@DavidSHolz @ruima Can it scan through your skull?
David@DavidSHolz
@ruima it should be much more comfortable your head stays out of the tube the entire thing unless you want to scan it
12:45 AM · Jun 18, 2026 · 86 Views
Sutter Hill's Kevin Kwok and fofr question the skull-penetration capabilities of David Holz's open-scanner medical hardware
Story Overview
Midjourney's announced ultrasonic CT scanner uses a water-ring array of transducers for open full-body scans in about a minute, yet the public materials show no head or brain examples, prompting direct skepticism from investors and engineers on whether sound waves can reach intracranial tissue without enclosure or adaptation.
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Open Question
Cranial imaging stays unproven
Standard ultrasound physics shows bone reflects or absorbs the frequencies needed for density mapping, leaving any brain-scan performance as an open technical gap rather than a demonstrated feature.
Technical Limit
Design choices spotlight the unknowns
The platform-and-ring approach keeps most of the body outside any tube, but that same openness makes submersion or coupling for the skull mechanically awkward and currently unaddressed in the rollout plans.
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fofr@fofrAI
@DavidSHolz @ruima On that, how does head scanning work? Snorkel and goggles? 🤿
David@DavidSHolz
@ruima it should be much more comfortable your head stays out of the tube the entire thing unless you want to scan it
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David@DavidSHolz
@fofrAI @ruima hold ur breath ig
fofr@fofrAI
@DavidSHolz @ruima On that, how does head scanning work? Snorkel and goggles? 🤿
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