full-body MRIs provide information about some other conditions besides cancer and brain pathologies, she notes, like certain skin and muscle infections, and disorders involving abnormal blood vessels.

To put that into perspective, I'm told the Body Scan has collected 742 images of my skin and 13 pages of moles alone. I'm especially struck by this – and the doctor's manual scan with a dermatoscope ...

The first, and to me most novel, scan is a full-body skin examination. Stripped to my underwear, I step into a brightly lit pod with cameras that record 2,000 images.