Meet the Mark I
The fastest, most accessible full body scanner ever.
Mark I will be able to autonomously scan your whole body for existential risks in 10 minutes, generating extensive quantitative anatomical data with no radiation, breath holds, or claustrophobia. The Mark I will deliver the speed, reproducibility, safety and comfort needed for whole body MRI to power Digital Twins and Large Biological Models at population scale.
Problems with MRI today.
Imprecise & not reproducible
Large variances between equivalent scans over time are caused by patient movement, scanner configuration changes, and differences between scanners, operators and interpreting radiologists.
Not patient friendly
According to our research study, 40% of people we paid to participate were unable to complete a whole body MRI due to claustrophobia or the breath hold requirements.
Expensive & slow
Requires significant infrastructure to set up and operate including a shielded room, quench vents and liquid helium, as well as a highly skilled human operator. Comprehensive whole body scans take at least 60 minutes.
Introducing Mark I
Scanners today are slow, expensive, uncomfortable and generate qualitative outputs that are not reproducible. This makes them ill equipped to enable the recurring whole body scans at population scale we need to unlock a truly preventive healthcare system.
The Mark I — the first whole body MRI in an upright geometry with the largest field of view ever in an open magnet — will solve these problems.
Unrivaled Speed
Collects 100x more data per minute — generate any contrast from one 10 minute quantitative scan with even faster successive scans.
>75% cheaper
To deploy, operate and maintain with minimal special infrastructure, no liquid helium and no shielded room required
Quantitative
Generates multi-parametric quantitative data that is reproducible across scanners — optimal for AI interpretation
AI radiology tools
Our Anatomical Foundation Model and other AI tools, built in
Autonomous
No highly skilled labor required to run any scan
Comfortable
Patients can sit, stand or lie down, with no breath holds required
Note: The Mark I has not yet been approved by the FDA.
TENSOR FIELD MAPPING (TFM)
Revolutionizing quantitative MRI
Generate any MRI contrast from a single fast, free breathing acquisition
Precise, reproducible outputs across variable scan conditions
Unrivaled tissue property quantification
Quantitative maps measuring physical tissue properties at each spatial location are retrieved from a single scan
Any conventional MRI contrast can be generated from those quantitative maps, without additional scan time
Tensor Field Mapping (TFM) ushers in a new era of imaging technology. Our revolutionary numerical framework enables quantitative MRI in the time domain, paving the way for fast, accurate, and cheap multi-parameter tissue property quantification.
TFM is a groundbreaking solution, meticulously designed to tackle the challenges posed by the non-ideal conditions of MRI acquisitions. Through rigorous modeling of multi-physics phenomena, TFM represents a paradigm shift, enabling the generation of any MRI contrast from a single fast, free breathing acquisition. Leveraging our proprietary GPU-based framework, TFM makes real-time 3D quantitative MRI possible directly on the Mark I.
Unrivaled scan time
The Mark I’s unrivaled whole body scan time is supported by two key acquisition acceleration technologies, Inspire and Delta.
INSPIRE
>8x acceleration enabled by best-in-class, physics model based image reconstruction
Best in class undersampling reconstruction without image priors
Fully deterministic, meaning no training data required and no risk of hallucinations
8x acceleration on a 12 channel coil and even higher accelerations with more coils
INSPIRE is a framework for accelerated parallel imaging that achieves best in class image reconstruction from under-sampled data without the use of any image priors. It achieves this level of performance by incorporating a physics-based model into the estimation of coil sensitivities. The final image reconstruction does not involve any AI inference, avoiding the risk of hallucinations completely. The framework is generalized over any B0 and B1 field, and can be used in combination with our other techniques in extremely inhomogeneous fields.
DELTA
Your next whole body scan, at least 10 times faster than the last one
10-20x acceleration for repeat scans, making it optimized for recurring preventive screens and longitudinal tracking
Automatically gathers more information in areas with the greatest changes
Delta is an advanced acquisition acceleration technique that achieves very high acceleration rates by using each individuals prior scan as a baseline — like MPEG for the body. Unlike other acceleration techniques which make assumptions that lead to image quality degradations at very high acceleration factors, Delta maintains quality and small details even at very high acceleration. Delta leverages the historical Gemini Digital Twin profile and scans to optimize scan time and automatically gather more information in areas with the greatest changes where there may be more risk.
OTTO
Autonomous scans — just press one button to scan
Reduce errors, rescans & table time
Improved consistency & reproducibility
No highly skilled labor required
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One of the biggest sources in variability between scans is the operator. Otto is a AI framework controlling patient table position and slice prescriptions in a fully automated manner, ensuring reproducible and accurate acquisitions every single visit. Otto performs this task much faster and more consistently than a human operator would, substantially reducing the table time for the patient and removing the need for highly skilled labor.
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State of the art design tools
To enable the creation of a revolutionary new scanner, we had to reinvent the design tools.
MAGNETO
Integrated suite of analytical and FEA tools for rapid MR device component design
Rapidly generate candidate designs from a set of constraints
Frictionless interactions with commercial simulation products
Magneto is a suite of tools developed specifically for the design of magnetic resonance devices. Featuring a suite of optimization tools and analytical EM solvers for coils of a variety of geometries it can rapidly generate candidate designs from a set of constraints. The tools interact with commercial simulation products as well, greatly speeding up, by automation, the iterative design process involving commercial solvers.
PULSAR
Highly efficient pulse sequence programming and simulation environment
Compact, easy to use Python-based sequence programming environment
Built in simulation environment; integrated with Magneto and other Q Bio tools
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Pulsar is a next generation platform for pulse sequence design. It includes a compact and easy to use Python-based library of modular objects that simplify the development of complex pulse sequences, allowing the scientist to focus on the physics rather than specifics of the machine. Pulsar also comes with a simulation environment that provides full simulation of the sequence on digital phantoms and arbitrary field configurations that can be imported from Magneto. This allows the scientist to assess sequence performance on a wide range of real and virtual configurations while exploring the limits of new hardware designs.
Partner with Q Bio
Partner with us to test Q Bio’s revolutionary Digital Twin and quantitative MRI technologies in your health system.
Gemini Platform partnership
A Gemini Platform partnership will empower you to offer your patients the most comprehensive view of their health and risks available today.
What you'll need:
Your own MRI hardware
Capacity to do the lab tests and gather vitals
Perform exam and review results with your patients
We will partner with you to seamlessly integrate data from the exam you perform and run our Anatomical Foundation Model, if you choose to partner with us to test it under a research protocol, to derive unparalleled quantitative data and insights from the MRI scans. This will be combined with your patient’s EHR, lifestyle and other data to create their Gemini Digital Twin Dashboard — the most comprehensive view of their health and risks available today.
Mark I partnership
The Mark I will be the fastest, most accessible full body scanner ever. Partner with us to test it in your health system under a research protocol upon its release.
Major benefits:
Unrivaled speed, collects 100x more data per minute — generate any contrast from one 10 minute scan
Integrated AI radiology tools, including our Anatomical Foundation Model
Autonomous, no highly skilled labor required to run any scan
75% cheaper, minimal special infrastructure and no shielded room required
Comfortable, you can sit, stand or lie down with no breath holds required
Quantitative, generates reproducible data optimized for machine interpretation
Our Technologies
Q Bio is developing three technology pillars that will ultimately be vertically integrated and combined with commodity vitals & biochemistry collection to enable Digital Twins and Large Biological Model-powered personalized health forecasts at population scale.
Synthesizing your digital twin and generating health forecasts.
Gemini Digital Twin Platform
Gemini can integrate any information about the human body including lab tests, genetics, anatomical data, medical history, wearable and lifestyle data to create your Digital Twin and comprehensively map your health over time. Gemini will ultimately be able to use your Digital Twin to generate personalized health forecasts and recommendations for you and your care takers.
The fastest, most accessible full body scanner ever.
Mark I
Mark I will be able to autonomously scan your whole body for existential risks in 10 minutes, generating extensive quantitative anatomical data with no radiation, breath holds, or claustrophobia. The Mark I will deliver the speed, reproducibility, safety and comfort needed for whole body MRI to power Digital Twins and Large Biological Models at population scale.
The foundational AI model for whole body radiology.
Anatomical Foundation Model (AFM)
The world doesn’t have enough radiologists to review population scale whole body MRIs. We need a foundational AI model to automatically analyze scans, derive quantitative data and evaluate risks. The AFM will enable the automated triage of the subset of scans that require human review to the appropriate radiologist to optimally leverage their time.
