OneMRI

Summary

OneMRI claims to be Australia’s largest full-body MRI clinic network. But is that a good thing?

Under the hood, OneMRI is not a “single” clinic but a company that profits on organising whole-body MRI scans through a network of partner imaging centres. Their selling point to the health consumer is making the process easier for individuals to book a full-body MRI scan — primarily in the way of not requiring a referral for their network of providers.

This “middle-man” style model has been seen before — most notably with Ezra in the United States. While it can remove booking friction, it also creates a layer between you and the actual imaging provider, which may can affect communication, quality control, and transparency.

Interestingly, this seemingly patient-focused provider is in fact a business-to-business model taking a cut from whole-body MRI scans referred to their network MRI providers. In exchange, these providers are happy to off-load the burden of whole-body MRI reporting (e.g. less risk), while reaping the benefit of VC investor marketing budget to fill their clinic bookings.

Furthermore, this offers a theoretical layer of AHPRA protection to the imaging clinic (yet to be tested), enabling the use of advertising styles traditionally forbidden among health-service providers (e.g. testimonials).

Conditions Detected

It is important to remember when comparing conditions detected, the use of numbers in counting the number of conditions is built for marketing purposes. However, the important metric is not the “number” of conditions, rather how early, and how accurately.

OneMRI says they can detect over 500 conditions from head to knees.

Regions covered include:

• Brain & Nervous System

• Metabolic Conditions (limited to conditions of the liver)

• Spine and Musculoskeletal System (abbreviated at the knees)

• Digestive System (it is important to note that all full-body MRIs are limited in the colon, and image quality in the pelvic region is impacted by normal gut motion)

• Urinary System

• Reproductive Organs (all full-body MRI providers are limited in their sensitivity in the prostate, as this particularly dense organ requires targeted imaging, with optimised scan protocols to reliably detect lesions in this organ).

This provider goes on to list specific conditions such as solid cancers, multiple sclerosis, cysts, haemangiomas, brain aneurysms, spinal degeneration.

These are typical of most full-body MRI providers, but the question remains: how early, and how accurately.

Technology

It is difficult to ascertain who the network proivders are, as only suburb and post code are provided on OneMRIs website.

Of those we have been able to deduced (e.g. CRT), scanner technologies appear to include 3T Siemens and GE.

As mentioned previously, the greatest risk in sub-optimal image quality in DWIBS (and increase risk in false positives) is the use of 3T platforms without the the ability to correct for distortion.

Not filling MRIQ with confidence is the sub-optimal STIR image / GIF that suffers from signal loss. Remember, the anatomical imaging is suppose to be the easy and “pretty” images.

That said, OneMRI doesn’t make any claims about having “advanced” technology as the point of difference, presumably as the point of difference stems with reduced friction for the client rather than imaging excellence. Mind you, this is business to business- partnering with corporate radiology which is focused on maintaining the narrative “all full-body MRI is the same” (which we know is not true).

Cost

The cost to the health consumer is $2990, at the time of writing. This positions itself on the cheaper end of whole-body MRI providers, but does include a Doctor consult to receive the results.

Experience & Scan Time

Like all screening, this scan is intended to be performed regularly to complement other screening tests recommended by your doctor. However, returning for a subsequent scan is very much dependent on the patient experience.

Following in the footsteps of Ezra, OneMRI will soon find out controlling for patient experience is difficult to do when expanding across Australia. Every provider has different customer service experience, technology and ambient experience.

OneMRI network clinics are likely to have ear plugs and headphones as mentioned on OneMRIs website. However, this fall short of other providers which have in-bore MRI Cinema (audio-visuals) for the optimal patient experience. (Remember a comfortable patient, is a still patient. A still patient offers better image quality).

Overall this lack of patient experience control remains in line with the true business model of operating a radiology business-to-business (B2B) rather being consumer focused.

There are no patient reviews of the OneMRI service available on the internet, aside from the curated testimonials on their website.

Radiologist Experience

This is a difficult one - as OneMRI does not list who the radiologist are. There is no information on whether radiologist are experienced in multi-organ cancer detection, nor whether they have full-body MRI reporting experience.

Radiologist experience is nearly as important as imaging capabilities, as together these influence sensitivity and accuracy of the scan.

Compare

It is difficult to compare OneMRI with other providers as even within network, scan providers will vary in their ability to accurate characterise lesions. Similar to Ezra, OneMRI may apply a standardised protocol; however, even so, manufactures have their strengths and weaknesses in image quality despite same sequences - especially when it comes to DWIBS.

Likewise, patient experience will vary between providers within the OneMRI network.

However, the one interesting aspect among known OneMRI network providers, such as CRT imaging (Southport, QLD), is that they do not advertise on their clinic website that they perform full-body MRI scans for OneMRI.

Furthermore, they do not mention whole-body MRI scans at all. Why?

OneMRI - MRIQ Score

Criterion	Weight (out of 19)	Score (0–10)	Weighted Points
DWIBS & Imaging Capabilities	5	2	1.0
Radiologist Experience & Reporting	4	2	0.8
Comprehensive Imaging	4	1	0.4
Patient Experience	3	1	0.3
Transparency & Clarity	3	3	0.9
Total	19	–	3.4 / 19

MRIQ Recommendation

OneMRI scored 3.4 / 19.

OneMRI is a business-to-business model similar to Ezra in the United States. The business model does not appear to promote factor or value quality, rather is focused on deriving profit by reducing friction for the patient to book without a referral.

MRIQ does not recommend this imaging network model, as it diminishes patients’ autonomy while perpetuating the misleading idea that all full-body MRI services are equivalent.

Mermaid Beach Radiology

Last updated: 08 Aug 2025

 

Preface

With the increase in popularity of full-body MRI, it is important for individuals to understand that not all full-body MRI screening scans are the same.

At minimum, full-body MRI providers should be able to to perform clinically meaningful DWIBS and reported by a radiologist with experience in multi-organ oncology MRI reads. Without this, the scan loses its screening value, and increases risk of indeterminate or false positives. At worse, false-reassurance at the cost of a pretty penny.

As discussed here, providers operating a 3T platform are at the greatest risk of poor DWIBS quality, particularly through the neck, chest and upper abdomen, as well as challenges in signal loss on other sequences.

Summary

As the name suggests, Mermaid Beach Radiology is located in Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia and opened its doors in early 2021.

This provider offers advanced 3T full-body MRI using a Philips system as a partner clinic to Whole Body MRI TM. While Mermaid Beach Radiology has some information available on their website, including this dedicated full-body MRI page, the majority of this overview is based off of the information provided on Whole Body MRI website.

Mermaid Beach Radiology’s full-body scan is claimed to be the most comprehensive scan in Australia, including more sequences and data compared to other providers. They highlight their advanced technology, including research-grade quantitative 3T MRI with a world-first full-body DWIBS distortion correction providing never-before-seen sensitivity in areas such as the neck and chest.

This provider has the longest scan time of all the providers (90 - 100 minutes), which Mermaid Beach Radiology justifies in providing higher-resolution, more sequences and opportunistic data compared to any other provider in Australia.

Excellent image quality is complemented with a high-degree of radiologist experience in multi-organ MRI reads, especially with over 600 full-body MRI reads at Mermaid Beach Radiology.

This provider also ranks high on patient experience front, with in-bore audiovisuals, bamboo loungewear, other scan day comforts, and excellent customer service reviews (over 1500 5-star Google reviews) and other scan day comforts.

Conditions Detected

Unique to providers in Australia, Mermaid Beach Radiology via Whole Body MRI(tm)’s website shares at great length the capabilities, limitations and conditions detected.

This provider clearly states that this scan is intended for cancer detection, with the ability to detect other life-limiting conditions such as aneurysms, neurological conditions such as multiple sclerosis, reproductive conditions such as endometriosis and enlarged prostate.

Uniquely, this provider offers additional imaging for even more opportunistic health data including brain quantification with SyMRI and NeuroQuant, liver fat and iron quantification, and the scan cost includes a low-dose CT chest and CT calcium score for better evaluation of lung health and cardiovascular risk.

The full list of conditions detected on the Whole Body MRI scan at Mermaid Beach Radiology can be found here.

Technology

Mermaid Beach Radiology has a research-grade Philips 3T MRI, similar to another Southeast Queensland provider, Brisbane Radiology.

However, unlike other 3T providers, Mermaid Beach Radiology uses advanced techniques and merit-based access to clinical science tools to overcome the challenges posed by full-body application of DWIBS. This means Mermaid Beach Radiology is able to provide never-before-seen sensitivity and precision in areas traditionally considered a challenge such as the neck and cardiothoracic regions.

Mermaid Beach Radiology boast other next-generation technologies including SPECTRAL CT (used for Spectral low-dose CT chest as apart of the Whole Body MRI package), NeuroQuant, SyMRI, and research-grade DEXA for additional supplementary scans.

Radiologist & Reporting

Who’s reporting the scan is nearly as important as the image quality. Unique to other providers, Mermaid Beach Radiology may be the only provider who publicly displays full-body MRI reporting radiologist.

Mermaid Beach Radiology’s whole-body MRI service is led by Dr Zane Sherif, co-founder of Whole Body MRI.
Dr Sherif is a sub-specialist and interventional radiologist with extensive experience in full-body MRI, neuro-spinal imaging, and regenerative medicine. He has personally reported over 500 full-body MRI scans, with a significant proportion undertaken for oncology indications such as cancer staging and tumour response monitoring.

Importantly, this focus on oncology imaging distinguishes the service from general wellness or lifestyle screenings, where radiologist experience in complex disease interpretation is often limited.

The clinic also applies ONCO-RADS findings categories to standardise reporting. This internationally recognised framework provides structured, clinically relevant reports, enabling referring doctors to quickly identify which findings may require further investigation or follow-up. Combined with the sub-specialist expertise, this approach enhances diagnostic accuracy and clinical decision-making.

Cost

This provider is one of only a handful that publish their prices online. At the time of writing, the Whole Body MRI scan at Mermaid Beach Radiology starts at $2495 for their new Advanced Torso offering, or $3750 AUD including low-dose CT chest, coronary calcium score, Bone Mineral Density, and Body Composition.

This provider also offers a comprehensive multi-modality screening package for a in-depth look at some areas that require targeted imaging (e.g. for the earliest detection of cancers), and other scans to evaluate metabolic, endocrine, reproductive and cardiovascular health. This is somewhat unique, particularly in the Queensland area, with only HealthScreen in Victoria offering a similar multi-modality package.

Patient experience

Mermaid Beach Radiology offers individuals undertaking a full-body MRI the following:

• a gift of bamboo loungewear for increased comfort during the scan

• audio-visual in-bore experience (also called MRI Cinema) through specialised headwear to stream movies and TV shows during the scan.

• post-scan refreshments, including coffee and snacks

• On-site parking

Additionally, Mermaid Beach Radiology may arguably be the most highly rated radiology provider in Australia, with an impressive 5.0 star average with over 1500 Google reviews. Reviewers comment on state-of-the-art technology, excellent customer service, friendly staff, and well designed facilities.

Compare

In order to facilitate comparison for the average reader, we have created a weighted scoring system of the top five things to look for in a full-body MRI provider. To read more about how this scoring system was developed, please visit the Learn tab.

Highly notable mentions include:

• High-quality, clinically meaningful true anatomically contiguous DWIBS at 3T, without distortion or artefact.

• Highly experienced reporting radiologist, personally involved in the co-development of full-body MRI imaging protocols.

• Uses ONCO-RADS categories (1 - 5 score of likelihood of malignancy) for better communication on which findings require follow up.

• Exceptional patient experience, with MRI cinema and over 1500 5-star google reviews.

• Clear and transparent information about what full-body MRI can and cannot do publicly available on Whole Body MRI website.

Mermaid Beach Radiology – MRIQ Provider Score

Criterion	Weight (out of 19)	Score (0–10)	Weighted Points
DWIBS & Imaging Capabilities	5	10	5.0
Radiologist Experience & Reporting	4	10	4.0
Comprehensive Imaging	4	10	4.0
Patient Experience	3	10	3.0
Transparency & Clarity	3	10	3.0
Total	19	-	19.0 / 19

MRIQ Recommendation

If you are located in Queensland and seeking a full-body MRI (or willing to travel interstate), Mermaid Beach Radiology is hard to beat for technology and imaging capabilities, radiologist experience, patient experience.

At the time of writing, this facility is our top pick for full-body MRI scoring a perfect 10/10 in the 5 most important qualities of a full-body MRI provider.

Ezra

Summary

Ezra is a US-based partner-clinic style provider which offers full-body MRI with a particularly focus on leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance image quality. Using AI, Ezra’s goal is to make full-body MRI scans accessible to all, performed in as little as 15 minutes for $500.00 USD.

Conditions Detected

Similar to Prenuvo, Ezra claim to be able to detect over 500 conditions in their 60 minute scan. It is unclear whether this also applies to the Ezra Flash (30 min scan) as it does not include all body areas covered elsewhere.

Similar to other providers, they do not seem to include sensitivity or staging information to give the health consumer an idea of how sensitive they are to identifying early life-limiting conditions. However, have indicated that with the inclusion of low-dose CT chest, Ezra add they can detect “potential nodules” of 1mm in size.

Interestingly, most all of this providers discussion around conditions starts with the words “possible” or “potential” adding a bit of uncertainty to the reader on their ability to visualise or characterise. This may be a result of the lack of diffusion-imaging.

Technology

This provider partners with radiology clinics to offer full-body MRI services using 3T platforms.

While 3T has difficulties in clinically meaningful full-body DWIBS acquisition, the ability to offer multi-modality screening through partnering comprehensive radiology adds some tangible value to individuals. While no medical imaging is 100% accurate, the lack of effective DWIBS at 3T may negatively impact rate of erroneous findings - which applies to most all 3T providers.

Ezra promote the use of their proprietary AI systems to enhance image quality and produce Medical Reports. Ezra have also incorporated the use of AI to generate patient reports and to responding to customer enquiries via email.

Cost

Ezra have a few options on pricing which can be seen here.

Ezra Flash

Simple 30 minute scan leveraging their proprietary AI to enhance the image quality of scans performed at lower resolution (as a result of faster acquisition). This scan does not include the spine and costs $1495 USD (~$2300 AUD).

Ezra Full Body

This scan is akin to Prenuvo’s full-body, not including additional CT-based imaging of the chest. This scan covers the spine, but does not include detection of any malignancies in the cardiothoracic regions. This scan package costs $2395 USD (~$3800 AUD)

Ezra Full Body Plus

Full Body Plus includes Ezra’s 3T full body scan protocol, as well as, low-dose CT chest for lung cover. A CT coronary calcium score can be added on, but this costs additional. This multi-modality screening scan comes in at $2695 USD (~$4200 AUD).

Patient Experience

Consistent with their brand, Ezra utilise AI to facilitate the early conversations via Chatbot and Email replies.

While users are provided Ezra PJs and socks as a perk, the patient experience is largely dependent on the provider clinic (which is acknowledged by Ezra), including availability of in-bore entertainment and ambient experience. If you are seeking an Ezra scan, please reach out to the local provider clinic to learn more about whether you are able to stream movies during your 60 minute scan.

Reports are provided to the patient via an online portal, which offers a great intuitive break down of findings. Each finding is scored on a 1 to 5 scale of importance (modified scale, similar to PIRADS) as determined by AI, and reviewed by a medical professional. This facilitates clearer information on what requires follow up. Other providers, such as Prenuvo, do something similar but (in MRIQs opinion) is less refined than Ezra.

You can see a sample report here.

Patients receive a brief post-scan consult with a medical professional to go over findings of the full-body scan.

Compare

See how Ezra compares to other providers in scan time, cost, sensitivity, body regions, and others.

MRIQ Recommendation

Ezra have great technology, and are supported by well-known insustry thought leaders including Dr Daniel Sodickson, who is well known for the invention of parallel MRI and significant contribution to literature and advancement of the field.

At this time, the lack of full-body DWIBS is a draw-back of Ezra’s offerings, which increases the likelihood of indeterminant findings, requiring additional investigation.

Prenuvo

Summary

Prenuvo is arguably the most well-known large scale, corporate full-body MRI provider internationally, with many clinics through out the USA. To date this company has raised over 190 million dollars from investors to carry out full-body MRI screening, and more recently "Prenuvo Enhanced” (available in only in Silicon Valley) which includes Prenuvo’s own body-composition analysis, additional neurological assessments, and a blood test panel to complement the MRI scan.

This provider use 1.5T Philips platform a 50 minute full-body scan. Because these clinics are primarily Prenuvo owned, rather than partner clinics with comprehensive radiology providers, their imaging services are limited to MRI. In other words, Prenuvo scans do not include lung cover or evaluation of cardiovascular disease risk like other providers Ezra or Mermaid Beach Radiology.

Prenuvo clearly have a well-oiled machine facilitated by significant investment. Their patient experience includes onboarding exploratory calls, online portals, lay-person patient reports, and post-scan follow-up call.

However, Prenuvo comes in at the most expensive of the full-body MRI providers. However, despite the slower 1.5T platform, Prenuvo do acquire full-body DWIBS for greater sensitivity and tissue characterisation compared to other US-based 3T providers.

Prenuvo Australia

For Australians, Prenuvo is now in Melboure with Prenuvo still teasing a Sydney-based clinic.

When choosing between Prenuvo’s 1.5T platform, and 3T full-body with DWIBS correction offered by Mermaid Beach Radiology, MRIQ recommends the latter for better value and greater health insights.

Furthermore, Mermaid Beach Radiology regularly validates their screening scan with full-body MRI for oncology for extra layer of confidence.

Conditions Detected

Prenuvo state that they can detect over 500 conditions in their full-body scan. Unlike some Australian providers, Prenuvo goes through a significant effort to list capabilities.

However, some claimed capabilities are questionable (e.g. breast cancer - what stage? as all full-body MRI can detect late state breast lesions) and appear to inflate the number of conditions detected. For example, the Prenuvo conditions page lists normal anatomical variations and even “indeterminant lesions as detected condition.

You can see a list of conditions detected by Prenuvo’s scan here.

In Australia, Prenuvo’s sensitivity listed is 10 mm or greater - which is industry standard terminology.

Imaging Capabilities & Technology

Scanner strength

Prenuvo uses Philips 1.5T MRI scanners to perform full-body screening. Important for the health consumer, Prenuvo include full-body DWIBS

Generally, 3T MRI provides superior soft-tissue contrast. For whole-body screening, however, optimizing cancer-sensitive diffusion sequences (DWIBS) is more challenging at 3T. Prenuvo notes that for full-body screening, 1.5T is preferable because it enables clinically meaningful DWIBS acquisition. MRIQ agrees - DWIBS performed on 3T is at significant risk of geometric distortion and artefact.

Image Acquisition

Prenuvo meets the current proposed minimum standards for full-body MRI acquisition, known as ONCO-RADS. This is significant not only for health consumers—by supporting sensitivity and accuracy—but also because it positions the provider to contribute meaningfully to future research on the utility of this scan as a screening tool.

It is important to note that Prenuvo operates solely in the screening space. In other words, its scans are not used for clinical diagnosis, which raises questions about clinical validation—both in terms of image acquisition and the reporting process.

Additional Imaging

Prenuvo only offers full-body MRI imaging in the majority of its clinics.

Reporting & Radiologist Experience

There is no question that Prenuvo have performed more full-body MRI screening scans than any other provider globally. MRIQ believe radiologists reporting for Prenuvo, at minimum, have multi-organ cancer MRI reporting experience with all scans reported by a single radiologist.

Artificial Intelligence

Based on information available, MRIQ also suspects that Prenuvo utlises AI to assist in report generation, and potentially, spotting abnormal pathology in some body regions. Interestingly, the use of AI may introduce “Automation Bias” which is where AI is incorrect, but because AI is perceived to be “superior” the radiologist assumes it was missed by their human eye.

With regard to the new Australian-based Prenuvo, the customer service team said reports are “created” by radiologist. Which is interesting phraseology, especially when specifically who reports the scans.

ONCO-RADS

Prenuvo gets bonus points for utilising a reporting standard, known as ONCO-RADS. Simply, this is a confidence score, rating the likelihood of malignancy on a 1 - 5 scale, with higher score (or categories) being at increasing risk of cancer.

Cost

The Prenuvo full-body scan is $2499 USD, which equates to approximately $4000 AUD. This cost does not include low-dose CT chest or calcium score.

This makes this scan the most expensive available of the currently reviewed providers for Australians (or North Americans) willing to travel.

Prenuvo has entered the Australian market as of late 2024, early 2025. Currently, Prenuvo is offering scans in Melbourne priced at $3500.00 AUD - slightly cheaper than US-based practices.

Patient Experience

Highlights of the Prenuvo experience include:

• Great onboarding process with a discovery call prior to booking.

• In the US, no referral required, but is required for other countries such as Canada.

• In Australia, Prenuvo website mentions a referral is required. However, like a few other providers such as OneMRI, it is likely providing an internal referral by a Prenuvo health provider.

• Audio-visual experience similar to other providers (Mermaid Beach Radiology).

• Patient lay-report provided in patient portal

• Post-report follow call with trained nurse or other medical professional (not Radiologist or Doctor).

Compare

Prenuvo full-body MRI images have been reviewed by the team with express permission from the scanned individual.

To compare cost, inclusions, scan time, anatomical regions covered for other providers - please visit the comparison section of this site.

Prenuvo Australia - MRIQ Score

Criterion	Weight (out of 19)	Score (0–10)	Weighted Points
DWIBS & Imaging Capabilities	5	7	3.5
Radiologist Experience & Reporting	4	8	3.2
Comprehensive Imaging	4	5	2.4
Patient Experience	3	8	2.4
Transparency & Clarity	3	7	2.1
Total	19	–	13.6 / 19

Note: The score above is in relation to Prenuvo Australia. Although Prenuvo captures DWIBS, the scan itself is performed on a 1.5T with images acquired in under 60 minutes. Due to the inherent slower scan speed compared to 3T, the image resolution would naturally be lower.

MRIQ Recommendation

If you are geographically restricted to North America, Prenuvo is an excellent option for sensitivity and patient experience and, in our opinion is superior to other providers using 3T MRI (based on imaging capabilities).

If you are willing to travel, MRIQ would recommend Mermaid Beach Radiology (top score) for more opportunistic health data (includes low-dose CT chest, liver quantification), superior sensitivity and precision as a result the use of a 3T platform with DWIBS correction.

Brisbane Radiology

Last update: 08 Aug 2025

 

Preface

With the increase in popularity of full-body MRI, it is important for individuals to understand that not all full-body MRI screening scans are the same.

At minimum, full-body MRI providers should be able to to perform clinically meaningful DWIBS and reported by a radiologist with experience in multi-organ oncology MRI reads. Without this, the scan loses its screening value, and increases risk of indeterminate or false positives. At worse, false-reassurance at the cost of a pretty penny.

As discussed here, providers operating a 3T platform are at the greatest risk of poor DWIBS, particularly through the neck, chest and upper abdomen, as well as challenges in signal loss on other sequences.

Summary

Brisbane Radiology is located in Fortitude Valley in Brisbane, Queensland. This relatively new Australian-based provider boasts full-body MRIs performed on an advanced 3T Philips MRI scanner.

Not a lot of information is publicly available on the imaging capabilities, scan regions or conditions detected. Based on their website, the advertised scan time for full-body MRI is average in length taking approximately 60 minutes. The website provides additional information about how MRI works, and that this scan is performed without the use of contrast dye (called gadolinium) in line with the industry standards.

Conditions Detected

For an individual to make informed decisions, it is important to understand what is covered and what is not. This is ultimately a reflection of technical capabilities. The information sheet provided on enquiry late 2024 lists potential conditions detected during this full-body screening test.

In summary, this scan may detect cancerous lesions including solid organ cancers of the chest, abdomen and pelvis 10mm or larger, with the ability to differentiate between malignancy, benign conditions such as cyst, haematoma and haemangiomas. Head, neck and bone and connective tissue tumours are also seen; however, this document doesn’t provide degree of sensitivity for these regions.

According to the information available, this scan is also capable of detecting other life-limiting conditions such as neurological conditions (e.g. MS) and aneurysms.

The concern MRIQ has is that this provider is making sensitivity claims particularly though the chest (and neck) regarding detection of cancerous lesions on a 3T machine. It is notoriously difficult to optimise full-body DWI at higher magnetic strengths, such as 3T, to maintain diagnostic quality particularly to the neck and cardio-thoracic areas. Only time will tell.

Technology

Brisbane Radiology uses a Philips 3T machine. Unique to only a few providers, Brisbane offers an in-bore audiovisual experience with the ability to stream video during the scan.

Cost

At the time of writing, this scan is $2200.00 AUD. Compared to other true full-body MRI providers, this is on the more affordable end from an upfront end, but true value stems from capabilities and included health data.

Patient Experience

As mentioned previously, this provider offers video and music streaming during the scan.

Google reviews speak highly of the clinics aesthetic, beautiful and non-medical with an average of 4.7 star Google Review. Of the 22 reviews at the time of writing, none were for full-body MRI service.

Brisbane Radiology are accepting individuals without a doctor referral, but ask that the individual nominates an AHPRA registered medical doctor to receive the results.

Reporting and Radiologist

Report provided is of typical nature. Interestingly, the radiologist reporting at the time was based interstate at another clinic (2024), which was a sub-specialist musculoskeletal radiologist with noted interest in sports injury and rheumatoid arthritis. There is little online evidence of suitable multi-organ oncology experience as recommended by ONCO-RADS guidelines. Furthermore, communication of findings through structured reporting using ONCO-RADS does not appear to be apart of their previous workflow

Screening confidence hinges on the joint effort between image quality and radiologist confidence, with appears to be sub-optimal at Brisbane Radiology.

Compare

This service provider is included in the comparison variable for 3T providers including comparing scan time and cost.

At the time of writing, one set of patient images and report for this full-body service provider have been reviewed by MRIQ express consent from the scanned individual. See images with commentary in the Case Studies.

To facilitate comparison; MRIQ has developed a weighting tool of the 5 most important things to look for in a full-body MRI provider. To see the table, and comparisons - please visit our Comparisons Page.

Brisbane Radiology scored 4.9 out of 19, missing out on highly weighted DWIBS and Radiologist Experience.

Criterion	Weight (out of 19)	Score (0–10)	Weighted Points
DWIBS & Imaging Capabilities	5	2	1.0
Radiologist Experience & Reporting	4	1	0.4
Comprehensive Imaging	4	2	0.8
Patient Experience	3	5	0.9
Transparency & Clarity	3	4	1.2
Total			4.9 / 19

MRIQ Recommendation

Score: 4.9 / 19. Other SE-QLD providers such as high-scoring Mermaid Beach Radiology may be preferred over this provider.

While this provider offers an above average patient experience with beautiful facilities and in-bore audiovisuals, the image quality and radiologist experience leaves much to be desired. The purpose of full-body MRI for asymptomatic individuals is for early detection. This sub-optimal imaging and radiologist experience in question, the value of this scan may only provide false-reassurance.

Adelaide MRI

 

Summary

Adelaide MRI includes three clinics located in Adelaide, South Australia.

This radiology provider offers a “pick-n-choose” style of imaging, that arguably is a misnomer for full-body MRI as advertised on their website. While likely preferred by individuals seeking a lower-entry point, this full-body provider offers 1 hour scan time with the ability to pick regions of interest. This typically includes 4 regions; however, some body parts are worth two scans (e.g. prostate screening) requiring 30 minutes of the 60 minute appointment, further limiting the number of assessments that can be performed in a single visit.

At the time of writing, images from this provider have not been reviewed to provide comparison to other full-body MRI providers. Information below has been determined based on the publicly available. To contribute our our mission, contact us.

Conditions Detected

Because this provider performs targeted imaging of select areas, the ability to detect early cancer or other potentially-life limiting conditions is likely high in the regions scanned. However, while the information available on this page here clearly marketed as a cancer screening, this webpage is a bit more vague whether the offered imaging is intended for cancer detection. We give them the benefit of the doubt, especially considering that they are most likely performing dedicated imaging for each chosen region.

The challenge with this service offering, is that without known risk factors, an individual doesn’t know where their future cancer may appear. Imagine undergoing regular brain, neck, abdomen screening only to develop sarcoma of the ankle.

Technology

At this time, it appears Adelaide MRI use both 1.5T and 3T MRI for their imaging. While 3T typically offers superior soft-tissue imaging, the challenges of full-body MRI at 3T are only experienced when performing a full-body acquisition. These challenges do not apply to this provider as they perform specific targeted imaging instead.

Cost

At the time of writing, Adelaide MRI charge $800.00 AUD for 60 minutes of scan time, offering 2 - 4 regions scanned. In other words, $200 AUD per body region.

From the website, it appears that this 60 minute designation is “multi-modality” time which also includes other scans such as low-dose CT chest and ultrasound breast screening.

Because this is not a true full-body MRI service (similar to Panorama), this provider offers dedicated imaging is cheaper up front. However, misses out on the multi-region, multi-system coverage offered by a other full-body providers.

For example, full-body MRI scans performed by other providers in Queensland, cover all areas listed on the worksheet provided to make region selection in one single scan. The cost ranges between $1500 to $3150 AUD and varies with technology and inclusions. If one was to select all the scan regions on the provided checklist (see here, current as of mid-January 2025), with the assumption that each tick box is $200.00 AUD, it would amount to at least $4000.00 out of pocket. Factoring the information on their website, some scans within the abdomen are equivalent to two scans or require 30 minutes to evaluate. This brings the final total to $5000.00 AUD for nearly equivalent anatomical and conditions coverage. It is important to note that this amount does not include lung screening, or any pelvic / reproductive organs typically covered to by other full-body MRI providers.

Mid-february correspondence with the reception team has confirmed that brain, neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis is $1000.00 ($200.00 per region) which includes cancer screening

Experience

Like all screening, this scan is intended to be performed regularly to complement other screening tests recommended by your doctor. However, returning for a subsequent scan is very much dependent on patient experience.

During the 60 minute scan session, Adelaide MRI clinics offer music through headphones. This is on par with most other clinics.

The clinics themselves score between 3.3 - 4.2 stars on Google for customer experience. This is average for similar service providers.

At the time of writing, there is no information publicly available for preparation requirements with regards to their Whole Body MRI service. Based on what is common for other dedicated imaging, there is likely some preparation for any abdominal imaging.

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Although Adelaide MRI advertise their service as a “whole-body MRI”, MRIQ has not included this provider in the comparisons as it is a fundamentally different service from true full-body providers.

If you have full-body images you would like to be reviewed or contribute to the MRIQ project, please contact us.

MRIQ Recommendation

Adelaide MRI receives points for offering information available online, in an easy to read format which gives individuals some information on what is involved in the scan.

Unless you have a specific area that you are concerned about, this full-body service is not the most cost effective for a general whole-body screening scan in asymptomatic low-risk individuals.

Disclaimer

The information on this website is based on factual data available publicly, professional experience, and insights gained from working within radiology alongside experts in the field. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy and reliability, the content reflects my own professional opinions and experience. This site does not provide medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. For any medical concerns or decisions, please consult a qualified healthcare professional. If you have any complaints, corrections, or feedback of any kind, please contact us.