At the HealthView Centre for Preventative Medicine in Newport Beach, California, Dr Harvey Eisenberg and his team scan up to 40 people every day. While many are apparently healthy and exhibit no symptoms, the scan often reveals lurking diseases. The procedure itself takes about 15 minutes - it is followed by a detailed consultation with a physician lasting up to two hours. Using special software, the images are transformed into detailed 3-D colour images which can be viewed on the same day by the patient. Dr Eisenberg has scanned more than 15,000 patients.
Most problems are the early signs of disease which are curable or reversible.
The main body scan checks vital organs like the heart, lungs and kidneys. It saved my life' Commander Betty Kelepecz is a senior officer with the Los Angeles Police Department. She decided to have a full body scan when her employers' health insurance company offered to pay for most of the procedure. However, the scan identified a large mass in her kidney which was eventually confirmed by a kidney specialist to be a form of cancer which could prove fatal. Shortly afterwards, Commander Kelepecz had her right kidney removed along with the cancer which had not spread throughout her body.