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Whole-body MRI is an MRI of the entire body without radiation, used to find spread in myeloma and to screen people with high inherited cancer risk.
Whole-body MRI acquires multiple stations of MRI, including diffusion-weighted imaging, and stitches them into a single view of the entire body without radiation. It is standard in multiple myeloma under IMWG criteria because of its sensitivity to bone marrow disease, and for surveillance in Li-Fraumeni syndrome, where the absence of radiation matters for people scanned for life. It is being evaluated for response assessment in metastatic prostate and breast cancer through the MET-RADS framework, since bone metastases are hard to measure on CT. Strengths are repeatability and marrow sensitivity; the main limitations are long scan times and incidental findings in screening use. Commercial 'full-body scan' services for average-risk people are controversial for that reason. It is a radiation-free scan of the whole body, most valuable in myeloma and in people with high inherited cancer risk.
Multi-station MRI with diffusion-weighted imaging stitched into a whole-body view.
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